GP practices should have access to to test for the COVID-19 not just hospitals.

Rejected 16 signatures

What the petition asks

The uk GP surgery’s should have the ability to have access to the COVID-19 test to free up time for the ambulance service and inform patients that don’t need emergency hospital treatment but have the symptoms of COVID-19.

At the moment the UK government are only testing people that are taken to hospital for COVID-19 ,if you go to your local GP surgery they tell you that you have the symptoms, but they cannot test you. If you are not in life-threatening situation there is no way of really knowing if you’ve actually got COVID-19. This will not only get the UK government a more accurate number of cases but also prevent the spreading of COVID-19 and possible deaths.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: Provide publicly accessible testing for the covid-19 virus around the UK now.

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

Timeline

22 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
31 Mar 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 16

Status Rejected

Rejected 31 Mar 2020

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