The BMA claims family doctors are too busy to review applications for the certificates. People who are medically unfit to be vaccinated need them as an alternative to the NHS Covid Pass in order to travel overseas. The certificates provide official proof that patients cannot get vaccinated for medical reasons. ‘Sajid Javid must now dial down the rhetoric and get round the table with doctors and patient groups to find a way forward.’ As part of the proposed industrial action, the BMA will ballot members on whether GPs should refuse to sign vaccine exemption certificates, potentially ruining hundreds of family holidays.
Matthew Lesh, of the Adam Smith Institute think-tank, said: ‘Somehow, GPs find it outrageous that taxpayers, who are paying their salaries, are demanding that they provide face-to-face appointments.’īut Liberal Democrat health spokesman Daisy Cooper said: ‘This shows the Government’s deliberately provocative plans to name and shame GPs has backfired. A few GPs have used the pandemic to avoid seeing patients, either because they were frightened of catching Covid or because they saw it as a way of doing less work.’ Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative leader, said: ‘With the threat of increased infections and possible hospitalisations, I’m surprised the BMA think this should be the time for this.’ĭr Laurence Gerlis, a GP from Same Day Doctor, told GB News: ‘The doctors have misread the public mood… and public sympathy for GPs is at an all-time low. The last thing our fight against Covid needs is threats from a handful of extremists.’
Paul Bristow, a Tory MP and member of the Commons health committee, said: ‘Rank-and-file doctors should not be bounced into industrial action at this time of national emergency.
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