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 social and community service practitioners 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
