A fundamental overhaul of the support given to workers who are off work through illness is needed, a government adviser says.
Dame Carol Black, the national director for health and work, said ill-health was costing the economy £100bn a year.

Her report, commissioned by ministers, called for a new fit-note system as well as fit for work schemes embedded in the NHS to help people back to work.

She said the reforms could help cut the numbers on incapacity benefit.

Some 350,000 people a year move from long-term sick notes in to the system.

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SOURCE: BBC News Online