Article: A cure-all for the sick-note culture; GPs may be asked to write 'well-notes' for workers.(Features)

Article: Government aims to tackle sick-note culture
Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);  February 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... far from being bad for health, work is generally good for people's health. In fact staying in work or returning to work is often in a patient's best ... GPs can do to change our sick-note culture into a well-note culture ...

Article: Civil servants face crackdown on the sick-note ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 29, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... illness to take time off work are to face tougher disciplinary ... Scotland's 'sick-note culture'. Finance Minister ... to cut the number of work days lost to unnecessary ... cracking down on the sick-note culture in the Civil Service ...

Article: Doctors: Don't blame us for sick-note culture
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  February 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... health. In fact staying in work or returning to work is often in a patient's ... can do to change our sick-note culture into a well-note culture." Denying he intends to ... proclaiming them unfit for work. But Bristol GP Dr Frewin ...

Article: Support for 'sick note culture' changes.
Sunderland Echo (Pennywell, England);  February 22, 2008 ;     676 words ... ... could be encouraged back into work under a new crackdown on the "sick note culture". On Wearside, 20,440 ... figures from the Department for Work and Pensions. Health Secretary ... to change Britain's sick note culture into a "well note culture ...

Article: End sick note culture; Thursday, May 14, 2009 NEWS ...
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  May 14, 2009 ;     462 words ... ... two leading complaints: 1. Depression - 'I'm too low to work,' and guess what? The doctors can't prove otherwise ... go on record for fear of reprisals, have said that the sick note culture has gone up 30% since January. Something needs to be done ...

Article: Ending 'sick note culture'
Sentinel, The (Stoke-on-Trent UK);  February 20, 2008 ;     293 words ... ... to change Britain's "sick note culture" into a "well note culture". In a speech at the British ... incapacity benefit back into work. Department of Health figures ... benefits. The evidence shows work is generally good for health ...

Article: Sick-note culture on rise.(News)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  June 14, 2005 ;     432 words ... ... have risen by a third over three years. A family "sick-note culture" is being blamed by some for the rise, from 4.05pc of ... Thames, said: "Twenty-five per cent feel it's a sick-note culture. Children don't want to go to school, so the family just ...