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The facts that stay the same between appointments — diagnoses, the whole care team, past admissions, allergies, equipment — held in one place, so you're not rebuilding the history from memory in a corridor. It stays on this device: no account, no login, nothing sent anywhere.
Conditions, when they were confirmed, and by whom.
Everyone involved, and how to reach them without hunting through letters.
Surgeries, procedures and hospital stays — the history you get asked for every single time.
Anything that has caused a reaction, including tapes, latex and contrast — not just drugs.
Sizes and model numbers, so a replacement can be ordered by someone who isn't you.
Those change weekly, so they get their own sheets: the Medication Schedule Builder for what to take and when, and the Doctor Visit Prep Sheet for the questions and what was said.
Anyone managing a complicated medical history ends up answering the same questions dozens of times a year: when was that diagnosed, who is the consultant, what was the operation in 2023, what happened with the antibiotic, what size is the tube. The answers exist — in letters, discharge summaries, three different apps and a folder in the kitchen — but never together, and never in the ten minutes when someone is actually asking.
What's available to fix this splits neatly in two. On one side are printable PDF templates from hospitals and charities: excellent structure, but frozen, so they're out of date the week after you fill them in and have to be rewritten by hand. On the other are cloud services that want the most sensitive record a family owns uploaded to someone else's server, usually behind a subscription. This tool is the missing middle — editable like an app, but a file on your own device that no one else can read.
The full binder is for you. The emergency one-pager is for everyone else: a single printable page a locum, a school nurse, a respite caregiver or an ambulance crew can read in under a minute. Name, date of birth, weight for dosing, main diagnoses, severe allergies, equipment in use, who to call first, and the short note about what actually matters — the thing you always end up saying out loud anyway.
Print it whenever something changes, and keep a copy in the hospital bag, one on the fridge and one with whoever looks after the person when you can't. Paper doesn't run out of battery, doesn't need a password, and works in a corridor with no signal.
It doesn't track medications day to day and it doesn't prepare individual appointments, because both change far more often than the standing history and both already have a sharper tool. Keeping them separate means the binder stays stable — you update it a few times a year, not every week — which is exactly what makes it trustworthy when someone asks what the history is.
The parts that stay the same between appointments: diagnoses and when they were made, every specialist and how to reach them, past surgeries and hospital admissions, allergies and adverse reactions, and any equipment with its sizes and supplier. Day-to-day things like the current medication chart and questions for the next appointment usually live on their own sheets, because they change far more often.
Keep it brief: the person's name and date of birth, key diagnoses, severe allergies, current medicines, important equipment, emergency contacts, and any watch-for instructions from the care team. Include other details, such as current weight, only when the care team says they are relevant. This summary supports—not replaces—the official medical record.
No. The binder is saved in this browser on this device, with no account and no server. That also means a cleared browser takes it with it, so export a backup and keep a printed copy in the bag that travels to hospital.