According to the Pulse Today website, the Department of Work and Pensions urged the GMC to consider return to work as ‘an important indicator of successful clinical treatment' when reviewing its Good Medical Practice guidance, a document obtained by Pulse reveals.
Last week, Pulse Today revealed a revised draft of Good medical Practice included a new duty for doctors ‘to encourage patients with long-term conditions to stay in, or return to employment'.
The move prompted concerns that the GMC had been ‘pressurised' by the Government to enlist GPs in the coalition's benefit crackdown, with the regulator admitting the DWP had fed into the draft document.
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Revealed: DWP submission to GMC on urging 'return to work'
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