What leave do I use for this?

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I am having a planned procedure in dec and I will be in hospital under sedation. It’s a quick procedure but I cannot drive etc for 24 hours. What leave do I use for this? Do I put in sick leave and maybe upload the appointment letter? Never done this before and I’m just pondering over it. I was going to book annual leave but now I’m thinking surely not?!

This would fall under special leave at my organisation.

It would be sick leave where I work. Talk to your line manager.

Also, I was told no driving for 48hrs for a general anesthetic.

I have no special leave option. I’ll have another look. Thank you

Sick leave. You are undergoing a medical procedure. They may be able to offer option to work from home. But honestly it's sick leave.

It would be sick leave where I work unless it was elective surgery eg you have chosen to have a face lift - if the latter that would be annual leave

Any medical procedures and time needed to recover would come under sick leave where I work

It depends on the procedure. If it’s elective it would be annual leave for me, otherwise it would be regarded as sick leave. I used to be local authority though and a colleague had sick leave for breast enhancement surgery which she was quite surprised was allowed.

Sick leave

It's sick leave and in the public sector, planned surgery is often excluded from any sickness calculations or sanctions.

I can definitely work from home but I don’t want to 🤣🤣

not elective no. Thank you

It would be sick leave at my work too.

Do you get full pay for sick pay?
If not you could take annual leave so you still get your full wage

Is it a medical procedure or a cosmetic one? If the first then sick leave

If related to existing condition ie a declared disability it would be paid disabled leave otherwise sick leave

Yes I’m paid thank god.

It’s a Medical procedure. Thank you.

It’s related to a condition but not a disability.

Self certified sick leave for two or three days.

Sick Leave where I am. The option actually says “Sick Leave including medical appointments”.

If it’s a medical appointment for me, I put in the comments section what it is and upload the appointment letter.

Ive done quite a bit of research into this for breast reduction and apparently the day of op you claim as leave but after all you need on sick note is surgery and elective or not a medical professional has signed you off.

If it’s not elective then it’s sick leave. Even for some elective ones at my work they will take it as sick leave, depends on the nature of it, but all non-elective is sick leave.

It wasn’t reduction, but that might be the same set up now. This was all just before Covid happened so policies might well have been tightened up since then.

I answered re it being a choice or elective rather than the actual specific type of surgery. I'm ex LA and current CS employed.