NursingNotes
  • login
  • signup
  • Latest News
  • Clinical Updates
  • Professional
  • Education
  • Opinion
  • Community
No Result
View All Result
NursingNotes
No Result
View All Result
Home News Clinical

Employees can now self-certify sickness for up to 28 days

The rules will revert back on 26 January 2022. 


23 December 2021
Statement,Of,Fitness,To,Work,(or,"sick,Line"),Indicating,The

Shutterstock

Employees can normally only self-certify absence for the first seven days.

All employees can now self-certify sickness for up to 28 days.



Under the temporary new rules designed to relieve pressure from GPs over the Christmas period, from Friday 17 December 2021 all employees in England, Scotland and Wales can now self-certify absence for up to 28 days.

Employees can normally only self-certify absence for the first seven days of absence.

The changes have been implemented to free up primary care capacity to focus on the coronavirus vaccine booster programme and emergency care.

The rules will revert back on 26 January 2022.


A fit note.

According to the GOV.UK website; “Employees must give their employer a doctor’s ‘fit note’ (sometimes called a ‘sick note’) if they’ve been ill for more than 28 days in a row and have taken sick leave.

“This includes non-working days, such as weekends and bank holidays.

“If they started their sick leave before 10 December 2021, they must give proof if they’ve been off work for more than 7 days, including non-working days.

“If employees are self-isolating and cannot work because of coronavirus (COVID-19) they can get an ‘isolation note’ online from NHS 111.


There is a possibility the temporary rules could be extended if pressure on healthcare providers continues.



You must Login or Register to comment.


Popular

Medical students listening sitting at desk

Doctors compare nurses to ‘flight attendants’ in row over ACP role

21 May 2022

Nurse accessing IV line

Nursing staff pushed to reduce ‘unnecessary’ glove use

3 May 2022

Nurses & MPS

NHS staff pay around twice as much as MPs for food at work

13 May 2022

Insight

Busy A&E waiting room

‘The NHS is having its worst winter ever – and the reasons run much deeper than COVID’

28 January 2022

Hospital curtain intensive care

‘During the Downing Street Christmas Party we were caring for dying patients and forbidden from seeing family’

8 December 2021

Vaccine inPPE

‘Making vaccination compulsory for NHS frontline workers likely to make patients suffer’

19 November 2021


Related Posts

Patient in hospital bed
Workforce

NHS leaders warn patients are suffering due to a lack of doctors and nurses

29 March 2022
Patient alone in hospital bed
Workforce

NHS workers face impossible Christmas as staff sickness skyrockets

24 December 2021
Emergency department waiting room
Health Politics

NHS chiefs warn care is compromised and patients will die due to a lack of staff

11 November 2021
NursingNotes

© 2019 NursingNotes.co.uk

Navigate Site

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
  • Who are we?
  • Contact Us
  • Agenda for Change Pay Scales

Follow Us

No Result
View All Result
  • Agenda for Change 2022/23 NHS Pay Scales
    • Agenda for Change 2022/23 Pay Scales for Scotland
  • Home
  • Making a Complaint
  • Memorial of Health & Care Workers taken by COVID-19
  • NHS Annual Leave Calculator & Entitlement
  • NHS Pay Rise 2022: What’s happening?
  • NHS Pay Rise Calculator
  • Privacy Policy
  • Recent Articles
  • Terms of Service
  • Transparency Statements

© 2019 NursingNotes.co.uk

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.