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Privacy Policy 

Introduction 

Dr Toolbox ("We") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy (together with our Terms of Use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting dr-toolbox.com you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.
 

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

We are committed to the principles inherent in the GDPR and comply with it. We aim to ensure:
  • transparency with regard to the use of data
  • that any processing is lawful, fair, transparent and necessary for a specific purpose
  • that the data is accurate, kept up to date and removed when no longer necessary
  • that the data is kept safely and securely.

For the purpose of the The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679, the Company’s Data Protection Officer is Will Barker, support@dr-toolbox.com.

Information we may collect from you 

We may collect and process the following data about you:
  • Personal information which you give us, as defined in the GDPR: your name. We do not enforce or verify your name (you can type any name and change it). It is used to identify your contributions and activity on the platform, and to let other users and administrators recognize you easily. The name you type may be visible to the administration or education team in your trust, and to other people using Dr Toolbox in your trust.
  • Personal information, as defined in the GDPR, which we receive automatically with queries from your browser/device: the request URL and timestamp, the "User-Agent" string with the browser/device version, and the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your connection. We store this information and may use it for statistics, troubleshooting and security purposes. Unless we have a legal obligation, we do not share this information. Without identifying individual users, we may provide the editors and administrators from your trust with usage statistics like total number of users or page hits in a given month.
  • We do not store your passwords. We only store one-way cryptographic hashes that can prove that you know your password. In the current state of technology, it is impossible to calculate or guess a password from its hash.
  • Professional information, not covered by the GDPR, which you give us: your professional e-mail address, your job role and your specialty. The professional e-mail address is used as an identifier for the website and app, and it is verified when the account is created. The job role and the specialty are not verified or enforced. This information may be visible to the administration or education team in your trust, and to other people using Dr Toolbox in your trust.
  • The mobile apps and the website do not collect other personal information from your device. Unlike other apps, we do not access the contacts or address book on your device, your e-mails, or your geographic location. 

Cookies 

Our website uses session cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie policy.
You can logout to delete the session cookie.

Uses made of the information 

We use information held about you in the following ways...
Information you give to us. We will use this information:
 
  • to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us; 
  • to provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about; 
  • to notify you about changes to our service; 
  • to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
Information we collect about you. We will use this information:
 
  • to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes; 
  • to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer; 
  • to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so; 
  • as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure; 
  • to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you; 
  • to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them. 
  • Information we receive from other sources. We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may us this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive). 

Disclosure of your information 

We may share your information with selected third parties including:
  • Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you. 
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
  • In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets. 
  • If Dr Toolbox Ltd or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets. 
  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Dr Toolbox Ltd, our customers, or others. 

Where we store your personal data 

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination in the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating in the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and in full compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).. 

All information you provide to us is stored securely and data transfers will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Your rights 

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise the right at any time by contacting us at support@dr-toolbox.com. Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Access to information 

If you want to know what personal data we have about you, you can ask us for details of that personal data and for a copy of it (where any such personal data is held). This is known as a “subject access request”.
 
All subject access requests should be made in writing and sent to our email or postal addresses. There is not normally any charge for a subject access request. If your request is ‘manifestly unfounded or excessive’ (for example, if you make repetitive requests) a fee may be charged to cover our administrative costs in responding.
 
We will try to respond to your subject access request within 2 weeks and, in any case, not more than one month of receiving it. Normally, we aim to provide a complete response, including a copy of your personal data within that time. In some cases, however, particularly if your request is more complex, more time may be required up to a maximum of three months from the date we receive your request. You will be kept fully informed of our progress.

Changes to our Privacy Policy 

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

Contact 

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to support@dr-toolbox.com.

Contact tech support -> mailto:support [snail] dr-toolbox [period] com

Terms of Use 

Introduction 

These terms of use (together with the documents referred to in it) sets out the terms of use on which you may access and use Dr Toolbox as a registered user or editor (user) (Dr Toolbox Terms). Use of Dr Toolbox includes accessing, browsing and registering to use Dr Toolbox as a user or editor. 

