Rejected petition Improve access to GPappointments

Scrap the early morning daily booking system and offer more precooked appointments

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Make it easier for people to contact the gp

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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.

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Decisions relating to GP appointments, including whether to make these available to book, are operational matters for the NHS and individual GPs, but we have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Give patients a right to be seen by an NHS GP or dentist within three days: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/640653

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

Date submitted 2 November 2023
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