It is apparently the employees right to choose whether to hand in the GP
sick note or not and therefore work or not. This is a bizarre situation
however. Could you write to the GP and confirm the dates that he was seen
during the period of absence and whether the sick note was still valid when
it was handed in. Could they also confirm that the employee became unfit to
work for the second part of the absence phase.
Itis perhaps not in the interest of good employee relations that this is
done, but if you have strong reasons to suspect, there is always a
disciplinary approach. The employee can then provide evidence that his
condition deteriorated rather than you challenging it. This is however, not
an OH role but a managers. A step that you could point out to management.
One may also comment that the man hours taken to investigate this properly
may not justify the outcome.
Perhaps we can have an annual award ceremony for the most bizzaire GP
report/sick cert?
(we could call it the "cut the crap" award and get it sponsored by
immodium!)
-----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
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