Although the lockdown regulations allow members of the public to attend some medical appointments for ‘medical needs,’ it does not allow medical assessments for leisure flying
I have previously posted, and been shot down for saying leisure flying should stop as should attempts to get round the regulations. But the issue of trying to prevent medical examinations is really out of order. I cannot see anything in law to stop a medical examination. Indeed, you are allowed to break lockdown and even avoid quarantine completely on arriving in the UK for medical care.
The idea that you stop people leisure flying by stopping their medical is big brother, but also of medical concern. Many pilots have an ongoing relationship with their AME and may have medical conditions that are being monitored even though they do not preclude a pass. Delaying medicals may cause harm. The vast majority of AMEs also have a day job treating the ill and if we back up AME work it could effect their ability to treat cancer and heart disease. We doctors are being encouraged by one government department to work night and day to deal with waiting lists and by another to refuse to see our patients / pilots. Well done.