By using Dr Toolbox you signify your agreement to the Dr Toolbox Terms and other additional terms as set out below. Please read all sets of terms carefully. We reserve the right to add, delete or otherwise modify portions at any time, so please check it regularly. 

The Dr Toolbox Terms refer to our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy which also apply to your use of Dr Toolbox. These terms set out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using Dr Toolbox, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate. 

Information about us 

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Changes to Dr Toolbox 

We may update Dr Toolbox from time to time, and may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on Dr Toolbox may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it. We do not guarantee that Dr Toolbox, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions. 

Registering and accessing Dr Toolbox 

Dr Toolbox is made available free of charge to registered users and editors. 
You agree to provide accurate, current and complete information about yourself when registering to use the Dr Toolbox and to maintain and promptly update information which becomes out of date. You agree to treat your username, password or any other piece of information as part of our registration procedures as confidential and you agree to not disclose it to a third party. 
We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use. 

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at support@dr-toolbox.com

We do not guarantee that Dr Toolbox, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to Dr Toolbox is permitted on a temporary basis, we may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of Dr Toolbox without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason Dr Toolbox is unavailable at any time or for any period. 

Acceptable Use 

All users of Dr Toolbox must comply with the following acceptable use conditions; you must not use Dr Toolbox: 
  • in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent; 
  • to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any message, data, information, text or other material to Dr Toolbox (Content) which does not comply with our content standards as detailed in the following section; 
  • to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam); or 
  • to knowingly transmit, send or upload any Content that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware. 

Contributions and content standards 

Dr Toolbox will always be a work in progress as it is written about topical non-clinical material exclusively by the Editors sometimes with the assistance of registered users, both of which are often junior doctors. We encourage users to make suggestions to the Editors to assist in providing accurate appropriate, up to date information and assist in rectifying errors, bias or duplication (Contribution). Users can make such contributions by contacting the Editors on their details here [insert link to Editors details]. 
The Editors have the right to deny or remove any Contribution a user makes or has made to Dr Toolbox if, in the Editor’s opinion, the Contribution does not comply with our content standards 

The below content standards apply to any and all Contributions and to any interactive services associated with it. You acknowledge that all Contributions whether publicly posted or privately transmitted are the responsibility of the person from which such Contributions originated. 

You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any Contribution as well as to its whole. Contributions must be accurate (where they state facts) or genuinely held (where they state opinions). 
Contributions must not: 
contain any material which is defamatory of any person or obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory; 
  • promote sexually explicit material, violence or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age or any other illegal activity; 
  • advocate, promote or assist in infringing any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person or computer misuse; or 
  • be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence. 

Any Contribution you make to the Dr Toolbox will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and, in accordance with our privacy and cookie policy, we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such content so long as our use is for the benefit of the NHS and the UK medical community. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any Contribution by you to the Dr Toolbox constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy. 

Should you consider that any material contributed to the Dr Toolbox by another user violates these Content Standards, please email the Editors. 

Contributions to Dr Toolbox may contain links which will allow you to leave the Dr Toolbox. Such external internet sites and the material are not under the control of Dr Toolbox or its Editors, and Dr Toolbox makes no representations and disclaims all liability with respect to such sites and materials. 

Intellectual property rights 

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in Dr Toolbox, and in the material published on it. Unless otherwise noted, Dr Toolbox, including its content and layout but excluding the Contributions are the exclusive property of Dr Toolbox and may not be used, reproduced, disclosed or distributed, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of Dr Toolbox, except for personal (non-commercial) display and use. You must not use Dr Toolbox for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us. 

You may print or download extracts, of any page(s) from Dr Toolbox for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on Dr Toolbox. If you print off, copy or download any part of Dr Toolbox in breach of these terms of use, your right to use Dr Toolbox will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. 

