{"id":9,"date":"2016-10-05T15:05:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T14:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.surgeryweb.org.uk\/newdemo\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-08-03T20:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:46:04","slug":"med3-fit-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55874\/med3-fit-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Med3 Fit Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<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.nhsinform.scot\/care-support-and-rights\/health-rights\/fit-notes\/getting-a-fit-note\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-link-id=\"342356\" 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 Inform website.<\/p>\n<h3>If you&#8217;ve been off sick for more than 7 days<\/h3>\n<p>If you are sick from work for more than 7 days your employer can ask you to give them some form of medical evidence to support payment of SSP (statutory sick pay).<\/p>\n<p>It is up to your employer to decide whether you are incapable of work. A medical certificate, now called a &#8216;Statement of Fitness for Work\u2019, from your doctor is strong evidence that you are sick and would normally be accepted, unless there is evidence to prove otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>You could also provide evidence from someone who is not a medical practitioner, e.g. a dentist. Your employer will decide whether or not this evidence is acceptable. If your employer has any doubts, they may still ask for a medical certificate from your GP.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To speak to someone at the surgery about\u00a0this please call between 10am and 5pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been off sick for 7 days or less If you\u2019re off work sick for 7 days or less, [&hellip;]<\/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-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55874\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55874\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55874\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55874\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55874\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55874\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55874\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}