Petition for Parliamentary debate

[Wishyouwerehere]

Dear All,In the UK we have the National Health Service(NHS). A free at point of entry service.

Within the NHS are various bodies. Cancer Alliances and primary care doctors called GPs ( General practitioners)

Our Cancer alliances only tell our GPs about one referral route to the urology teams for men who have "symptoms" of prostate cancer eg having to get up at night to go to the bathroom. However the cancer allainces do not tell GPs about referring men who have no symptoms.

Because of this I have created a parliamentary petition and if I get 10,000 people to support it then the Government will have to debate the matter.

I have attached the link to the petition.

petition.parliament.uk/peti...

Hope the link clicks through?

All I seek is for our GPs to be told about referring men to urology either with or without "symptoms"

Cheers

Wish you were here

[pd63]

GPs won't refer without symptoms or elevated psa.It's screening that's needed which takes GPs out of the equation

[Wishyouwerehere in reply to pd63]

Dear pd63I agree GPs are the main obstacle. In fact GPs are generally appalling.

However according to the government website see

gov.uk/government/publicati...

You will see that GPs should be referring men with raised PSA and asymptomatic, using the PCRMP referral system but GPs lack of knowledge about this route is staggering.

Cancer Alliances only tell GPs to refer men using NICE thresholds and men with LUTS. They steadfastly refuse to tell GPs about the Government's PCRMP referral route for asymptomatic men and as a result the GPs only think they are to refer men with symptoms and psa above NICE thresholds.

Hence the petition to try and shift the needle.

It truly is shocking and I believe this may become the next NHS scandal since the NHS is blatantly failing men.

Cheers

WYWH