Health Select Committee to Investigate Policy to Abolish GP Boundaries Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/health-select-committee-to-investigate-policy-to-abolish-gp-boundaries.html Online petition signatures en-us Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:04 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition dr chris carr [Signature #42] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14876274?utm_medium=rss the fragmentation of medical services is already proving to be expensive inefficient and damaging to patient care, abolishing boundaries will compound the dangers of this messy approach which risks endangering the health of patients -through loss of responsibility of providers further .
the government seems determined to fill the wallets of any organisations who sell themselves as a healthcare providers , rather than use the funds sensibly to ensure services are provided appropriately, safely and with proper oversight and planning.

]]> Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:52:46 UTC 14876274 Dr Elizabeth Hubbard [Signature #41] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14821020?utm_medium=rss Mon, 4 Mar 2013 02:33:08 UTC 14821020 Dr Simon Ottman [Signature #40] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14812472?utm_medium=rss Mon, 4 Mar 2013 02:19:59 UTC 14812472 Dr Gary Marlowe [Signature #39] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14322966?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Jan 2013 07:03:50 UTC 14322966 Mr Anonymous [Signature #38] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14318644?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Jan 2013 02:21:47 UTC 14318644 Dr Deborah Colvin [Signature #37] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14317949?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Jan 2013 11:30:03 UTC 14317949 Dr arun gadhok [Signature #36] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14305092?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:19:51 UTC 14305092 Dr Laura Lyttelton [Signature #35] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14304836?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 Dec 2012 06:45:25 UTC 14304836 Dt Miriam Ish-Horowicz [Signature #34] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14302779?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 Dec 2012 05:01:36 UTC 14302779 Dr Spyridon Symniakou [Signature #33] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14302033?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:14:20 UTC 14302033 Dr Anonymous [Signature #32] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14294165?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:17:44 UTC 14294165 Dr Claire Davies [Signature #31] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14292884?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 Dec 2012 03:25:19 UTC 14292884 Mr Nick Mann [Signature #30] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14291389?utm_medium=rss Unsafe with regard to cohesive provision of services. Only useful for more trivial one-stop stuff.

]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 06:19:18 UTC 14291389 Dr Ruth Taylor [Signature #29] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14290278?utm_medium=rss Practice boundaries are there for GP's to cover a local population for all necessary care close to home. It is also to be able to visit a patient in an emergency or someone house- bound. If practice boundaries are abolished necessary care may not be organisable at a distance, home visits may be impractical and certain high risk patients e.g. drug addicts, will be able to game the system.

]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:21:58 UTC 14290278 Dr Naomi Beer [Signature #28] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14289093?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:49:19 UTC 14289093 Dr Sian Knight [Signature #27] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14287394?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Dec 2012 03:44:33 UTC 14287394 Dr Penelope Jarrett [Signature #26] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14285489?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Dec 2012 05:22:54 UTC 14285489 dr anne solomon [Signature #25] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14281228?utm_medium=rss Tue, 25 Dec 2012 02:16:20 UTC 14281228 Dr Coral Jones [Signature #24] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14278794?utm_medium=rss Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:41:53 UTC 14278794 Dr Anna Livingstone [Signature #23] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14278177?utm_medium=rss The strength of general practice based primary care is continuity backed by multidisciplinary team work for the local community, which can be both systematic (planning, call and recall, evaluation) and highly personal. This is impossible without clear boundaries.

]]> Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:17:13 UTC 14278177 Dr Hussain Gandhi [Signature #22] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14273745?utm_medium=rss Sun, 23 Dec 2012 04:04:12 UTC 14273745 Mrs Christine Clifford [Signature #21] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14273737?utm_medium=rss Sun, 23 Dec 2012 03:59:22 UTC 14273737 Dr Louise Irvine [Signature #20] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14273712?utm_medium=rss Think of practice boundaries less as exclusive concepts and more as inclusive ones or "catchment areas" i.e. the population around the practice that can feasibly be served by that practice for all its needs, including home visits when necessary. This enables primary care to provide continuity of care to a geographically based population. Geography matters: not just because of travel distances for patients and GPs, but also because it enables GP practices to know the social and economic context within which their patients live, their particular health needs, what other services/facilities - health and social - are available locally, and to establish lines of communication with these other services creating networks of support. Having patients spread across the country will make co-ordination of care such as palliative, district nursing, health visiting impossible. Abolishing practice boundaries will destroy the very thing that makes UK general practice so successful: the relationships between a GP practice, the population it serves and the locality within which it is situated.

]]> Sun, 23 Dec 2012 03:43:41 UTC 14273712 dr mary edmondson [Signature #19] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14273690?utm_medium=rss Sun, 23 Dec 2012 03:26:43 UTC 14273690 Dr Kambiz Boomla [Signature #18] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14269628?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Dec 2012 04:31:25 UTC 14269628 Dr Jens Ruhbach [Signature #17] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14269465?utm_medium=rss I am very worried that this policy not only destabilises the care we give to patients, but will also take resources away from General Practice that are desperately needed in times where a lot of hospital work shifts into primary care.
Abolishing practice boundaries is a dangerous step, which I am strongly opposed to.

]]> Sat, 22 Dec 2012 02:31:44 UTC 14269465 Dr Pam Wortley [Signature #16] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14266575?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:29:03 UTC 14266575 Dr Gareth Brown [Signature #15] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14266541?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:11:22 UTC 14266541 Dr Judy Atkinson [Signature #14] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14266313?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:21:10 UTC 14266313 Dr Anonymous [Signature #13] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14266188?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:26:30 UTC 14266188 Dr Alison Smailes [Signature #12] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14265909?utm_medium=rss This is a very poorly thought through idea which is unworkable, and threatens to further undermine one of the most valued aspects of General Practice, which is continuity of care.
Of course continuity of care is most important to people when they are ill, or caring for ill people or young families and this policy is clearly aimed at the convenience of the working well, whose needs are much less anyway.

]]> Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:25:43 UTC 14265909 Dr Shah Ali [Signature #11] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14265885?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:19:38 UTC 14265885 Dr Ellen Sibly [Signature #10] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14265643?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Dec 2012 06:07:45 UTC 14265643 Dr Ruth Vickers [Signature #9] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14265573?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:39:50 UTC 14265573 Dr Ben Hart [Signature #8] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14265536?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:20:37 UTC 14265536 Dr Michael FitchettMichaelF [Signature #7] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14265531?utm_medium=rss This will seriously damage good quallity practices of all sizes. George explains very clearly why.

]]> Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:19:41 UTC 14265531 Dr Osman Bhatti [Signature #6] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14265409?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Dec 2012 04:13:45 UTC 14265409 Dr Vivien Taylor [Signature #5] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14265380?utm_medium=rss Fri, 21 Dec 2012 04:02:04 UTC 14265380 Dr Deborah White [Signature #4] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14254535?utm_medium=rss Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:17:44 UTC 14254535 Dr Keith Pollock [Signature #3] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14254463?utm_medium=rss Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:00:59 UTC 14254463 Dr Kaiser Chaudhri [Signature #2] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14251055?utm_medium=rss Abolishing boundaries will mean GPs will have too large an area to cover for visits. Outcome will be an end to GPs visiting patients as these aren't a legal requirement but done out of goodwill

]]> Mon, 17 Dec 2012 05:30:35 UTC 14251055 Dr George Farrelly [Signature #1] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14247404?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 Dec 2012 05:05:17 UTC 14247404