Medico Legal Services

Medico-legal Services

Prime Health Group (Qld) provides specialised examinations and reports to a diverse medico-legal and common law environment. We obtain objective evidence and provide expert opinion in relation to the claimant’s functional and vocational capacity and future employability.

Our customers include Workers compensation, CTP, medical negligence and self-insurers, Defendant Law firms and their Employer clients, Plaintiff law firms and their injured clients.

Our strategic advantage in the provision of medico-legal services is our understanding of work and the environment in which work tasks are performed. It is with this knowledge that we are able to benchmark industry standards and comment upon the employability of workers.

At Prime Health Group (Qld) we pride ourselves in providing

• Access to skilled and experienced therapists
• Flexible scheduling for clients
• Objective and reliable expert opinion
• Provision of timely and accurate reports

Services

• Vocational Assessments (with labour market research if required)
• Functional Capacity Evaluations (FCEs)
• Employability Assessments (this involves a FCE and comprehensive Vocational Assessment, including labour market research)
• Hand and Upper Limb Assessments
• Home Assessments (to determine care and equipment requirements)
• Care and Assistance Assessments
• Psychological Assessments

Conclusion

All consultants undertaking medico-legal assessments have extensive experience in their respective clinical fields as well as a minimum of three years experience in occupational rehabilitation. We ensure Prime Health Group (Qld) maintains an ongoing internal training and research program aimed at providing our up to date resources and information on:

• State and Federal Legislation
• Legal judgements and precedents
• Clinical diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of common injuries
• Functional and vocational testing
• National, state and local labour market information