Sessions Overview

A session is a defined period of time - for example 120 minutes, and includes appointment slots which can be of different types and duration.

For example:

Name: Morning Surgery

Duration: 120 minutes

Sessions can be used by any owner on any day and can start at any time.

If all your GPs use the same pattern for a surgery, i.e. always two hours with six appointments per hour, then you can use the same session for all the GPs, e.g. morning surgery, clinical.

Individual sessions should be re-used as often as possible throughout the system where their pattern is the same - this avoids the session list being too long. Unused or duplicated sessions should be deleted.

When a new session has been added, it is not associated with any particular day or book owner until it is linked to a weekly template plan.

Frequently used sessions can be dragged above the separator line.

Note - Sessions created in Appointments Setup with different slot times must be inserted via the new Appointments app.
See Creating a Session and Editing Sessions.

View the following video to see more on creating sessions:

 

Sessions (5:03)

Important - For practices with a hosted server, for example AEROS, you must watch the videos on your local desktop. To do this copy and paste the url for this web page into your local browser. Local health board restrictions may also affect access.
See Video Tutorials for further Appointments Setup videos.
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