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Annex A 바카라 사이트� Fit note: Detailed guide for healthcare professionals completing the form

Updated 6 October 2023

When you issue a fit note from your patient, we recommend you to read the guidance for healthcare professionals, or type in www.gov.uk/fit-note. To ensure you follow the right steps each time, you can view, download or print out the Fit Note: Quick Reference Guide.

1. The date on which you assessed your patient; or on any day afterwards. This can be via either: a face-to-face or telephone/online consultation; it is also possible for a fit note to be based on a written report by another healthcare professional.

2. Describe the condition or conditions that affect your patient바카라 사이트檚 fitness for work. Give as accurate a diagnosis as possible, unless you think a precise diagnosis will damage your patient바카라 사이트檚 wellbeing or position with their employer.

3. You should only tick 바카라 사이트測ou are not fit for work바카라 사이트� if your patient cannot do any form of work at all. Always consider if your patient could do work of some kind and remember the long-term risks of worklessness when advising your patient that they are not fit for work.

You should tick 바카라 사이트測ou may be fit for work바카라 사이트� if your patient could do some form of work. This gives maximum flexibility to your patient and their employer to discuss ways to accommodate your patient바카라 사이트檚 condition at the workplace.

4. The comments box must be completed when you tick may be fit for work and may be useful to complete when you have ticked not fit for work.

Your advice should focus on what your patient can do at work with any relevant workplace modifications, rather than their diagnosis and symptoms. Your patient and their employer should then discuss possible adaptations and changes to accommodate your advice.

The important information to include in this box is advice about the functional effects of your patient바카라 사이트檚 condition on their fitness for work.

5. ndicate the period that your advice applies for. This may be the date that you expect your patient to have recovered by, or your judgement about an appropriate time to review their fitness for work even if they are unlikely to have fully recovered. In the first 6 months of a patient바카라 사이트檚 condition, a fit note can cover a maximum of 3 months. If a condition has lasted longer than 6 months, a fit note can be for any clinically appropriate period up to 바카라 사이트榓n indefinite period바카라 사이트�.

6. This section is mandatory 바카라 사이트� it gives your patient an indication about whether they can expect to be fit for work when the fit note expires, which helps them and their employer plan for the future. If you expect that your patient will be fit for work at the end of their fit note, indicate that you will not need to assess them again. If you don바카라 사이트檛 expect them to be fit for work, or you aren바카라 사이트檛 sure, indicate that you will need to assess them again.

7 and 8. Please insert the name of the issuer and profession. If you are using the computer-generated fit note, this will be completed automatically. If not, ensure that this section is filled in.

9. If you are using the computer-generated fit note, the date of statement and issuers address of your practice will be completed automatically. If not, ensure that these sections are filled in. This is the date that you issue the fit note 바카라 사이트� which may not necessarily be the same as the assessment date in box 1.

10. If you are completing an old template (Med3 2017), Fit note with signature in ink. Sign the fit note using ink. If you are a nurse, occupational therapist, pharmacist, or physiotherapist, you must strike out 바카라 사이트榙octors바카라 사이트� and replace with your own. Computer-generated fit note, the date of statement date and address of your practice will be completed automatically by your IT software. Ensure that these sections are filled in.

1. You should know바카라 사이트�

You do not need to issue a fit note for the first 7 days of a patient바카라 사이트檚 sickness. Patients can self-certify for this period.

A duplicate fit note must be clearly marked as 바카라 사이트榙uplicate바카라 사이트� and only be issued if the original has been lost.