Rejected petition Ensure all GP practices receive protective equipment (masks etc) immediately

Rejected on 26 May 2020

Despite the Coronavirus lockdown GPs and staff do need to see some vulnerable patients face to face but lack protective equipment. Some still have nothing and have been waiting for weeks.

NHS staff must be protected as they work. Vulnerable patients must be protected from those caring for them, including healthcare workers, so protective gear must be worn.

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign these petitions calling for the same action:

Provide adequate PPE equipment for medical professionals working with COVID-19: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304243

Provide all workers dealing with the public PPE to be protected from COVID-19: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/307866

Protect essential workers from contracting and spreading Covid-19: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306387

Supply PPE to all Health and Social Care workers including community carers: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/314229

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/

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.