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Petition · Department of Health and Social Care

Abolish tuition fees for healthcare courses and pay students on NHS placements

Closed 8,588 signatures

What the petition asks

We think that any students who are taking healthcare courses to work in the NHS should not have to pay tuition fees and they should be paid for the shifts they work on placement in the NHS.
Currently to become a qualified as a nurse you need 3 years at university on a course costing over £9k pa. You will be unable to work properly to fund this as the courses are full time. As well as this you will be expected to work for over 2300 hours including unpaid 12hr shifts and somehow fund travel to and from your placements.

We think this is putting off students from the UK from applying.

Timeline

24 Mar 2025 Petition opened for signatures
24 Sep 2025 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 8,588
Status Closed
Department Department of Health and Social Care
Opened 24 Mar 2025
Closed 24 Sep 2025

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 27 Jul 2026.