Doctors, Paramedics, Nurses, Agency Nurses and hospital staff need to know important information about you. My Healthcare Passport was created to help you keep a record of your needs so that in an emergency situation the medical professionals involved in your care will have all of this information to hand and will be better able to reach a diagnosis and deliver care to your needs more quickly.Keep it in a safe place and if you ever need to go into hospital take it with you. It will also prove a useful tool to District Nurses if they are involved in your care. Care Homes will find this book valuable. It can be placed in a poly pocket in the service user's file and travel with them to hospital and sent back with the service user with notes from the hospital in the back. It will help the Paramedics, emergency doctors and new nurses in your home in emergency situations and will be an informative document for the hospital on transfer. The Nice Guidelines address the importance of sharing information with hospitals in their new guide 'Moving between hospital and home,including care homes.

' This book will ensure the home is following the Nice Guidelines. Extra copies of this book are available from Amazon.