Petition · past parliament · Department of Health and Social Care
Ensure all healthcare students are paid while on NHS placements
Closed
1,884 signatures
What the petition asks
To consider at the very minimum an apprentice style wage for students in the healthcare profession. Due to understaffing, students are having to make up numbers and have less contact time with their mentors, we are working rather than learning.
Student Paramedics and nurses normally work 37.5 hours a week (and often 48 hours recently due to waiting times at hospitals) when on placement . For many, this leaves no time to make any money from work, which can make it unaffordable for many people to undertake a degree in the health profession. Healthcare students complete on average 2,300 hours of placement and contribute hugely to teams across our national health services. Despite this, we are still regarded as supernumerary.
Timeline
| 17 Mar 2023 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 17 Sep 2023 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
1,884
Status
Closed
Department
Department of Health and Social Care
Opened
17 Mar 2023
Closed
17 Sep 2023
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.