Is used in this guidance to describe healthcare professionals who are not currently able to certify fit notes. These are doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists and physiotherapists.
In this guidance, the term healthcare professionals is used to relate only to members of the five professions who can certify fit notes.
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The Department of Health and Social Care.The Health and Care Professions Council.The Royal College of General Practitioners.The Royal College of Occupational Therapists.It has been developed in consultation with:
Health Education England ( HEE) was commissioned to work with similar stakeholders to coordinate the development of UK wide, non-statutory guidance to support both healthcare professionals ( HCPs) and their employers in understanding who is best placed to certify fit notes. The Department of Health and Social Care ( DHSC) and the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP) convened an implementation group with representatives from the four UK Governments, relevant professional bodies, regulators and statutory education bodies to provide expert input and advice on implementing reforms to the fit note system.