Rejected petition Cancer Patients &suspected ones there diagnosis tests should resume immediately

I want Parliament to make sure there is no unnecessary death in the community and GPs with proper ppe should start seeing patients one on one so suspected cancer patients could be referred to hospital and there tests and Biopsies carried out so there treatments can begin without any time been waiste

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I want the Parliament to ask Government Ministers to reply why there is a delay in opening up the critically needed units and wards in the hospitals there will be unnecessary death of cancer patients who can be saved if diagnosed in time and treatment carried out and to refer suspected patients to hospitals GP surgeries should start seeing patients aswell how can a patient be diagnosed on phone or video call they need to be examined give them proper Ppe and open the surgeries & referrals diagnosis

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Decisions about patient treatment are operational decisions for the NHS, not the Government or Parliament.

Since you started your petition the Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer of the NHS have updated their guidance to NHS Trusts: https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/04/second-phase-of-nhs-response-to-covid-19-letter-to-chief-execs-29-april-2020.pdf

The NHS has also updated it's information on cancer treatment to refer to advice from Macmillan and Cancer Research UK on coronavirus and cancer: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cancer/

We have published the following related petition, which you might like to sign:

Fund specialist hospitals for care of chronically ill during covid-19: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/313956

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 find 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.

Date submitted 29 April 2020
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