The Department of Health may have swapped Wes Streeting out for James Murray, but there’s one big issue that remains: the sick note epidemic.

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Reports of the crisis have been raging on for weeks. Reports revealed that hundreds of GPs have never refused a sick note. The Daily Mail declared 11 million were issued in England last year. The Mirror announced that patients will be sent to job coaches and gyms to curb the rise.

The common thread in all the furore is GPs, who are always left to shoulder the blame. The truth, though, is that they are doing the best they can in a broken system that strips away their time with patients and rushes them onto the next. In short, they’re being let completely down.

But how did we get to this point? Well, one........

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