If you look at the headlines, you will se that GPs (that is, people like me) are being encouraged to tell people to return to work. This is in a document from an organisation called the General Medical Council, which used to be an organisation that regulated doctors and protected patients: no longer.
This wretched bunch of control freaks (the GMC) recently have been consulting about what their role is. Recently they were suggesting that the should police what doctors are doing in their spare time. Now they are suggesting that we are unpaid agents of the Department of Work and Pensions, telling people to get back to work, or find work.
I would suggest that the GMC tries to do its core function properly, and not turn itself into an executive arm of the Department of Health.
They struggle with the difference between regulating and controlling, and recently they have lost their focus, and any respect they might have expected, by simply doing Government's bidding. They might as well just be incorporated into the Department of Health, and end the charade.
Declaration of Interest: My only contact with the GMC is an annual letter asking for money, so they can carry on their "work". That amount has increased over the years and is now 1400% more than when I started as a doctor. I resent paying them to behave like they do, and I shall have great pleasure in rescinding my registration in 18 months time. They won't get another penny off me then.
