Petition · past parliament · Department of Health and Social Care

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

Closed 34 signatures

What the petition asks

Ensure that all Nurses, Midwives and Clinical staff currently starting on below £40000 are now hired at that level, and furthermore those already working in the NHS have their compensation increased accordingly. Additionally there should be statutory pay increases in line with annual inflation.
After 10 years of cuts and underfunding, the government has now been forced to recognise how critical the NHS and those working within it are to our nation. It is about time that those nurses, midwives and other clinical staff were paid according to their importance to the rest of the country.
This move would be a lasting way of thanking those in the NHS for their selfless work, not just through this period of uncertainty, but throughout its existence.
It's time to put things right.

Timeline

26 May 2020 Petition opened for signatures
26 Nov 2020 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 34
Status Closed
Department Department of Health and Social Care
Opened 26 May 2020
Closed 26 Nov 2020

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.