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, ...

Has the fit note reduced general practice sickness certification rates?

BACKGROUND In 2010, the fit note replaced the sick note to help focus on what people are capable of doing, rather than signing patients 'off sick'. AIMS To compare proportions of work-related ill-health issued with sickness certification pre- and post-fit note introduction and assess sickness absence trends. METHODS General practitioners (GPs) report data on work-related ill-health and sick...

Electronic fit notes: sickness certification in the new decade.