Consent+ · Digital informed consent
Consent that travels
with the patient.
Digital consent, simplified.
Procedure-specific digital consent with structured risk documentation, patient information ahead of the day of surgery, electronic signature and a complete time-stamped audit trail.
Built for surgical and pre-assessment teams worldwide. MHRA-registered Class I medical device software.
Consent the patient actually understands.
Procedure-specific information in the patient’s own language, ahead of the day of surgery — with a defensible, time-stamped record that follows them to theatre.
Paper consent is a patient safety and legal risk.
Informed consent is an ethical and legal requirement for surgery in every health system. In practice the discussion is often unstandardised and left to the individual clinician, which allows key information to be omitted — and consent-related litigation is rising in many countries.
of paper consent forms in one published hospital study contained a documentation error, and 90% omitted at least one core risk. BJS
surgical studies across many countries show conventional consent leaves patients with poor understanding of their procedure. BJS Open
cost of consent-related claims in one national health system in a single year, with claim numbers climbing. NIH
medical liability claims linked to consent are increasing internationally, including across Europe. Springer
A consent process built for the modern legal standard.
Consent+ replaces the paper form with a structured digital pathway that documents what was discussed, gives patients time to reflect and produces a defensible record.
Procedure-specific risk libraries
Each procedure carries a structured set of benefits, risks and alternatives, so the same information is documented the same way whoever takes consent.
Patient information in advance
Patients review information about their procedure on their own device before the day of surgery, giving them time to reflect and ask questions.
Consent in the patient's language
Patient-facing information is presented in the patient's own language, supporting equitable and understood consent where language is a barrier.
Signature and audit trail
Every consent interaction is time-stamped and version-controlled, with electronic signature and a complete retrievable record.
Consent that follows the patient
Consent taken in a clinic is available at the site where surgery takes place — which matters most for distributed and community-first models.
Sits in the record
Works with existing electronic patient records through open healthcare standards, so consent lives in the record rather than a separate silo.
The value is understanding, not paperwork.
The international evidence is consistent: consent improves most when patients are actively involved in learning about their procedure, not simply handed a form to sign. That is the principle Consent+ is built on.
Active involvement works best
A review of 40 surgical studies found the largest gains in comprehension came from digital tools that let patients navigate, check their own understanding and revisit information.
Multimedia improves recall
A meta-analysis found audiovisual information significantly improved patients' immediate recall of what they were consenting to compared with standard consent.
Consistent across countries
Randomised trials from the US, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and beyond show enhanced consent improves comprehension across many procedures.
Reaching every patient
Reviews of low-resource settings find digital consent can improve participation, comprehension and documentation quality where written consent alone falls short.
What digital consent achieves.
The case for Consent+ rests on the published evidence for structured and digital consent. These findings describe the approach in the literature; Consent+ is software designed to help teams deliver it.
In a published hospital study, introducing a structured digital consent application reduced the documentation error rate from over half of paper forms to 7.5%, and core risk omissions from 90% to 13.6%.
St John ER et al., British Journal of Surgery. Source ↗A systematic review of 40 surgical studies concluded that digital consent with active patient involvement improves comprehension more than audiovisual or written material alone.
Kiernan A et al., BJS Open, 2023. Source ↗A micro-costing analysis found digital consent can be cost-saving compared with paper, with the greatest saving when consent is completed ahead of the day of surgery.
Houten R et al., PharmacoEconomics Open, 2024. Source ↗Built to digital and clinical safety standards.
Simple to procure, quick to deploy.
Configure
Procedure library setup and integration with your existing record.
Go live
Clinician training, then a phased launch by specialty.
Improve
Consent quality reporting live and reviewed over time.
Consent+ is software intended to support the consent process and does not replace the clinician's professional and legal responsibility for obtaining valid consent. Published figures describe structured and digital consent in general and are not performance claims for this product.