Government announces initiatives to get sick people back to work

Ministers have announced a package of initiatives in response to Dame Carol Black’s report into the health of the working population, published earlier in the year.

As previously reported in PM, the Fmed3 sick note will be replaced next year by a “fit note” to focus GP advice on what work people can rather than cannot do. An electronic version, currently being piloted in Wales, is then likely to be rolled out in 2010.

 

Language does not simply reflect what is going on in organisational life: it also influences what people think and what they do

Linda Holbeche, director of the Holbeche Partnership and visiting professor of HRM/OD at Cass Business School