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 Inform.

• If this is your first sick note request for this current illness, please make a routine phone appointment to discuss with GP. (Please do not use the online request form for this - your request will be rejected.)

• If this is an extension of an existing sick note, please fill out this sick note request form