Article: New 'Fit Note' unveiled - Government gets rid of 'Sick Note' culture.

Article: Britain Today: Fit note not sick ...
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  March 17, 2008 ;     313 words ...DOCTORS' sick notes should be replaced with a "fit note" spelling out what workers can rather than cannot do, an official report recommended yesterday. Dame Carol Black, the National ...

Article: 'Fit note' replaces 60-year sick note ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  November 26, 2008 ;     556 words ... ... unions warned that handing someone a list of tasks they could perform while ill would not help them return to full fitness. The sick note system has not changed since the NHS was created in 1948 but ministers claim fit notes, which could be issued electronically ...

Article: Turn sick note into fit note...(News)
Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England);  March 17, 2008 ;     327 words ...HANDWRITTEN doctors' sick notes should be replaced with a "fit note" spelling out what workers can rather than cannot do as part of major reforms of work-related health services, an report said ...

Article: Proposals For New 'Fit Note' Unveiled.
Mondaq Business Briefing;  May 29, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... proposals for a new medical 'fit note' to replace the existing current sick note. The changes are intended ... working population. The 'fit note', which it is planned will ... work. Although the current sick note includes a 'remarks' section ...

Article: Can we call it a day to the unhealthy attitudes of sick ...
Yorkshire Post;  March 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... include replacing the traditional sick note with the much more appealing and 21st-century sounding electronic fit note. Under the plans, GPs wouldn ... it can bring a speedy recovery to sick note Britain remains to be seen.

Article: Waking up to the effects of Britain's 'sick-note ...
Evening News - Scotland;  January 12, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... 13bn in 2007 THE term "sick-note Britain" could be said ... staff for Britain's sick-note reputation, as figures ... In Edinburgh, the sick-note culture within the city ... believes proposals for a "fit note" - which would see employees ...

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