{"id":213,"date":"2023-10-06T10:17:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T09:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nhs-demo.surgeryweb.org.uk\/?page_id=213"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:11:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:11:44","slug":"sick-fit-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/c88032\/sick-fit-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick (fit) notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/c88032\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sc2-Self-Cert.pdf\">Self-certify for the first 7 days of sick leave<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>If you&#8217;ve been off sick for more than 7 days<\/h3>\n<p>To request a sick note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fill out a <a href=\"https:\/\/accurx.nhs.uk\/patient-initiated\/c88032\" target=\"\" data-link-id=\"417534\" data-use-default-display=\"false\" data-use-default-title=\"false\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" data-placement=\"bottom\" data-bs-original-title=\"sick note request form\">sick note request form<\/a><\/li>\n<li>phone or visit the surgery from 9am to 5pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>If you&#8217;ve been off sick for 7 days or less<\/h3>\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. 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. We call this self-certification.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/common-health-questions\/caring-carers-and-long-term-conditions\/when-do-i-need-a-fit-note\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-link-id=\"417535\" data-use-default-display=\"false\" data-use-default-title=\"false\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" data-placement=\"bottom\" data-bs-original-title=\"Find out more about sick notes\">Find out more about sick notes<\/a> on the NHS website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-certify for the first 7 days of sick leave If you&#8217;ve been off sick for more than 7 days To request a sick note: fill&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-213","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/c88032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/c88032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/c88032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/c88032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/c88032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/c88032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/c88032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}