Write a healthcare plan for a child
Record a child's condition, medication and emergency steps, sign it with their parent, and keep it one tap from your dashboard.
Who this is for
Who this is forChildminders caring for a child with a medical condition: asthma, an allergy, epilepsy, diabetes or anything else that needs a plan. Writing the first one takes about ten minutes. Signing it takes seconds.
An individual healthcare plan records what a child's conditions are, what you do about each one day to day, and what counts as an emergency. A child has one plan, with a section for every condition, so asthma and an egg allergy never get mixed together. You and the child's parent both sign it, so there is no argument later about what was agreed. Once it is active, it sits one tap from your dashboard, where you need it.
Open the Children tab, choose the child, and on their profile tap Create next to Healthcare plan.
1. Describe the condition
The plan opens on its first condition. Fill in the Condition, pick a colour, and tap + Add to fill in the Triggers that set it off and the Signs and symptoms you would notice. Write it for someone who has never met the child.
2. Say what to do in an emergency
Emergency steps is the one field that matters more than the rest: when this stops being ordinary, and what to do about it, in order, ending with when to call 999.
Each condition's name and emergency steps are the only fields you must fill in before anyone can sign.
3. Add its medication
Tap Add medication and enter its Name, Dose and How it is given. Put the clock times you give it in Scheduled times as 08:00, 12:30, and use Timing note for the rest: "and whenever she is wheezy". Medicine given only when needed has no scheduled times at all.
Under Which conditions is this for?, tick every condition the medicine treats. Calpol for a temperature with asthma and with an allergy appears under both, but is stored once.
4. Add the next condition
Tap Add condition for each one the child has. It gets its own colour, its own emergency steps and its own medication. Use the arrows on each card to put the most serious first.
5. Sign it, and get the parent to sign
Tap Sign and submit and sign with your finger. The plan is then waiting for the parent.
If the parent uses the app, they get a notification and sign on their own phone. If they don't, tap Capture parent signature in person at pick-up, enter their name, and hand them your device. Either way counts.
Once both signatures are on the same version, the plan is active.
⚠️Changing a plan later
A signed plan cannot be edited. Editing it starts a new version that both of you sign again, and the old plan stays in force until you do, so a child is never left without one while a change is being agreed.
6. Find it in an emergency
Back on your dashboard, the child's face now carries a red medical badge. One tap opens their emergency card, with a coloured block for each condition: its emergency steps and its medicine, all on screen at once. It works offline, and your assistants can open it too.
7. Log a dose from the plan
The parent signed for the medicine in the plan, so it already counts as consent. When you log a dose, pick it from the list and the name and dose fill themselves in.
✅Why KinderStart does it this way
An inspector asks for a healthcare plan with a review date and the parent's agreement on it. A plan written in a folder gives you none of that. Signing it in the app dates both signatures, keeps every earlier version, and reminds you when the review is due, while the part that matters in a real emergency stays one tap away.
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