A GPs Tips for getting form signed if you are having problems:

Print out the Race RO form, or mock up one from internet. Examples abound.

Get a phone appt with your GP(don't tell reception it's about a 'medical') explain the situation, and that you know it's nonsense, but ask politely and apologise for taking up NHS time with your personal obsession.
However DON'T MINIMISE IT. My signature is not 'just' a signature; it took 10 years training to get to the point where my signature has some perceived value, or at least by Euro ROs.
I've spent another 21 years since thinking twice and checking twice every time I sign any report, letter or... prescription - dozens of times every working day. During that time I've got to know you and your family, and I've maintained and updated a record of you that is lifelong and almost always 100% complete and accurate. I have an ongoing commitment to you and yours about ANY health matter you want to walk in and talk about.
And I worry that I'm the one your wife will come looking for when you die of heat exhaustion in the Marathon de Medoc and blame me, rather than your ill advised wine-based hydration regime. My medical defence insurance fees are around £9,000 a year.
(this is part of the justification for charging people for the time their personal obsessions take)

Like it or not, my 'status' is what is being asked to validate your entry; don't inadvertently say "can you just...?"

Explain that it is a medical release/ permission form that needs signing, and NOT 'a medical'.

Explain that you are adequately trained and experienced; it's only the Eurocrats that need it(UK races are all self-declaration) and you know what you are letting yourself in for.
Explain that you've done loads of UK races and never needed a form, it's just the Eurocrats.
Make it easy for the GP, make it clear the responsibility is yours.
Apologise again.
('medical' tends to be interpreted by receptionists as something needing and examination and time; most GPs charge +/- £180 per hour for non-NHS (i.e Private) work, so around £15-25 per 10 minutes)

It only needs a signature +/- stamp.

Possibly offer to donate £ to the charity of your GP's choice/ Mountain Rescue/ Lifeboats/ Medecin sans Frontier

Ask if you can leave it at reception, and collect it yourself (or enclose SAE) - make it easy.
You don't really need a face-to-face appt, but some may insist.

Seeing a nurse is pointless(I like nurses, I married one, but they can't help you here)


This would take 10 minutes of my working week, with some involvement of my receptionists, admin and switchboard, but if it's like any normal week, it's 10 minutes squeezing something else out.



Some surgeries just have a hard line and charge for all non-NHS contracted work.

The approach outlined above maximises your chances in my opinion.



It would be wrong of me to advocate printing the form, signing with an illegible squiggle yourself and winging it.

But this also happens

David, full time NHS GP