Submitted on Thursday 1st December 2022
Rejected on Tuesday 6th December 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Immediately postpone release of GP appointment data that could harm patient care
Stop the release of this data and the narrative of it as a performance indicator as this is extremely misleading and could have unintended consequences of increasing inappropriate demand and practices having to reduce patient convenience and quality care provision to avoid unfair media criticism.
'Length of time taken from booking to the appointment itself' has already widely been misrepresented as a 'waiting time' as it fails to capture patients given no option to book at all/in advance - or patient preference or urgency. Judging performance using invalid data and non-contractual govt 'expectations' may lead to reduced pre-bookable offerings at the expense of both patient convenience and appropriate triage; worsening 8am booking pressures and demand generally and delaying urgent care.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do. We're not clear from your petition title whether you want the Government to stop publishing all GP appointment data, or only data "that could harm patient care" and if so, what that includes.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
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