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Every Second Counts.
WardAide Saves Them.

The UK's most comprehensive free clinical decision support tool — built for every healthcare professional, from ward to care home.

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Clinical errors in the UK since you opened this page:
0
errors and counting — that's 7.5 every second
1,708
Deaths from preventable medication errors
Every year in UK hospitals — nearly 5 people every single day
237M
Medication errors annually in the UK
7.5 errors every second. Most are preventable with the right information at the right time.
£1.7B
NHS cost of preventable clinical errors
Spent annually treating harm that better decision support could prevent
12,000+
Sepsis deaths each year
Many preventable with earlier recognition — WardAide has Sepsis Six built in
160+
Clinical tools in one free app
No login required. Works offline. Personalised for 20+ NHS and university roles.
14
Healthcare roles supported
From doctors and nurses to HCAs, social workers, physios and care home staff

The Scale of Preventable Harm

Understanding how often clinical errors occur in the UK

Every Second
7.5
medication errors occur across the UK
Every Minute
451
medication errors occur
Every Hour
27,055
medication errors occur
Every 90 Min
1
person dies from sepsis (potentially preventable)
Every Day
4.7
deaths from preventable medication errors
Every Week
11
mental health crisis deaths — many preventable
Every Month
67
maternal deaths (pregnancy-related)
Every Year
180K+
pressure ulcers — most preventable with early risk scoring

Built for Every NHS Professional

WardAide personalises its tools for 20+ healthcare and student roles — including roles other clinical apps ignore entirely

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Nurses
1,366
preventable deaths per year
Nurses administer 80% of all medicines and are first to detect deterioration. Medication safety, NEWS2 alerts, sepsis recognition and de-escalation tools directly save lives.
D
Doctors
512
preventable deaths per year
Prescribing decisions, deterioration triggers, antimicrobial stewardship, and perinatal safety assessments. WardAide is the bedside reference that catches what fatigue misses.
HC
Healthcare Assistants
180K+
pressure ulcers preventable yearly
HCAs are the backbone of ward and care home care. Comfort rounding, Waterlow pressure scoring, fluid balance, and ADL records — tools designed specifically for HCA practice. First clinical app to do this.
P
Pharmacists
342
preventable deaths per year
Final verification, sedation stack detection, high-dose antipsychotic monitoring, and medication reconciliation catch critical errors before they reach patients.
PM
Paramedics
200+
lives saved per year
De-escalation, behavioral risk awareness, deterioration recognition, and rescue protocols — designed to work offline in pre-hospital settings where Wi-Fi doesn't exist.
MW
Midwives
240–320
maternal deaths preventable
Perinatal safety screening, maternal sepsis detection, and medication safety in pregnancy. Could prevent 30–40% of UK maternal deaths annually.
PH
Physiotherapists
50,000+
fall-related incidents yearly
Mobility assessments, rehab goal tracking, and escalation tools. WardAide supports safe patient handling and early discharge planning across the full MDT.
OT
Occupational Therapists
30%
reduction in readmissions with good OT discharge planning
Discharge readiness indicators, functional assessments and MDT communication tools support safe, timely discharge planning.
DT
Dietitians
30%
of inpatients are malnourished on admission
Nutritional screening reminders, MUST score documentation prompts, and care plan support for the dietitian role — often absent from mainstream clinical apps.
SW
Social Workers
85,000+
safeguarding referrals annually
Discharge planning checklists, safeguarding prompts, carer needs assessment reminders and referral documentation support — designed with the social care context in mind.
AC
Advanced Clinical Practitioners
Full
prescribing & assessment toolkit
Full access to all medicine data, risk calculators, deterioration triggers, and prescribing decision support — empowering advanced practice safely.
PA
Physician Associates
150+
lives saved per year
Clinical decision support, dose calculations, deterioration triggers, and safety checks — enhancing autonomous practice safely under supervision.
PT
Pharmacy Technicians
100+
errors prevented daily
Chart safety checks, medication reconciliation support, and verification workflows catch errors before dispensing reaches the patient.
S
Students
50,000+
lives affected over each career
Students trained with comprehensive safety tools make fewer errors throughout 40-year careers. One generation properly trained prevents hundreds of thousands of future errors.

