Safeguard Litigation is part of the suite of Integrated Risk Management Systems developed by Ulysses specifically for use within the Healthcare Market.
The Safeguard Litigation System manages legal cases from start to finish. Tracking events, stages, communication, and issuing reminders to ensure that each stage is completed on time.
Manages the administration for all types of cases including CNST, ELS, Employer's Liability and Occupier's Liability. The system holds the CNST and ELS codes and produces the CNST, LTPS and ELS Claim Report Forms, all reports include e-mail facilities.
Identifies previous claims made by the claimant and whether a member of staff has been the subject of more than one legal case including percentage involvement. This includes involvement in Incidents, Complaints and PALS Enquiries if installed. All such personal information is treated with the utmost security.
The stage of claim includes CNST, ELS and the pre-action protocol as outlined in the Woolf report. A reminder list is produced based on the pre-action stages and includes the 40 day limit for the request for Medical Records.
Safeguard maintains multiple estimates provided by different bodies for example CNST, Solicitors and the Organisation's Legal Department.
In addition the changes made to case estimates are recorded including the reason for the change with appropriate dates. These figures can be used to forecast expenditure by the Organisation on Legal Cases using many different parameters.
Multiple defendants can be entered per case identifying % liable and insurer. Total liability for each defendant and their insurer is calculated. This means that an Organisation can manage Cases on behalf of other Organisations.
Received & Payment information is collected keeping a running total of the amount each case is costing the organisation.
Both estimates and payments can be analysed within the Extractor using for example directorate, speciality, defendant, and individual consultant.
Complex calculations can be applied to all numeric fields producing information for the Organisations financial department.
Tracks investigations and other actions or events identifying the member of staff responsible, with target and completion dates. This ensures that all follow-up actions are completed.
Collects Inquest details including post mortem date, coroners name, verdict and primary cause of death.
A choice of user interfaces such as a Windows or Browser based front end using the Organisation's Intranet. A combination of input methods can be used within the same Organisation. Legal Cases can be input centrally or at Site, Ward, Department or by Directorate with security reflecting the System's data distribution.
An individual Legal Case, a group of Cases, or the reoccurrence of a Case may highlight a new area of Risk. Such Risks are managed within the Risk Register with links back to the Litigation System.
Integrated Mail Merge facilities use Microsoft Word (97+). Standard mail merge templates are created and letters can be personalised before being sent. All written correspondence is saved with the record and can be recalled as and when required.
Fully integrated with Safeguard Incidents, Complaints, PALS, Freedom of Information and Training including links to other external Systems.
All Safeguard software is upgraded in accordance
with legislation & user requirements in consultation with the Safeguard
user group.
A Report created from the Safeguard Litigation System
