Sick-Note Britain
How Social Problems Became Medical Issues
Seiten
2019
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78738-122-3 (ISBN)
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78738-122-3 (ISBN)
An urgent call to reform Britain's sickness culture, offering social—not medical—solutions.
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.
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seek tailored, contractual, employer–employee solutions, but obstacles block this path: over-complex employment law; an outdated benefits system overburdening doctors and traumatising the vulnerable; and a workplace culture that is too inflexible to keep sick employees in work.
'Sick-Note Britain' is a blistering condemnation of a sham system that works for nobody, and an urgent call to rethink how we manage sickness—for the sake of our economy, our wellbeing, and our health service.
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.
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seek tailored, contractual, employer–employee solutions, but obstacles block this path: over-complex employment law; an outdated benefits system overburdening doctors and traumatising the vulnerable; and a workplace culture that is too inflexible to keep sick employees in work.
'Sick-Note Britain' is a blistering condemnation of a sham system that works for nobody, and an urgent call to rethink how we manage sickness—for the sake of our economy, our wellbeing, and our health service.
Adrian Massey has been a doctor for over twenty years, specialising in occupational medicine, where healthcare and society meet. He has sat on the executive of occupational medicine’s most prominent professional bodies, and has been a contributor to governmental consultations including the DWP's fit-note review under David Blunkett.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.02.2019 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78738-122-6 / 1787381226 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78738-122-3 / 9781787381223 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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