Rejected petition Change the NHS ruling for the UK with regard to optometric services

NHS england
Department of health
Boris Johnson
Business Dept
All need to take notice as there will be no independent opticians as the support methods from gov do not help owner managed businesses paid via dividends and the no NHS payments Bit paid to wales Scotland and norther Ireland mean

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There will be no opticians to return to after the NHS do not pay us for 3 months

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

We understand that you are concerned about the impact of coronavirus on opticians, but it's not clear what you want the Government to do.

Decisions about NHS services are an operational matter for the NHS, not the Government or House of Commons.

We have published a number of petitions calling on the Government to provide financial support to individuals and businesses during the pandemic, which you might like to sign. You can view all open petitions relating to coronavirus here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open&topic=covid-19

If you want the Government to provide additional financial support to opticians, you could start a new petition requesting this.

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

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Date submitted 1 April 2020
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