Trusted from home-visit practices to hospital foot clinics
Pulses and sensation, the risk you stratified, the treatment and consent, Note Dr writes the full, watertight foot record, ready to approve.
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Note Dr listens to the appointment as it happens. While you palpate pulses, test sensation and reason aloud, it writes the record in the background, so your hands stay on the foot and your eyes stay off the keyboard.
Vascular and neurological findings on record
Pulses, capillary refill and monofilament testing, captured as you call them out, the assessment whose absence drives diabetic foot claims.
Risk stratification and escalation captured
The risk category you assigned and the action you took, shortened review, referral or urgent onward escalation, recorded the moment you decide it.
Consent for every procedure
What you explained for debridement or nail surgery and what the patient agreed to, recorded the moment you gain consent, not reconstructed afterwards.
A reviewed Note Dr record captures more of what a record needs to stand up to scrutiny, vascular and neurological findings, risk, escalation, consent and outcomes, where reviews and audits find conventional podiatry records routinely fall short.
Standards and reviews referenced: the HCPC standards of proficiency and the Royal College of Podiatry Record Keeping standard, NHS Resolution's review of diabetic lower-limb claims (2022) and the National Diabetes Foot Care Audit.
Ask what the pulses and sensation were last time, the risk you stratified, or what the patient consented to, answered in seconds from their own record.
Walk into the review already knowing the story, without trawling the notes.
When a presentation calls for it, Note Dr surfaces the published guidance podiatrists work to, from NICE diabetic foot guidance and the National Diabetes Foot Care Audit to the Royal College of Podiatry record-keeping standard, with the source shown. It never tells you how to treat your patient; that judgement stays with you.
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Why podiatrists trust Note Dr with a record that stands up to scrutiny.
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The assessment is finally on the note
Pulses and monofilament results were the things I knew I'd done but didn't always write up when clinic ran late. Now the full vascular and neuro assessment is on every diabetic foot note. I edit and approve in under a minute.
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Escalation is documented as I decide it
On a high-risk foot, the bit that counts is recording that you escalated and why. Note Dr captures the risk category and the action, shortened review or referral, the moment I make the call. That used to live only in my head.
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Consent on every nail surgery
Recording the full consent discussion for partial nail avulsion used to eat into my list. Now what I explained, the risks and what the patient agreed to is in the note before I pick up a blade, which is exactly where my exposure sat.
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Hands stay on the foot
I'm not breaking off to type mid-treatment any more. I debride, I reason aloud, and the record writes itself in the background. The patient gets a clinician, not someone half-watching a screen.
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Calmest audit we've run
Contemporaneous records across the team, with vascular and neuro findings, risk and escalation on every high-risk foot. Our last record-keeping audit against the Royal College standard was the smoothest we've had, the notes already told the whole story.
Every recording and record is protected by strong, independently assessed security and encryption.
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Across a full clinic, diabetic foot reviews, nail surgery and routine treatments, every record now reads to the same standard, with the pulses, sensation, risk and consent that used to vanish when I was busy. My notes finally match the work I actually do.
Imogen HGeneral podiatrist
Yes, HCPC-registered podiatrists can use an AI scribe to draft clinical notes, provided the patient agrees and you review and approve every record. Note Dr documents the consultation, the vascular and neurological assessment, the treatment and the consent you took; it does not diagnose or make clinical decisions, and responsibility for the record stays with you, as it does with any note.
Yes, you should tell the patient an AI scribe will transcribe the appointment and record their agreement before you begin. With Note Dr, transcription happens on the device in front of you, and the patient can decline without it affecting their care. Noting that consent in the record, alongside the consent you take for debridement or nail surgery, keeps the whole conversation on the note.
No tool makes a record compliant on its own; HCPC and Royal College of Podiatry standards ask for full, clear and contemporaneous notes, which is what an AI scribe helps you produce. Note Dr drafts the record as the appointment happens, capturing the vascular and neurological assessment, treatment, consent and safety-netting you voiced, and you review and approve every note before it is saved.
Yes, an AI scribe fits domiciliary work: Note Dr transcribes on the device you bring with you, in a clinic room, a nursing home or a patient's front room. The history, findings, treatment and footwear advice are drafted at the visit rather than typed up from memory after a full round, and you review and approve each record before it goes into the notes.
Yes. As you palpate pedal pulses, check capillary refill and test sensation with a 10g monofilament, Note Dr records each finding in your structured note, including loss of protective sensation. Because you call these findings out mid-examination, hands on the foot, they are easily lost if the note waits until the end of a busy clinic. You review and approve before saving.
Yes. As you assign a risk category and decide on action, Note Dr records the stratification and the escalation you make, a shortened review, a referral to the foot protection service or urgent onward referral. The reasoning is captured contemporaneously, so the thinking behind a shortened interval or a referral is on the note, not left in your head once the patient has gone.
Yes. Note Dr sits beside whatever practice software you already run. You paste or export the finished note straight into TM3, Cliniko, SystmOne or your own records, with no integration project and nothing to rip out and replace. It is a scribe, not a replacement for your system.