Patient UK Experience Help

Registering with the forum

If you simply want to leave your own experience and/or read/reply to others' then you don't need to register with the forum and your experience/reply will be shown as a 'Guest' posting. However registering and then logging into the forum allows you to:

• Set your profile so that you will be sent an automatic email to alert you whenever someone replies to an experience/discussion that you have posted in, or to an experience/discussion that you have flagged to watch
• View all the latest postings in the 'what did I miss' section
• Join in general discussions
• See details of other members
• Write to other members (via the private messaging system or email)
• See full-sized images posted by other members
• Post your own images
• Belong to user groups
• Rate experiences and replies that have been posted
• Vote in polls

We are working on adding new features to the site, so the benefits of registering will continue to grow.

To register with the forum:

• Click 'Register' on the top menu bar just below the green banner.
• Read through and accept the Registration Agreement Terms.
• Fill in the boxes in the Registration Information form and click the Submit button.

You will receive a confirmation e-mail with the username and password you submitted. Please note new members are activated by the site administrator generally within one working day and you will be unable to log in until you have been activated. However you can have a look around the forum as a 'Guest' in the meantime.

Logging in to the forum

Once you've registered with the forum you need to log in if you want to take full advantage of the benefits. To do this:

• Click 'Log in' on the top menu bar just below the green banner.
• Enter the username and password you submitted and which was confirmed to you by e-mail.
• If you click the check box alongside 'Log me on automatically each visit:' this means that provided you just close the browser window when you leave the site, rather than actually click Log out on the top menu bar, you will automatically be logged in the next time you go into the site. If you do log out you will need to log in again next time you visit.