Should We Strip GPs of the Right to Sign People Off Sick from Work? 

Who's more qualified than a doctor to sign people off? 🤔

Would recommend this Charlie fella get his mental health checked, given that he seems to think it's a good idea to leave the house looking like a melted wax scarecrow.

How does it benefit anyone if a single person infects an entire office with an illness?

Mental health services are stretched, the Conservative government shut down many essential services, this is the backlash

I wonder who I should take health advice from? A haggard old man who’s made himself look like Shirley off eastenders or a handsome, healthy and athletic GP? I wonder 🤔

Good god, someone buy Charlie a mirror. Can’t take him seriously looking like that.

Why are GP's the people to decide if someone is fit for work. Its because they have studied medicine for 7 years. They can determine if someone is well or not. If not them then who?..Who else can look at someone and make such a serious decision. Certainly not the bigots and the haters on you tube

The fact this is even being discussed is a disgrace. Picking on the most vulnerable people, who they made worse by isolating and jagging.

Charlie went to his hairdressers and asked for rod stewart, but he started bleating about brexit and the disabled so they gave him a vera duckworth hair cut out of spite. Then botoxed his face for good measure.

If we had a functioning NHS, we might not be in this situation.

Can we please start taxing people for plastic surgery. They must have taken days off work for that!

This Charlie guy is an embarrassment.

Remember Charlie's forced his staff to have the jab

Really? Who r these GPS signing people off cos Ive never come across any. Maybe Charlie’s the reason his staff is going off sick?

As someone diagnosed with schizophrenia, this video surely reinforces the shame i feel for being unable to hold down a job. Id give anything to live a normal life like mr plastic fantastic here. Being unemployed is lonely and depressing

Getting a billionaire businessman stating "Monday and Friday illnesses", generalising sickness is dangerous. Having had time off with anxiety this is terrible. What a pointless idea Sunak is proposing. RIdiculous

_The danger is that are you giving the responsibility of signing people off sick from work to unqualified individuals, and therefore practising medicine. Now, who has responsibility when someone is injured or god forbid, dies, from a refusal to sign someone off? That's going to cost a lot more in lawsuit, and likely force the proposals to go back to the GPs._

Charlie the guy who mass sacked his british worker and hired forigen workers, and still voted for brexit, the man is a disaster

No...if people are sick and need a few days then the doc should be able to sign them off.

The only thing more stretched than the NHS is Charlie's skin. His plastic surgeon needs to take a few days off

Sunak wants to make us like America. No paid sick days, no paid holiday days and private healthcare companies. When he was chancellor he had a meeting with US private healthcare companies and he also had a green card. For all he says he is proud of this country he wants us to be like the USA.

The issue isn't that more people are getting sick - it's that we have absolutely no health service to help people get better at the moment, so people stay sick for longer. If they just invested in the NHS, it would actually help some of this.

For crying out loud, now the government are explicitly saying a GPs judgement on their patients fitness to work can not be trusted. So they'll give the decision making to someone who has a vested interest in making their sick employees go to work, regardless. What do they think is responsible for the majority of worker absence in the first place?

No, no, work conditions should be improved and better paid work.

Plastic rod Stewart.

Is that Zelda off Terra hawks? How many companies would hire someone who has a disability and has been inactive for a number of years? According to Duncan Smith’s views under call me Dave’s government if you can press a button you can do some type of work where are these type of jobs that don’t require training/ qualifications etc? Phillip Davis would make them work for less than the minimum wage probably just sitting on view for people to sneer at no doubt. The small mercy I can cling to is my late mother won’t have to go through the indignity of having to justify her inability to work because these scumbags would tip her out of her wheelchair if they could get away with it.

Hmm. ok here's one I'm a disabled veteran, now what GMB? Do you support me (lol yeah right) as I'm a veteran injured in service or not because I'm disabled and therefore some form of scrounger?

As working conditions deteriorate and wages fall against inflation, as the cost of living sky rockets, starving people back to work is the tory solution. After all, it worked with the nurses. It's the old "taking back control" that Brexiteers were promised. Once the Tories achieve their dream and get us out of the ECHR the slavery act will no doubt be repealed.

More like end the curroption of the tories

Billionaire Brexiteer says we can't afford stuff because he and his Millionaire Brexit chums know how real people live. We are all poorer thanks to his and his mates disasterous Brexit.