Contributions are owned and are the responsibility of the person from which such contributions originated. Additionally, and in accordance with the above, you grant Dr Toolbox a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, unlimited, assignable, sub licensable, fully paid up and royalty-free right to us to use in any way your contributions without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to any party. 

Limitation of our liability 

The content on Dr Toolbox is provided for general information only. It is for the purposes of assisting junior doctors with non-clinical or administrative tasks and it is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice check with primary sources before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on Dr Toolbox. The ultimate responsibility for checking that the information contained therein is correct lies with the clinician performing the administrative task. 

Although our Editors will make reasonable efforts to update the information on Dr Toolbox, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on Dr Toolbox is accurate, complete or up-to-date. The views expressed by other users on Dr Toolbox do not represent our views or values. 
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Dr Toolbox from any claim, action demand, loss or damages made or incurred by any third party arising out of or relating to your conduct, your violation of the Dr Toolbox Terms, or your violation of any rights of a third party. 

We will not be liable for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage (including but not limited to damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses) incurred by any user in connection with Dr Toolbox or in connection with the use of or reliance on, inability to use, or results of the use of this Dr Toolbox, any websites linked to it and any Contributions or materials posted on it, whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise. Dr Toolbox is not intended for commercial use and we will not be liable to business users or damages relating thereto. 

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of Dr Toolbox or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it. 
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. 

Privacy Policy 

Please see the section Privacy Policy

Cookie Policy 

A cookie is a small file that can be placed on your device's hard drive or on a website server. Cookies do not retrieve information about you stored on your device and do not corrupt or damage your device or its files. 

Most browsers and applications automatically collect cookies but you do not have to accept a cookie, and you can in fact make modifications and not accept cookies. For more information about cookies including how to set your internet browser to reject cookies please go to www.allaboutcookies.org. 

This Cookie Policy, Privacy Policy and our End User Licence Agreement (EULA) apply to the Toolbox websites and mobile Application (the “App”) (together our “Sites”) and by continuing to use Toolbox, you agree to our use of cookies. 

Different types of cookies are used for different purposes on our Sites, these are known as: strictly necessary cookies, performance cookies, and functionality cookies. Some cookies may be provided by an external third party to provide additional functionality to our Sites and these are included below. 

Strictly necessary cookies 
These are cookies that are essential to fulfil an action requested by you, such as identifying you as being logged in. If you prevent these cookies by adjusting your r settings we cannot guarantee how our Sites will perform during your visit. 

Performance cookies 
These are cookies used to improve our Sites, for example for analytics that let us see how our Sites are used and where to make improvements. These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our Sites. The information is collected in an anonymous form and includes the number of visitors, where visitors have come to the Sites from and the pages they visited. 

Functionality cookies 
These cookies enhance the performance and functionality of our Sites, often as a result of something you’re doing as a user. For instance, we may personalise our content for you or remember your preferences. 

Managing and Deleting Cookies 
If you want to manage cookies, you can do so from your browser. You can find out how to do this by going to the help menu in your browser. Please see www.allaboutcookies.org for further information. 

EULA 

This end-user licence agreement (EULA) is an agreement between you and Toolbox (Toolbox, us or we) where we will licence the use of the Toolbox mobile application software (including its developments and updates) (App). This EULA expressly incorporates the Toolbox Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary stated in Appstore Rules (defined below), these terms apply subject to any rules or policies applied by any appstore provider or operator from whose site you have downloaded the App (Appstore Rules). 

We do not sell the App or any related content to you. We remain the owners of the App and related content at all times. This App requires a personal digital assistant ('smart phone'). 

