Pay student nurses for their placement hours

Rejected 9 signatures

What the petition asks

We’re often working 37.5+ hours a week to make up the 2300 hours of placement we have to complete to qualify. Though yes we are still learning and being taught how to do things, we’re learning on the job. Just like we would be if we were doing an apprenticeship, yet we are doing this with no pay.

Yes there is the grant in place which is £5000 but if you look at this in terms of the national living wage which is £9.90 an hour and in terms of the 2300 hours we are working, this is £15,000 over our 3 year course we are receiving in the grant, but this still doesn’t make up the £22,770 we would be making if we were being payed the national living wage. If we are going to decrease the shortage of NHS staff not only do nurses need to be paid more, student nurses deserve to be payed to.

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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Timeline

7 Mar 2022	Petition opened for signatures
14 Mar 2022	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 9

Status Rejected

Rejected 14 Mar 2022

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