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Continue the treatment of Cancer Patients who have been receiving chemotherapy.

Submitted on Monday 30th March 2020

Rejected on Friday 15th May 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Continue the treatment of Cancer Patients who have been receiving chemotherapy.

Petition Details

Give the choice to Cancer patients to continue their Chemotherapy that has been cancelled/suspended as a result of Covid-19. My wife died of breast cancer and I know how devastating it would have been to have her treatments cancelled or suspended without choice.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Decisions about the provision of medical treatment during the current outbreak is a matter for NHS England and individual NHS trusts, and not the Government or Parliament.

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

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
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: www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: 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: 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 and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/

Read letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/

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