{"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":"2026-08-04T20:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:01:21","slug":"sick-fit-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/k84058\/sick-fit-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick (fit) notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Self Certification Sick\/Fit Note for less than 7 days<\/h3>\n<p>If you have been ill for 7 days or less you don\u2019t need to see a Doctor. You can complete a Self-Certification form yourself. However some employers insist on a Doctor\u2019s note regardless.<\/p>\n<p>Many employers have their own self-certification forms. If your employer doesn\u2019t have its own form you can download the Self Certification Form. Please print it, fill it in and hand it in to your employer. You do not need to see a Doctor.<\/p>\n<h3>Doctor\u2019s Sick\/Fit Note for more than 7 days<\/h3>\n<p>If you have been ill for more than 7 days you will need a doctor\u2019s certificate. These certificates are called \u2018Fitness to Work\u2019 Certificates.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact the Surgery and a member of the team will make\u00a0you a telephone\u00a0appointment with a\u00a0GP to discuss this with you and your Sick\/Fit note will be forwarded to you either via email, text or you can pick up the relevant document from the Surgery.<\/p>\n<h3>Requesting an additional Sick\/Fit Note<\/h3>\n<p>If you have already had a Sick Note (Fit Note) for this illness your Doctor may not need to see you to issue an additional Sick Note.\u00a0 Please contact the Surgery for more information regarding this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self Certification Sick\/Fit Note for less than 7 days If you have been ill for 7 days or less you don\u2019t need to see a&#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\/k84058\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/k84058\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/k84058\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/k84058\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/k84058\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/k84058\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/k84058\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}