Petition Simplify and standardise the process for booking an appointment with a GP in Wales.
It's currently very difficult to book appointments to see a GP in local surgeries. This is causing unessesary stress for patients and it is also causing unnecessary strain on emergency departments in our hospitals.
People should be able to phone their surgery at any time (within opening hours) to arrange an appointment with a GP. People are not always available at the times specified by surgeries and this prevents working people from securing appointments.
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One example is surgeries that require people to phone the surgery at 10:00am in order to arrange an appointment for the same day on the following week. This lack of flexibility does not work for people in certain job roles who are unable to hang on the phone for 30 minutes in the hope of securing an appointment. These restrictions don't work for people who would like to arrange a routine appointment further into the future as they are restricted to only being able to make appointments for the following week. These processes are clearly flawed, inflexible and work against certain members of the public.
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