GPs are to lose the power to hand out sick notes as Rishi Sunak launches crackdown and tells the millions of Brits who are signed off that 'life worries' are NO reason not to have a job: 'Ask what work you CAN do
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Ontario to do away with sick note requirement for short absences
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Ontario will do away with sick note requirements for short absences as part of a larger effort to ease the administrative burden on doctors, the province’s health minister said Wednesday. The province will soon introduce legislation that, if passed, will no longer allow employers to require a sick note from a doctor for the provincially […]
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