Patient History Form
Full three-part medical history: personal and family background, systems review, lifestyle and medication, ready before a first consultation.
A ready-to-use healthcare & clinical form for small teams who need a reliable intake process: 24 questions, 3 pages, 4 conditional rules.
- Questions
- 24
- Pages
- 3
- Layouts
- classic · card
- Time to complete
- ≈ 12 min
- Conditional rules
- 4
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Live preview and test console
This is the real form. Answer it to test the flow — nothing is sent or stored.
Page 1 of 3 — Your background
This template runs as a straight sequence — no branching rules.
Compliance checklist
- Payment items priced — passingEvery payment question charges a real amount, so a submission always records a payment.
- Conditional logic resolves — passingEvery rule points at a question or page that exists in this template.
- Medical disclaimer present — passingThis form does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Information you share here is not a substitute for care from a qualified clinician. In an emergency, contact your local emergency service immediately.
- Question labels unique — passingLogic and exports address questions by label, so duplicates are ambiguous.
What happens after submit: nothing is stored in this preview. On your own copy, every response triggers an instant email notification and lands in your response dashboard, ready to export or forward.
Happy with it? Take a copy into your workspace — every question, rule and setting comes with it.
Who this template is for
Patient History Form is built for small teams who need a reliable intake process who need to collect the same complete information from everyone.
- Small teams who need a reliable intake process working in healthcare & clinical.
- Teams who need to collect the same complete information from everyone without writing code or paying for a custom build.
- Anyone replacing chasing missing details over email with one structured record per enquiry.
- Respondents are the people you send it to — the form asks them 24 questions across 3 screens.
- Mobile-heavy audiences, thanks to the one-question-per-screen card layout.
Why this form is useful
It removes the cost of chasing missing details over email and turns each submission into a record your team can act on immediately.
- 16 questions are required, so submissions arrive complete instead of needing a follow-up email.
- It captures a phone number for urgent follow-up.
- It pins the request to a specific date.
- It allows multiple selections without free text.
- Conditional logic hides 4 questions until they are relevant — shorter forms convert better than long ones.
- Splitting the form across 3 pages keeps each screen short and shows respondents how much is left.
- Every response is stored, searchable and exportable, so nothing depends on one person's inbox.
How to use this template
From copy to live form is a few minutes of work, and every step is reversible.
- 1Press “Use this template” — a fresh copy of Patient History Form lands in your workspace, ready to edit.
- 2Rename or delete any question, and change what is required. Nothing here is fixed.
- 3Open Notifications and add the email addresses that should be alerted on each submission; add an auto-reply to the respondent if the form collects an email address.
- 4Publish it, then either share the link directly or paste the embed snippet into your site — the embedded form resizes to fit and loads no marketing or advertising trackers.
- 5Watch responses land in Submissions, where you can filter, label and export them to CSV or PDF.
Logic and conditions blueprint
Exactly how this form behaves as it is answered — 4 conditional rules ship with it.
- Features conditional validation: if “Do you have any allergies?” is Yes, “Allergies and what happens on exposure” becomes mandatory before the form can be sent.
- Features conditional validation: if “Are you under the care of another service?” is Yes, “Which service, and for what?” becomes mandatory before the form can be sent.
- Features conditional validation: if “Do you drink alcohol?” is Yes, “Roughly how much in a typical week?” becomes mandatory before the form can be sent.
- Features conditional validation: if “Any conditions that run in your family?” is Yes, “Which conditions, and which relatives?” becomes mandatory before the form can be sent.
- All 4 rules are editable in the Logic tab, and the built-in checker warns about rules that contradict each other.
About this template
This is the long history — the one worth sending when a clinician needs the whole picture rather than the reason for today. It is deliberately split across three pages so a patient can complete it in sittings. The first covers personal medical background: conditions diagnosed and roughly when, previous surgery and admissions, serious illnesses, and any ongoing care under another service. The second is a systems review, grouped the way patients recognise rather than the way textbooks list them, with checkboxes for current symptoms by area and a free-text line after each group so a tick never stands alone. The third covers lifestyle and medicines: current medication and doses, allergies with what happens on exposure, alcohol, smoking, exercise, sleep and occupation, plus family history of conditions in close relatives. A final open question asks what the patient is most concerned about, which frequently turns out to be the reason they made the appointment and is rarely the first thing they mention. The form records their account; every judgement about it belongs in the consultation.
What this form asks
Every question is editable — rename it, make it optional, or delete it entirely.
Page 1 — Your background
- Full namerequired
- Date of birthrequired
- Contact numberrequired
- Conditions you have been diagnosed with, and roughly whenrequired
- Previous surgery or hospital admissions
- Are you under the care of another service?required
- Which service, and for what?
Page 2 — How you feel now
- Heart, chest or breathingrequired
- Anything to add about those
- Stomach and digestionrequired
- Muscles, joints and nervesrequired
- Mood, sleep and energyrequired
- Anything else you have noticed
Page 3 — Medicines and lifestyle
- Current medication and dosesrequired
- Do you have any allergies?required
- Allergies and what happens on exposure
- Do you smoke or vape?required
- Do you drink alcohol?required
- Roughly how much in a typical week?
