GPs are frustrated at having to deal with requests from students and parents asking for a COVID-19 ‘medical clearance certificate’ months after the pandemic began.

The RACGP has called on employers, school principals and day care managers to stop requiring workers, students or children to supply certificates stating they are free of the virus.

In February college president Dr Harry Nespolon said parents had been pressuring GPs for such certificates, and it had become a source of “ongoing frustration” ever since. 

“This has been going on for months, it is unnecessary and it needs to stop right away,” Dr Nespolon says.