Important Notice 
By downloading the App and clicking the ‘Accept’ button below, you agree to these terms, the Toolbox Terms of Use (see above), Privacy Policy (see above), and Cookie Policy (see above) (the Toolbox Terms). 
We would also like to specifically draw to your attention to the fact that Toolbox is not intended to provide clinical guidelines, patient-sensitive information or subjective views about staff, departments or hospitals. It should not be considered as offering medical or clinical advice and, whilst information contained on Toolbox is reviewed, it is subject to change. Please ensure that you have fully read the Toolbox Terms as you are deemed to accept them. 
We may change these terms at any time by notifying you when you next start the App. From time to time updates to the App may be issued. Depending on the update, you may not be able to use the Services until you have downloaded or streamed the latest version of the App and accepted any new terms (if any). 
By using the App or any Service, you acknowledge and agree that internet transmissions are never completely private or secure. You understand that any message or information you send using the App or any Service may be read or intercepted by others, even if there is a special notice that a particular transmission is encrypted. 

Grant and scope of licence 
In consideration of you agreeing to abide by the Toolbox Terms we grant you a non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to use the App on your device. You may download or stream a copy of the App onto your devices and use the App for non-commercial purposes only. 
You agree not to copy, rent, lease, modify the App or permit the App to be combined with or incorporated in any other programs. You agree not to create any software that is substantially similar to the App Licence Restrictions. 
You agree to comply with the Toolbox Terms. 

Intellectual property rights 
You acknowledge that all intellectual property rights in the App and its technology anywhere in the world belong to us or our licensors, that rights in the App are licensed (not sold) to you, and that you have no rights in, or to, the App or the technology other than the right to use each of them in accordance with these terms and the Toolbox Terms. 

Limitation of Liability 
In addition to you agreeing to our limits of liability as contained in the Toolbox Terms, you acknowledge that the App has not been developed to meet your individual requirements, and that it is therefore your responsibility to ensure that the facilities and functions of the App meet your requirements. 
We will try to ensure that the App, when properly used and on an operating system for which it is intended, will perform as it should do, however we make no warranty to this effect and cannot guarantee its functionality. 

Termination 
We may terminate this EULA immediately by written notice to you if you a commit a material breach of this EULA or the Toolbox Terms. 

Miscellaneous 
Please note that these terms, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by the law of England and Wales and agree that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. 
Each of the conditions of this EULA operates separately. If any court or competent authority decides that any of them are unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining conditions will remain in full force and effect. 

Applicable law 

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by the law of England and Wales and agree that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. 

Trade marks 
"Dr Toolbox" is [UK registered] trade marks of Dr Toolbox Ltd 

Contact tech support -> mailto:support [snail] dr-toolbox [period] com

Data privacy statement

For any questions about this Data Privacy Statement, please contact Dr Will Barker, Director and Data Protection Officer, at support@dr-toolbox.com.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

We are committed to the principles inherent in the GDPR and comply with it. We aim to ensure:
  • transparency with regard to the use of data
  • that any processing is lawful, fair, transparent and necessary for a specific purpose
  • that the data is accurate, kept up to date and removed when no longer necessary
  • that the data is kept safely and securely.

For the purpose of the The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679, the Company’s Data Protection Officer is Will Barker, support@dr-toolbox.com.

Data collected about you 

Data collected about you includes your professional email address (required, verified), and optionally your name, job role and specialty (all optional, not verified), network protocol and connection information, and interaction with the app (pages viewed, commented or edited, files uploaded, search terms).

  • The data will not be used for Clinical research.
  • The data is used for the purposes of authentication, accountability, analytics, and software troubleshooting.
  • The analytics information is processed locally, without transmitting it to external providers.
  • The processed data may be available to Toolbox administrators from your trust (usually people from the PGME or Library departments).
  • This data may be shared, with your explicit consent, only when you check the checkbox that you accept our Terms and conditions and Privacy policy.
  • Your password is only stored on your device, not shared, and not stored on our server. We only store a one-way cryptographic hash of the password which allows us to mathematically verify you know the password but the hash does not allow to guess the password.
  • If you edit a page, post a comment, or upload a file, your professional email address will remain attached to your contribution in the page history indefinitely, for legal purposes (accountability). You can contact the support team if you wish to pseudonymise this information.
  • Data other than your password is stored on a secure disk space we rent at our internet hosting provider (OVH.co.uk within the EEA). Email address, optionally name, job role, specialty (if you provide these) are preserved until your account exists, and you can change them at any time. Connection / activity information is retained for 12 months, after which only the syndicated analytics data is preserved (total number of users, or pages visited, not identifying each of your actions individually).

