15:41, Sun, Jul 14, 2024 Updated: 15:45, Sun, Jul 14, 2024 The Department for Work and Pensions is set to review new evidence on the system for issuing sick notes, which currently allows people ...

The ability of GPs to issue fit notes and deal with work and health issues is ‘questionable’, according to a Government-commissioned review. Sir Charlie Mayfield, a businessman and former chairman of ...

Rishi Sunak has announced plans to trial stripping GPs of their power to sign people off work, as he attacked the UK's "sick note culture, external" in a speech about welfare. Instead he wants ...

Patients with fit notes - better known as sick notes - will be connected with support services to provide work and health advice A pilot scheme aimed at helping people with health conditions back into ...

A pilot scheme aimed at helping people with health conditions back into work is to be introduced to GP practices across a county. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough are among 15 regions to share £1.5m ...