- How often do you exercise?required
- Your occupation
- Any conditions that run in your family?required
- Which conditions, and which relatives?
- What are you most concerned about?required
24 questions in total.
Example of a completed patient history form
A sample history showing how a patient records their background ahead of a first consultation.
- Full name
- Gunnar Lindqvist
- Date of birth
- 03/03/1972
- Conditions you have been diagnosed with, and roughly when
- Mild asthma, diagnosed in childhood
- Previous surgery or hospital admissions
- Appendectomy in 2004
- Current medication and doses
- Salbutamol inhaler, as needed
- Do you have any allergies?
- Yes
- Allergies and what happens on exposure
- Pollen causes sneezing and itchy eyes
- How often do you exercise?
- Once or twice a week
- What are you most concerned about?
- Getting more breathless than usual on stairs recently
Sample data — no real people, addresses or records are shown.
How the form changes as it's filled in
This template ships with 4 conditional rules, grouped into 4 behaviours driven by 4 questions. Everything below is already set up — edit or delete any rule once the template is in your workspace.
Driven by “Do you have any allergies?”
- Makes answers required
If “Do you have any allergies?” is Yes, “Allergies and what happens on exposure” becomes required before the form can be submitted.
Driven by “Are you under the care of another service?”
- Makes answers required
If “Are you under the care of another service?” is Yes, “Which service, and for what?” becomes required before the form can be submitted.
Driven by “Do you drink alcohol?”
- Makes answers required
If “Do you drink alcohol?” is Yes, “Roughly how much in a typical week?” becomes required before the form can be submitted.
Driven by “Any conditions that run in your family?”
- Makes answers required
If “Any conditions that run in your family?” is Yes, “Which conditions, and which relatives?” becomes required before the form can be submitted.
Set it up step by step
- 1
Send it a week before
A three-page history is completed properly at home over two sittings; sent the night before, it arrives half finished.
- 2
Keep a free-text line after each group
Checkbox groups collect the common answers and the line afterwards catches the one that matters.
- 3
Ask what worries them last
By the time a patient has worked through their history, that final answer is usually far more specific than it would have been first.
- 4
Do not re-ask it every visit
Use the Patient Intake Questionnaire for a routine appointment and keep this for first consultations and annual reviews.
Mistakes to avoid
- Sending the long history for every appointment until patients stop completing any of them.
- Collecting symptom checkboxes with no space to explain, so a tick has to be interpreted blind.
- Filing the history without reading it before the consultation, which wastes the patient's twelve minutes.
What it pairs with
Most teams don't run this form on its own. These are the forms and systems it sits next to.
What to do with the responses
Read the history before the consultation, confirm the medication and allergy answers in the room, and store it as the baseline the next review is compared against.
Works in both layouts
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Privacy & compliance
This form collects health information. Keep access limited to the people who need it, turn on encrypted answers for the clinical questions, and set a retention window so records don't sit in the dashboard forever.
Frequently asked questions
When should this be used instead of the Patient Intake Questionnaire?
Use this for a first consultation or an annual review where the whole picture matters. The intake questionnaire is the shorter, reason-for-visit version for routine appointments.
Can patients save and come back to it?
Yes, and they should. The three-page structure exists so a history can be completed over two sittings rather than abandoned at the halfway point.
Is family history worth asking about?
For many conditions it changes screening intervals, which is why the form asks which relatives rather than accepting a bare yes.
Should the form assess risk automatically?
No. It collects what the patient reports; any risk assessment belongs with the clinician who can weigh the answers in context.
Is the Patient History Form template free to use?
Yes. You can preview and test Patient History Form on this page without an account, and take a copy into your own HelloForms workspace on the free plan. There is nothing to install and no card required to publish it.
What does the Patient History Form template ask for?
It asks 24 questions across 3 pages, 16 of which are required. Every question is listed in full further down this page, and each one can be renamed, reordered, made optional or deleted after you copy the template.
Can I edit the Patient History Form form after copying it?
Yes — the copy is entirely yours. Change wording, add or remove questions, switch between the classic and card layouts, restyle it to match your brand, and set who gets notified on each submission.
How does the conditional logic in this healthcare & clinical form work?
4 conditional rules ship with the template: Features conditional validation: if “Do you have any allergies?” is Yes, “Allergies and what happens on exposure” becomes mandatory before the form can be sent. Features conditional validation: if “Are you under the care of another service?” is Yes, “Which service, and for what?” becomes mandatory before the form can be sent. Features conditional validation: if “Do you drink alcohol?” is Yes, “Roughly how much in a typical week?” becomes mandatory before the form can be sent. All rules are editable in the Logic tab.
Where do responses to the Patient History Form form go?
Submissions land in your workspace under Submissions, where you can search, filter, label and export them to CSV or PDF. You can also email a notification to your team on every submission and send the respondent an auto-reply.
Can I embed the Patient History Form form on my own website?
Yes. Publish the form and paste the embed snippet into any page or share the direct link. The embedded form resizes to fit its container and loads no advertising or marketing trackers inside the iframe.
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