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Rishi Sunak has announced plans to trial stripping GPs of their power to sign people off work, as he attacked the UK's "sick note culture" in a speech about welfare.
Instead he wants specialist work and health professionals to issue fit notes as part of a broader aim to make sick notes harder to obtain.
Doctors' union the British Medical Association (BMA) said fit notes were carefully considered before they are written and criticised Mr Sunak's "hostile rhetoric" on the issue.
