| Appointment Systems
GP Appointments
GP Enterprise has always come with a full appointments
system. Unlike other suppliers, GP Appointments can be used as
either a completely independent appointment booking system (our
Easybook solution) or fully integrated into GP
Enterprise.
GP Appointments incorporates all of the facilities identified
by staff as being essential to a modern day appointment system. It
has been designed from the ground up to make booking, finding and
managing appointments both intuitive and fast.
Flexibility is the main priority among users when using an
appointment system, and GP Practices are certainly no exception!
The ability to search quickly for appointment times and offer
instant alternatives for single or multiple members of staff
without having to scroll through endless screens is seen as
essential. The need for multiple, flexible schedules for every
staff member is another necessity.
Finding and Booking Appointments
Searching through appointment schedules is based on a fast,
flexible search engine. This allows for single or many staff to be
identified together with the variable requirements of customer
demands. "It must be am or pm" or "I want an appointment this week"
are examples of pre-defined criteria on the search screen. Once a
slot is chosen, users have various options such as length of
appointment, reason for appointment and additional notes that may
be useful when the patient arrives.
Managing the Practice
Many practices have an extremely fluid daily/weekly setup,
where clinicians do not even work to the same structure two days in
a row! GP Appointments can cope with this through its
scheduling module. This allows sessions to be set up for each
person (or clinic) on a daily, weekly or
monthly basis.
By setting the frequency of the session (for example every
Monday, everyday, every other Friday), you will have immediate
control over the whole practice for each day. These sessions also
have other attributes to set, such as start and end times, default
appointment length, breaks and emergency slots, even assigning a
person with their own session colour.
Integration with GP Enterprise
Each session within GP Appointments is displayed as a strip of
appointments for the times available, along with all bookings in
that session. You can load as many of these in GP Appointments as
you wish, and view a maximum of four per screen sheet. However, GP
Enterprise users have their own "mini-view" of one, selected
session.
So GPs, for example, can bring up their morning surgery list.
They can click on the patient appointment to display a specific
patient's medical record, and even click on a blank appointment to
book a follow-up visit. All without having to even load GP
Appointments.
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