Feedback & testimonials

"I am excited by the development of the Dr Toolbox. It is an excellent innovation which I feel will significantly transform the perennial issues faced by junior doctors and hospitals in general.

 

I am also particularly encouraged by the inclusion of patient safety as both a driving principle and an explicit consideration in the Toolbox itself. I strongly endorse this initiative and encourage you to get involved at your hospital."

"We have fully implemented toolbox and it has made a massive difference to our induction, no more reams of photocopying and have shaved hours of the induction as now all the information is in one place. Thanks for coming up with this!”

"Very happy for you to say that I think it is great - excellent for helping best practice and good patient care. You won’t believe this but I did the first one for Bart’s (and then Bart’s and the London) ages ago on a Filofax. how things have changed!"

"I have worked in ten hospitals in the last twelve years and none of them has had a ‘junior doctor’ guide that has really worked. The best was a paper book I had during my house job at St Mary’s when we still wore white coats and so had somewhere to put it. But even then, it was quickly out of date and we had all stopped using it by the end of three months. 

However, there is a real need; in the last three hospitals, I have worked at the F1s have wanted to pull together a ‘how to guide’ for the hospital. All the tricks, phone numbers and bleeps that you do not know at the start of your year but by the end you have a list so you can get things done (like how to request a PICC line, or which radiologist is best for lower GI). Then you finish your job and all that knowledge is instantly lost. 

There is a better way – Toolbox. This is a website where you can put all the ‘how to’ information, and anyone can use it for free. A hospital specific site can be created and the doctors can add the information as they learn."

"Thought you would be pleased to know that Dr Toolbox won first prize at our local innovation awards!"

Health Toolbox has been a critical asset in helping doctors integrate seamlessly into their clinical environments. Dr. Barker and Petko have demonstrated outstanding responsiveness and a strong commitment to excellence. It has been a pleasure collaborating with such a dedicated team.
Dr Anita Chithiramohan, Toolbox lead at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham 

We were looking for an app that's able to get us direct support, that will listen to what we want, as well as the trusts within our region, and will respond to that. And this is obviously a pilot today Dr Toolbox, but we feel we have a good solution here to try and trust that.
Fiona Bishop, Deputy Postgraduate Dean, Health Education Yorkshire and Humber 

Will Barker is the founder of the App and works with the developer Petko, they are both very responsive to emails and make improvements quickly, customer service is brilliant.
May Teng, Programme Manager, Health Education England 

Finally, although the app was originally designed to supplement the local induction, it has become clear that it is so much more versatile, in that it will not only benefit Junior Doctors throughout their training at the Trust, but non-training grade Junior Doctors as well.
Lucille Marshall, SHO, Humber Foundation Trust 

This is great. I applaud it. There are so many materials and trainings dished out on resumption that I found it difficult to read all and to even know which to study first. Thank you for this.
Vivien Anazor, SHO, Airedale Hospital 

We had F2 inductions yesterday and most of the juniors had downloaded the App, I had to do some trouble shooting as some hadn’t got NHS email accounts and some hadn’t received their emails, but on the whole if was all ok, I did explain that the App had been recently rebranded!
I must say that the ones who had downloaded it were very impressed and thought it was a really useful product. One junior even said that it had given him confidence, starting somewhere new and knowing that there was the App where he could find the information he needed so easily and quickly.  So really positive!
Thank you so much for all your help, after years of [previous app provider], it is so refreshing to have your help, advice and willingness to support us.
Jocelyn Matthews, Librarian, York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals 

At Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, Health Toolbox (formerly Doctor Toolbox), compliments and supports the junior doctor clinical induction programme and allows new junior doctors to feel more confident in navigating their way around the organisation. This in turn has a positive impact on patient safety as well as education and training.

Using a QiP approach, the type of information that was important to new junior doctors joining the Trust was identified and a series of ‘tabs’ developed in the App for easily navigation. A wider piece of work was conducted which involved data capture by the Health Toolbox Working Group as well as engagement with the wider medical workforce and other clinical colleagues. This led to the creation of the much anticipated ‘on-call’ tab; as well as a timely ‘wellbeing’ tab, and a tab relating to ‘physical health monitoring requirements of inpatients’. Our in-house experts included our Consultant Psychotherapist,  who created a tab on ‘psychotherapy’ and Consultant Psychiatrist in Addictions who created a tab on ‘addictions’.

After Health Toolbox was implemented, it was further enhanced and information beneficial to International Medical Graduates (IMGs) was added, this includes a list of topics with a strong evidence base relating to challenges faced by IMGs. The Trust Junior Doctor IMG Champion was consulted and provided an introduction and description of her role which was also added to Health Toolbox. She also reviewed and added to the information contained on the ‘IMG’ tab. 

Gillian Hughes, Medical Directorate & Medical Education Manager, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Holly Spear, Clinical Effectiveness Administrator 

Thank you for all your help. Our staff are getting really excited about Toolbox and we’ve seen user registrations double since we started more internal communication. We also have some great patient safety examples of how this has improved safety ☺️
It’s really user friendly, that’s is one of the main feedbacks we receive from editors is how easy they took to the system despite not having extensive tech backgrounds so huge compliment!
The Sync option has been a huge benefit for us. We didn’t need to change our process—revised documents dropped into a shared drive now sync directly to the toolbox app, cutting down admin work.
With the app, documents are more visible, and people can comment and engage more easily. It’s fostered greater collaboration.
A big relief for me is that other areas now self-manage. Teams with good processes use the main Sync folder, handle their documents, and maintain their versions independently, without needing our help.
Katie Hooper, Auditor and Toolbox lead 

A single trust guideline can be cross-linked from different departmental pages, instead of maintaining duplicates. This reduces workload and clinical risks, and benefits clinical safety and governance.
The "autologin" feature is crucial for clinicians on the shop floor as it eliminates the extra step of signing into a new system, saving time.
The search function is invaluable, if you start typing it quickly filters guidelines across different departments, ensuring nothing important is overlooked.
Dr Nanette Bothma, ED consultant, Chief Medical Information Officer 

Dr Hosain Hadi, Darzi Fellow & Orthopaedic Registrar

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