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'Sick note' changes to cut absentee levels
Monday, 15 March 2010
Changes to how doctors' sick notes are written should cut levels of long term absence from workplaces in Northern Ireland, the Government claimed today.
The traditional format of GP letters to employers is being replaced next month with a so-called ‘fit note'.
This will give medics the option of stating that an employee could return to work if conditions are altered to accommodate them.
Minister for Social Development Margaret Ritchie said: “Work has a positive effect on health.”
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If that doesn't work, they will bring in even more foreigners.
Posted by cathy | 31.03.10, 14:53 GMT
Margaret would know seeing she has talked to her experts
Posted by kevin | 24.03.10, 03:43 GMT
Yeah, let us know how that goes. The first time a GP gets grief for issuing a 'fit note' rather than sick line it will fail.
Posted by JokerN | 15.03.10, 10:03 GMT