Appointments Setup Release 3.4

Summary of Changes

Appointments Setup release 3.4 contains the following new features and improvements:

All Users

• Appointment Override Reasons - You can now add and maintain a list of Override reasons in Appointments Setup. Select from the Override reasons list in Appointments when booking a patient into a slot with a Days/Hours Prior restriction.

  Note - This feature requires Vision 3 release DLM840.
  See Override Reasons for more information.

• Ad-Hoc Book Management - You can now add ad-hoc sessions to your appointment books up to a maximum of seven days in the past. For example, if patients were seen unexpectedly out of practice.

  Note - This feature requires Vision 3 release DLM860.
  See Ad-Hoc Book Management for more information.

• Searching for Slot Types in Sessions - You can now search for the slot types in use in your active sessions. This is useful if you are editing a slot type and need to find out which sessions it could affect.

  See Searching for Slot Types in Sessions for more information.

• Searching for Sessions in Weekly Plans - You can now search for the sessions in use in your weekly plans. This is useful if you are editing a session and need to find out which weekly plans it could affect.

  See Searching for Sessions in Weekly Plans for more information.

• Fix Slot Duration - When editing a session, slots with a duration that do not match the duration set in Slot Types are identified by a tooltip . You can now select Fix Duration to update a slot type duration to match the duration set in the Slot Types screen.

  See Editing Sessions for more information.

Desktop Only Users

• Linked Appointments Warnings - To ensure you do not miss a Linked appointment warning it has been updated, it also now flashes for 10 seconds when changes that affect linked appointments are made in either Extension Plan or Ad-hoc Book Management.

  See Linked Appointment Warnings for more details.
  Click here for information on Linked Appointments in Appointments (opens the Appointments Help Centre).

England Only

• Appointment Mode Mapping - General Practice Appointments Data (GPAD) is an NHS England requirement introduced to provide information about GP appointments usage at practice level.

  Note - GPAD data extracts automatically.

  You are required to map all slot types to one of the following appointment modes:

  • Face to Face (Surgery)

  • Face to Face (Home Visit)

  • Written (Including Online)

  • Telephone/Audio

  • Video with Audio

  • Not an Appointment

  See Appointment Mode Mapping for more details.