Free resources

Practical things you can use today, without an account and without paying for anything. Nothing you type into a tool on this site leaves your browser.

Tools

Fill one in, print it, and take it with you.

• Keeping several appointments in one place somebody else can see
  A free tool for tracking appointments across clinicians, including what has to happen before each one. Print it, share it, nothing is uploaded.
  For Family carers coordinating appointments across more than one clinician
• A medicines list you can actually produce when somebody asks
  A free tool for writing down everything a parent takes, including what people leave off. Print it, keep it, nothing you type leaves your browser.
  For Adult children managing medicines for a parent who does not manage them alone

Guides

Plain language, with the source named wherever a health fact is stated.

• Caring for a parent in another city
  Closing the distance without phoning more: getting named with clinicians, finding somebody local, and what to do with the one visit a year.
  For Adult children caring for a parent they do not live near
• What to take to an appointment, every time
  A free, printable checklist of what to take to a hospital appointment — and what people most often arrive without. No account needed.
  For Anyone attending a hospital appointment or taking a family member to one
• Reading a blood test result without frightening yourself
  How to read a set of blood results in context instead of searching one number at a time, with the source named for every health fact stated.
  For People who have just received blood work they cannot read