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A Government pilot of radical proposals to strip GPs of responsibility for signing patients off on long-term sick leave has found three quarters of patients are being sent back to or staying in work, Pulse can reveal.
A report due out this week recommends a huge overhaul of the rules on sickness absence, with independent assessors ruling on sicknesses absences of longer than a month rather than GPs, who it says have ?no incentive' to refuse to sign sick notes.
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A report due out this week recommends a huge overhaul of the rules on sickness absence, with independent assessors ruling on sicknesses absences of longer than a month rather than GPs, who it says have ?no incentive' to refuse to sign sick notes.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsart...-work?sp_rid=NjU3NzMyNzAyOQS2&sp_mid=37456061
(free registration required)