Care needs assessments
A care needs assessment describes the practical support, equipment, therapies and accommodation issues arising from the claimant’s functional presentation. It translates clinical evidence into an evidence-based picture of need.
Report scope
What this report is for
A care needs assessment describes the practical support, equipment, therapies and accommodation issues arising from the claimant’s functional presentation. It translates clinical evidence into an evidence-based picture of need.
The precise remit, documents and assumptions should be settled in the letter of instruction. An expert’s opinion is confined to their own discipline and the material provided.
Instruction requirements
A focused route to usable evidence
The report normally sits alongside the medical prognosis and should make clear which assumptions depend on that evidence.
Defined questions
Identify the issues the report is asked to address.
Relevant records
Provide the material needed to form a properly bounded opinion.
Transparent assumptions
Separate facts assumed for the purpose of the report from clinical findings.
Independent opinion
The expert’s duty and the applicable procedural rules remain central.
Use the register to identify a suitable discipline, then agree the scope directly.
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Where this report sits
condition and prognosis reports and quantum reports may be relevant before, alongside or after this report, depending on the issue and stage of the matter.
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