Clinical Review Services

Protecting Patients throughout recovery

Rehabilitation defines the clinical direction of a serious injury claim.

  • Initial Needs Assessments shape treatment plans.
  • Progress reporting shapes assumptions about recovery.
  • Those assumptions influence both ongoing care and settlement decisions.

If recovery is not actively monitored, early assumptions can become embedded too soon.

Medicess Clinical Review Services provide doctor-led oversight to ensure that rehabilitation remains accurate, proportionate and aligned with the claimant’s actual recovery — and that appropriate clinical standards are upheld throughout.

Why structured clinical reviews matters

Recovery is rarely linear.

Without formal reassessment, there is a real risk that:

  • Early improvement is treated as full recovery
  • Temporary plateaus are described as stabilisation
  • Ongoing symptoms are under-recognised
  • Treatment is reduced before functional goals are achieved
  • Prognosis is fixed without sufficient evidence

These are not minor issues.

They directly affect the quality of care delivered to the patient and risk premature case settlement.

Clinical review safeguards against this by ensuring that treatment decisions remain justified, proportionate and clinically defensible as recovery evolves.

It protects both the patient’s rehabilitation and the integrity of the clinical narrative.

Rehabilitation Review Service

A structured, doctor-led audit of the Initial Needs Assessment and ongoing rehabilitation.

The service provides:

  • Critical review of original INA and clinical reasoning
  • Ongoing monitoring of patient recovery
  • Assessment of treatment recommedations
  • Identification of drift, stagnation or premature stabilisation

Its purpose is to ensure rehabilitation continues to meet the highest clinical standards from initiation through to resolution.

Settlement Review Service

A doctor-led assessment of recovery stability when settlement is being considered.

The service examines:

  • Current functional status
  • Ongoing treatment needs
  • Whether recovery has genuinely stabilised
  • Whether material clinical reisks remains

It ensures that any decision to settle reflects a clinically sound and properly monitored recovery position.