Can the GPs issue fit notes? 

If it is clinically appropriate and if the service is available to you, the clinician can issue a private fit note. HealthHero does not charge for issuing private fit notes, but you will need to check with your employer to confirm that they will accept one. 

Private fit notes cannot be used to access state funded sick pay or benefits. 

Fit notes are issued at the discretion of the clinician. 

For acute problems that the patient is consulting about, the clinician may, at their discretion, issue a fit note for up to 14 days from the date of consultation (in exceptional cases up to 21 days). 

We do not issue extensions of fit notes, whether these were initiated by a HealthHero clinician or any other clinician. Extensions, if needed, will need to come from the patient’s usual GP. In exceptional cases a short bridging extension may be issued while the patient waits to consult their usual GP.