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LONDON - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will look at tightening the rules for long-term sick leave in a bid to reverse a rise in the number of Britons who have permanently dropped out of the workforce.
"We need to be more ambitious about helping people back to work and more honest about the risk of over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life," he said. Last year Britain's budget watchdog said a quarter of people who were off work due to long-term sickness were waiting for medical treatment, although it added that cutting waiting lists to their 2015 length might only get 25,000 back into work.
Sunak's office said medics were too willing to issue repeat notes approving extended sick leave, rather than advising how a person could get back to work, paving the way for people to move on to long-term sickness benefits.
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