Hay everyone look at the Ill and poor people taking all your money how dare they Oh we just need 8 billion to help my friends tho - the real hard workers🤬 hate this government

So who's more qualified to sign you off work then?

On the few times i have been to see my GP for a serious condition, i have never seen the same doctor twice. My surgery is staffed by part-time locums only

How else would those of us in serious need of time off work for health issues be able to get permission?? Chronic back pain from endometriosis makes life hard for me and sometimes it gets so bad I can't move without pain. I'd be expected to work through that without being signed off!

This is what happens when you order a Rod Stewart from Vinted .

Has that tool ever tried to access mental health services?

The issue is how are these people going to get jobs? Seems like a big risk for an employer to train someone who could have an "episode" at any time and either be signed off or forced to quit? What support is available to the mentally ill people when they need to wait over a year just to get to the assessment stage of therapy? Do we really think lobbing them off to the DWP is the answer? Good luck. lol

Did his face melt and he still didnt take a day off sick?

What in the Rod Stewart knock off..

Improve mental health provision before anything else. Dont forget this Charlie wanted to force his employees to receive the Covid jab or not work for him .. not the best placed to give a view worth listening to.

Charlie book another facelift and get off the telly 🙄

The reason it's increasing because people are getting more sick. We've had COVID it's excess deaths and also health issues increased due to it

This is going to impact people like myself ,I have very bad mental health diagnosed from childhood and I do know people play on being ill and there needs to be change but I have months where I just can't function and neglect myself and have to fight with myself not to hurt myself or worse and I find the medacl assesment sooo stressful but now I'm going to be a whole lot more stressed and find it a whole lot more difficult to cope with and I'm sorry but there's little to no support for someone with very bad mental health,I have been trying to get help and support for a long time but there is no long term help or support at all

While Alcohol abuse is fine.

Yes a rich businessmen who may or may not be paying their full share of taxes to decide for the rest of the country!

Who can actually get a gp appointment these days?

If i was a GP ide be fuming at Sunak because hes telling them they're not fit to do their job. So if GP,s cant sign people off when they desperately need it, who can?

It depends on the reason for your sicknote however I don't have to have an appointment any longer for sick notes, I just phone the GP and pick up my line.

Well already: the final word on "fit notes" has been "outsourced" to a private sector company; while the political class has continually cut funding to to the NHS and other social programs (they don't use) while exporting billions to who knows where? While who is more qualified than a doctor (with seven years of student debt) to judge health matters? While if the private sector want more people to work for them: one problem is billionaire company owners (who must be either charging too much, or offering poor terms and conditions) and companies that avoid tax, or give politicians things. I've had three jobs in three years; one paying minimum wage for night shift hotel work and still the company went bankrupt; another plugged into a computer (saying do this, do that); another (hotel) flooded for the second time, bailed out and just lease the place now. No job security; poor wages; while someone on average wage won't be buying the average priced house, no wonder people are sick; what's in it for them? (While how much money does this man want/need?). This government and it's corporate sponsors are rather exploitative; I believe they've sold us out; they've given Charlie all the money and he wants more. If they want people to work hard then the people need something to work for, that's where their "culture" needs to change. Meanwhile the piddling problems of millionaires and billionaires don't interest me.

As a GP I'd like to hear the A&E doctor's view on the best way to pressurise a water system. Get rid of the gravitational tank?

Dignity and pride Sunak does not pay the bills, put food on the table and clothes on ones back. A decent salary does all of latter. The workers are not being subsidised by the tax payer the employers are. If workers received a proper living wage they would not require a benefit top up therefore the tax payer pays nothing. Employers are the very peoole who are being subsidised as they do not provide a fair days pay for a fair days work. Employers pretend to provide a decent salary and the citizens will pretend to work.

Why doesn't he stamp out giving mps family back handers ?

Can people start logging online when they think they are going to suffer strokes, heart attacks, autoimmune failures, etc and name the doctors surgery, the HR administrators, the leadership teams and the corrupt govt. ministers who can be held responsible for untimely deaths.

Getting people back to work... sort the NHS out and fund it so it functions as it should. Why do people think a Business man has any incentive or right or qualification to talk about the public's health... Arrogant and Narssastic. Also the question how do we get them to work? it just assumes the majority of people don't want to work... its a mental, egotistical idea really is.