Security / industry standards 

  • All information exchange between the app and the server is done using recognised secure communication protocols: SSL/TLS 1.3 (RFC 8446), HTTPS (RFC 2818). The data is always encrypted in transit. 
  • Personal data on the server is compliant with recognised International Data Management Standards: ISO/IEC 9075 standard: "Information technology - Database languages - SQL (Structured Query Language)". 
  • Personal data on the server is stored using recognised secure data storage technologies. All access to the database is performed securely using "Templates" and "Prepared statements". The name (encrypted) and professional email are contained in one table, while all other tables with activities and logs use pseudonymous numeric identifiers. 
  • If your Trust requires it, we have worked with your Information Governance (IG) team to complete and document a Data Privacy Impact Assessment (DPIA)
  • In case of Data confidentiality breaches, we will notify the affected users within 10 days of discovery, with the scope and the practical implications.

Contact tech support -> mailto:support [snail] dr-toolbox [period] com

Your personal information

Edit settings | Clear settings | Delete account.

You need to agree to our Terms of use and Privacy policy to use this software. We collect some personal information for the purposes of usage statistics and troubleshooting, and may share it with your trust:

  • Professional e-mail address: to verify your affiliation, to send you messages you or your trust have requested, and for information traceability.
  • Your name if you or your trust provided it to us (optional).
  • The request metadata: timestamp, URL, search terms, network address, software version.

See also: Terms of use, Privacy policy and Data privacy statement.

Contact tech support -> mailto:support [snail] dr-toolbox [period] com

Help / Support

Welcome to the Toolbox platform. Please read our Terms of use and Privacy policy.

Clinical / Not a medical device

  • The Toolbox is not a medical device:
    • It does not collect or process any personal health information.
    • It gives no health self-help advice.
  • No patient information is allowed on the Toolbox.
  • No data is collected for the purposes of Clinical research.

How to use the Toolbox

You can navigate to different areas of the Toolbox either from the links in the pages, or in the menu, or from the search function.

To open the menu, tap on the menu button near the top-right corner.

To dial a telephone number or an extension written in a page just click on it. If you use the Toolbox on a mobile phone, your phone app will open with the full number pre-selected.

You can also dial custom extensions directly from the Contacts page: just type the extension, the full number will be called (if the hospital prefixes have been configured).

You can bookmark your favourite pages by tapping on the star at the right of the page heading. Your bookmarks will appear on the homepage.

You can download attached PDF documents to the app's offline storage.

  • In a page, there may be a button like 27↓ near the top right (under the page title), tap on this button to download all PDF files attached to the page.
  • In a file listing, if there are buttons like 12↓ next to a section heading, tap on this button to download the files in this section.
  • To download all PDF attachments for offline access, use the button 214
    files
    on the homepage (usually top right, over the cover photo).

To change hospital, see My hospitals. In the list of hospitals you can type a few letters to quickly find yours.

To access a toolbox, a password may be necessary. The server can automatically send the password to your NHS or doctors.org e-mail address. If you have a different e-mail address, please contact a local administrator at your trust to create your account manually.

You can change the font styles and sizes, and the colour theme in the section Fonts and colours.

You can logout, clear your settings and stored passwords, manually refresh the content or reload the Toolbox from the server here: Logout / Reload Toolbox.

Sharing information from the Toolbox

There are ways to share information from the Toolbox with your colleagues.

  • You can share the QR code from your hospital landing page and other users can scan it and access the website and the mobile apps
  • You can send feedback to a page to suggest improvements. In this case your comment will be visible to all users who have access to the page, until an editor has the chance to review the comment and amend the page.
  • You can request to become an editor, and modify pages and upload files directly. For this, please contact the administrators from your trust.

