University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust
There are three different onboarding guides, depending on your planned use of Concentric and the access provided to you. Please select the onboarding guide that you require:
Clinician user - ability to view, create, and edit consent episodes.
Read-only user - view episodes only, for example to view the consent in theatre.
Administrator - manage user accounts and view usage dashboards.
Getting started
Clinician user
We're a small team solely focused on improving the consent process, and we hope you enjoy the move over to digital consent. You can read about the team and why we're working on Concentric in our about us page. Most healthcare software is difficult to use, slow, and gets in the way. We hope you soon agree that using Concentric feels pretty different.
Why switch to digital consent?
After using Concentric, the vast majority of clinicians state that they prefer digital consent to the traditional paper process, that the quality of the consent process is improved, and that their time is better utilised.
Patients report improved shared decision making quality, appreciate that their consent information is increasingly accessible and clearly presented, and allows them to revisit the information in their own time.
Read more about the benefits of introducing digital consent and watch our intro video.
How is Concentric used?
Using Concentric is simple, and most clinicians take only a few minutes to get accustomed to how it works. Below is a 30-minute demonstration that outlines how Concentric is used in different clinical scenarios and should give you the confidence to start using Concentric with your next patient.
Some scenarios are not relevant for every clinician, for example the consent form 2 scenario, so use the sections within the video if you'd prefer to only view the scenarios that are relevant to you. You can also change the speed of the video within the settings.
There are additional guides available for:
- Consent Form 2 and Consent Form 4 scenarios
- What 'additional consents' are, and the process for these within Concentric
- Creating, managing and using custom templates
- How to set up and use a signature pad
If you'd prefer to read rather than watch a guide of how Concentric is used there is a written workflow guide covering the information in the video. You must return to this page to review the subsequent onboarding information as this is not within the linked page.
Logging in and first interactions
- Go to app.concentric.health and login using your Trust single sign-on account (click 'Log in with Microsoft' on the login page).
- Concentric can be accessed from anywhere, on any web-enabled device that meets our browser support policy - you should ensure that you have read the policy prior to using Concentric. The integrations with other systems work the same regardless of where you are accessing from.
- To get comfortable with using Concentric, many users initially interact with a test patient record. Search for patient 'S2541443' for an adult test patient, or 'S2541478' for a child test patient – where the consent form 2 process can be seen.
Finding a patient record
Concentric is integrated with patient demographics, meaning that to find a patient record simply search using their UHL S number. On selecting a patient, ensure that it is the correct patient so that no consent information is assigned to the incorrect patient.
WHO Surgical Safety Checklist
On the day of treatment completed consent episode details are viewed on CITO (on a Trust iPad or computer in the operating theatre/procedure room).
CITO can be accessed by following the links/favourites on Trust computers or iPads, or by typing ‘cito/’ in the address bar of Safari (on an iPad) or Edge (on a PC). All Trust staff (including nurses and ODPs) have access to CITO and you log on with your normal Trust username and password.
Alternatively, you can view the consent form on the Concentric application. Consent forms can be printed out from the Concentric application, but this should not normally be necessary.
Important clinical safety considerations
As part of using the Concentric application you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to the following statements:
- As a clinician you maintain the clinical responsibility for the consent interaction and the appropriateness of consent information being selected, documented, and shared with the patient.
- The information within a treatment template may change over time as part of Concentric Health's review processes or due to local requests for changes. In most cases these changes will not be directly communicated to an individual clinician. It is the clinician's responsibility to ensure, for each consent episode, that the information being shared is appropriate for the patient.
- Information provided within Concentric should be consistent with, and supplementary to a consent conversation between clinician and patient. Information shared as part of the Concentric process sits alongside but does not replace the need for a consent conversation.
- As a clinician it is your responsibility to read and adhere to the professional responsibilities and standards set out by the General Medical Council in their guidance, Decision Making and Consent.
- As per the AoMRC guidance on Responsible Clinicians, each patient and consent episode should have a clinician who is responsible for their care - their 'Responsible Clinician' - usually the consultant. This is documented in Concentric. If your Concentric account is assigned as a 'Responsible Clinician', this element within the clinician view will default to you. Otherwise, you will need to search for and select the Responsible Clinician. (In some cases, an individual who is not generally considered a 'Responsible Clinician' can be acting in this capacity for a consent epiosde. For this reason they can assign themselves, but this should generally be considered as an exception.)
- When delegating consent, you must ensure that the practitioner has the relevant training and knowledge to undertake this and if not, make alternative arrangements which may include training and direct supervision.
- When the process of obtaining consent has been delegated to you, you should only undertake this if you have the appropriate training and knowledge. You must let your colleague know if you are not able to meet this standard, and ask for support. You must not practice outside your area of competence.
- Where the clinician and patient do not share a spoken language professional interpretation services should be used to facilitate the consent conversation. Translated Concentric information can be used alongside, but should not be used instead of an interpreter.
