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. We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are responsible for, so we cannot accept your petition.

Since you started your petition, the NHS has set out plans to safely bring back routine operations: www.england.nhs.uk/2020/05/nhs-roadmap/

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

Fund specialist hospitals for care of chronically ill during covid-19: 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
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: 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: committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/