This is ridiculous. If a GP thinks a patient is too ill to work that should result in a sick note. Referring them to a ‘social prescriber’ could not only make the patient iller but it takes all the GPs authority away. We are set to have the biggest health crisis ever.
‘GPs will no longer issue "sick notes" under a government trial. People will be directed to social prescribers instead. This is peak neoliberal governance: a structural refusal to allow people to be ill, rest, or temporarily step outside a certain model of productivity.