EIDO’s peer-reviewed consent documentation holds the PIF TICK accreditation, a UK-based quality mark awarded after detailed scrutiny from the Patient Information Forum. The PIF TICK is a guarantee to patients and health professionals that the EIDO patient information library meets a stringent set of criteria: Systems: Information is created using a consistent and documented process…

Digital delivery of information can empower patients to make informed choices about their care, reduce necessary hospital appointments and improve the quality of face-to-face consultations. These are the conclusions of a small research study led by Mr Simon Parsons (Consultant Oesophago-Gastric Surgeon at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and Honorary Professor, University of Nottingham). The…

Allowing patients to engage remotely with consent information, and even complete a draft consent form prior to admission, offers clear benefits over a paper-based pathway.

EIDO Healthcare is pleased to announce it will be attending the inaugural International Patient Experience Symposium this month in Abu Dhabi. The IPX is a conference with the aim of aiding and informing healthcare professionals on how best to deliver the greatest possible clinical, emotional and physical care to their patients. Event Details The conference…

Health+Care, incorporating the Digital Healthcare Show, provides a platform for more than 10,000 senior health and social care professionals to come together to forge new partnerships and productive ways of working in challenging times. The main focus is on the delivery of cultural, service, system and digital transformation that’s essential to securing the future of…

Patient First is the national healthcare event for UK healthcare and patient safety professionals,  created to support Professor Don Berwick’s call for a learning culture and providing two days of compelling content for boards, doctors, nurses, managers, pharmacists and all those concerned about delivering improved safety outcomes to patients and service users. In it’s fourth…

EIDO has recently been made a lifetime member of the Plain English Campaign, after more than fifteen years producing quality information for consent, making it one of only 7 healthcare organisations which have been  awarded this honour. From the very beginning, the success of EIDO’s patient information documents has rested on the clarity of their…

Cementing its place as an industry leader in informed consent, EIDO Healthcare has this year launched its inaugural Annual Consent Review at the ASGBI Surgical Congress in Glasgow. EIDO Healthcare EIDO Healthcare has been providing patient information documents to support consent for nearly 2 decades through its flagship product, EIDO Inform. Approximately half of NHS…

Since it started in 1999 with a small set of documents created in Microsoft Word, EIDO Healthcare has come a long way. The goal of EIDO Healthcare has been, and continues to be, to provide surgeons and healthcare professionals with the tools they require to obtain informed consent from patients. It now boasts a library…

Patients that are about to consent to a surgery or treatment path need to understand the proposed treatment and be informed about the risks, benefits and alternatives of the surgery or treatment. Only then can they make an informed decision. The information they are given needs to be clear, accurate, evidence-based and up to date.…