Submitted on Monday 13th April 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 17th June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Expand the scoring system on care for adults with Covid-19 issued by NICE.
Include factors such as the military covenant (spouses will be relying on the military pension for financial support), BMI (data suggests that obesity is a relevant factor) and charity work (undertaken by many over 65s) as positives to be balanced against the currently overriding criterion of age.
The current scoring system is heavily biased towards an ageist assessment and takes no account of other equally relevant factors. The government needs this system to be seen as fair if it is to be successful.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is an executive non-departmental public body, so the content of guidance produced by NICE is an operational matter for NICE, not the Government or Parliament.
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