Sick-note Britain: how social problems became medical problems
Massey, Adrian
Sick-note Britain: how social problems became medical problems - London C. Hurst & Co. Ltd 2019
Monograph x, 345p. ; 22cm.
The NHS is stretched to its limits. Yet doctors are writing 10 million sick-notes a year for people they cannot 'fix', while patients with treatable diseases queue for appointments. This is Britain's grave error: our hyper-medicalised society has falsely equated illness with unfitness to work - mistaking a social problem for a medical one.<br /><br />Dr Adrian Massey argues compellingly that we should leave doctors out of it and seek tailored, contractual, employer-employee solutions, but obstacles block this path: over-complex employment law; an outdated benefits system overburdening doctors and traumatising the vulnerable; and a workplace culture that is too inflexible to keep sick employees in work.
9781787381223
WA 400 MAS
Sick-note Britain: how social problems became medical problems - London C. Hurst & Co. Ltd 2019
Monograph x, 345p. ; 22cm.
The NHS is stretched to its limits. Yet doctors are writing 10 million sick-notes a year for people they cannot 'fix', while patients with treatable diseases queue for appointments. This is Britain's grave error: our hyper-medicalised society has falsely equated illness with unfitness to work - mistaking a social problem for a medical one.<br /><br />Dr Adrian Massey argues compellingly that we should leave doctors out of it and seek tailored, contractual, employer-employee solutions, but obstacles block this path: over-complex employment law; an outdated benefits system overburdening doctors and traumatising the vulnerable; and a workplace culture that is too inflexible to keep sick employees in work.
9781787381223
WA 400 MAS