The Complete Clinical Safety Platform

160+ integrated tools across 11 categories — all free, offline-capable, and personalised by role

💊 Medication Safety — 10 Tools
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Medicine Search
52+ medicines with role-specific guidance, allergy flags, renal adjustments, and contraindications
Prevents 10,000+ errors from incomplete information
Drug Interactions
Real-time interaction checking against patient context including allergies and current medications
Prevents 2,000+ serious drug interactions yearly
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Dose Calculator
Weight-based and unit-based calculations with safety guardrails and paediatric support
Prevents 5,000+ dosing errors especially in paediatrics
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Compare Medicines
Side-by-side medicine comparison for safer prescribing and switching decisions
Helps select safer alternatives in 15,000+ decisions yearly
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Safety Sandbox
"What if" scenario testing for high-risk situations before prescribing
Catches contraindications before they cause harm
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Med Reconciliation
Identifies duplicates, omissions, and discrepancies at care transitions
Prevents 3,000+ reconciliation errors at transitions
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IV Guide
IV compatibility, diluents, infusion rates and administration guidance
Prevents IV incompatibility errors at the bedside
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Sedation Stack Detector
Identifies dangerous combinations of sedative medicines before administration
Prevents respiratory depression and over-sedation
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High-Dose Antipsychotic
Calculates % of maximum daily dose and flags when high-dose monitoring is needed
Reduces sudden cardiac death risk in psychiatric settings
Medication Chart Safety
Spot-checks charts for missing information, illegibility and prescribing errors
Catches administration errors before they reach the patient
🌡️ Patient Monitoring & Obs — 5 Tools
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Patient Obs Tracker
Weekly physical observations for up to 20 patients — NEWS2 scoring, vital trends, and discharge readiness for entire wards and care homes
First free tool to give HCAs & nurses a full ward obs overview
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NEWS2 Escalation Alerts
Automated amber and red alerts when any patient's NEWS2 score reaches 5 or 7+ — pulsing banners visible at a glance
Earlier escalation before deterioration becomes critical
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Discharge Readiness Indicator
7-criteria discharge readiness score per patient — stable NEWS2, trending observations, no high-risk obs in last 48h
Safer, data-driven discharge decisions reduce readmission
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Vitals Log
Quick vital signs recording with actions — no scoring, just documentation
Ensures no vital is undocumented during a busy shift
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Printable Obs Summary
One-tap print of full ward obs sheet — all patients, all vitals, all actions — formatted for clinical handover
Replaces paper obs charts for MDT communication
🚨 Emergency & Deterioration — 6 Tools
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Sepsis Six
1-hour sepsis action bundle checklist — oxygen, blood cultures, antibiotics, fluids, lactate, urine output
Sepsis Six compliance reduces mortality by up to 50%
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Maternal Sepsis
Pregnancy and post-partum specific sepsis screening with red flag prompts
Targets leading cause of preventable maternal death
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Deterioration Trigger
ABCDE-structured prompts with escalation cues and time-critical actions
Prevents avoidable cardiac arrests through early response
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Perinatal Safety
Maternal red-flag safety check for obstetric emergencies and post-partum concerns
Could prevent 30–40% of avoidable UK maternal deaths
Antimicrobial Time-out
24–72h antibiotic review prompts for de-escalation and stewardship
Reduces antimicrobial resistance and C. diff risk
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Safety Watch Window
Time-window planning for enhanced observation checks
Prevents missed check-ins for at-risk patients
🧠 Mental Health & Wellbeing — 5 Tools
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Mental Health Safety Screen
Adult rapid risk screen with red flags, next steps, and escalation guidance
Earlier detection of mental health crises on general wards
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Recovery Journey Tracker
Recovery stage, personal goals and relapse signal monitoring
Supports continuity of mental health care across settings
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Crisis De-Escalation
Rapid calming scripts and safety steps for agitated or distressed patients
Reduces restraint incidents and staff injuries
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Behavioural Risk Awareness
Situational cues to guide de-escalation before situations escalate
Prevents violence incidents through early awareness
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Adherence Support
Barrier-aware medication adherence support tool with personalised strategies
Improves adherence and prevents relapse
🏠 HCA & Care Home Support — 4 Tools (Industry First)
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Comfort Rounding (4Ps)
Structured 4Ps comfort check — Pain, Position, Potty, Possessions — with one-tap Done / Needs Attention / Escalated buttons per patient
Reduces preventable discomfort, pressure ulcers and missed needs
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Pressure Area Check
