{"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":"2026-08-24T19:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:30:54","slug":"sick-fit-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/k82053\/sick-fit-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick (fit) notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>use our <a href=\"https:\/\/accurx.nhs.uk\/patient-initiated\/K82053\/flow\/fit-note\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-link-id=\"471632\" data-use-default-display=\"false\" data-use-default-title=\"false\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" data-placement=\"bottom\" data-bs-original-title=\"Online Form\">Online Form<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please ensure you include all the necessary details, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your first day off sick<\/li>\n<li>The number of days you need off<\/li>\n<li>The reason your absence and whether you have spoken to us or another medical professional about this issue.<\/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=\"469664\" 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>If you&#8217;ve been off sick for more than 7 days To request a sick note: use our Online Form Please ensure you include all the&#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\/k82053\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/k82053\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/k82053\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/k82053\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/k82053\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/k82053\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/k82053\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}