Absence/attendance

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• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter to employee's own doctor/consultant requesting medical report (frequent short-term sickness absences)

  A model letter to apply to a medical professional, for example a GP, consultant or specialist, to request a medical report about an employee who has had frequent short-term absences, in compliance with the terms of the Access to Medical Reports Act 1988.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter to employee requesting consent to obtain medical report from employee's own doctor/consultant

  A model letter when you wish to seek a medical report from an employee's GP, consultant or specialist under the terms of the Access to Medical Reports Act 1988.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Form to record short-term sickness absence return-to-work meeting

  A model form to record an informal return-to-work meeting (also known as a "return-to-work interview") taking place after short-term sickness absence.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter explaining to employee that it may be detrimental to refuse to consent to medical report

  A model letter in circumstances where an employee objects to the organisation seeking a medical report on them (or to its subsequent disclosure by the doctor to the organisation).

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter notifying employee that medical report has been requested from employee's own doctor/consultant

  A model letter where the Access to Medical Reports Act 1988 applies to notify an employee that an application to a medical professional for a medical report has been made, where the employee has given their consent to the employer seeking the report.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Form for employee who has asked to see medical report from their own doctor/consultant to consent to release to employer

  A model form where the Access to Medical Reports Act 1988 applies, to provide the employee with a means to inform the medical professional that they consent to the supply of a medical report to the organisation.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter requesting employee attends medical examination with occupational health

  A model letter to notify an employee of plans to request a medical report where the Access to Medical Reports Act 1988 does not apply, for example if seeking a medical report from your occupational health department.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter to occupational health requesting medical report on employee who is absent on sick leave

  A model letter to request a medical report from a medical professional where the Access to Medical Reports Act 1988 does not apply, for example if seeking a medical report from your occupational health department.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter informing employee who has fit note recommending light duties that there are none available

  A model letter when an employee who is off sick has provided a fit note in which the doctor has advised that they are fit enough to return to work on light duties, but there are no light duties available.

• Type:

  Policies and procedures

  Checklist for holding meeting to discuss phased return to work following long-term sickness absence

  A model checklist to use when holding a meeting at which an employee's phased return to work following long-term sickness absence is discussed.