I’m a GP who knowingly signs healthy people off work
Source: telegraph.co.uk
- A London GP admits routinely signing healthy patients off work with fit notes due to intense patient pressure and NHS overload.
- Patients demand sick notes for minor issues like colds or stress to dodge jobs, exploiting the broken system.
- This fuels a sick note culture that's exploding economic inactivity, with GPs trapped between ethics and survival.
A London general practitioner reveals the pressure to issue fit notes—official sick certificates—to perfectly healthy people who just want time off work. With the NHS at breaking point, doctors face daily battles from patients pushing for excuses over trivial complaints. It exposes how this practice is worsening Britain's worklessness crisis, where millions claim illness to stay home.