Jacqueline Webb and Company’s lunchtime seminar, with speaker Elizabeth Waterman Care Expert, introduced an alternative way of practicing outside the statutory sector. For those of us practicing in the medico-legal area, Ms Waterman provided some very useful information on developing report writing techniques which are fundamental to this specialist field.
By using therapists to assess people that have been injured through no fault of their own Jacqueline Webb and company has developed a facility to solicitors and insurers to help the claimant to have the compensation that they need not cursory compensation. By taking into account the future care needs of a person the company is able to provide a whole assessment of an individual from the view point of the care required past and future, including care needs, transport, equipment, and housing needs.
The thing I thought was interesting about the seminar was that it viewed the process from the initial assessment of the injured individual through to appearing as an expert witness at court.
The people attending the seminar were asked to look at their report writing skills and look into opportunities to hone and practice them to build up a good written style making the long detailed reports not only factually correct but interesting to read as well. The chief points flagged up by the seminar were logical presentation, use of language, structuring of the report and professional approach.