'Fit note' could replace doctor's certificate

By Noel Towell
Updated May 7 2014 - 4:08pm, first published 3:35pm
 UK version of the GP fitnote Photo: Contributed
 UK version of the GP fitnote Photo: Contributed
A portrait of Dame Carol Black who is in Canberra briefing top public servants about her initiative  encouraging the health benefits of work.


 Photo: Rohan Thompson
A portrait of Dame Carol Black who is in Canberra briefing top public servants about her initiative encouraging the health benefits of work. Photo: Rohan Thompson

A decades-old Australian workplace tradition, the sick note, looks set to be consigned to history and replaced by the 21st century version; the "fit note".

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