GPs will be required to tell the employers of sick patients what tasks they can perform in a new ?well note? designed to reduce the number of people on incapacity benefit, The Times has learnt.
Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, will this week prepare the ground for controversial changes, saying that family doctors need to ?change our sick-note culture into a well-note culture?. His aides acknowledge that the introduction of a new ?well note? risks inflaming GPs, already angry over demands that they improve access, but insist they are not being asked to police Britain?s benefit system.