Interactive Waterlow pressure ulcer risk calculator — 5 parameters, colour-coded risk level (low / at risk / high risk)
Earlier identification targets 180,000+ preventable pressure ulcers yearly
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Fluid Balance Chart
Real-time shift fluid intake and output logger — oral, IV, NG, urine, vomit, drain — with running balance saved per day
Prevents dehydration and fluid overload complications
ADL Care Record
Activities of Daily Living checklist — hygiene, dressing, nutrition, mobilisation, wellbeing — with persistent ticks saved per shift
Ensures dignity, completeness and documentation compliance
📋 Clinical Documentation & Handover — 3 Tools
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Shift Handover Snapshot
Role-specific structured handover with SBAR sections, checklists, profession notes, and team checks — saves automatically
Reduces handover-related errors that cause 80% of serious incidents
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Risk Calculators
CHA₂DS₂-VASc, HAS-BLED, CHADS₂ and other validated clinical risk scores
Supports evidence-based clinical decisions at the bedside
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Paediatric Dosing
Age and weight-adjusted paediatric dose calculator with safety thresholds
Paediatric dosing errors are 3× more likely to cause harm than adult errors
🤖 Clinical AI & Intelligence — 2 Tools (New)
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WardAide AI Clinical Assistant
Role-aware clinical AI that answers drug, dosing, protocol, and patient safety questions instantly — grounded in NHS guidelines and personalised to your profession
Reduces time to clinical decision support from minutes to seconds
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Sentinel Safety Monitor
Passive background monitor that continuously analyses ward activity for deterioration signals, escalation triggers, and safety patterns — alerts before incidents become emergencies
Proactive safety net that catches what busy clinicians miss
🩺 AI Consult™ — 15 Specialist Clinicians · 60 Consultation Types (New)
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15 Specialist AI Clinicians
A full virtual MDT: GP, Consultant Physician, Pharmacist, Palliative Care, Cardiologist, Respiratory, Geriatrician, OT, Physiotherapist, Dietitian, Psychiatrist, Endocrinologist, Nephrologist, Haematologist, and General Surgeon — each with 4 structured consultation types
On-demand MDT input without waiting for team availability — minutes not days
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Structured Clinical Consultation Engine
Step-by-step scripted clinical workflow per consultation type — each agent asks real clinical questions, processes responses, identifies red flags, and auto-escalates urgent findings to Guardian, Foresight, and Conscience
Reduces clinical blind spots by systematically prompting all relevant questions
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Human-Quality AI Voice
Each clinician speaks with a distinct voice profile — sentence-level chunking for natural rhythm, neural voice scoring (Microsoft/Apple premium voices prioritised), per-agent pitch and rate, and mute/unmute toggle. Learning engine personalises tone from second visit onwards
Reduces cognitive load — clinicians can listen and respond without reading screens
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Cross-System Escalation
Any consultation flagging urgent findings automatically fires events into WardAide Guardian (medication safety), Foresight (predictive risk), and Conscience (evidence-based decision monitor) — creating a real-time clinical safety loop
No safety signal is siloed — escalations propagate across the entire WardAide system
📡 ARIA™ + WTI — Adaptive Risk Intelligence Architecture (New)
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ARIA™ — 10-Layer Risk Engine
Adaptive Risk Intelligence Architecture: a novel 10-layer composite scoring engine that combines NEWS2, trajectory velocity, medication burden, comorbidity loading, frailty, social vulnerability, recent escalation history, and time-of-day risk multipliers into a single dynamic patient risk profile — updated continuously
Multi-dimensional early warning that outperforms single-parameter NEWS2 scoring in detecting pre-deterioration
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WTI™ — Ward Trajectory Index
WTI = NEWS2 × 10 — a normalised 0–100 clinical trajectory score displaying patients' directional risk: Low (0–29), Moderate (30–59), High (60+). Tracks admission-to-current WTI delta, showing whether a patient is improving or deteriorating in real time
Gives ward managers an instant at-a-glance trajectory dashboard for every patient simultaneously
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ARIA™ Embedded Across WardAide
ARIA™ and WTI data is surfaced in six modules: Patient Progress (admission vs today trajectory), AI Consult (patient risk context at consultation start), Conscience™ (per-patient WTI chips strip), Foresight™ (dedicated WTI tab with ward-average banner), Impact Statistics (avg WTI readout), and the ARIA™ dedicated module
Risk intelligence is embedded at every clinical decision point — not hidden in a separate tab
🧭 Conscience™ — Real-Time Evidence Monitor (New · Novel)
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Live Evidence-Based Decision Flags
Conscience™ monitors active patient data in real time and surfaces evidence-based clinical flags — sepsis criteria met, elevated NEWS2, medication interactions, missed reassessment windows — each flag linked to the guideline source, severity-rated, and time-stamped
Acts as a background clinical expert that never forgets a guideline
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Voice-Activated Clinical Alerts
Conscience reads out clinical flags in a human British voice — toggle on/off with a visible control. Voice alerts include flag severity, patient name, and recommended action. Sentence-level chunking ensures natural speech rhythm rather than robotic readout
