The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has welcomed the joint ABI-TUC consultation paper on access to rehabilitation for accident victims.
APIL secretary Mark Harvey said the paper Getting Back to Work was a step in the right direction to identifying key problems and getting injured people back into employment.
Harvey said one of the key problems was a serious lack of funding.
He suggested rehabilitation costs be spread among a number of stakeholders such as employers, insurers and the government.
The NHS should play a bigger role in providing rehabilitation services, he said.
Harvey also called for greater awareness of rehabilitation in the workplace, with employers playing an important part in the process.
"We want to see a statutory duty posed on employers so that they at least have to consider an employee's request for rehabilitation," he said.
