Fit Notes / Sickness Certification
If you’ve been off sick for more than 7 days
To request a sick note:
- Fill out a request on our “Submit an Online Request “ with the correct start and end dates of your days off sick .
If you’ve been off sick for 7 days or less
If you’re off work sick for 7 days or less,
- Your employer should not ask for medical evidence that you’ve been ill.
- Instead, they can ask you to confirm that you’ve been ill.
- You can do this by filling in a form yourself when you return to work. We call this self-certification.
Find out more about sick notes on the NHS website.
- You are also able to fill the form directly via the gov.uk site How to fill in the SC2 Form