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Free surgery consent forms, ready in minutes

Turn surgical complexity into meaningful consent discussion and clarity of documentation.

Create a clear, procedure-specific consent for each patient. The benefits and risks for every procedure come from a growing library, and your patient can sign on screen, on paper or remotely by email.

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  • Free to register and free to use
  • No patient details are kept after the consent is made
  • Built in Australia for surgeons and their patients
A printed consent for a surgical procedure made with Surgery Consent Companion
Free to useNo fees and no per-consent charges
Private by designPatient details are not kept
Protected PDFsSecure, AES-256 encrypted
Sign your wayOn screen, on paper or remotely
About Surgery Consent Companion

A Smarter Way to Create and Discuss Surgical Consent

Surgery Consent Companion is designed to make the consent process clearer, more consistent, and easier to document for both surgeons and their patients. With SCC, surgeons can quickly generate customised, procedure-specific consent forms that guide a thorough and structured consent conversation.

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Clear, Printable Consent for WHO Check-lists and Time-outs

Once a consent form is finalised, it can be printed or digitally signed. Forms clearly display the planned procedure, operative site, and laterality, making them ideal for use during the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and time-out.

Clear, Printable Consent for WHO Check-lists and Time-outs
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Choose or Add Procedures With Ease

Search from a growing database of specialty-specific procedures, or add a new one unique to your practice. Your recent procedures are always one click away.

Choose or Add Procedures With Ease
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Procedure-Specific Risks and Benefits - Automatically Organised

Each procedure includes a curated list of risks and benefits. If multiple procedures are combined into a single operation, SCC automatically groups and organises shared or overlapping risks to create a clean, easy-to-follow consent document.

Procedure-Specific Risks and Benefits - Automatically Organised
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Built for Complex Surgical Plans

For operations involving multiple components, SCC “stacks” procedures together, linking risks and benefits in a structured, readable format that improves clarity for both surgeon and patient.

Built for Complex Surgical Plans
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Refine and Expand the Database

If a surgeon feels that a risk or benefit is missing or needs adjusting, they can add or change items directly while making the consent. Changes are ready for that surgeon's own consents straight away, and new entries join the shared database once reviewed and approved, to maintain clinical quality and accuracy.

Refine and Expand the Database
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Personalise Your Consents

Upload your own practice or institutional logo to generate professional-looking forms aligned with your brand. With SCC Plus, add your practice's and hospital's letterheads too, choose one for each consent, and show them at the top of your consent page.

Personalise Your Consents
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Digital or Paper Signing Options

Consents can be printed for handwritten signatures, signed on screen, or sent to the patient by email to sign on their own phone, tablet or computer, whichever suits your workflow.

Digital or Paper Signing Options
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Access Procedure Libraries Across or Within Specialties

Browse a specialty-specific library or pull procedures from all specialties as needed. This flexibility supports multi-disciplinary teams and surgeons working across varied contexts.

Access Procedure Libraries Across or Within Specialties
And there is more

Private, secure and ready when you are

Private by design

Patient details are used to make the consent, then discarded. Emailed PDFs are secure and protected with AES-256 encryption.

Remote signing by email

Your patient opens a secure link and signs on their own phone, tablet or computer, and can decline an additional consent if they wish. Unsigned links expire after 7 days.

Additional consents

Add consents that are not tied to a procedure, such as blood products and transfusion or clinical photography, and set your usual ones as defaults.

Procedure descriptions

Include a plain-language description of each procedure at the end of the consent: your own, or one shared by another surgeon.

Your consent report

See how many consents you have made for each procedure, for audit and CPD (SCC Plus). No patient details are included.

Your recent procedures

Your recent procedures are one click away, so a routine consent takes moments. With SCC Plus, save whole consent sets too.

Patient details from a label

Photograph the patient's label, or capture their record on screen, and the details are filled in for you to check. It all happens on your own device (SCC Plus).