- It is important that patients have access to their consent information. Whilst most patients will receive this digitally it is important that consent information is printed and shared with patients when digital access is not possible.
- To ensure the security of patient health data and reliability of the audit trail you must log out following clinical use, and you must not share access credentials. All interactions within Concentric are associated with your name and clinical practice registration.
- When needing to enter patient contact details you should ensure accurate data entry so that information is successfully received and not inappropriately shared with a different individual.
- Following departmental transitioning to digital consent it is important to only use digital consent (outside of some business continuity plan scenarios) in order to minimise confusion and potential errors within the healthcare system.
- You must only view a patient's consent information where you have a legitimate professional reason for doing so.
Clinician consent statements
To simplify the process, the clinician receiving the patient's consent automatically adds an electronic signature to the consent form PDF as part of being logged in and going through the consent flow with the patient (consult view), or by enabling remote consent.
The electronic signature is associated with the following two statements, added to the 'Statement of health professional' section on the consent form PDF:
- I have explained the [surgery/procedure/treatment/investigation] (appropriate term used depending on the template), including the intended benefits and serious- or frequently occurring risks described in this document to the patient.
- I have also discussed what the [surgery/procedure/treatment/investigation] (appropriate term used depending on the template) is likely to involve, the benefits and risks of any alternative treatment (including no treatment), and any particular concerns of the patient.
You should ensure that you are comfortable that the above is true prior to progressing through the consent flow in consult view or enabling remote consent.
Release notes
Concentric is shaped by what our clinician, read-only, and patient users tell us, and we are always looking to improve based on this feedback. We regularly release updates to Concentric with new and improved product features, and updated clinical content.
You can read our product release notes and content release notes to see the updates that we've made recently. The list of all the treatment templates currently available within Concentric, presented by specialty, is maintained in our treatment template list.
Support and contact details
If you are having any issues getting started with Concentric, a problem arises, or you need an account set up, please contact as per the guidance below. You can also explore our knowledge bank for answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) from users and deploying teams.
Please see the UHL sharepoint site for digital consent where you will find more information to help you start using Concentric. If your query is not answered within the sharepoint site please contact the UHL IT support desk by either emailing sdrequests@uhl-tr.nhs.uk or calling extension 18000.
Patient information and support on Trust website
Information is shared with patients on University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust’s website regarding the Trust’s use of Concentric digital consent, and is linked to in patient communications from Concentric.
Log in now!Getting started
Read-only user
Read-only accounts can view consent episodes, but are not able to create or edit consent episode. These accounts have a banner stating this at the top of each page.
This 10-minute demonstration shares how Concentric is used as a read-only user, and what functionality is possible with this type of account.
Logging in and first interactions
- Go to app.concentric.health and login using your Trust single sign-on account (click 'Log in with Microsoft' on the login page).
- Concentric can be accessed from anywhere, on any web-enabled device that meets our browser support policy - you should ensure that you have read the policy prior to using Concentric. The integrations with other systems work the same regardless of where you are accessing from.
- To get comfortable with using Concentric, many users initially interact with a test patient record. Search for patient 'S2541443' for an adult test patient, or 'S2541478' for a child test patient – where the consent form 2 process can be seen.
Finding a patient record
Concentric is integrated with patient demographics, meaning that to find a patient record simply search using their UHL S number. On selecting a patient, ensure that it is the correct patient so that no consent information is assigned to the incorrect patient.
WHO Surgical Safety Checklist
On the day of treatment completed consent episode details can be viewed on Concentric or on CITO (on a Trust iPad or computer in the operating theatre/procedure room).
CITO can be accessed by following the links/favourites on Trust computers or iPads, or by typing ‘cito/’ in the address bar of Safari (on an iPad) or Edge (on a PC). All Trust staff (including nurses and ODPs) have access to CITO and you log on with your normal Trust username and password.
Consent forms can be printed out from the Concentric application, but this should not normally be necessary.
Appropriate use
As part of using the Concentric application you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to the following statements:
- You must only view a patient's consent information where you have a legitimate professional reason for doing so.
- To ensure the security of patient health data you must log out following use, and you must not share access credentials.
Release notes
Concentric is shaped by what our clinician, read-only, and patient users tell us, and we are always looking to improve based on this feedback. We regularly release updates to Concentric with new and improved product features, and updated clinical content.
You can read our product release notes and content release notes to see the updates that we've made recently. The list of all the treatment templates currently available within Concentric, presented by specialty, is maintained in our treatment template list.
Support and contact details
If you are having any issues getting started with Concentric, a problem arises, or you need an account set up, please contact as per the guidance below. You can also explore our knowledge bank for answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) from users and deploying teams.
Please see the UHL sharepoint site for digital consent where you will find more information to help you start using Concentric. If your query is not answered within the sharepoint site please contact the UHL IT support desk by either emailing sdrequests@uhl-tr.nhs.uk or calling extension 18000.
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