Rejected petition Reopen GP surgeries for face to face consultations

GPs must restart seeing patients in person. There is no reason why all other doctors can resume face to face consultations and GPs enjoy working from home while so many of us are literally dying of undetected under-treated and misdiagnosed or mismanaged conditions.

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Order GP surgeries to resume face to face, in person consultations immediately.

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 relating to GP appointments, including decisions on whether face-to-face appointments are appropriate, are operational matters for the NHS and individual GPs, not the UK Government or Parliament.

You might like to sign this petition which calls for a related action:

Create a legal right for patients to receive timely face-to-face GP appointments: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/58770

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Date submitted 1 November 2021
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