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Agree a national structure and funding for the NHS that is written into law.

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

Our NHS is badly under-resourced as governments strive to meet low-tax electoral promises. We want our political parties together with external experts, like the Kings Fund, to agree a structure & funding for the NHS that is written into law to form a non-political funding obligation going forward.
NHS staff and carers are risking their lives to fight COVID19. Applause is nice. But PPE, sufficient staff and proper salaries are what are needed. We ask Parliament to agree a cross-party model for the NHS, including: (i) all resourcing and salaries; (ii) an annual budget to fund it; and (iii) a funding model that will prevent its erosion. We ask that this is written into law in an appropriate manner to ensure the NHS is depoliticised and removed from the discretionary annual budget cycle.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

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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/

Timeline

11 Apr 2020 Petition opened for signatures
26 May 2020 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10
Status Rejected
Rejected 26 May 2020

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