Article: 'Fit note' replaces 60-year sick note and aims to cut work days lost; POLITICS.(News)

Article: Training managers can cure nation's sick-note ...
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  June 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... employees are towards the top of the UK league table of working days lost due to sickness. They average 7.06 days off per employee ... The eastern region of the UK recorded the fewest number of days lost, at 5.52 per employee per year. The EEF in Wales is a leading ...

Article: Civil servants face crackdown on the sick-note ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 29, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... crackdown on Scotland's 'sick-note culture'. Finance Minister ... Scottish Executive's sick-note rates and to recommend ... cut the number of work days lost to unnecessary absenteeism ... cracking down on the sick-note culture in the Civil ...

Article: Why Glasgow must cure the 'sick note' ills
Evening Times;  June 3, 2004 ;     374 words ... ... being paid for Glasgow's growing sick note culture is too high. And while the (pounds) 117million cost of days lost through staff illness has a direct ... problem of the veritable army of sick note malingerers whose only ailment is ...

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

Article: SICK NOTE SWINDLERS; Stay-away culture that's ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  December 7, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... SMITH THE spiralling sick note culture among public ... to cut down on the 'sick note culture' which is damaging ... The average number of days lost to sickness among the ... address any evidence of a "sick note culture" or staff abusing ...

Article: Sick-note culture.(News)
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  March 1, 2009 ;     385 words ... ... depression as other workers. UK statistics give the average days lost due to stress as a whole as 0.6; for Scottish Executive ... 2.29 days. These grim statistics are a reflection of the sick-note culture that pervades the public sector. It is difficult to ...

Article: WELL OUT OF ORDER; Fury as health chief tells GPs to stamp out ...
The Mirror (London, England);  February 21, 2008 ;     462 words ... ... routinely sign them off. It is aimed at cutting the 175million days lost each year through employee illness and the 2.7m people on ... benefits. We want to explore what GPs can do to change out sick-note culture into a well-note culture. But the BMA warned the ...