Letter to employee requesting a medical report

Published on: 27/12/2023

Dear
 
MEDICAL REPORT
 
Following your [recent] [continued] absence from work, the Company would like to obtain a medical report from your doctor and would ask that you give your written consent to this.
 
Under the Access to Medical Reports Act 1988 ("AMRA") you are entitled to withhold your consent to this request. If you do give your consent you are entitled to see the doctor`s report before it is sent to the Company and you may withhold your consent to it being given to the Company after you have seen it. You can ask the doctor to amend the report if you believe an error has been made. If the doctor does not make these amendments, a note of your comments will be attached to the report. You are also entitled to see the final version of the medical report.