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Get rid of annual registration fee for NHS staff

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Get rid of the annual registration fee that NHS staff have to pay in order to practice
NHS staff have to pay an annual fee in order to practice. I feel that this fee should be scrapped in light of covid 19 and the work that the NHS staff have done during this time.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

The level of registrations fees are a matter for independent regulators such as the General Medical Council and Nursing and Midwifery Council, and not the Government or Parliament.

We have published a petition calling on the Government to reimburse health care professionals for professional registration fees, which you might like to sign: Reimburse health care professionals for professional registration fees

You could start a new petition calling on the Government to fund health regulators directly, so they do not need to charge a registration fee.

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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

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

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 26 May 2020

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