Self certification advice

[onehackedoffmuma]

I've been to the GP about getting signed off from work and he explained that I need to self certify for the first 7 days. Can anyone explain how this works?
Thanks in advance

My employer (and the last one I worked for) gave us a bit of paper to fill in once we went back to work saying why we'd been off sick.

We have a form for self-certification at work, the procedure for informing work is set out in the staff handbook - do you have one, or an HR dept who could let you know?

You can download a form here www.hmrc.gov.uk/forms/sc2.pdf