Slot Types Overview

 

Slot Types (3:58)

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Slot Type is the name allocated to the type of appointment that should be booked into this slot, for example an Emergency appointment should be booked into an appointment with a Slot Type of Emergency only.

Appointments Setup comes with a default Slot Type of Normal, this displays in white and cannot be edited or deleted.

You can define other slot types, for inserting within appointment book sessions, for example:

  • Emergency
  • Book on the Day
  • Telephone
  • Baby Immunisations
Training Tip - You can assign a different colour to each slot type to help make them stand out on the appointments views, however they are also searchable allowing you to quickly find specific appointments.

You can reorder your slot types so that your most frequently used slot types display at the top of the list:

See Adding a Slot Type and Editing Slot Types for more information.
Important - To facilitate reporting on vaccination appointments any COVID vaccination appointment slots should have a Slot Type of COVID VACS.
English practices - See National Slot Categorisation for information on slot categories.
See Video Tutorials for further Appointments Setup videos.
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