Screening Forms
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Let patients complete a structured sexual health assessment online—so your team can move directly to the appropriate screening pathway without the need for a GP appointment.
The opportunity
There are many barriers to patients booking appointments for sexual health screening, and opportunistic screening can use a lot of GP appointment time. Screening Forms allows patients to access a thorough and structured assessment online with practical outcomes tailored to their level of risk. This removes barriers for patients and allows practices to optimise their screening capacity, bypassing the need for a GP appointment.
The traditional pathway
Clinicians are required to use appointment time to undertake routine screening—either as a pre-booked appointment for screening or opportunistic screening in an appointment for a separate issue. Time pressure can make it difficult to gather all the relevant information within the appointment time.
With Screening Forms
Patients complete a thorough, structured assessment online, going through all relevant information to assess their level of risk. Agreed protocols produce clear outcomes and result in tailored screening tests for each patient.
The people behind the idea
We’re David and Mari Gibson. David works with Ocho, a creative design agency that builds websites and solves practical digital problems. Mari is a GP working in Inverness.
By bringing together clinical experience and digital design, we saw an opportunity to make routine sexual-health screening more efficient—for patients, reception teams and clinicians.
Digital design and delivery
Ocho
Clinical insight
GP, Inverness
Privacy by design
The questionnaire is designed around UK GDPR principles of data minimisation, limited retention and privacy from the outset.
The screening response is anonymous until the patient chooses to identify themselves directly to their practice. No patient-identifiable information is stored online.
Each submission receives a unique random code and PIN, linking the response only when the patient makes contact.
Questionnaire entries are configured for automatic deletion after seven days, reducing unnecessary retention.
Each participating practice remains responsible for completing its own information-governance review and confirming the final configuration and workflow.
A simple patient journey
The patient has access to a link—sent by the practice or on the practice’s website.
The patient answers the structured questions privately, without appointment pressure.
The agreed protocol provides an outcome, unique code and clear instructions for contacting the practice.
The patient either collects the relevant swabs, or books a nurse appointment for bloods, or both.
Designed around practice needs
The tool supports the pathway; it does not replace clinical judgement. Protocols, patient guidance and local instructions are agreed with each practice.
Move routine information gathering outside the clinical appointment.
Make a consistent screening pathway easier to offer at greater volume.
Support eligible locally commissioned activity where applicable.
Apply the same clinically agreed screening protocol to every submission.
Interactive demonstration
Switch between the questionnaire and an example Outcome A results page.
Demonstration only. Please do not enter real patient information.
Outcome A
Your results indicate that you are low-risk for an STI. However, we offer STI screening to all of our patients. This includes a urine sample (for men) or vaginal swab (for women) to test for Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea and, if you would like, we also offer a blood test checking for HIV and Syphilis. If you would like to have some or all of these tests done please call or email the practice and state your unique number and we will arrange these for you.
Give the receptionist your unique code and PIN. They can then arrange for the collection of swabs or urine samples +/- an appointment for blood tests.
Please contact the practice within seven days. After seven days, the anonymous questionnaire entry is deleted automatically.
Your name and date of birth are used only to prepare the email in this browser. They are not submitted to or stored by this website.
Demo recipient: reception@examplepractice.scot — replace this with the participating practice’s address before launch.
Explore it for your practice
Book an informal 30-minute conversation to see the workflow, discuss your local screening pathway and decide whether a practice pilot would be worthwhile.
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