Sicknote Britain ISN'T getting better: long-term illness drives shocking 8m from workforce, with one in five adults claiming they're too unwell for a full-time job READ MORE: How the menopause is adding to 'Sicknote Britain' with 60,000 off By Rebecca Whittaker For Mailonline and Shaun Wooller Health Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 10:11 BST, 3 October 2024 | Updated: 10:22 BST, 3 October 2024 e-mail View comments Long-term illness is driving a staggering eight million Brits — one in five working-age adults — out of the workforce, a report has shown. While 4.3million with health problems aren't working at all, 3.
9million are in work but suffer a condition that affects their ability to stay in full-time employment. The number of Brits too ill to work has increased by 37 per cent over the last decade, from around 6million, according to new figures from the Commission for Healthier Working Lives. The increasing toll of obesity and its related conditions, mental health problems and the aftermath of the Covid pandemic is all thought to be behind the rise.
Britain's obesity crisis and a decline in mental health are thought to be fueling the rise (file image) Since 2013 the number of people claiming they are too unwell to work has increased by 37 per cent, with figures rising from 6million to 8.2million (file image) Some 300,000 people with health conditions leave the workforce every year, The Telegraph reports . It adds that the Commission for Healthier Working Lives has c.
