Client: NHS and EIDO Healthcare Systems
Medium: Digital, (Photoshop)
Medical Illustrations for Patient Consent Forms (NHS)
The team at Medical-Artist.com have created hundreds of custom medical illustrations for NHS patient consent forms. The NHS supplier is EIDO Healthcare who we are proud to say have worked with since 2013. UK EIDO Healthcare are the company that supplies the NHS producing high-quality endorsed patient information leaflets and medico-legal e-learning resources to help health professionals reduce their risk of litigation.
The process of creating the illustrations was to build a library of illustrations that matched in style. This also allowed for illustrations that were a set of recognisable illustrations, but that were also able to be delivered in a timely manner as the illustration parts fitted together, like a jigsaw puzzle. The illustrated bodies for example, are the same bodies throughout, with changes to the anatomy on top. By standardising the project this way we have supplied a large set of medical illustrations that went through the approval process very quickly because parts of the illustrations had already met the approval process. This has worked so well, that we have worked providing these medical illustrations for the past 7 years with great success and have been received very well by the client.
Examples of Orthopaedic Medical Illustrations
What is Patient Consent so Important
Patient consent is so important because its purpose is to obtain patient consent before any treatment process or surgery procedure. Due to the principle that a patient must have given their permission before receiving any type of medical treatment or examination. For the consent to be valid, it must be voluntary and informed and the patient to have been given all of the information in terms of what their treatment involves, the benefits and risks and whether there are reasonable alternative treatments and what would happen if treatment did not go ahead. This is why the medical illustrations form such an important element of the process, because it illuminates the medical written text so that a patient or non-medical person can understand fully.
NHS Medical Illustrations Win an Award!
During the 2014 Institute of Medical Illustrators (IMI) Awards in Bristol the illustrations created for EIDO by Medical-Artist.com were given a Silver Award for excellence. Both EIDO and Medical-Artist.com were thrilled to receive the award.
The award is given to “a photographic, graphic or video entry that shows an outstanding application of technique and an excellent understanding of the requirements of the brief.”
Joanna’s reaction was, “We are proud to be working with the NHS and EIDO in order to be part of the commitment to raise patient care and understanding and patient consent is part of this process.”
