Loading ...UK – Doctors (GPs) are to lose the power to hand out sick notes as Rishi Sunak launches crackdown and tells the millions of Brits who are signed off that ‘life worries’ are NO reason not to have a job: ‘Ask what work you CAN do – not what you can’t’
GPs are to be stripped of their power to sign people off work, under plans for a crackdown on Britain’s ‘sick note culture’.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13325795/GPs-lose-power-sign-people-work.html
Yet again final decisions on treatment of patients will be made by government bureaucrats
Chief executive of mental health charity Mind, Dr Sarah Hughes, said in her response to the news: ‘We are deeply disappointed that the prime minister’s speech continues a trend in recent rhetoric which conjures up the image of a “mental health culture” that has “gone too far”.
‘This is harmful, inaccurate and contrary to the reality for people up and down the country. The truth is that mental health services are at breaking point following years of underinvestment, with many people getting increasingly unwell while they wait to receive support.’
She added: ‘To imply that it is easy both to be signed off work and then to access benefits is deeply damaging. It is insulting to the 1.9 million people on a waiting list to get mental health support, and to the GPs whose expert judgment is being called into question.’
Interesting
The notion that adults have to waste money, either their’s or the state’s, to gain absolution to miss a shift of work is revolting to me. If a business feels an employee is a goldbricker, then that business has been foolish in that hire. Deal with it! Righteous employees get sick. Again, deal with it!
This is partly about privacy rights. When a doctor issues a sick note he is not obliged to tell the employer why the patient is sick. Remove the doctor from the equation and you remove the patients right to privacy. So instead the worker will now have to appeal to a committee if they need time off. The doctor is being squeezed out of the relationship between employee, employer and social services and insurance. As it stands there are legal authorities granted to doctor notes. Those can be abolished along with Dr rights to write notes.
Sunak notes the economic losses to the government as millions of Brits are off work. Too bad he and his like did not take the health of the public into mind before they started imposing genetic altering and cancer causing injections on everyone.
An employer has a private relationship with an employee. The government has no interest in that relationship aside from insuring contractional rights, and human rights.The notion that government protects workers belies all of history.