Textual Amendments
5. A doctor’s statement shall be completed in ink or other indelible substance and shall contain the following particulars—
(a)the patient’s name;
(b)the date of the assessment (whether by consultation or consideration of a report as the case may be) on which the doctor’s statement is based;
(c)the condition in respect of which the doctor advises the patient they are not fit for work;
(d)a statement, where the doctor considers it appropriate, that the patient may be fit for work;
(e)a statement that the doctor will or, as the case may be will not, need to assess the patient’s fitness for work again;
(f)the date on which the doctor’s statement is given;
(g)the address of the doctor,
and shall bear, opposite the words “Doctor’s signature”, the signature in ink of the doctor making the statement.]