Sick (fit) notes

If you’ve been off sick for more than 7 days

To request a sick note:

• fill out a sick note request form on Klinik
• phone or visit the surgery, Monday to Friday from 8am to 6.30pm

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.

Your employer may ask you to fill in a self-certification form. This is form SC2, which you can get from your employer or from the HMRC website.

Find out more about sick notes on the NHS website.

Private sick notes

We charge for a sick note that is not needed by the NHS, such as one for an employer within the first 7 days. See letters, forms and medicals we charge for.