Patient Compass Suite
The Compass
A paced, accessibility-first recovery companion — given to patients by their surgical team, day by day after their operation.
Your recovery, day by day
Know what’s normal today — and exactly when to call.
- What to expect each day
- Clear warning signs, never vague
- Paced to your surgery date
I’m a clinician
Give your patients a calm, structured recovery pathway in your own brand and clinical voice — nothing for them to download, no account to set up.
Bring The Compass to your practice →I’m a patient
Your recovery pathway opens from the personal link your surgical team gives you — there’s no account and nothing to buy.
Haven’t got a link yet? Ask your surgeon’s team whether they offer The Compass.
See how The Compass works →How it works
What The Compass does, screen by screen
The Compass sets out your surgical team’s own recovery information one day at a time, paced to your operation. Here is what each screen does. None of it is medical guidance — that all comes from your team.
Setting it up
Choose your hospital, then your procedure
The first screen asks you to Choose your hospital and procedure. It lists the hospitals your team works from and the procedures they have published. If the list is long, the search box narrows it as you type.
Add the date of your operation — or don't
Once you have picked both, the date question appears: What date is your procedure? Choose the date from the calendar, then See my recovery plan.
If you would rather not give a date, choose Read without adding a date. Every day of the guide is still yours to read — it simply is not paced to you, and you can add a date later.
Your recovery notes and dates stay on your device
Your hospital, your procedure and your date are held in your own browser. There is no account, nothing to install, and none of those notes or dates is sent to us. Clearing your browser data clears local recovery data. Optional update alerts separately link a delivery address to your chosen pathway.
Reading your recovery days
The recovery days are cards you move through one at a time. What The Compass does with them depends on whether it knows your operation date.
With a date
The Compass opens on the day you are on now, counted from your date. A two-way switch at the top gives you Today, which holds you on the current day, and All days, which lets you read ahead to any day.
Days you have not reached yet are marked Still ahead and stay frosted until you press Read this day on the card. Nothing is withheld: the frosting only means scrolling past a day never opens it for you.
Without a date
The Compass opens on the first day after the operation, and every day is open from the start — nothing is frosted and there is nothing to unlock.
No day is labelled as today or tomorrow, because without your date The Compass has no way to work that out and will not guess.
Your procedure video
Where your team has recorded an introduction for your procedure, it sits above the recovery days under Your procedure explained. It never starts on its own — it plays when you press play, and not before.
If your team has not added one, the section is not there at all. Its absence says nothing about your recovery.
Changing or removing your date
On the recovery screen, the line beginning Surgery date: shows what The Compass is counting from, or Not added yet if you have given none.
Add date — or Change date once one is set — opens a date field with Save date and Cancel. A date in the future is fine: if your operation has not happened yet, The Compass counts down to it rather than treating you as already recovering. Remove date clears it and puts you back to reading without one. No content disappears when you do that.
Your note
There is one note for your whole recovery — not one per day. It sits at the foot of the recovery screen under Your notes, headed Note for your follow-up.
Because it is a single note, it reads the same on every day: open day 3 or day 30 and you will find the same text, and editing it on one day changes it on all of them. It is meant for the questions you want to put to your team at your review.
It stays in your browser and is never sent anywhere. It is kept between visits only if you accepted functional storage when you first arrived — if you declined, you can still type in it, but it will not be there next time. Deleting your data from the settings screen removes the note, along with your procedure, your dates and anything else saved about your recovery. Your reading settings are the one thing kept back, for the reason given below.
Reading it your way
The Accessibility button in the header opens the reading controls: Easy read, which sets the guide in a typeface designed to be easier to tell apart, with more space around it, and shows a plain-language version of each section wherever your surgical team has written one; Larger text; High contrast; and Reduce motion, which replaces the moving day carousel with a plain grid of cards. A separate control switches between the daylight and Night theme.
The plain-language wording is written by your team, not generated, so it exists only where they have written it. Where a section has none, easy read shows you their standard wording in the easy-read layout and says plainly that a plain-language version of that section is not available yet — it never invents one.
Your choices are remembered and apply to every screen. They are kept whatever you decided about functional storage, and they survive deleting your data, because accessibility settings are necessary rather than optional. If your device is already set to reduce motion, The Compass follows that without being asked.