The NHS is expected to be given responsibility for rehabilitation when the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) releases its second report into the employers' liability (EL) crisis on 20 November.
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The NHS is expected to be given responsibility for rehabilitation when the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) releases its second report into the employers' liability (EL) crisis on 20 November.
Forum of Insurance Lawyers vice president Claire McKinney said that the likely outcome was that the NHS would outsource rehabilitation to private providers and, where insurance cover exists, recoup the costs through insurers.
She said that in order to ensure that all people, rather than only those injured at work had access to rehabilitation, its provision needed to be centralised.
But McKinney warned that the funding of rehabilitation remained a sticking point. "The Government recognises that it's going to have to take ownership of a rehab project but doesn't want to fund it," she said.
A DWP official would not comment on specific proposals but said that the Government acknowledged that any rehabilitation solution would need to extend beyond EL.
