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Patients, employers and GPs are set to benefit from an overhaul of the fit note system following the launch of several pilots by the Government to reform the system for workers who fall ill. Radical overhaul of broken fit note system to be piloted so it works for patients, employers, and healthcare professionals. Trials to be delivered through selected NHS … Continue reading Fit note system to be overhauled
A new pilot programme will support people with health conditions back into employment and ease pressure on doctors. Fifteen pioneering regions to trial groundbreaking approach to reduce GP pressure and help local people back to work Pilot scheme to transform how fit notes are issued Part of Plan for Change to grow the economy, get … Continue reading GP practices to help people back to work
In a major speech Friday 19th April 2024, the Prime Minister unveiled a package of welfare reform measures to tackle what is seen as an unprecedented rise in economic inactivity and ensure the benefits system is better targeted at those who need it most. PM to announce plans to overhaul benefits system to ensure people … Continue reading Britain’s “sick note culture” to be tackled
The change is set to support patients getting advice and fit notes from their healthcare professional - without having to separately see a doctorThe reform follows fit notes going fully digital as they no longer need to be signed in ink. From Friday 1st July 2022: nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists and physiotherapists can all legally … Continue reading Nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists and physiotherapists can now certify and issue fit notes
Doctors issue fit notes to people to provide evidence of the advice they have given about their fitness for work. They record details of the functional effects of their patient’s condition so the patient and their employer can consider ways to help them return to work. From April 2022 you may notice changes to the … Continue reading Digital ‘fit note’ launched