Your right - sometimes I just get drawn into spoon feeding managers!!
Thanks one and all
Regards
Car Barnes OHA
Mt. Pleasant Mail Centre
SEMA UK Limited is registered in England and Wales.
Registered number 01245534. Registered Office at 8th Floor, South Quay
Plaza II,
183 March Wall, London E14 9SH.
This email and any attachments are confidential and intended for the
addressee
only. If you are not the named recipient, you must not use, disclose,
reproduce,
copy or distribute the contents of this communication. If you have
received this
in error, please contact the sender and then delete this email from your
system.
-----Original Message-----
From: Swann, Alan B [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 06 March 2003 16:59
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: GP letters again!!
Dear Car,
I wouldn't get too involved. It management's job to police absence &
notification procedures, not OccHealth. What you describe does sounds dodgy.
If the GP had seen & advised the patient them that they were unfit for work
for 6 weeks, s/he'd have been obliged to provide them with a DSS
certificate. However, attempting to divine a GP's motivation on partial
knowledge, is subject to Sod's law, so avoid it.
I'd stick to advising on whether the person has any health problems which
may affect attendance of performance in future, based on your assessment &
info in the GP report. Plus recommendations, if appropriate, on how to
support the person in coping with identified problems. But then hand the
performance/ attendance management problem back to where it belongs: with
line management.
Dr. Alan Swann, BM, AFOM
Director of Occupational Health
Occupational Health Service
Imperial College London
Southside building
South Kensington Campus
London
SW7 1 LU
Tel: +44 (20) 7594 9385
Fax: +44 (20) 7594 9407
http://www.ad.imperial.ac.uk/occ_health/
-----Original Message-----
From: BARNES, Car [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 06 March 2003 15:22
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: GP letters again!!
Speaking of GP letters - can any one help with this?
An employee submitted a cert advising 6/52 absence. The cert was submitted
late in the absence and on checking the records the manager found that the
employee only took the last 4 weeks of the absence (he worked the first two
weeks despite being signed off -dedicated or what??). The manager is
concerned as the absence period was for a period that the employee had
originally requested annual leave for. We were awaiting a GP report anyway
and when the report arrived there was no mention of the cert being issued. I
asked for clarification of this and the GP's response was that "a private
cert was issued". Am I to take this to mean the cert was provided
retrospectively without the GP having had any contact with the employee?
Help?
Car (new member)
-----Original Message-----
From: Visentin Lorenzo [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 06 March 2003 09:20
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: GP letters again!!
Never mind the oozing exasperation, can you make use of the bullet pulsing
its way in this reply? (It's the only sensible option) ;-)
Lorenzo
-----Original Message-----
From: Amanda Dowson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 05 March 2003 14:52
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: GP letters again!!
How about this one:
A GP has signed a FMED3 form as sick until .... "well" - no date, no time
scale, no free crystal ball with FMED 3 just the word "well" inserted in the
sick until bit.
Can anyone feel the exasperation oozing down the email system ?
Amanda D
_________________________________________________________
This email is confidential and intended solely for the use of the
individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions presented are
solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of
SchlumbergerSema.
If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received
this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing,
or copying of this email is strictly prohibited.
If you have received this email in error please notify the
SchlumbergerSema Helpdesk by telephone on +44 (0) 121 627 5600.
_________________________________________________________
|