to consider going back to work although I've been signed off for a week?

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I'm back at work FT, DS is at nursery, he has had a lot of colds etc, as you would expect and has passed them on to me. I have had time off with him, and sick on my own behalf, although I have not been off work sick since October.

The Dr has signed me off with a chest infection for a week, but I feel a bit of a fraud, I'm supposed to be starting a new project and I don't want to let people down.

Should I go in? Should I stay off? DH is no help as he will say I should stay off but would NEVER do that himself.

Go to work and share your germs?

Your employer probably won't allow you in while you are signed off sick, or at least they shouldn't.

Stay at home and rest. ask work can you postpone the project for a week till you are back. In my experience doctors aren't that liberal at handing out week off certificates at random....doc wants you to rest up... so stay at home and rest!!!!!

Ha! flowerybeanbag I work for NHS, any warm body will do at this time of year!

Aren't there insurance issues or something if you've got a doctors note
so I don't think your employers would want you in either

Hmm, they will be sympathetic, but at the same time, they would REALLY prefer me just to be at work.

Mind you I was ill over Christmas and just struggled on - it meant that chest infection lingered...

It may be the case that 'any warm body will do', but if you are signed off by a doctor as not fit for work, they shouldn't let you work, for their own benefit as well as yours.

I would expect the NHS to have fairly robust sickness absence/H&S policies and procedures tbh, and similarly insurance that specifies that employees signed by a doctor as being unfit for work don't work.

Preferring you to be at work is one thing, but allowing you to work while signed off as unfit is something else.

Yes, you're all right. Thanks for the replies. I'm not looking forward to the phone call though.