Faster than pen and paper.Built for the ward.
The task list for NHS resident doctors. Log, track and finish patient jobs on ward rounds and on call — one hand, no popups, nothing to sync.
The phone is live. Tick a job, log a bleep, add a note.
Sample data. Nothing you type leaves this page.
Ward rounds. On-call shifts. One hand free.
Resident doctors carry notes, a bleep and a drink round a ward. Anker is designed for the hand that's left, with speed and reliability treated as clinical requirements rather than polish.
Ward roundEvery job from the round, in one list.
Swipe through patients as you walk the ward. Mark each job not started, in progress or done, and flag the ones that can't wait.
- Ward selector across multiple wards — add, rename, delete
- Horizontal patient carousel, one card per patient
- Three-state checkbox per job: not started, in progress, done
- Urgent flag per job — red while outstanding, grey once complete
- All Jobs view across every ward, with a jobs-remaining count
- Sort by urgency, oldest or newest
- Completed jobs always sort to the bottom
- Clear all ward round data from Settings
On-callLog a bleep as it arrives. Track it until it's resolved.
Each bleep moves from unanswered to answered to resolved, so nothing is lost between calls overnight.
- Persistent input bar — log a bleep while you're still on the phone
- Status cycle: unanswered, answered, resolved
- Colour-coded status button on every bleep
- Expandable detail field per bleep
- Patient management with the same three-state job tracking
- Resolve or reopen a patient, with a greyed inactive state
- Clear bleeps and patients from Settings
NotesA place for everything that isn't a job yet.
A shift notepad with photos and inline editing. It opens at your most recent note.
- Chat-style notes on a dot-pattern background
- Attach a photo from the camera roll, or take one
- Edit any note inline with the pencil
- Dismiss or restore a note with a long press
- Opens scrolled to your most recent note
- Clear all notes from Settings
Designed by a resident doctor, around her own shifts.
Anker started with a list of the ten things that slowed a resident doctor down most during a shift. Keeping track of jobs on ward rounds and on call came top, so that is what the app does and all it does.
A working prototype was built in a weekend, then refined over six weeks of real use on the ward before the first release.
Placeholder — Dr Maryam Ghani on why she wanted this app. Replace before launch.
Your patients' details stay with you.
Anker has no account, no login and no clinical sync. There is nowhere for a patient's details to go.
Where it's stored
On your iPhone, in the app's own storage. Ward round data, bleeps and notes never leave the device.
What you can enter
Bed number and initials. There is no field for a name, an NHS number or a date of birth.
What's collected
Anonymous crash and performance data only, so faults get fixed. Nothing you type is included.
Clearing it
Ward round data, bleeps and notes each clear separately from Settings at the end of a shift.
App data may be included in your iPhone's own encrypted device backups. Full detail is in the privacy notice.
Three rules the app is held to.
Faster than pen and paper
If an interaction is slower than writing it on a scrap of paper, it's wrong and it gets rebuilt.
No modal popups
Inline editing and bottom sheets that slide up. Nothing interrupts you mid-round to ask if you're sure.
One hand free
Every primary action sits in the bottom half of the screen, within reach of one thumb.