Make NHS medical and healthcare staff the highest paid civil servants in the UK

The coronavirus and pressures on NHS highlight our national expectation of NHS staff to go above and beyond, even at risk of their lives. It should not have taken the coronavirus to highlight the importance. This petition is for NHS keyworkers (all categories of Medical, Healthcare and Paramedics).

You may wish to sign some of these petitions:

Increase pay for NHS healthcare workers and recognise their work: Increase pay for NHS healthcare workers and recognise their work

Give NHS staff a pay rise in line with MPs pay increase: Give NHS staff a pay rise in line with MPs pay increase.

Pay rise for NHS and care staff: Pay rise for NHS and care staff

Introduce a minimum starting wage of £40000 for all Nurses: Introduce a minimum starting wage of £40000 for all Nurses.

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/