Goody, whose funeral was taking place today, was descrbed by Clifford as a 'one-off' who has touched people's hearts all over the world.
She died of cervical cancer - and the only two firms which make cervical cancer testing kits for the NHS say demand has shot up by 53 per cent.
The companies, Hologic and Medical Solutions, said the NHS bought 424,000 screening kits in March last year.
But last month, the NHS bought 648,000 - an increase of 224,000.
Clifford said: "Jade's legacy, almost certainly, will be that there will be a lot of young women in Britain whose lives have been saved because of her.
"In many years to come, there will be an awful lot of women who've got an awful lot to thank Jade for."
'Confirmation'
Speaking about the reaction to Goody's death, Clifford said: "What's happened has been a confirmation of what I knew in the weeks leading up to her death - she's touched the hearts and minds of people all over the world.
"It's been just amazing. What happened since she went public last August about cervical cancer has obviously affected an awful lot of people."
Asked why Goody bucked the reality star trend by remaining in the public eye for seven years, Clifford said: "People identified with her for lots of different reasons. She was full-on, someone who was full of life, someone who I think, particularly towards the end of her life, everybody got to know as the person she really was.
"Her honesty, her openness, her courage, and the fact she was such a devoted and successful mum.
"Someone who was determined to provide for her children after her death; someone who was determined that they would have the education that she never had.
"A lot of girls identified with her. She'd had a very, very difficult childhood, but got on and took hold of every opportunity and made it work for her, in very much her own way.
'Inspiration'
"I think that she served as an inspiration to a lot of young people out there."
Meanwhile, thousands were expected to line the streets for the funeral, with Goody being buried after a church service in Buckhurst Hill, Essex.
The funeral procession was tracing the geography of Goody's life as it made its way to St John the Baptist Church.
It was travelling through Bermondsey - where she grew up - after leaving a funeral home, heading to her home in Upshire, Essex, then to Buckhurst Hill, where her widower Jack Tweed lives.
Clifford said that the funeral would be a very Jade Goody event'.
Goody died at home at the age of 27 on March 22 after losing her battle with cancer.
Clifford said that he and Tweed, 21, would be among people paying tribute at the service.
"The whole service is very much the way Jade wanted it," he said. Goody's sons, Bobby and Freddie, are not expected at the funeral. They are believed to have gone to Australia with their father Jeff Brazier.
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I'm sad for the families of anyone lost to cancer.
However the canonisation of Ms Goody is a step too far.
Her true legacy is the acceptance into our culture of loud mouthed, ignorant Chavs, as the norm. She and her ilk, and the proliferation of Reality culture in the dumbing down of our country is unforgivable.
It's a shame that her legacy wasn't in the form of cash to cancer research facilities. There was enough 'earned' in her dying months
I might be wrong but I don't recall Jade Goody publicly urging girls and women to go and attend their smear test appointments so she has not "saved thousands of lives" as Max Clifford has said. Young women have simply seen her dying in the public eye so have attended their appointments, from fear. That is totally different to me.
Jade Goody spent her last months getting as much money as she could by selling every aspect of her life and impending death. I agree with nyb - I am disgusted with the dumbing down of our country and do not understand the thousands of people who turned out for her funeral to publicly sob and throw flowers, making it look like another Diana funeral and Sky News, once a respected news station devoted 6 hours of coverage for the funeral.
Yes, it's sad she died and left two young children but I for one, am glad the sick circus it became is over and hope this will never be repeated again with anyone else trying to be like her.
And there are so many who say the country and society are much poorer for her loss. I would tend to narrow that down to her family and friends, and no one would convince me otherwise. I know a lot of people identified with her, but they are of the same ilk.
Save your 'grief' for when it really matters, not for some illusion on a tv screen.