What are the benefits to patients of early advice?
By offering this service to patients allows them:
- Access to free legal advice and signposting to relevant charities and organisations.
- Early financial support to patients and their families through interim payments and
continued payments from employers. - Focus on rehabilitation and recovery.
- Early discharge from the NHS.
- Personal Injury claimants entitlement to early private treatment and increased
rehabilitation funded by insurance companies. - Patients not waiting on NHS wards for rehabilitation to commence.
- Access to early privately funded rehabilitation points to better outcomes for
severely injured patients.
What are the benefits of legal advice and services to the NHS?
Giving patient access to early advice greatly impacts the NHS in the following ways:
- Increased high quality patient care via provision of advice
- More time for medical staff to concentrate on treating patients
- Large increases in NHS revenues via NHS Costs Recovery Scheme
- NHS Costs Savings:
- Insurance companies funding rehabilitation
- Reduction in NHS bed occupancy rates.