Rishi Sunak has vowed to end Britain's “sick note culture”, and unveiled a plan to strip GPs of their power to sign people off work
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called for an end to "sick note culture", vowing to crack down on sickness benefits.
Giving a major speech on welfare reform today, the Prime Minister called for the focus to shift to what work people might be able to do.
In the speech Sunak said: "Today, we’re publishing our call for evidence, because I’m not saying I’m standing here today as a precise arbiter of what it’s going to look like. But we’re going to ask people’s views, we’re going to try on a range of different things. But I do think that there is an argument for moving away from GPs doing this. There’s a lot of demands on GPS. And it may be that this is better done by other professionals.
"Also, GPs have a quite special relationship with their patients and inserting this into it puts them sometimes, when you talk to them, in a difficult position, because they don’t want to damage that relationship with their patient, and it may be harder for them."
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