Creating follow-up consultations

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how to set up a programme with a system assigned follow-up appointment.

A follow up consultation can be included as part of a medical programme at a pre-determined interval after a health screening appointment.

To add Follow-up Appointments to a Programme Group

• From the top bar click on More > select Programmes > click on the required Programme Name > click on Groups.
• Under Group Options > select Yes for Separate follow-up appointments?
• Follow up consultations can take place via video consultation, to do so select Appointments as video consultations?

• Under Group Settings > select the number of Processing Days. This is the minimum time after an appointment that a follow-up appointment can be scheduled. This is to allow results to be processed and reports to be approved.
• From the Day Schedules tab add the appointment times for Follow-up appointments.
• Click Submit.

Publishing Follow-up Appointments

• In the top banner, click More > select Programmes > click on the required Programme Name > click on Groups > Publish Pending Dates.
• Select the required dates for Screening and Follow-up consultations > click Publish Selected Dates.
• Follow-up appointment dates are automatically assigned to clients when they book a screening appointment.