Your letterhead

Your logo or letterhead on every consent. With SCC Plus, add your practice's and hospital's letterheads too, and show them at the top of your consent page.

Reviewed wording

Each consent shows when its benefits and risks were last reviewed. Your own changes are ready straight away; suggestions for the shared library are reviewed first.

How it works

A consent in three steps

1

Add the procedures

Type the side and site, then search for the procedure. Add as many as the operation needs.

2

Review the consent

Check the benefits and risks with your patient, adjust them if needed, and add any additional consents or descriptions.

3

Sign and share

The patient signs on screen, on paper or remotely. The PDF downloads for you and can be emailed to you and your patient.

Procedure descriptions

How surgeons describe their procedures

Surgeons using Surgery Consent Companion share plain-language descriptions of the procedures they perform. Browse them by specialty.

Browse procedures
Questions

Frequently asked questions

Yes. It is free to register and free to use.

At the moment, the creator of Surgery Consent Companion is covering most of the development and hosting costs. SCC Plus, an optional plan with larger limits and a few extras, helps cover them, and in the future the site may also be supported by sponsors, shown only to free accounts in spaces set aside beside the consent page, but the core service will always remain free. Sponsorship will never appear in consent documents or on the pages your patients see. To help keep costs down, free accounts have a few limits (see "Are there any limits?" below), and some advanced features may change in the future.

To keep the service free, each free account has a few limits: up to 10 consents a day (including consents made in Edit my consents), of which up to 5 can be sent for remote signing; up to 5 new procedures, 5 new benefits and 5 new risks a day; up to 10 new procedure descriptions saved a day (shared descriptions from other surgeons can always be used); and My recent procedures shows your last 3 procedures. SCC Plus, an optional plan, has larger limits and a few extra features. The core service will always remain free.

SCC Plus (Surgery Consent Companion Plus) is the optional plan: higher daily limits, consent sets (procedures you often do together, added in one go), the patient's details filled in from a label or the screen, copies to your practice's email, My consent report for audits and CPD, more recent procedures, a sharper letterhead plus practice and hospital letterheads (also shown at the top of your consent page), and no sponsor content. You can pay monthly or yearly and cancel at any time. New accounts get a free month of SCC Plus after their first 5 consents (or 2 and one signed by the patient by email), to start whenever they like in the next 6 months, with nothing to pay and no card needed. Links to your website from the descriptions you share are never part of it: they are never paid for. See SCC Plus

Registered medical practitioners: surgeons and other doctors who discuss and document consent for surgical and medical procedures. You sign up with your registration number: in Australia, your Ahpra registration number; elsewhere, your registration number with your medical regulator. Your account is linked to your specialty, so the procedures you see first are the ones you are most likely to need.

Yes. Surgery Consent Companion was built in Australia and its procedure library reflects Australian practice, but practitioners anywhere can use it and adjust the wording for their patients. Wherever you practise, you remain responsible for making sure each consent meets the laws and professional rules that apply to you.

They are used to make the consent and then discarded. Consents printed for paper signing or signed on screen are not stored. A consent sent for remote signing is kept in encrypted form for up to 7 days, and only the patient's link and date of birth can open it. PDFs sent by email are password-protected with AES-256 encryption. If you fill in the details from a label or the screen (SCC Plus), the picture is read on your own device and is never uploaded or saved.

Yes. The patient receives an email with a secure link, opens it with their date of birth and signs on their own phone, tablet or computer. You and the patient both receive the signed PDF. The patient can also untick an additional consent they do not agree to; the PDF and your email show it clearly. Unsigned links expire after 7 days.

Yes. You can adjust benefits and risks for your own consents, add new ones, and keep your own wording for next time. New items you suggest for the shared library are reviewed before other surgeons see them.

No. Surgery Consent Companion supports your conversation with the patient and documents it clearly. You remain responsible for obtaining valid informed consent under the laws and professional standards where you practise (in Australia, including the Medical Board of Australia's code of conduct).

Surgery Consent Companion is FREE to register and free to use.

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