Petition · past parliament
ABOLISH the NHS Surcharge for ALL Foreign Hospital and Healthcare Workers!
Rejected
12 signatures
What the petition asks
The heartfelt hope that common sense, honesty, decency and morality has not completely disappeared from our political arena.
CLAPPING IS NOT ENOUGH! Remove the surcharge on our Foreign NHS Doctors, Nurses and Care Home workers. We are all the poorer if we let this travesty of justice to continue.
CLAPPING IS NOT ENOUGH! Remove the surcharge on our Foreign NHS Doctors, Nurses and Care Home workers. We are all the poorer if we let this travesty of justice to continue.
Our healthcare workers come from all over the globe to work in the most respected and trusted system in the world. Yet these invaluable members of our community & their families are subject to a visitor visa surcharge.These people are not visitors! They are the backbone of our short staffed healthcare system and have been since the NHS came into being. Yet government taxes them & their families to use the very services they are literally dying to run FOR US!
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 18 May 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 29 May 2020 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
12
Status
Rejected
Rejected
29 May 2020
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.