Article: Doctors call for an end to sick note system 'nonsense'.(News)

Article: Doctors weary of sick note system
The Scotsman;  December 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... shows that many doctors feel the sick note system is compromising the doctor-patient ... visit their doctor for a signed sick note. GPs generally acquiesce to a ... years after he did not give him a sick note. "But what doctors would do ...

Article: Support for 'sick note culture' changes.
Sunderland Echo (Pennywell, England);  February 22, 2008 ;     676 words ... ... he wants to change Britain's sick note culture into a "well note culture ... wanted to be less involved in the sick note system. He said: "Speaking for the ... unwell. "I won't give them a sick note if I think they aren't unwell ...

Article: Government aims to tackle sick-note culture
Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);  February 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... can help transform Britain's "sick-note culture" into a "well-note ... else GPs can do to change our sick-note culture into a well-note culture ... said: "The current benefit and sick-note system can be too rigid and may sometimes ...

Article: New 'Fit Note' unveiled - Government gets rid of 'Sick ...
M2 Presswire;  May 28, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... unveiled - Government gets rid of 'Sick Note' culture(C)1994-2009 M2 ... note' to replace the current 'sick note' and help more people stay in ... challenge. This is compounded by a 'sick note' system that makes sickness absence a black ...

Article: Sick note shake-up surprise.(Business)
Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  April 29, 2004 ;     475 words ... ... resources professionals -three out of four of whom said sick note writing should stay with GPs. The study by employment ... that the Government is looking closely at reforming the sick note system to help remove some of this pressure. 'Patients requesting ...

Article: Region backing sick note blitz.
Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England);  March 25, 2008 ;     548 words ... ... backed new plans to combat the sick note culture in industry. The manufacturers ... Black has called for a new "fit-note" system as well as NHS fit for work schemes ... employee resistance and waiting for a sick note to expire. Companies were also ...

Article: Patients told: Write yourself a sick note.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  October 28, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... they are fed up with tackling the burden of Britain's sick note culture rather than treating truly ill patients. They ... consultation.' The research revealed that the current sick note system, which requires workers to obtain a doctor's note ...