Helping patients navigate surgery
with clarity and confidence.
Every patient deserves a clear, guided path through surgery and recovery — delivered through the clinical team they already trust.
Patient access is by provider link only.
Both apps are on the App Store and Google Play
- The Compass — for your patientsFree, and opened with the link their clinical team sends.
- The Helm — for cliniciansFree, and opens on sign-in. A Helm account is required.
See what your team and patients will use.
The same source-grounded content, shown the way each person needs it.
Polaris · Before surgeryThe pre-surgery guideOptions, procedure and risks — at the patient’s pace, in a form that works for how they read.
Explore Polaris
The Compass · After surgeryThe recovery trackerDay-by-day guidance on what to expect, and when to seek help.
Explore The Compass
The Helm · Clinical controlThe clinician workspaceConfigure every pathway and stay in clinical control — from one place.
Explore The HelmIs your procedure already on the shelf?
The catalogue is public and kept current. Every entry is a complete pathway — before surgery, through recovery, or both — and beside it sits a shelf of unsigned templates a clinical team forks and signs as their own.
Procedures covered today
- Urology18
- Andrology & fertility9
- Gender-affirming surgery1
- Pathway templates — general surgery, orthopaedics, urology9
How does your patient leaflet actually read?
Most procedure leaflets were written to be complete, not to be read. Paste yours and the Leaflet Stress Test reads it live: reading age, sentence mix, how far down the page the risks appear, and reassurances or figures that cite no source. Then, for doctors, a panel of five very different readers tells you how it lands. Advisory and instant — and nothing you paste is stored.
What a clearer surgical journey returns to your team.
What the suite changes in the day-to-day running of a clinical service.
The basics your team re-explains at every clinic, written down and always to hand.
Material risks and options, presented to the Montgomery standard.
Every patient gets the same approved, current content.
A record of exactly what your information said, in which version, on any given date.
Built to be defensible.
Hard constraints, designed in from the start — privacy, accessibility, clinical governance and portability.
Data & privacy
- No accounts, no logins for patients
- No directly identifying patient information held within Patient Compass Suite
- Cookieless — no advertising trackers
Accessibility
- WCAG 2.2 AA (AAA text-contrast target)
- Dual-track easy-read on every step
- Reduced-motion, 44px targets, high contrast
Clinical governance
- Montgomery-standard disclosure
- Registered-clinician sign-off + audit trail
- Content realigned when a source is reissued
Hosting & portability
- UK regional hosting
- Migratable to NHS-Digital-approved hosting
- A versioned record of every publication
What that means for a patient reading it
Mr Giangiacomo Ollandini FRCS (Eng), MD, MScBuilt from clinical practice, not adapted to it afterwards. The suite is designed, written and maintained by a consultant surgeon in London — it began as the information he wanted his own patients to have, and every rule it enforces comes from that clinic room.
More about his practice — ggomed.co.ukA calm sense of direction for your patients — with your name alongside it.
The Patient Compass Suite delivers the clear, trusted information your patients need before surgery and through recovery — the options, the material risks and the day-by-day guidance, presented in a way that reflects your clinical approach, your values and the doctor you are.
- Your brand and tone
- Every statement carries a named source — or a named clinician’s signature
- Personalised figures & video, produced for you
- No open public self-enrolment
“Questions which I would normally have contacted the medical team all answered in the app. Helps anticipate what to expect, which in recovery stages is often overlooked.”
The clinician workspace, now an app on your phone.
Free from GGO Systems Limited. Review a draft, sign off a pathway, or print a patient’s access QR from the ward — the same workspace as the desktop browser, with opt-in reminders for the things awaiting your sign-off.
A clinician tool: the app opens on sign-in and needs a Helm account. It carries no patient data and no patient sign-in — the Helm authenticates clinicians only.
How patient access works
Simple, secure, and provided by your clinical team.
Your clinical team selects the pathway
The surgeon, clinic, or hospital chooses the correct procedure and version.
You receive a provider link
Patients do not self-enrol into random pathways.
You follow the guidance at your pace
Information is structured, readable, and linked to your care journey.
The Compass, on your patient’s phone.
Patient Compass: Recovery is a free app from GGO Systems Limited. It carries the recovery guidance a surgical team has written and signed off — the same content the web version holds, in an app a patient can keep to hand.
The app is a container, not a catalogue: it opens the pathway your clinical team sends you. Patients do not self-enrol, and no account is created.
See it for yourself
No stock actors, no synthetic voice — the walkthroughs are recorded in person by Mr Giangiacomo Ollandini FRCS, the consultant surgeon who built the suite.
Notes for clinical teams.
Short, practical pieces on consent, readability and accessibility — written by a practising surgeon.
For clinicians and hospitals
Want to provide structured surgical pathways?
Walk through the live demo now — or start the 90-day pilot: one pathway, free, and we prepare the draft from your current leaflet.
For patients
Looking for your pathway?
Ask your surgeon, clinic, or hospital if they provide Patient Compass Suite.
- Plain language, at your own pace
- Recovery timelines and procedure-specific guidance
- Available only through your clinical team
Patient Compass Suite supports, but does not replace, the advice given by your own clinical team.