Surgical Consent is an electronic consent platform to enhance shared decision making, reduce errors, & enable trusts to go paperless.

98% of us will undergo an operation, and decisions at these points in our lives are often critical. As Surgeons, we know that patients are frequently poorly informed about their options, and poor decisions can be made.

With a paperless mandate for 2020, and increasing medical negligence bills, currently £1.2bn per year, Surgical Consent offers a solution for patients, doctors, and hospitals.

“Unless changes are made to the processes to gain consent … dramatic increase in expensive litigation.”

With 10m UK operations per year, in 170 trusts, by 20,000 surgeons, the improvements we can deliver to the consent pathway can translate into huge benefits for the NHS.

£58bn/year is spent on operations & procedures in the NHS. King's Fund evidence states if we better informed patients and understood their priorities, we’d appropriately decide not to undertake 20% of the operations we currently do, potentially saving £11.6bn a year.

The NHS also spends £1.2bn per year on medical negligence costs, with around £46 million relating to consent issues, a figure expected to increase rapidly following recent legal changes, often from errors that can be negated by digital processes.

Surgical Consent helps the NHS meet its target of becoming paperless by 2020.