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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Jessica Coates

Doctors are told to send people to the gym and job coaches instead of writing sick notes

Doctors in England will be encouraged to refer patients to the gym or job coaches rather than signing them off as “not fit for work”, as part of a new government pilot scheme.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting told The Times the UK’s economy could no longer afford to “keep writing people off”.

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