Sick Pay when off for an Operation

Phyzelda

When you are off work for a planned operation, are you only entitled to the standard SSP?

My contract (which is out of date) only mentions about being off sick.

Any advise grateful especially as it's my christmas spending money flooding down the drain.

My Employer had 3 months notice of the operation to help stop my on going suffering, and nonething was said to me about pay. yet I asked several times as to what I was going to be being paid.

Thank you

dmg24

If your employer does not offer occupational sick pay, then you will only be entitled to SSP. If you have no other household income, you may be entitled to help with rent and council tax.

SandC

I agree with the above. Being off for an operation is classed the same as being off sick and so whatever provision your employer makes it should remain the same in these circumstances.

Hope your op is a success and you are back on your feet and in work asap.

sillyvixen

just make sure you get a sick note from one of the hospital dr's and get someone to either post it off or take it in for you - many employers get their payroll details in early for for the christmas time. hopefully your recovery will be quick with no complications but if you are going to be away longer get further sick notes in promptly and keep the powers at be well informed to your situation.

all the best for your op and hope you have a quick recovery.

LittleVoice

sillyvixen wrote: »

just make sure you get a sick note from one of the hospital dr's and get someone to either post it off or take it in for you - many employers get their payroll details in early for for the christmas time. hopefully your recovery will be quick with no complications but if you are going to be away longer get further sick notes in promptly and keep the powers at be well informed to your situation.

all the best for your op and hope you have a quick recovery.

Depends on how long you will be in holiday but if you are out quickly you don't need to get a medical certificate from the hospital. The hospital notify your GP about your operation and return home (they may even give this to you to pass on to the GP) and you get the GP to do the usual medical certificate. Your GP doesn't have to see you - they use a form which indicates that they are providing it because of your hospital attendance.

sillyvixen

LittleVoice wrote: »

Depends on how long you will be in holiday but if you are out quickly you don't need to get a medical certificate from the hospital. The hospital notify your GP about your operation and return home (they may even give this to you to pass on to the GP) and you get the GP to do the usual medical certificate. Your GP doesn't have to see you - they use a form which indicates that they are providing it because of your hospital attendance.

i sincerly hope you mean hospital!

i was admitted to hospital for day sugery and maybe it would have been appropriate for my gp to have issued a sick note under those circumstances - but i ended up having a major operation and being hospitalised for 6 days - i was discharged on a saturday of a bank holiday weekend- as i was in a small cottage unit they refused me a certificate (i lost a days pay as it was tuesday before i could get to my GP!!

danny69

you should have asked your GP to backdate it! Oh well, Im sure they can backdate them, just not forward date them! LittleVoice was incorrect though. I was in hospital and got sicknotes from the doctors there. They are more informed to give them, because your GP wont have as goof an idea what is going on.

LittleVoice

sillyvixen wrote: »

i sincerly hope you mean hospital!

i was admitted to hospital for day sugery and maybe it would have been appropriate for my gp to have issued a sick note under those circumstances - but i ended up having a major operation and being hospitalised for 6 days - i was discharged on a saturday of a bank holiday weekend- as i was in a small cottage unit they refused me a certificate (i lost a days pay as it was tuesday before i could get to my GP!!

Yes!

In those situations, the hospital should have issued it, I believe. But ---- your GP should have been able to confirm when your sickness absence started - because of the hospital report.

LittleVoice

danny69 wrote: »

you should have asked your GP to backdate it! Oh well, Im sure they can backdate them, just not forward date them! LittleVoice was incorrect though. I was in hospital and got sicknotes from the doctors there. They are more informed to give them, because your GP wont have as goof an idea what is going on.

I said it depended on how long you were in hospital.

Because of the actual amount of information put on a certificate, the GP has all the knowledge needed to write the valid certificate. (It isn't the ordinary one because they don't need to see you.) They know about your because they probably referred you to the hospital in the first place - and if it was an emergency admission not via the GP, they are still informed.

hardpressed

You have to self-certificate for the first 7 days, if you firm won't accept that they are expected to pay for a private sick note.

Phyzelda

Thanks everyone.

The hospital did issue me with a sick note before releasing me. this has now been forwarded to my employers.

fingers crossed