Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)

In April 2024, the previous prime minister Rishi Sunak announced “a package of sweeping reforms to put work at the heart of welfare” and help people to stay in, or return to work. This included testing shifting the responsibility for issuing fit notes from GPs and giving it to specialist work and health professionals. However, within weeks of the announcement he called the general election.

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