As of 13 August 2026, AI can prepare what to say to your GP.

What to actually do

1. Do it yourself

   The route this page recommends

   A chat interface, no skill needed, and roughly 15 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open your appointment details and write down the main reason for the GP visit, when the symptoms began, and what has changed.
   2. Gather your current medicine and supplement names, allergies, relevant medical history, and any readings or observations you have recorded.
   3. Paste the information into the prompt, leaving an item blank if you do not know it rather than asking the chatbot to fill it in.
   4. Ask the chatbot to produce the opening summary, timeline, missing-details questions and questions for the GP using only your notes.
   5. Compare every sentence in the draft with what you actually experienced, delete guesses, and add any detail the draft missed.
   6. Save the final summary in your phone or write it down, then read it to the GP and correct it if the GP asks for more detail.
   7. If you have urgent or worrying symptoms, contact NHS 111 through 111.nhs.uk or call 999 for an emergency instead of waiting to prepare the notes.

   Prompt

   Help me prepare for a GP appointment in the UK. Do not identify a medical condition, guess the cause of my symptoms, or tell me that a condition is likely. Turn the information below into: 1) a short opening summary I can read to the GP, 2) a timeline of the symptoms and changes, 3) relevant details I may have forgotten to mention, 4) a concise list of questions to ask, and 5) a short list of medicines, supplements, allergies and relevant medical history to take or mention. Use only the facts I provide and mark anything missing as a question for me, not as a guess. Keep the wording plain and neutral. If the description includes urgent or worrying symptoms, tell me to contact NHS 111 or emergency services as appropriate rather than trying to assess the problem. Do not tell me to delay medical care while gathering information.
   
   Appointment date or reason: [insert]
   Main concern: [insert]
   Symptoms and where they occur: [insert]
   When they started and how they have changed: [insert]
   What makes them better or worse: [insert]
   Effect on daily life, sleep or work: [insert]
   Temperature, readings or other observations I have taken: [insert]
   Medicines and supplements: [insert]
   Allergies: [insert]
   Relevant medical history: [insert]
   What I am worried about or want help with: [insert]

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Hand it to a person

   The distant third

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.