Occupational Factors in Sickness Certification

Questions of sickness certification.

Junior doctors need training in sickness certification.

BACKGROUND A recent report highlights the need for clear standards of practice regarding working-age health. Despite this, little is known about training or performance of sickness certification by junior doctors in secondary care. AIMS To see what sickness certification training had been received by practising hospital postgraduate trainees and establish how confident and knowledgeable they ...

Sickness certification system in the United Kingdom

Editor—Doctors are agents of social control and get paid accordingly. And you’d better believe it because it ain’t about to change. A cold ain’t a cold until you say it is. A person ain’t fit to drive until you say they are, and nobody ain’t fit to go back to work until you say they are. Enter the patient. There are the driven folk, those without insight, who want you to look under the bonnet, ...

Factors associated with sickness certification of injured workers by General Practitioners in Victoria, Australia.

BACKGROUND Work-related injuries resulting in long-term sickness certification can have serious consequences for injured workers, their families, society, compensation schemes, employers and healthcare service providers. The aim of this study was to establish what factors potentially are associated with the type of sickness certification that General Practitioners (GPs) provide to injured worke...

Reducing sickness absence in occupational settings.