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Use the Consultant Connect App to take secure clinical photos and add notes.

Quick. Simple. Secure.

Get the best out of Consultant Connect with the Consultant Connect App.

Safe. Clinical. Photos.

Use the Consultant Connect App to take secure clinical photos and add notes.

GP App Case Studies

Read our latest Consultant Connect App case studies to find out more.

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Why use the

Consultant Connect App?

Telephone Advice & Guidance

It’s quick – clinicians tap the screen, see which specialties are available and select the relevant one to call. They’ll also find useful information like the opening hours for each specialty. Find out more.

Photo Advice & Guidance

They can also take IG-secure clinical photos and add notes the no-hassle way. Images are stored in a GDPR-compliant cloud (not on their phone). In areas where this is enabled, the photos and a PDF summary can also be automatically sent to the clinician’s NHS email address. Find out more.

Send secure messages

In areas where Messaging is enabled, clinicians can share images and send messages immediately for Advice & Guidance (at the touch of a button – no need to use email). Find out more.

Monitor activity & earn CPD credits

Clinicians can access a useful record of their activity within the Consultant Connect App. Primary care clinicians can also earn CPD credits when they use the app for Advice & Guidance – find out more.

Telephone Advice & Guidance

It’s quick – within the app, clinicians tap the screen to:

  • See which specialties are available.
  • Select the relevant one to call.
  • See useful information like the opening hours for each specialty.

Photo Advice & Guidance for Teledermatology

Within the app, clinicians can:

  • Take IGsecure clinical photos, and add notes.
  • Images are stored in an IG-secure and GDPR-compliant cloud.
  • Images can be accessed in the cloud via the user’s browser.
  • The use of the PhotoSAF feature is ‘universal’ and is increasingly being used across different specialties.

Send secure messages

In areas where enabled, within the app, clinicians can:

  • Take secure photos using PhotoSAF
  • Share images and send messages immediately.
  • Receive advice, close the case and record patient outcomes.

Monitor activity

Within the app, clinicians can access:

  • A useful record of their activity.
  • Use this record as CPD evidence.

The Consultant Connect App is free to clinicians within participating areas

First, download the app by searching ‘Consultant Connect’ on Google Play or the App Store. Please note that only devices running on an Apple operating system (iOS) of 15 and above or an Android operating system of 11 and above will support the Consultant Connect App. Once you have signed up, you can use the features* shown below:

To download the Consultant Connect App, click on the relevant logo below.

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Once you have downloaded the app, sign up in four easy steps:

  1.  Open the Consultant Connect App on your phone and click sign up.
  2. Enter your name, NHS email address and create a password.
  3. Provide your surgery name and select a role.
  4. Confirm your email address and mobile number and start using the app!

Getting started with the Consultant Connect App

How to sign up to the Consultant Connect App

How it works | Telephone Advice & Guidance via the Consultant Connect App
How it works | Photo Messaging Advice & Guidance via the Consultant Connect App
Your profile feature on the Consultant Connect App
How it works | safe clinical photography via the PhotoSAF feature on the Consultant Connect App

What app users say:

Advanced Paramedic Practitioner

‘I’ve always got my phone with me, and using the cloud server via an email link [for PhotoSAF] also feels better from a governance perspective.’

Pete Roberts, Advanced Paramedic Practitioner, CMK Medical Centre, Bedfordshire Luton and Milton Keynes ICB

General Practitioner

‘It has taken away the stress of trying to contact Secondary Care on a busy on-call day, especially if you have the patient waiting in the room with you too.’

Dr Puja Choudhury, Weeping Cross Health Centre, Staffordshire

Paramedic

‘[When using the Consultant Connect App] You can access multiple departments within the hospital without having to look up contacts or numbers on your phone.’

Michael Muir, Paramedic and Clinical Stroke Lead, Scottish Ambulance Service, NHS Tayside Health Board

General Practitioner

‘It is incredibly useful to be able to use the Consultant Connect App to make a prompt call and obtain an answer quickly to a query. The answers I have obtained have reduced my referrals and helped me provide better patient care in complex cases.’

Dr Victoria Beasley, Speedwell Surgery, North Central London ICB

Paediatric Consultant

‘We all know how difficult it can be to find the right numbers or the right point of contact. With the Consultant Connect service, everything is available via one number, or by using the Messaging service through the Consultant Connect App.’

Dr Nakul Gupta, Paediatric Consultant at Grange University Hospital, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Wales.

App case studies

Consultant Connect supports expedited dermatology referral in Oxfordshire

Consultant Connect supports expedited dermatology referral in Oxfordshire

We spoke with a patient at Woodlands Medical Centre in Oxfordshire, to find out how her GP’s utilisation of the Consultant Connect App impacted her daughter’s care following a dermatological condition.

Acute Frailty in Dorset | GP case study

Acute Frailty in Dorset | GP case study

We spoke with Dr Laura Godfrey, a GP in Dorset, to find out how the Acute Frailty line via Consultant Connect benefits her and her patients.

How out-of-area Advice & Guidance is supporting clinicians in Derbyshire

How out-of-area Advice & Guidance is supporting clinicians in Derbyshire

Enhanced Advice & Guidance provided by Consultant Connect has been available to clinicians in Derbyshire ICB since 2016. We spoke with Dr Julia Mason, a GP, to find out how the service supports her in providing the best patient care.

The benefits of having access to GP Bypass Numbers in Wales

The benefits of having access to GP Bypass Numbers in Wales

One of the most popular uses of the free Consultant Connect App is the pre-programmed Bypass Numbers feature, which allows healthcare professionals in participating areas to skip the queue on switchboard and speak directly to staff at local GP practices.

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