Health checks - theoretically speaking - please help

[HarrietTheSpy]

If one needed to get a GP or consultant's letter attesting to a nanny or mother's help's fitness to do the job...does anyone know what the process is?

Cheers y'all

ERm, possibly make an appointment with your GP/Consulatant...or ask at their reception about protocol?

It might be more complicated then that. If the letter is a general statement of health about the nanny then a GP would probably be happy to do this.

If an opinion on being able to do a particular job was required then it would probably need to be an occupational health consultant.

Both of these things would need to be privately paid.

Am i allowed to ask for the name of the person's GP and call their surgery to find out what the procedure is? Will they tell me? I suppose they would.

oh right...sorry, misunderstoo...thought you would be getting this for yourself....
I would think that whoever you employ would have to sort this out...but am possibly comletely wrong...

It would obviously all have to be with their consent, is there any specific reason why you need this letter? - I think it is a fairly unusual request.
Might be best for the person you employ to make the first contact with the GP about this, and then the GP can be sure that they consent to this.

yes there is a specific reason. I know it has to be with consent, sorry what I meant was the GP surgery would tell me how the process works in their surgery. Maybe the candidate gives consent and then they take it from there. I guess that makes sense.

Now I think about it more probably either way would be fine. If you contact them they might be worried about the confidentiality of the employee, so probably best just to ask the general question without mentioning names, that way they wont have to worry.

Hopefully a GP will will come along in a minute and correct my ramblings.

Candidate would know the surgery was being contacted anyway, I'm planning to be totally transparent about it.

I have been asked to provide a letter from my GP previously showing competence to perform my job. I went myself and requested the letter from my GP and gave a copy to the employers. My recent employers had a section put into the contract about requesting information from GP's if I was not performing my job adequately due to illness and were allowed to request I provide written documentation from the doctor proving I could do my job.

I have a letter from my GP stating I am fit and healthy with no psychotic tendencies - not because I've ever been asked for it but because I have nothing to hide IYSWIM.

Most healthy candidates wouldn't have a problem with doing this. GPs are probably used to doing it for CMs, teachers, all sorts of people who need some kind of blanket declaration of health. If there was an issue then it might need to be referred to Occ. Health but more in terms of "you had a back problem and will now be in a job where you have to carry a baby around, will you be able to cope with this, how can we minimise the risk of your bad back recurring etc."

Melinda and Frannikin that helps so much. Thank you.

One final question - did your prospective employers send a job description to the GP first? I would want to ensure that the job was represented correctly as not sure if our liability insurance could be invalidated if we hadn't spelled this out. Or maybe I'm being paranoid.

Mine didn't - as I said I had it done completely voluntarily. I have no major health problems (a few dietary allergies but easily avoided and no more risky at work than if I'm just by myself) so I just said to my GP that I was a nanny and would like a letter declaring I'm a fit, healthy and suitable person.

If they did have health problems then it might get more complicated, like the example with the bad back - then I would expect the GP to want a job description to see whether there would be an impact on a health problem IYSWIM.