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Still rewriting the same discharge summary structure from scratch on every patient, at the end of a long shift?
A ChatGPT prompt for discharge summaries
Free · lite version A simpler, single-purpose version of the full toolkit prompt — see the difference ↓The slow part of a discharge summary is never the medicine — it’s assembling scattered notes into a clean, GP-ready structure without missing the follow-up or the safety-netting. AI is good at exactly that shaping, and bad at one thing you can’t tolerate: making facts up.
The prompt below is built around a single rule — it may only use what you paste in. Give it your rough admission notes and it returns a structured draft you can verify in seconds and sign. Redact identifiers before you paste; the output is a draft, never a final document.
You are helping a UK doctor draft a hospital discharge summary. Use ONLY the information in the notes I paste below. Do not invent, infer, or add any clinical detail that is not explicitly written. Do not state that information is missing — simply omit any section you have no information for. Produce the summary under these headings, in this order, including a heading only if there is information for it: - Reason for admission - Diagnosis - Key investigations and results - Procedures / interventions - Discharge medications (as a list, with dose and frequency exactly as written) - Follow-up - Safety-netting / red-flag advice for the patient Write in concise clinical prose. Use bullet points only for medication lists and follow-up actions. Keep it GP-readable. Here are my notes: [PASTE YOUR ANONYMISED NOTES HERE]
Anonymise before you paste. Outputs are drafts — review and verify before use. Clinical responsibility stays with you.
What this prompt does
- Turns rough, abbreviated ward notes into a structured, GP-ready draft
- Uses nothing that isn’t in your notes — every fact stays traceable
- Leaves out sections you have no information for, instead of padding
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What you’re getting — and what you’re not
- Turns rough, abbreviated ward notes into a structured, GP-ready draft
- Uses nothing that isn’t in your notes — every fact stays traceable
- Leaves out sections you have no information for, instead of padding
The comprehensive “Discharge Summary (Standard)”, plus 15 more prompts
This free version produces a single standard discharge. The Clinical toolkit also includes the structured handover note, medication-reconciliation, clinical-timeline builder and patient-friendly versions — and each prompt carries stricter source-locking rules.
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