What is a health passport?

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.

Create a passport

Health passport FAQs

What is a health passport?

A health passport is a short, practical summary that helps healthcare professionals understand a person's needs quickly, including communication needs, what matters to them, and reasonable adjustments.

Is a health passport the same as a hospital passport?

Often, yes. Many people use the terms interchangeably. A hospital passport usually refers to the same idea: a summary that can be shared with staff before or during hospital care.

Who should have a hospital passport?

Anyone who would benefit from staff understanding their communication, support needs, routines, or reasonable adjustments more quickly can benefit from a hospital passport.

How do I share a health passport with hospital staff?

Know Me is designed to be easy to open, print, or email. That makes it easier to share the same one-page summary with healthcare professionals across appointments and care settings.

Let's make healthcare accessible

Health passports that make care easier to deliver.

Patients and carers

  • Easy read online form
  • Reasonable adjustments shared
  • Find local resources

Clinicians

  • Save time, one-page
  • Less repetition in appointments
  • Clear adjustments for safer care

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

Health passports for specific needs

The same idea, shaped around different situations and the people who use it.

Autism passport

Shares sensory needs and adjustments that help autistic people. Autism passport

Dementia passport

Keeps what matters visible for someone living with dementia. Dementia passport

Maternity passport

Keeps preferences and adjustments visible throughout maternity care. Maternity passport

Reasonable adjustments

What reasonable adjustments are and how to ask for them in healthcare. Reasonable adjustments

Try the passports

Digital Health Passport

A one-page summary that helps people be understood and gives teams useful information quickly.

  • People and carers share what matters once
  • Teams see adjustments quickly
  • Easy to print, email, or attach to notes
Create a Health Passport

Maternity Passport

A one-page 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
Create a Maternity Passport