Submitted on Sunday 5th March 2023
Rejected on Friday 10th March 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
NHS doctors to reopen availability of advance appointments.
Instruct NHS local GPs to allow appointments to be booked in advance especially for medication reviews, regular check ups rather than having to have pot luck ringing at 8am every morning and hope you can get an appointment.
Patients are missing or delaying regular check ups and medical checks due to not being able to get an appointment.
Previously, before covid, patients could ring and book appointments within the next three weeks ahead and so could plan work around their appointments. Now patients have to hope that their boss is ok with them dropping out of work or missing meetings to go to last minute appointments (if you can get through and get one when you ring at 8am and sit in queue for up to hour).
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions must call for a specific action that the UK Government or House of Commons is responsible for.
Decisions about taking appointments are a matter for individual GPs, not the Government or House of Commons.
As a result it is not possible for the Government or House of Commons to take the action you have requested.
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