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Employer demanding for doctor's note
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Going4TheDream wrote: »A company does have the right to request a report from your GP,
No they don't actually unless there is a term in your employment contract requiring this!
Either way the GP would only provide a report with your signed consent. You have a right to see any such report it before it is sent and the doctor will charge a fee of around £200!0 -
No they don't actually unless there is a term in your employment contract requiring this!
Either way the GP would only provide a report with your signed consent. You have a right to see any such report it before it is sent and the doctor will charge a fee of around £200!
£200 blimey who's your gp, gps usually provide a report like this for around £10-£15.0 -
Think it depends if you use an occupational health org. IME we've paid between one and two hundred quid per report.Light Bulb Moment - 11th Nov 2004 - Debt Free Day - 25th Mar 2011 :j0
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No!
You are thinking of a private sick (fit) note.
No im thinking of the kind of report the ops friend will need to give to her employer, we charge £10-£15 per report, the employer at this stage is only entitled to details of this illness/accident.
We only charge £75 for a full report and copy of medical notes.
If they want a full report they need to refer the op friends to occupational health who will need to request one.0 -
A lot of GP's simply will not pander to employers who ask for a fit note before seven days, quite rightly imo.
Regs state that before that you self certify. I don't think the employers are within their rights to ask for medical evidence prior to this.0 -
No they don't actually unless there is a term in your employment contract requiring this!
Most (decent) companies will have this writen in to their policies which are provided when you are sent your main contract for signing as acceptance of the terms and conditions of employment.
Likely to be in the sickness/capability policies.Dont wait for your boat to come in 'Swim out and meet the bloody thing'
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Going4TheDream wrote: »Most (decent) companies will have this writen in to their policies which are provided when you are sent your main contract for signing as acceptance of the terms and conditions of employment.
Likely to be in the sickness/capability policies.
As I said, if they have then fine.
It is not always wise to assume your own experience is universal (or even decent)!
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As I said, if they have then fine.
It is not always wise to assume your own experience is universal (or even decent)!
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It is covered under the Access to Medical report act 1998
The right of access states
'It shall be the right of an individual to have access, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, to any medical report relating to the individual which is to be, or has been, supplied by a medical practitioner for employment purposes or insurance purposes.'Dont wait for your boat to come in 'Swim out and meet the bloody thing'0 -
Going4TheDream wrote: »It is covered under the Access to Medical report act 1998
The right of access states
'It shall be the right of an individual to have access, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, to any medical report relating to the individual which is to be, or has been, supplied by a medical practitioner for employment purposes or insurance purposes.'
Indeed but that doesn't mean the EMPLOYER has any right of access unless the individual gives permission.
As I said earlier, an employer has no "right" to a report from an employee's doctor unless there is a contractual obligation in place or the employee gives permission. You seem to consider this virtually universal, I don't. We could debate endlessly the percentage of jobs where such a term exists in a "normal" contract.
In most cases this is largely irrelevant as it is normally in the employee's best interests to agree to such a request. There are strict guidelines governing what the doctor's report should contain. Briefly, it should contain the minimum necessary medical information for the employer to understand how the employee's illness may affect their work. It is not, as is widely misunderstood, "access to the medical records". The employee has a right to see the report before it is sent and to request changes. What they cannot do is veto parts of the report but, if the doctor is not willing to make the changes, he must include a note explaining that the employee does not agree.
More information can be provided to another doctor who is advising the firm i.e. "occupational health" but they are then under a similar duty.
In either case the doctor's first (and legal) duty is to the patient and not to whoever is paying them!0
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