Setting Up GP Connect Appointments
To create an appointment that is available to a third party via GP Connect, the following conditions must be met:
Appointments Setup
From Appointments Setup:
- The ODS Code of the organisations you want to share your appointments with.
- Slot Types must have a Delivery Channel, this tells the booker the type of appointment they are booking:
- Sessions must have a Practitioner Role and Location, this tells the booker the type of clinician and where they are booking:
Appointments
- An appointment slot must currently be tagged manually as a GP Connect slot, this step must be done from Appointments:
- To tag a slot as GP Connect available, from Appointments, from the slot required, select Options
- GP Connect - Share with and then select either the specific organisation or the Preset group.
- To tag a selection of slots as GP Connect available, from Appointments, right click on all the slots required and select GP Connect
- Share with and then select either the specific organisation or the Preset group.
- To tag a slot as GP Connect available, from Appointments, from the slot required, select Options
Important - To facilitate reporting on vaccination appointments any COVID vaccination appointment slots should have a Slot Type of COVID VACS. This is essential in England and recommended elsewhere to help manage your appointment books. See Changing Slot Types for more information.
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