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Occupational health professionals reject GP calls to overhaul fit notes
Occupational health professionals have rejected the BMA’s push to change the ‘fit note’ system to reduce GP workload.
The BMA voted overwhelmingly at its annual representative meeting earlier this year that ‘there should be an extension of self-certification for illness from seven to 14 days’.
But occupational health professionals have argued that the current period of seven days ‘works well for patients and employers’, because it allows for an earlier conversation about how an employee may be helped to stay in, or get back to, work.
(Some interesting below the line comments too ...)