Email the Health Secretary and Work and Pensions Secretary to demand they don't take away GPs' power to issue sick notes

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Victoria Atkins

Mel Stride

Please email Victoria Atkins MP and Mel Stride MP to demand they call on Rishi Sunak to stop dehumanising disabled and sick people:

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I am writing to you today, to demand as both Health and Social Care and Work and Pensions Secretaries, that you stop the Prime Minister’s assault on disabled and sick people and refuse to take away GPs’ power to issue sick notes.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's recent comments claiming that benefits have become a "lifestyle choice" for some aim to intentionally create a culture war by dehumanising disabled people and those who rely on sick notes, under the guise of making the system fairer and harder to exploit.

There are 16 million disabled people in the UK and the Prime Minister is trying to remove the already insufficient safety net that exists to protect them. 91% of Organise members who voted agree "it's wrong for Rishi Sunak to want to take away GPs' power to issue sick notes": https://the.organise.network/surveys/1984/results/public

Here's why Organise members are passionate about this issue:

"1) GPs are qualified and competent to assess health. Assessors may not be. 2) Your GP has the best interests at heart. An assessor's priority will not be the patient's health. 3) Most people live reasonably near to a GP surgery. Will assessors be equally accessible, or will patients be required to travel to the nearest town (in my case, a 35 mile round trip)?"

“Some people abuse the system, but that doesn't mean benefits or sick notes should be stopped. I know many people who were on benefits because they weren't able to get a job and now they got one, so happy for them. And I know people who just can't work because of disabilities. Sick notes of course should be our right and GP's should keep that power."

"It is hard enough to get to see a doctor to deal with your health condition. Are you then meant to make another appointment to see somebody else after seeing the doctor and telling them the same story. We know this government would never employ enough "qualified" people that would be able to deal with this. So by the time you have waited to see a doctor and then wait to see this new "specialist" you will either have got better or died."

Please will you demand that the Prime Minister does not take away this power from GPs. Disabled and sick people rely on the expert skills and kindness of GPs in this country, especially as the NHS continues to crumble.

Thank you for taking the time to consider this matter. I look forward to your response.

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