Doctors Manitoba continues to push for the elimination of sick notes to verify short-term absences from work, school or an ...

frustrated doctors say they don't want to waste time writing notes to excuse people from school or work. In fact, most doctors across the country want sick notes for minor illnesses eliminated ...

Most finance directors do not trust the sick notes from staff to explain why they were off work, according to a survey. One executive said he would not trust a doctor "as far as I could dangle his ...

Have you ever gone to work sick because it was too much of a hassle to get a sick note? According to research from Doctors ...

General practice has a critical role in improving the quality of the fit note process, write Sam Everington and Aneez Esmail Individuals in the UK with health conditions may be entitled to two types ...

There are more than 600,000 sick notes written annually in Manitoba, which accounts for 36,000 hours of physician time, a Doctors Manitoba report released Thursday says. Desilets is among the majority ...

WINNIPEG — A health-care group that represents physicians in Manitoba is renewing calls to eliminate sick notes for short-term absences from work as the process puts a burden on a health-care ...

It suggests 84 per cent of employers surveyed supported eliminating sick notes. The poll also found 70 per cent of workers say they would rather go to work sick than get a doctor's note.

Our family docs spend between 10 to 19 hours a week on paperwork, Reimer said, adding that things like filling out forms and writing sick notes is exhaustive work that takes them away from seeing ...

that its Burden Reduction Playbook has saved doctors in that province 75,300 hours of unnecessary administrative work annually. Quebec's new bill aimed at curbing sick notes and reducing ...