ED Rounds – September 2019
Dr. Paul Atkinson
“Sick Note” or “Off work note”
•Outdated approach: Assumes that common health problems are incompatible with being at work
•Results in people signed off work all together while awaiting or undergoing treatment
•Prolonged and unnecessary sickness absence: can have devastating effects on lives of patients/their families
•Don’t have to be 100% “well” or “better” to do all or some of job
