Article: 'Sick note' GPs confess.(News)

Article: Doctors' sick note scandal.(News)
The Mirror (London, England);  December 22, 2003 ;     365 words ... ... away with extended "sickies" from work by operating a "sick note on demand" service, it is claimed. In many cases, GPs ... the Department of Work and Pensions and the Department of Social Security. One GP admitted reporting 15 cases of TALOIA in three weeks ...

Article: The real cost of sick-note abuse; MEDICAL NOTES ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  April 12, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... It may be costing the NHS, British businesses and the social security system a fortune but there is very little doctors can do ... temporary relief from work-related pressure in the form of a sick note. But it's not what shirkers are costing our economy that ...

Article: Letter: Your Say - Sick note on jobless.(Letters)
Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England);  September 22, 2008 ;     452 words ... ... of Loftus claimed a person who is over 100 would in their early years have had no Social Security - wrong. The first act giving some sort of Social Security was passed in 1563. The first state pension was created in 1908, the state health ...

Article: sick note britain; It's the country's ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  September 25, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... benefit doubling since 1980, while the figure for women aged 50 to 59 has soared fourfold. Labour needs to ensure 'the social security system provides better incentives to work,' it warns. Yet before Labour won power in 1997, Tony Blair's boldest pledge ...

Article: Glasgow leads fight to end sick note culture ...
Evening Times;  January 23, 2006 ;     669 words ... ... said: "We have significant concerns regarding such proposals. We don't believe the role of the GP is to police the social security system. "We would not support any scheme which could undermine the doctor- patient relationship. We have real concerns ...

Article: Doctors call for an end to sick note system ...
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  June 29, 2004 ;     536 words ... ... Madeleine Brindley Western Mail The current sick note system should be scrapped and a self ... people taking up appointments just for a sick note - there are 20 million requests a year ... year. But instead of GPs policing the sick note system - employees are required to obtain ...

Article: Sick-note culture on rise.(News)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  June 14, 2005 ;     432 words ... ... a third over three years. A family "sick-note culture" is being blamed by some for ... Twenty-five per cent feel it's a sick-note culture. Children don't want to go to school, so the family just give them a sick note or ring the school to say, `My child ...