A 15-minute online questionnaire. Legally valid in England & Wales. Returned within 24 hours, ready to print and sign with two witnesses. £69 single. £99 mirror for couples. No appointments. No solicitors. No surprises.
NHS staff face a specific set of estate-planning realities that the high-street will-writing pitch doesn't address. Here's what actually changes when you wear the lanyard.
Bank holidays, twilight, nights, on-call. Solicitor offices open 9–5 Monday to Friday. Most NHS staff give up on writing a will because they can't physically get to one. ClearLegacy is a 15-minute questionnaire from your phone — between handover and sleep, in the canteen on a 30-minute break, on the way home from a late shift.
The NHS Pension Scheme pays a lump sum (typically two to three times annual pensionable pay for the 2015 scheme) at discretion to your nominated beneficiaries — recorded separately on form DB2 or PN1, not in your will. Both documents matter. The will controls everything else: home, savings, possessions, dependants, guardians for children.
If you and your partner both die and there's no will, the family courts decide who raises your children. Not your sister. Not your best friend. Not the godparent you'd assumed. The only place to legally appoint guardians is in a will. For NHS parents working unsocial shifts, this is the most important reason to write one.
If you live with a partner but aren't married or in a civil partnership, and you die without a will, the Intestacy Rules give your partner nothing — regardless of how long you've lived together, whether you have shared children, or whose name is on the mortgage. The same is true for step-children. Only a will fixes this.
NHS pensions, life insurance, and death-in-service all pass under nomination — separately from your estate. Your estate (everything else: property, savings, possessions, debts) passes under your will. NHS staff often have substantial pensions and modest "estate" — but the modest estate still includes the home, the car, and everything in it.
If there's one workforce in the UK with a clear-eyed view of what unplanned death looks like for the people left behind, it's NHS staff. You've watched the families of intestate patients struggle through probate, frozen accounts, and arguments. The £69 you'd spend to spare your own family that experience may be the highest-leverage cheque you'll write.
No solicitor visits. No video calls. No PDF templates to puzzle over alone. Just a structured questionnaire, quality checks, and a delivered document.
Whether you're single or making mirror wills as a couple, the price is the price. No "from £x". No upsells. No surprise consultancy fees.
Every NHS role has its own estate-planning realities — shift patterns, pension scheme tier, public liability, frontline exposure. Pick the page that fits.
Shift work, agenda for change progression, agency and bank work. Why nurses are the largest single under-willed group in the NHS — and what to do about it.
Will writing for nursesHigher earner, higher-stakes estate. Pension lifetime allowances, private practice income, partnership structures. Why doctors need wills earlier than most.
Will writing for doctorsFrontline, blue-light, unpredictable. The role with the clearest case for getting your affairs in order — and the least time to do it. Designed for people who think in 999 calls.
Will writing for paramedicsBand 2 to Band 8c, AfC pension scheme, no clinical death-in-service narrative — but the same legal need for a will. The estate-planning case for the people who hold the trust together.
Will writing for admin staffWe were doing the standard pitch — "fixed fee", "online", "in 24 hours" — and noticing one demographic kept showing up in our customer notes more than any other. Nurses. Then paramedics. Then a doctor whose son had been pestering her to write a will for three years and who'd finally given up on her solicitor returning calls.
The pattern was always the same: long shifts, no time for appointments, an awareness of mortality from the day job that only sharpened the procrastination. The barrier was never need or money — it was the format. A 9–5 office visit doesn't fit a 13-hour shift pattern. Even an evening call with a will writer assumes you're not on the late or the night.
ClearLegacy works because it's asynchronous. The questionnaire can be paused and resumed, started in a hospital canteen and finished from the sofa eight hours later. The review happens in the background. The document arrives by email. There is no hour of your day that has to be ringfenced.
Three things, in order:
Everything else — funeral wishes, specific bequests, charity legacies, executor backups — is optional and can be slotted in or left out. The questionnaire makes it obvious which decisions are required and which aren't.
ClearLegacy currently focuses on will writing — single wills and mirror wills for couples. We don't currently offer:
If you only need a will, we're built for you. If you need more, we'll tell you up front and not waste your time.
Wills are governed by the Wills Act 1837 in England and Wales. To be valid, a will must be:
Witnesses cannot be beneficiaries (or married to beneficiaries) — if they are, that gift is void. Pick witnesses from outside the will: a neighbour, a colleague, a friend.
Will writing in the UK is not formally regulated in the way solicitors are by the SRA. ClearLegacy's wills are reviewed by qualified estate planning tools before delivery. The document you receive is legally enforceable as long as it is signed and witnessed correctly.
The questions NHS staff actually ask about wills, pensions, and what happens to whom. If your question isn't here, the full FAQ list is on our NHS FAQs page.
You spend your career making sure other people's lives don't fall apart in a crisis. Spend a quarter of an hour making sure yours doesn't either.