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Medical ID, worn beautifully.

A pendant engraved with what you’d want a paramedic to know: your name, a condition, an allergy, someone to call. If you’re ever taken ill and can’t explain, it speaks for you.

Choose your pendant How it works

Prefer to talk? Call 020 7183 0355 and we’ll help you choose.

  • Silver-tone or gold-tone finish
  • No subscription, ever
  • Free tracked UK delivery
A woman with silver hair and glasses laughing in the sunshine, wearing a white teardrop pendant
The back of a gold-tone Heritage pendant, engraved with a name, date of birth and NHS number
On the back: whatever you’d like them to know.

What a paramedic sees

It takes seconds. There’s no app to open, no phone signal needed and no battery to run flat.

  1. The front of a Guardian pendant: white enamel with a gold-tone medical symbol and the MediWear mark above it
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    The front

    The medical symbol tells a paramedic to look on the back. Above it sits our gold-tone MediWear mark, so to everyone else it’s simply jewellery.

  2. The back of a silver-tone Guardian pendant, engraved with a name, date of birth and NHS number
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    The back

    The details you chose, such as your name, a condition, an allergy or someone to call. Engraved clearly enough to read at arm’s length.

  3. Summary Care Record943 476 5919
    Name
    Jean Smith
    Medicines
    Amlodipine 5mg, once a day
    Allergies
    Penicillin
    Reactions
    Codeine: severe sickness

    An example. What’s on a real record depends on your GP practice.

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    If you add your NHS number

    We recommend it. In England, the crew can use it to look up your Summary Care Record: the medicines you take, your allergies, and any bad reactions you’ve had.

Why we recommend your NHS number

Choose the one you’ll actually wear

If it looks medical, it ends up in a drawer. So each piece is jewellery first: a silver-tone or gold-tone finish with a white enamel front, designed in London and engraved by us.

The Guardian pendant resting on brown quilted velvet

The Guardian

£80

Silver-tone · rectangular · 32 × 22 mm

Largest lettering. Easiest to read.

The Heritage pendant, a gold-tone teardrop, resting on brown quilted velvet

The Heritage

£100

Gold-tone · teardrop · 38 × 28 mm

Gold-tone. Most like fine jewellery.

The Lifeline pendant, a slim silver-tone bar, resting on brown quilted velvet

The Lifeline

£65

Silver-tone · slim bar · 40 × 14 mm

The slimmest. Sits neatly under clothes.

Engraved in London

We engrave every pendant ourselves. We check every line first, and call you if anything looks wrong.

Pay once

No subscription and no yearly fee. The pendant is yours.

Free tracked delivery

Dispatched the next working day after we’ve checked your engraving.

Order by phone

Call 020 7183 0355 and we’ll take everything down for you.

A woman with silver hair standing in a sunny park, hands clasped, wearing a white teardrop pendant

What if that’s me one day?

Majoon, my grandmother, after a friend’s husband spent 36 hours in hospital listed as an unknown patient.

A few weeks later Majoon fainted getting off the bus after her weekly shop. She was all right, but the paramedics had no way of knowing her blood pressure tablets had just been changed.

The medical IDs we found either looked clinical or charged a yearly fee to store her details. So we made one she’d be happy to wear.

Kya Mobasheri, founder

Read our story As told in The Archer
A man with white hair in an orange polo shirt smiling under pink blossom, wearing a teardrop pendant
A woman with long dark hair laughing, wearing a white pendant on a dark cord
A man in glasses in evening sunlight, a pendant over his blue T-shirt
Close-up of a white enamel teardrop pendant with the gold-tone MediWear mark, worn against an orange shirt
A young man with curly hair in a shearling jacket, wearing a teardrop pendant

It says “I’m prepared”, not “I’m unwell”.

Traditional medical IDs are designed to be noticed. Ours are designed to be worn every day, with everything, by people who’d rather not be defined by their health.

The medical symbol on the front is still easy for a paramedic to recognise. Everyone else just sees a nice necklace.

See your details on the back

Type a name and one thing a paramedic should know. On each pendant’s page you can fill in up to four lines and turn the pendant round in 3D before you order.

Personalise a pendant in 3D

An older man and his grandson standing together in a park, both smiling
A Heritage pendant in its white MediWear gift box

Buying for a parent or grandparent?

Many of our pendants are chosen by a son, daughter or grandchild. A few things make it easier.

  • Engrave what matters to them, such as a condition, an allergy or who to call. Ask them what they’d want a stranger to know.
  • Add a gift message and we’ll write it on a card in the box.
  • Send it straight to them. Delivery is free and tracked to any UK address.
  • Not sure yet? Choose a blank pendant now and have it engraved later.
Our guide to buying for someone

Questions people ask us

Will a paramedic know to look for it?

Ambulance crews routinely check for medical jewellery around the neck and wrist when someone can’t tell them what’s wrong. The medical symbol on the front of every pendant tells them to look on the back.

What should I have engraved?

Whatever a paramedic most needs to know about you. Most people start with their name, then add a condition, an allergy, a medicine or someone to call. You only need one line, and you can have up to four.

Our engraving guide has examples.

Do I have to add my NHS number?

No, it’s up to you. We recommend it, because in England it lets ambulance crews look up your Summary Care Record: your medicines, your allergies and any bad reactions to medicines. Your GP keeps that record up to date, so it stays right even when your medicines change.

In Scotland you can add your CHI number instead, and in Northern Ireland your Health and Care number.

Is there a subscription or yearly fee?

No. You pay once for the pendant, and that’s it. We don’t store your medical details, and there’s nothing to renew.

All questions and answers