I used to get signed off then i got diagnosed with autism. Now im back at work and just get help on the side. If i wasnt signed off no one would've known there was something wrong and after signing me off the doctor refered to get an assessment.

past time this tory government was binned

Charlie needs to be signed of sick for that face melting of him.

Charlie lives abroad on the money his workers make not through hard work on his part.

The services ( such as job centres) in general are not equipped to a better return to work. Some are actually actively looking for employment, and employers just dont take you.

Charlie the Covid Cheerleader 😂

Chucky Charlie the plastic doll

What GP’s? I can’t even get a doctor most days.

Remember Charlie has a face that tells you all you need to know about his decedent lifestyle.

Your super smart guess forced his employees to get the jab? How did that work out?

Mr Pimlico! All his staff are self employed. If they’re sick and don’t show up for work they don’t get paid and his customers go ape. The whole work/ life equation has to be looked at. Some jobs are over demanding and some are under demanding. I’ve been there. Over worked one week then under worked the next with both situations being as bad as the other

I know when I was doing shifts, I couldn't manage that much happy after a night shift. The man is super human.

face-lift he still thinks he 18 🤡🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Someone with a hammer, everything will look like a nail. The problem is the partiality of the medical assessors, as the controversey over work capability assessments has shown. Assessors get bonusses which creates bias.

Rod Stewart’s just walked into a glass door.

Politicians should see and treat patients straight away. Forget about experts/doctors 😂

He looks like he's asked a plastic surgeon to make him look like Barry Manilow.

Someone has been to Turkey….

Amazing, a businesses man telling us why we should not be sick.

How many hours a week does William work??????

NO

How bad was this guys normal look?!?... Seems to be an expert on people with mental health issues...

Why do we have Charlie Mullins talking against a doctor. Does Mullins need the advertising that much. He knows nothing about health all he wants is to work his workers into the ground. I’m sure a qualified doctor knows more than the other three people sitting in this so called interview.

Why is Charlie on talking about this

Charlie just sees the rest of us as economic units only good for the work he can squeeze out of them and then cast them aside as soon as they're no longer useful.

United Kingdom Racism Africa Black Children Death Famine NO UNRWA Ship Food Truck Air Drops Hospitals Ambulance In 2023, an estimated 6.3 million children under five died, 2.9 million of them in the WHO African Region. This is equivalent to five children under 5 years of age dying every minute. Two thirds of these deaths can be attributed to preventable causes. A third of all these deaths are in the neonatal period. 1:02

Lol the botox plumber called in to bleat about sick days...

If I had to work for Charlie I would be off sick too!

The real issue with this plan, is the number of patients that will have to see these new individuals and of course it will be done by a PRIVATE, (for profit) company, that will not hit targets etc. Just like all the other private contracts that have been set up to improve the state systems.

The unelected Prime Minister should let the British people decide on his unelected policies at a general election. Call it now.

Wow, what a great person to discuss such a serious matters. Why did you make this about mental health and not general illness? If we do concentrate on mental health, if you want people brought back to health, you need to provide them with genuine support which just is not available to most people. A health professional can diagnose a person with health issues, but there is no pathway back to health which needs to be addressed first.

From which survey does Charlie know this who has he gone and checked out to know that's what people are doing I think it's a case of some that are trying to get that to work by just saying it is. Including the government

The Charlie guys is a joke why they keep inviting him ?

On one end of the panel we have a licensed professional who spent years training to master his expertise in a complicated, always evolving field and on the other we have…a guy who gets richer every time you clock in.

disgusting behaviour picking on disability benefits my god

If you can manage to get an appointment with a GP you’re a lot healthier than you think you are.

Maybe if people weren’t doing 2/3 people’s jobs they wouldn’t end up off sick

Sucide rates bout to rocket good ole rishi freemason

Seriously accusing drs of what exactly...they train in the job for years.

cant the doctors secretary do it god knows they know everything else the doctor doesn't

It’s ironic Charles complains about mental health when he’s obviously suffering with that barnet.

Capitalism isthe sick note

Dont allow the Government to dictate what you can do Dr come to Australia we need you

Charlie Mullet

We all have mental health just the same as physical health but not everyone has mental illness.

Pay more wages, reduce pension age and watch the MH problems start to decrease.