Submitted on Thursday 13th May 2021
Rejected on Tuesday 18th May 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Bring back doctors face to face and relieve some of the pressures on the NHS.
Make it mandatory that all patients are seen face to face by appointment with a GP surgery.
Patients should be examined face to face, sending in photographs etc is not good enough. From a mental health, cancer, point of view cases will be missed. Telephone triage is not good enough.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can't accept your petition because the UK Government and Parliament aren't responsible for the issue you raise.
Decisions on when to offer a face to face, as opposed to a remote, consultation are an operational decision for GPs and NHS Trusts.
You may be interested to know that NHS England wrote to GP practices on 13 May, specifying that practices must make a clear offer of face to face appointments, and respect patient preferences for face to face appointments where clinically appropriate. You can read the letter here:
www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/B0497-GP-access-letter-May-2021-FINAL.pdf
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