{"id":1568,"date":"2022-01-19T11:35:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T11:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/Resources\/sick-notes-fit-notes-and-self-certification\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T16:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T16:17:26","slug":"sick-notes-fit-notes-and-self-certification","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/Resources\/sick-notes-fit-notes-and-self-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick Notes, Fit Notes and Self-Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sick Notes, Fit Notes and Self-Certification<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You may need a sick or &#8216;fit&#8217; note if you have been off work for 7 days or more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To request a sick note, you can:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/Resources\/documents-and-updates-in-the-nhs-app\/\" data-type=\"resources\" data-id=\"2744\">Use the NHS App<\/a><\/li><li>Use <a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/www.thriveability.co.uk\"><a href=\"\">eConsult<\/a><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/about\/opening-times-contact-details\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1100\">Contact or visit the surgery<\/a>. We are open 8:30 am to 6:00 pm today.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you&#8217;ve been off for 7 days or fewer<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re off work sick for 7 days or less, your employer should not ask for medical evidence that you\u2019ve been ill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, they can ask you to confirm that you\u2019ve been ill. You can do this by filling in a form yourself when you return to work. <strong>We call this self-certification.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/common-health-questions\/caring-carers-and-long-term-conditions\/when-do-i-need-a-fit-note\/\">Find out more about sick notes<\/a>&nbsp;on the NHS website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sick Notes, Fit Notes and Self-Certification You may need a sick or &#8216;fit&#8217; note if you have been off work for 7 days or more. To request a sick note, you can: Use the NHS App Use Contact or visit the surgery. We are open today. If you&#8217;ve been off for 7 days or fewer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/Resources\/sick-notes-fit-notes-and-self-certification\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3064,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"resourcetype":[318],"resourcecategory":[315],"class_list":["post-1568","resources","type-resources","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resourcetype-how-to","resourcecategory-nhs-services"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 03:46:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"resourcetype","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resources"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3895,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources\/1568\/revisions\/3895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"resourcetype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resourcetype?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"resourcecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resourcecategory?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}