Support: How to reach us

You can contact the editors of the current toolbox, for example to report errors or to suggest improvements to specific pages, by sending feedback to the pages ( menu, icon "comment").

The software development team is committed to improving the Toolbox and addressing user issues with the software, in a timely manner.

You can contact the admin/dev team at support [snail] dr-tolbox [period] com with any question, suggestion, if you notice an error or a bug.


See also Development / Security.

Development / Security

The app was commissioned by Dr Toolbox Ltd, created and maintained by:

  • Dr Will Barker MBBS, MRCGP, MPhys
  • Dr James Houston, MBBS, FRCS, MEng
  • Petko Yotov DPLG, software architect, full-stack developer, PmWiki core developer

It has been tested and continuously improved since 2014, under the brands "Dr Toolbox" and "Health Toolbox".

The software development team is committed to improving the Toolbox and addressing user issues with the software, in a timely manner.

You can contact the admin/dev team at support [snail] dr-tolbox [period] com with any question, suggestion, if you notice an error or a bug.

Please note that this is a hybrid app, its functionality, user interface and content can be updated over-the-air, without releasing new versions on the app stores.

The app complies with the industry standards for encryption TLS 1.3 (RFC 8446), communication protocols HTTPS (RFC 2818), HTTP/2 (RFC 7540), structure HTML5 (living standard, by W3C), functionality ECMAScript (ES5, ES6, including offline localStorage, indexedDB, Cache API and webWorkers), layout CSS (living standard, by W3C), email links (RFC 2368), telephone links (RFC 3966), Portable Document Format (PDF, ISO 32000), Portable Dates (ISO 8601), Unicode/UTF-8 (ISO/IEC 10646), JSON (RFC 8259, ISO/IEC 21778:2017).

See also: Data privacy statement.

Contact tech support -> mailto:support [snail] dr-toolbox [period] com

Existing users sign in

You have already signed in, open your hospitals, or logout.

New users create account

Professional email address:

Password: (reveal)


Forgot password?

Please read: Your personal information

Edit settings | Clear settings | Delete account.

You need to agree to our Terms of use and Privacy policy to use this software. We collect some personal information for the purposes of usage statistics and troubleshooting, and may share it with your trust:

  • Professional e-mail address: to verify your affiliation, to send you messages you or your trust have requested, and for information traceability.
  • Your name if you or your trust provided it to us (optional).
  • The request metadata: timestamp, URL, search terms, network address, software version.

See also: Terms of use, Privacy policy and Data privacy statement.

Create account

You are already signed in, open your hospitals.

Here you can create an account.

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Logout / Clear settings

This will sign you out and remove all sensitive information from the browser/device. You can then sign in with a different account.

Password recovery

Picture/PDF viewer

Fonts and colours

Here you can configure the Toolbox appearance.

Font size (16px)

Font family

Font availability may vary.

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Petko's To-do list

UI

  • organise better the sidebar sections for anon/identified users
  • post comment form (to content page, to UI page)
  • join hospital form
  • email confirmation code form, needed by:
    • sign up form
    • forgot password form
    • change email form
    • change 2FA form
  • detect app update and invite reload
  • Remove footer bar? Or move into sidebar?
  • QR code from the sidebar? Per page?
  • reveal password
  • user bookmarks
  • user homepage

Search

  • Search form - current toolbox
  • upload PDF search index to app, upload diffs between timestamps
    • implement full text search for PDFs and office documents in uploads/XYZ
  • Search in other domains, possibly via ?action=appsearch

Content

  • Contacts: simpler list per the worse-embed layout (in progress)
  • Guidelines: simpler list, possibly per synclist, remove last review date
  • Calendar: embed random UUID in urls
  • Preview page: images, PDFs, videos (in progress)
  • Tap on review header to see recent history

Other

  • Submit stats for pages and search terms, possibly fonts and colours.

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