How can a company sell sick notes?

agrinnall

IAmWales wrote: »

How much care do you think is offered in a fifteen minute consultation, no access to previous notes, and no follow up?

That doesn't really sound any different to the GP Walk In centre visit that I made on Saturday.

Undervalued

agrinnall wrote: »

That doesn't really sound any different to the GP Walk In centre visit that I made on Saturday.

Quite.

In either case it is the doctor's legal duty to act professionally in the best interest of his patient.

Thomas_The_Tank_Top

Theis has been advertised on TV just lately.

I looked it up. Seems genuine. They can issue sick notes for printing at home.

https://www.pushdoctor.co.uk

theoretica

Don't fit notes say who issued them? So an employer will easily be able to see if it was issued by a local surgery or not.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

Bath_cube wrote: »

No I am not thinking about it at all. If I wanted to I could tell my GP I'm depressed and I would get a form quite easily. I qualify for 10 months on full pay because I have been there for 15 years.

This makes me depressed.

Comms69

IAmWales wrote: »

Online GP services are becoming more common now, you can have a consultation via Skype and they'll then issue a prescription/ referral/ sick note. These are mainly private but the NHS is going in this direction too (and no doubt paying ATOS or similar a ridiculous amount for IT services). It's seen as more efficient.

Around 99% of GPs are private though

Malthusian

sangie595 wrote: »

There is such a site. This is their disclaimer:

Well, if anyone was interested in using that site but didn't know how to find it, they do now.

Bath_cube wrote:

Why would someone trace over writing with a different colour. They would just get a pen of the same colour and amend the date if they wanted to.

Because the sort of person who would fake a fit note is quite thick. If they weren't thick they could easily get a genuine doctor's note by complaining of depression or back pain.

I am not saying that depression is not a real illness - it is, a very nasty one. Football shirts are real, but they are also easy to fake. So is depression.

surreysaver

Guest101 wrote: »

My understanding is that the information that they could obtain would be limited to - yes this person is a patient of mine / this practice

Your understanding is wrong. Even disclosing someone is registered at a practice is a breach of confidentiality

Bath_cube

If it was true about breach of confidentiality by only asking if a employee was registered at the surgery. How come then that someone at our company got sacked for gross misconduct then?. HR accused the person of amending the return to work date and the doctors writing was traced over in another pen colour. Crazy and even the union rep said this was very worrying. The former employee only had to call the surgery again and say I'm not well enough to go back can I have another form. So how did they get away with sacking someone who was there for 9 years.

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Bath_cube wrote: »

No I am not thinking about it at all. If I wanted to I could tell my GP I'm depressed and I would get a form quite easily.

I don't know that you would - Brother entered job centre after being dismissed - told he should go to the doctors to get just such, his behaviour now showing as classic of PTS so you would think yes he qualifies especially as a company let him go for reasons includes change of attitude (yeah people can say what they like, brother gets attitude like sister) - (his company HR couldn't understand how my brother losing his legs two years ago and unable to toilet self may change his mental state...) off to the GP he goes to be told no you need to work! Boy I'm quite glad the last time I saw our supportive family doctor was start of 2016. I know why they have the door handles protected now at our surgery. Gosh just by postcode lottery.

It must be based on where exactly you live in this country. Tragic for those that really need help the last place that offered me a fit note was a walk-in centre.