Share your story once

Digital health passports

Create health summaries to share with healthcare professionals, showing what matters to you and reasonable adjustments that help.

What is a health or hospital passport?

A health passport is a simple summary that helps staff understand a person quickly. It can highlight communication needs, what matters to the person, and reasonable adjustments that support safer care.

Let's make healthcare accessible

Health passports that make care easier to deliver.

Patients and carers

  • Easy read online form
  • Easy to share
  • Find local resources

Clinicians

  • Save time, one-page
  • Less repetition in appointments
  • Reasonable adjustments

Services

  • More time for patients
  • Easy to print or email
  • Less admin time wasted

Create a digital Health Passport

Know Me health passport form preview

Easy read by design

  • Simple prompts for what matters, health information, and communication needs
  • Designed to support accessible healthcare communication
  • Clear for patients, carers, and professionals to use together

Choose a visual style that feels familiar

Choose realistic, illustrated, Easy on the i, or text-only.

‘Easy on the i’ symbols are created by Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and used with permission. All Images/Resources copyright © LYPFT.

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Text-only summary

Name: Alex Brown

Needs: quiet waiting area

Adjustments: updates in writing

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Plain English summary
Email Contact list
+/- Adjustments
One-page health summary shown on a tablet

One-page summary for care teams

Care teams can see the key information in seconds.

  • People are understood without repeating their story
  • Busy teams see reasonable adjustments in seconds
  • Easy to open, print, or email to healthcare services

Try the passports

A patient sharing a health passport with a doctor

Health Passport

One-page that tells people be your needs and reasonable adjustments quickly.

  • People and carers share what matters once
  • Teams see adjustments quickly
  • Easy to print, email, or attach to notes
A pregnant person talking with their midwife

Maternity Passport

A maternity summary that keeps preferences and adjustments visible throughout care.

  • Preferences stay visible from booking to discharge
  • Families share the same summary with every team
  • Supports calm, informed conversations
An older person talking with a nurse

Dementia Passport

A one-page summary that helps staff see the person living with dementia, not just the diagnosis.

  • Person-centred care from the first meeting
  • Families share the same summary with every team
  • Calmer care, with less distress

For NHS teams

Reasonable adjustments, ready to record

Know Me turns passport answers into suggested SNOMED CT codes for things like longer appointments or a quieter waiting area.

Participating NHS teams get a coding summary with each shared passport, ready to review and record.

Illustration of clinical codes linked to a health record.

Privacy and safety

Know Me is designed for sensitive health information, with assurance work completed with NHS and security partners.

You choose what to share
Encrypted in transit
Encrypted at rest
  • DCB0160
  • UK GDPR compliant
  • ICO registered
  • UK cloud hosting
  • Access controls and audit logging

Co-designed with patients and NHS staff

Shaped by lived experience

People with lived experience co-designed the passport in South London and Leeds.

Practical advice from clinicians

Clinical teams reviewed how we describe communication needs and reasonable adjustments.

Used at Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Developed in partnership with the trust, offering Know Me for its health passports.

The team behind Know Me

Our founders have experience in NHS services, behavioural practice and game development.

Contact us

Feedback and questions

Patients and carers

Questions about using a health passport in care.

Clinicians and commissioners

Digital health passport rollout, service planning, and pathway use. Talk to us about adoption

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