Petition · past parliament · Department of Health and Social Care

Fund Band 6 pay for Newly Qualified Paramedics, backdated for Covid-19

Closed 74 signatures

What the petition asks

Newly qualified paramedics should receive band 6 salary and equal pay. Newly qualified paramedics do the exact same role, with the exact same scope of practice as a band 6 paramedic. We are expected to work with any skill level and have had very little support when managing critically ill patients.
Newly qualified paramedics deserve band 6 pay. And backdated from covid19. Since qualifying, we have been expected to work with a range of skill levels not in the standard NQP programme. We have been under tremendous amounts of stress, being paid the same as EACS and Techs and expected to treat seriously ill patient's with no support. Band 5 salary is for emergency ambulance crew and emergency technicians. It should not be paramedics who are working to an intense scope of practise.

Timeline

23 Apr 2021 Petition opened for signatures
23 Oct 2021 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 74
Status Closed
Department Department of Health and Social Care
Opened 23 Apr 2021
Closed 23 Oct 2021

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