Hands-free safety monitoring — clinicians don't need to look at a screen to receive an alert
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WTI Patient Strip
Conscience™ displays a live ARIA™ WTI strip above the flag tabs — per-patient colour-coded WTI chips (green/amber/red) calculated inline from obs data, giving an instant ward-wide risk overview without navigating away
Ward-level risk situational awareness visible in under 2 seconds
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Escalate Urgently / Flag to Colleague
One-tap escalation from any Conscience flag — fires directly into the ward notification system, reaches the right role (doctor, pharmacist, senior nurse), and logs the action with timestamp in the Guardian audit trail
Closes the loop between recognition and action — no handwritten note, no phone hunt
🔮 Foresight™ — AI Predictive Ward Intelligence (New · Novel)
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Predictive Deterioration Feed
Foresight analyses the trajectory of every patient's obs over time — not just the latest reading — to predict who is likely to deteriorate before their next observation window. Uses NEWS2 velocity, SpO₂ trend, HR trend and temperature trajectory
Identifies deterioration 2–4 hours earlier than point-in-time NEWS2 scoring
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Ward Activity Timeline
A live chronological feed of all ward events — obs recorded, escalations triggered, consultations completed, alarms fired — displayed as a visual timeline so ward managers can review the shape of a shift at a glance
Replaces paper-based incident logs with a searchable, role-filtered digital record
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ARIA™ WTI Tab
Dedicated WTI tab inside Foresight showing ward-average WTI score with colour banner, per-patient WTI progress bars with trajectory arrows (↑↓), and admission-vs-current delta for every patient simultaneously
Complete ward trajectory picture in one screen — replaces manual whiteboard tracking
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Predictive Risk Events
Foresight writes predictive risk events into the ward event feed — "Patient X: NEWS2 velocity +3 in 4h, deterioration probable within 2h" — with severity flags and recommended pre-emptive actions
Transforms reactive emergency response into proactive prevention
🚨 Emergency Alarm System — 3 Tools (New)
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Multi-Location Emergency Alarm
One-tap emergency alarm with location selection — alerts all ward staff simultaneously with pulsing visual and audio alert. Supports cardiac arrest, fall, collapse, fire and security escalations
Faster response reduces cardiac arrest mortality by up to 30%
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Emergency Camera with Privacy Protection
Secure patient camera feed during emergencies — with 4-layer screen recording prevention, staff watermark overlay, and automatic feed cutoff if the app loses focus
Enables remote clinical oversight while protecting patient privacy
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Response Time Analytics
Automatic tracking of alarm trigger → first response → resolution times, peak-hour analysis, and location hotspots — all visible in the Impact Statistics dashboard
Data to demonstrate and improve ward emergency response performance
📱 Telehealth & Remote Care — 2 Tools (New)
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Remote Consultation Sessions
Browser-based video consultation with patient-specific secure links — no app download required for patients. Supports camera/microphone activation and connection status monitoring
Extends clinical reach to housebound and remote patients without specialist equipment
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Secure Patient Access Links
Generate unique session links per patient — no login required for patients, time-limited and role-controlled for clinical staff
Reduces DNA (Did Not Attend) rates and hospital transport demand
🏥 Ward Operations & Communications — 4 Tools (New)
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Staff Allocation Manager
Visual drag-and-assign nurse-to-patient allocation board — tracks staffing ratios, flags unsafe ratios, and remembers assignments across the shift
Optimal nurse-to-patient ratios reduce adverse events by 16% per additional patient avoided
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Staff Communications Hub
Secure, real-time ward messaging for care teams — clinical message threads, file sharing, and urgent escalation flags, with offline queuing when connectivity drops
Replaces informal WhatsApp groups with GDPR-compliant clinical communication
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Ward Review Builder
AI-powered narrative ward summary generator — voice dictation support, structured patient-by-patient SBAR output, instant copy and print for MDT meetings and consultant rounds
Saves 20–40 minutes per ward round in documentation time
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Smart Notifications
Role-filtered push notifications for NEWS2 escalations, medication reminders, alarm events, and ward updates — delivered even when the app runs in the background
Ensures no critical alert is missed during a busy shift
📊 Impact Analytics — 2 Tools (New)
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Today's Impact Bar
Live footer bar showing errors prevented, medicine checks, tools used and obs recorded — updated in real time across every shift
Makes safety work visible — motivates clinical teams
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Full Impact Statistics
Day / week toggle with hourly activity chart, event breakdown and recent log — see exactly what WardAide prevented
Evidence base for demonstrating clinical value to leadership

