Law firm aims to reduce health sector’s legal costs

Media release - Law firm aims to reduce health sector’s legal costs

Specialist health sector law firm, Claro, wants to help New Zealand’s approx. 150,000 regulated and non-regulated health professionals, and their employers, reduce their need for reactive legal services.

Claro has launched on-line training platform Clarify (www.clarify.co.nz) to help health professionals minimise avoidable mishaps through a better understanding of health law. The launch of this online training platform is a natural extension of Claro’s founding prevention-ahead-of-cure philosophy, and its longstanding commitment to training and education in the health sector.

Claro’s managing partner, Dr Jonathan Coates, says traditional on-the-job training can require considerable commitment of time and money in the face of existing workload pressures. Clarify’s objective is to help individuals understand their legal obligations conveniently and inexpensively.

Featuring senior members of Claro’s team presenting on different aspects of health law, the six online tutorials each take about an hour to complete, and include an online test and certification which can be used for CPD and other purposes such as employment inductions, and individual upskilling. “Health sector professionals are not lawyers, yet they work at the crossroads of health and the law. The law can have a major effect on the quality of patient outcomes and many negative outcomes can be prevented with greater awareness of legal and ethical obligations,” Dr Coates says.

The NZ Artificial Limb Service and the Midwifery Council of New Zealand are early adopters of Clarify. The Midwifery Council has already endorsed Clarify as a provider of continuing midwifery education, and the NZALS says of it:

“The New Zealand Artificial Limb Service has been an early adopter of Clarify’s e-learning modules. We are committed to ensuring our expert workforce are appropriately trained and supported to get the best outcomes for the people we care for. This includes understanding their legal and ethical obligations when dealing with patients.

As an employer of health professionals, we like Clarify’s certification process – which provides senior management with a way to assure the organisation that our team understand the key issues they need to be across and a formal record of their compliance. “ Sean Gray, CEO, NZALS

Claro was established six years ago, with the goal of providing proactive, preventative legal advice to the health sector.

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