siwid Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Please sign if you agree. I'm a second year mental health nurse. The majority of nurses on my course are mature students with families. Our degree is full time, we study or work on placement for 47 weeks of the year. When on placement we work a 40 hour week whilst writing essays and holding down part time jobs to fund our studies. Without the NHS bursary myself and many of my colleagues would be unable to manage financially. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/113491 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie Bynnol Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Signature number 21 691 At 100 000 signatures, this petition will be considered for debate in Parliament Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siwid Posted November 25, 2015 Author Share Posted November 25, 2015 Thank you Annie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie Bynnol Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Already passed 25 000 At 100 000 signatures, this petition will be considered for debate in Parliament Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daven Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 My signature was 26,137 - good luck and fingers crossed ! Dear God - the NHS needs more nurses - they don't make it easy do they ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funky_Gibbon Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Unfortunately they're limiting recruitment of nurses and because there are more people applying for nursing courses than the Government will allow the NHS to recruit the Government have decided that you are fair game in the latest game of 'Who Can We Screw Over This Time?' The Government have had to cough up half of their election pledge to the NHS a few years early to prevent the embarrassment of the NHS collapsing during the winter and they are making student nurses pay for it along with existing NHS staff who are having their training funding cut again, more cuts to Public Health and more cuts to hospital inspections (presumably so the public can't see the consequences of less training, not having enough nurses and the reduction in public health prevention campaigns). And the sad truth is even if you succeed in getting Parliamentary time to debate this, some Tory MP will just filibuster the debate until that time has run out because that's what they do now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie Bynnol Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 30 000 signatures in less than 8 hours current rate is 2 per second At 100 000 signatures, this petition will be considered for debate in Parliament Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 And the sad truth is even if you succeed in getting Parliamentary time to debate this, some Tory MP will just filibuster the debate until that time has run out because that's what they do now. That would probably be either Phillip Davies or Christopher Chope. Both notorious fillibusterers. Its about time it was clamped down on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siwid Posted November 25, 2015 Author Share Posted November 25, 2015 The recent u turn on child tax credits and the fight the junior doctors are putting up makes me think it's certainly worth holding the tories to account. Thanks to all who have signed or shared so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLASGOWOODS Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Signed...Over 34,000 sigs now. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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