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Legal Health Check for Health Justice Partnerships

If you’re working in health and wellbeing services, understanding whether your patients / clients may be experiencing a legal problem can be difficult.  

This Legal Health Check is designed to help health and wellbeing staff identify legal issues that can worry people, and where a community lawyer may be able to help. 

The questions outlined in this tool explore the type of life problems often described by patients / clients who are accessing health justice partnerships or who may benefit from a health justice partnership service. You can use the outcomes of the Legal Health Check in various ways, for example to: 

  • outline the current legal needs of your patients / clients 
  • tell potential legal partners so they understand the types of legal help your patients / clients might need 
  • be part of your referral processes in partnership 
  • brief current legal partners to review your patient / client needs
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When looking to build an HJP, it’s important to take the time to learn about the legal assistance sector and which legal services are available for the patients / clients your service supports. This resource outlines community-based legal services in states and territories across Australia.

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