1. If HR don't want you involved in the management of these cases, they should have simply done the referrals themselves - they have the authority to do so. It sounds like they want you to legitimize actions for which they don't want to take responsibility.

2. HR are wasting their money on Dr X - they don't need an Occ Psych to tell them why the staff are stressed. (For now, I'm disregarding the distinct possibility that they are simply using the claim of sickness to circumvent the suspension of pay). There is a clear chronological and presumptive causal relationship between the management actions and the alleged "stress".

3. If it is normal procedure, presumably this situation has arisen regularly in the past and there is a dated document to this effect that they can show you. No doubt, they can also indicate previous cases where this 'normal procedure' has been used to good effect in resolving problems.

Dr Trevor Maze
Occupational Physician

Premier Occupational Healthcare
3, Folkestone Enterprise Centre
Shearway Business Park, Shearway Road
Folkestone, Kent, CT19 4RH
T: 0870 444 1399 M: 07985 2777 99
F: 0870 444 2908

For more information about Premier Occupational Healthcare, visit: <http://www.premierohc.co.uk>

The information in this e-mail is confidential and intended for the addressee only. The contents may not be disclosed, copied or used by anyone other than the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately at the above address and delete this e-mail from your computer. Premier Occupational Healthcare Limited does not accept any responsibility, legal or otherwise, for any action taken or not taken in consequence of, or in reliance on the contents of this document where the actual recipient is not the addressee.

Premier Occupational Healthcare logs, records and reserves the right to analyse and act upon activity and communication on its information systems (including external systems such as external e-mail), to meet our statutory responsibilities, protect systems from abuse, secure the effective operation of systems and any other lawful purpose.