{"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":"2026-07-06T17:21:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:21:39","slug":"sick-fit-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/d81055\/sick-fit-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick (fit) notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"nhsuk-card__heading\">If you\u2019ve been off sick for more than 7 days<\/h2>\n<p>To request a sick note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/accurx.nhs.uk\/patient-initiated\/D81055\/flow\/fit-note\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-link-id=\"463797\" data-use-default-display=\"false\" data-use-default-title=\"false\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" data-placement=\"bottom\" data-bs-original-title=\"Request online\">Request online<\/a><\/li>\n<li>phone on 01223 810030 or visit the surgery from 0800 until 1830.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"nhsuk-card__heading\">If you\u2019ve been off sick for 7 days or less<\/h2>\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\/nhs-services\/gps\/getting-a-fit-note\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-link-id=\"463798\" data-use-default-display=\"true\" data-use-default-title=\"true\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" data-placement=\"bottom\" data-bs-original-title=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/nhs-services\/gps\/getting-a-fit-note\/\">https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/nhs-services\/gps\/getting-a-fit-note\/<\/a> on the NHS website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve been off sick for more than 7 days To request a sick note: Request online phone on 01223 810030 or visit the surgery&#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\/d81055\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/d81055\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/d81055\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/d81055\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/d81055\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/d81055\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/d81055\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}