Table 1.

Diagnostic groups reported by GPs 2006 to 2007.

Diagnoses	Number of diagnoses	Percentage of total diagnoses	Percentage of diagnoses issued with sickness certification	Number of days certified (diagnoses)	Percentage of total days certified diagnoses)
Musculoskeletal	1558	53.3	42.2	14 865	36.0
Mental ill-health	869	29.7	78.8	23 099	55.9
Skin	268	9.2	14.6	646	1.6
Respiratory	87	3.0	33.3	692	1.7
Audiological	17	0.6	23.5	238	0.6
Other diagnoses	124	4.2	46.8	1748	4.2
Total (diagnoses)	2923a	100.0	N/A	41 288a	100.0

^aSome cases are comorbid; therefore, there are more diagnoses than cases and more days certified when diagnoses are analysed separately.