UK doctors get 22 million sick note requests annually

UK doctors get 22 million requests for sick-notes every year of which nine million of these are questionable, a survey in Britain has claimed.

British GPs think almost a quarter of the 577 requests for sick-notes they each get are questionable while almost a fifth of them are invalid, a survey by Norwich Union Healthcare has found.

Almost three million workers across the UK admit they would consider asking their doctor for a bogus sick-note - with twice as many men than women saying they'd cheat the system.