About FPA Medical Professional Membership

• How does membership work?
• The "Patient Information Links"
• Sharing the "Patient Information Links" with patients and pupils
• Patients and pupils browse anonymously
• What Membership do I need?
• Annual membership fees, booklet discounts and permission to share
• All guides provided as general information
• Prohibited sharing and reproduction
• Technical restrictions for some patients/pupils
• Patient information: current digital guides

Would you like a Live Demo / Quick Chat?

Most demos take 20-30 minutes. Please contact us with a few times/dates that work for you.

How does membership work?

• When you buy a membership the FPA will email you a set of "Patient Information Links" customised for your organisation. This includes:
  • 1 link to the "Library Page" where you are can access all the guides
  • +30 links, i.e. a link to each individual Patient Information guide
• Members can share the Patient Information Links with the patients/pupils of their organisation
• Membership is bought on an organisation-by-organisation basis rather than membership for individual clinicians, teachers, patients or pupils
• Membership lasts for 1 year. After that you can renew your membership. If you prefer not to renew please note that any links shared with patients/pupils will stop working

The "Patient Information Links"

Each link contains a hidden password that gives your patients/pupils access to the guides. This means patients/pupils do not need login details to access the guides.

The links look like this:

• Library page link: https://pi.fpa.org.uk/your-site-library
• Link to a guide e.g. chlamydia https://pi.fpa.org.uk/your-site-sti-chlamydia

Sharing the "Patient Information Links" with Patients and Pupils

All members can share "Patient Information Links" with patients and pupils via:

• Email
• Text message
• QR codes - e.g. for posters you create for your clinic or surgery
• Single print-offs e.g. if you’re having a 1-on-1 session with a patient or pupil and they need a printed version. Mass printing and other reproduction is strictly prohibited - if you need a lot of print-offs then note that membership gives you a discount on our booklets.

Important: FPA will give you the links but it’s up to you to create and manage any QR codes. There are a number of third party websites where QR codes can be created for free.

We also do not create individual posters for members or offer text message or email systems.

• Sharing guides via your website? Most members can share "Patient Information Links" by adding the links to their website but this is subject to the Membership terms and conditions. Some larger organisations and commercial organisations will have greater restrictions. See below for more details.

Patients and pupils browse anonymously

• It's important your patients and pupils can browse the guides anonymously
• To read the guides they do not need to create an account with FPA, log in to FPA.org.uk or pass any personal data to FPA
• FPA adds passwords to the links we give you and this gives patients/pupils simple access to the guides without the need for any logins

Which membership do I need?

Prices are designed to be proportionate to your patient numbers, usage, and whether you can add links to the Patient Information to your website.

E.g. an annual membership is just £99 for a single GP Surgery, pharmacy or school, £299 for a typical Primary Care Network and £699 for a standalone sexual health clinic.

• Schools and Further Education
  • Secondary school - for a single secondary school choose a "school" membership
  • Multi-Asset-Trust or similar - if you are part of a MAT or similar - please contact us so we can offer a discount per school
  • Further education - please contact us for a quote
  • Please note, this product is not suitable for Primary schools. For age appropriate RSHE materials please see our Yasmine and Tom RSHE resource

• GP Surgery
  • If you are single surgery choose a "Local" membership
  • If you are a practice with 2 or more surgeries/sites please contact us for a discount
  • For PCNs, see below

• Pharmacy
  • If you are single pharmacy choose a "Local" membership
  • If you are part of a pharmacy chain please contact us so we can offer a discount per pharmacy
  • For PCNs, see below

• PCN (Primary Care Network)
  • For PCNs with 2 or less surgeries, it's cheaper for you to buy 2 "Local" memberships - see above.
  • For PCNs with 3 to 7 surgeries - choose a "Network" membership
  • For PCNs with 8 or more surgeries - please contact us for a quote

• Clinics (GUM, STI, sexual health, abortion, fertility etc.)
  • If you are single standalone clinic choose a "Clinic" membership
  • If your clinic is part of a chain, group or network, please contact us so we can offer a discount per clinic
  • If your clinic is part of a hospital, Trust, Care Board or similar, please contact us for a quote

• Trust and Care Boards
  • Prices will vary according to the size of the Trust/Care Board and whether you'd like to add links to the Patient Information to your website. Please contact us for a quote

• Other organisations
  • Pharmacy chains, private healthcare, Multi Academy Trusts and other commercial organisations - please contact us for a quote
  • Likewise, if your organisation is not listed above - please contact us for a quote

Annual membership fees, booklet discounts and permission to share

• Below - a table showing how you can share links to the Patient Information, discounts and membership fees
• Membership fees are designed to be proportionate to your patient numbers, usage, and if you want to add links to the patient information to your website.
• If you are not sure what membership you need or if you would like a demo - please contact us

Important: All guides are provided as general information

All guides are provided as general information and FPA does not offer advice. Patients and pupils should contact their doctor, practice nurse or sexual health clinic if they are worried or unsure about anything.

All guides contain links for where patients and pupils can seek more help on that topic.

Technical restrictions for some patients/pupils

Remember: Clinicians and teachers are allowed to print off single copies of guides for patients and pupils.

• Parental controls: If patients/pupils have parental controls switched on via their browser, mobile phone or mobile phone provider then the parental controls can block access to the guides. If the parental control is just via WIFI or mobile data provider then some users will be able to get access if they either switch WIFI on or off.

• Old browsers: the FPA platform uses the recommended TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 encryption standard for secure platforms and therefore patients/pupils using browsers released before 2014 may not be able to access the FPA platform.