Why Nothing Else Comes Close

WardAide solves problems that expensive NHS software still hasn't cracked

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Works Offline — Always
Ward Wi-Fi is notoriously unreliable. WardAide is a Progressive Web App — every feature works without an internet connection. Install it once and it's always there, even in the basement, ITU, or a rural care home.
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Completely Free
No subscription, no login, no hospital IT department needed. Every nurse, HCA, student and social worker in the UK can have this on their phone today. No procurement cycle. No waiting list.
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Role-Aware Intelligence
WardAide shows different tools, checklists and medicine guidance based on your role. A Healthcare Assistant sees comfort rounding and pressure scoring. A pharmacist sees reconciliation and interaction tools. Not one generic experience.
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First Tool Built for Care Homes
The 4Ps comfort round, Waterlow score, ADL record and fluid balance chart were designed with HCAs and care home staff in mind. No other clinical app targets this workforce — 1.5 million care workers in the UK.
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NHS CIS2 Ready
The role-selection and user identity system is architected to integrate with NHS CIS2 (Care Identity Service 2) when approved. Healthcare staff can one day tap their NHS smartcard and WardAide loads personalised to their role automatically.
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Full MDT Coverage
20+ roles supported — including Social Workers, Dietitians, Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists who are routinely ignored by clinical decision support tools. WardAide covers the whole team, not just prescribers. Backed by 15 specialist AI clinicians available for on-demand consultation.
"Good clinical decision support doesn't replace the clinician — it removes the cognitive burden of remembering everything, so they can focus on the patient in front of them."
The principle behind WardAide — built from clinical experience, not corporate requirements
180+
Clinical tools
60+
Medicines in database
20+
Healthcare roles
£0
Cost to NHS
100%
Offline capable
1,708
Deaths this tool targets

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