Respecting Life
Through Preparation
A digital advance directive for Jehovah's Witnesses, aligned with Mental Capacity Act 2005 standards. Create it once, maintain it easily, access it anywhere. Your blood refusal preferences ready the moment they're needed.
Paper has limits
- Paper copies can be forgotten, misplaced, or left behind at the moment they're needed.
- Without a record of regular review, courts may find a directive invalid through implied withdrawal.
- Medical staff face unfamiliar restrictions without immediate clinical context.
Digital, done right
- Access your directive from any device through secure cloud storage.
- Intelligent review prompts maintain your directive's legal validity year after year.
- A bundled Patient Blood Management reference library supports clinicians at the point of care.
Cloud-first with targeted offline resilience. Your emergency display and clinical reference work offline, so critical information is ready even in hospital dead zones.
A Directive Built to Stand,
Created with Care
Three steps. Guided throughout. Designed for the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and comparable statutes.
Guided Interview
A clear, step-by-step process captures your blood refusal preferences. Explicit refusal of whole blood and its four primary components, granular choices on acceptable fractions and cell salvage, and the statutory "even if life is at risk" language included automatically.
Digital Signing Ceremony
An in-person ceremony captures your electronic signature alongside two independent adult witnesses, with timestamp and location. The resulting document is designed to meet the formal requirements of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and comparable international statutes.
Intelligent Review Prompts
Scheduled annual reminders, plus optional triggers for health and life events, keep your directive current. Each review creates timestamped evidence of your ongoing commitment, preventing judicial invalidation through implied withdrawal.
Emergency Setup
Turn on your emergency QR with one switch, and it prints on every wallet card and poster you generate from that moment on. Add up to five invitations at once, and each contact has seven days to confirm. Set a cooldown and a master pause that match how you live. Your scan history is visible in your settings whenever you want to check it.
Ready the Moment It Matters
Every MyPBM document you print carries a QR code: wallet card, emergency poster, anything intended for a responder or a family member to reach for in the moment. When someone scans it, they land on your emergency page. What they see is what a responder needs in the first ninety seconds: your refusal of blood products, who to contact, your healthcare agent's name and number, the allergies on your directive, and the date you last reviewed it all. The full signed directive is one tap further.
Because emergency responders and family members do not all share a language, the scanner page detects the browser language and falls back to English when it can't. A paramedic in Lisbon sees Portuguese. A family member in Stuttgart sees German. An HLC volunteer at the bedside in Tokyo sees Japanese. You never have to pick a locale for your card.
Emergency Display
- High-contrast red and black on white, optimised for rapid scanning by medical personnel.
- Unambiguous "No Blood Transfusions" banner above your primary healthcare agent's contact details.
- A QR code linking to your complete directive, so hospital staff can view the full document on their own device.
- Works offline. Screen stays awake whilst displayed.
Never locked to one device
If your phone is lost, damaged, or far from where you need it, your directive isn't. Sign in from any web browser on any device and your full directive is there. A family member's phone in the hospital car park. A ward computer at the bedside. A tablet wherever you've travelled. Your emergency display also caches to your primary device, so the information lives both in the cloud and in your pocket.
Web, iOS, Android. One account, one directive.
Notify Your Loved Ones
When your card is scanned, you may not be in a position to call anyone. You could be unconscious, or surrounded by strangers making decisions on your behalf. The people who love you, and those you have chosen to speak for you, may not know where you are.
MyPBM closes that gap. When someone scans your QR and passes the consent gate, the people you trust are told, so they can reach you, reach the hospital, or simply know.
Invite up to five contacts: family, close friends, your healthcare agent. They confirm with one click, within seven days, no account required. Only confirmed contacts are ever notified, and you can remove anyone at any time.
Each notification is brief: your name, the city, the time, and the fact that someone has looked. No medical information, no precise location. A nudge, not a crisis alert.
A cooldown prevents a single hospital visit from triggering a flurry. A master pause mutes notifications during a planned stay. Your scan history records where, when, and whether the consent gate was passed. Flag anything wrong and notifications pause while you investigate.
Evidence-Based Clinical Reference
Bundled Patient Blood Management library for the healthcare professionals caring for you.
Optimise Erythropoiesis
- —Preoperative iron supplementation protocols, oral and intravenous.
- —Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents, dosing and efficacy evidence.
Minimise Blood Loss
- —Haemostatic surgical techniques and device guidance.
- —Cell salvage protocols maintaining closed-circuit continuity.
- —Pharmacological agents including tranexamic acid and desmopressin.
Optimise Tolerance to Anaemia
- —Microsampling protocols that reduce iatrogenic blood loss.
- —Restrictive transfusion thresholds supported by the TRICC trial.
- —Cardiovascular and oxygenation strategies.
"Long-term survival data shows equivalent or superior outcomes for properly managed Witness patients. The reference library gives your clinical team immediate, citable access to peer-reviewed guidance — searchable, offline-ready, and available the moment it's needed."
One directive, every format
Each document is designed for a specific moment in your care. Download any of them at any time.
Full Directive
A4 legal document
The complete directive with every section, signature, and witness attestation. Professionally formatted and ready for wet signatures where your jurisdiction requires them.
Wallet Card
Credit-card size
A concise summary sized to fit your wallet or purse. Printed with crop marks, ready to trim and laminate for everyday carry.
Emergency Poster
Large format
High-contrast, large-type poster for the hospital room door or the wall beside your bed. Legible from across the room when medical staff arrive.
Provider Letter
Clinical brief
A formal letter to your healthcare provider, translating your preferences into clinical language they can act on with confidence.
Private, Encrypted, Yours
Your directive holds some of the most personal information you'll ever commit to paper. It's protected accordingly.
- Biometric unlock on supported devices keeps access fast for you and private from everyone else.
- Encrypted in transit and at rest. Only you and those you explicitly share with can read your directive.
- Comprehensive audit trails log every view and export, building an evidentiary record of your continued intent.
Built for the People Who Need It Most
For You, the Individual
Transform a forgotten paper blood card into a living document that's always accessible. Peace of mind, captured once, maintained in minutes. Multi-language support reflects the global Witness community.
For Your Family and Healthcare Agents
Eliminate uncertainty during crises. Your chosen decision-maker has clear, accessible documentation and defined authority — so they can advocate for your wishes with confidence.
If you are on someone's emergency contact list and you have confirmed the invitation, you will receive a short email whenever their QR is scanned: their name, the city, the time, nothing more. It is a heads-up that lets you call them, call ahead to the hospital, or simply know. You can decline the invitation when it arrives, or ask the person to remove you from their list at any time.
For Healthcare Providers
Unfamiliar restrictions become clear, evidence-based care pathways supported by peer-reviewed literature. No guesswork. No delay.
When you scan a MyPBM QR code on a wallet card or poster, you see blood-product preferences and the healthcare agent's name and number at a glance, in whichever language your browser is set to, without waiting for a full PDF to load. The signed directive is one tap further if you need it. A consent gate captures who looked; routine scanning is welcome, and we record it so the cardholder knows their card has been used.
For Hospital Liaison Committees
coming soonStreamlined administrative support and accurate case context for emergency coordination. Phase 2 integration planned, bringing HLC workflows directly into the app.
Create today on the web.
Take it with you tomorrow.
Native iOS and Android apps are on the way. Leave your email and we'll let you know the moment they launch.
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Start your directive today.
Taking full advantage of the provisions available to help you receive the best medical care possible, showing respect for life and Jehovah's law on blood.