CHS Vaccination Appointments

CHS Vaccination Appointments enables the administration and scheduling of vaccination appointments. With Appointments you can schedule appointments for your practice or across a Shared Care Setting.

Appointments has the following features to help you manage your vaccination appointments:

  • SMS Messaging - Appointments release 3.1 onwards. Automatically send SMS messages when an appointment is made or updated in any way.

    See SMS Messaging for more details (opens in the Appointment Help Centre).

  • England Only:

    • National Slot Categorisation - National Slot Categorisation is a requirement from NHS England to align the slot types in use in your Appointments system with an agreed set of national slot categories.

      See National Slot Categorisation for more details (opens in the Appointment Setup Help Centre).

    • GP Connect - GP Connect is an NHS Digital project designed to enable access to patient related information recorded on any of the participating systems across care settings. It relies on sharing agreements being signed between practices and authorised third parties. All data is exchanged via the National Spine.

      See GP Connect Appointments for more details (opens in the Appointment Setup Help Centre).

How do I...?

Select the topics below to learn more about what you can do in Appointments:

If you have no session type for Vaccination Clinics you need to set one up.

See Session Types for more details (opens in the Appointment Setup Help Centre).

Create a vaccination slot type to use throughout your sessions. Slot Types can be configured as web bookings, GP Connect bookings (England only) and to show an advisory message as required.

Important - For COVID Vaccinations we strongly recommend you use the Slot Type name COVID VACS.
See Adding a Slot Type for more details (opens in the Appointment Setup Help Centre).

A session contains all of your appointment slots and must be in place before you can book an appointment.

See Creating a Session for more details (opens in the Appointment Setup Help Centre).

A printed list of today's appointments can be handy in the unlikely event of a system failure.

See Printing Appointments Lists for more details (opens in the Appointment Help Centre).

To enable you to run your surgeries and clinics in the event of network issues, you can now export your Appointments lists to either a PDF (printable) or a CSV file (Microsoft Excel) format.

You may want to run this each evening for the following day.

See Exporting Appointments for Business Continuity for more details (opens in the Appointment Help Centre).

 

Note - To print this topic select Print in the top right corner and follow the on-screen prompts.