The two-day conference will also hear calls for doctors to no longer be required to write sick notes for patients.

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He conceded that in the past six months he had attended only two out of 11 council meetings, but said he had been suffering from stress because of the dispute and had submitted sick notes.

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Last month Nottingham City Council started demanding sick-notes for short-term absence, sparking a protest among local doctors.

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By the end, too sick to write, he dictated notes into a tape recorder.

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He worked on it every day even when he was sick, and took his laptop to the hospital to draft notes and passages during chemotherapy treatments.

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