Question follow-through · 13073

Medical Certificates: Autism and Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that fit note assessments comply with NICE guidelines for autism and severe mental health conditions.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 24 Jun 2026
Target answer date: 29 Jun 2026
Answer: 3 Jul 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline

24 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that fit note assessments comply with NICE guidelines for autism and severe mental health conditions.
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jul 2026
Answer published
Fit notes can be certified by five groups of healthcare professionals: doctors; nurses; occupational therapists; pharmacists; and physiotherapists.Fit notes are based on the professional’s clinical assessment of a patient’s health condition, and their cli...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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