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COVID-19 and Patient/Employer Requests for Sick Notes (the MED3 ‘Fit Note’)

All guidance below as per Government advice from (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-employers-and-businesses-about-covid-19/guidance-for-employers-and-businesses-on-coronavirus-covid-19)

 If you are a patient personally affected by possible COVID-19 and isolating for seven days:-

Patients can and should self-certify for the first seven days as normal if they are unfit to work. You do not need to contact the practice, although your employer is advised to make a note of absence for Statutory Sick Pay purposes.

2. If you are a patient personally affected by COVID-19 and remain unwell for over seven days:- 

Employers have been advised by the Government to exercise discretion and not request sick notes. This is to allow GPs to focus on caring for patients. You do not need to contact the practice, although your employer is advised to make a note of absence for Statutory Sick Pay purposes.   

3. If you are isolating for 14 days as per government advice (because of a household contact possibly affected by COVID-19), or you are a member of an 'at risk' group who is also following government advice:-   

Employers are responsible for putting in place arrangements for home/remote working where this is possible. Where it is not possible, the employee may self-certify and return to work after the absence, which the employer can authorise as per government advice. If a patient becomes unwell during or after this time, point 1 and 2 then apply. You do not need to contact the practice. 

If you need paperwork for this, you can get an isolation note from https://111.nhs.uk/isolation-note/ by filling in the online form. You do not need to contact the practice.

4. Those patients in full time education:

There is no NHS requirement to issue certification to schools or colleges to confirm absence. These organisations must work with parents and students directly to ensure that any absence is appropriately recorded. This gets rid of the need a ‘doctor’s note’. You do not need to contact the practice.

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