Appointment Request Form
An appointment request form takes bookings while your phone lines are engaged, which for most clinics is all morning. Reason, urgency and availability - enough to offer the right slot without a call.
For clinics, practices and healthcare providers.
Triage begins at the request
Reception's hardest job is deciding who needs to be seen today from a half-sentence given over the phone by someone who is worried and not a clinician. A written request with a structured reason and an urgency question is far easier to sort.
It also creates a queue you can work through rather than a series of interruptions. The requests are all there, in order, with the same fields - so the person triaging reads twenty in ten minutes instead of taking twenty calls in an hour.
Stop booking by phone tag
Half your patients would rather book at 10pm than call at 10am, and the ones who do call reach a voicemail while you're working. Every missed call is a booking that went somewhere open.
A request form takes bookings while you're busy, asleep or driving - with the details you need written down rather than remembered.
Paperwork before the appointment, in the patient's own time
Forms filled in at reception are rushed, incomplete and hand-written. The same questions sent with the appointment reminder come back typed, complete and read at home - and you get the first ten minutes of the appointment back.
They also arrive before you need them, so a flagged medication or a mobility need changes the plan in advance rather than in the room.
It's a request, not a calendar takeover
You stay in control: requests arrive, you confirm the ones that work. No syncing, no double-booking, nothing to install - just the details you need in the order you need them.
Yours to change, immediately
Nothing here is fixed. Rewrite a question, reorder them by dragging, add your brand colour, delete half of it. Save and the live form updates - there's no separate publish step and no deploy to wait for.
What this template asks
- Full name
- Date of birth
- Phone number
- Email address
- Are you registered with us?
- What do you need?
- Briefly, what's the problem?
- How long has it been going on?
- How soon do you feel you need to be seen?
- How would you prefer to be seen?
- When are you available?
- Any preference?
- Do you need any support at your appointment?
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Questions
Is a form safe for urgent medical problems?
No, and the form must say so. Put the emergency number at the top and repeat it next to the urgency question. A form is right for routine and same-week requests and wrong for anything acute.
Can we ask patients to describe symptoms?
Keep it brief and structured. A short description plus duration is enough to triage; a long free-text history invites detail a form shouldn't hold and nobody will read in time.
Does this book the slot automatically?
No - it collects a request, and you confirm it. That's deliberate: real diaries have exceptions, and a form that promises a slot you can't honour costs more than one that asks.
Can I limit the options people can pick?
Yes. The service and time-of-day lists are yours to edit, so people can only choose from what you actually offer. You can also close the form when you're full.
Will I know straight away?
Yes, if you want to be. Turn on live notifications and every request is emailed to you the moment it arrives; otherwise collect them and read them in your dashboard.
Can I use this for patient information?
Responses are stored in your account, never shared and never used for advertising, and pages are served over encrypted connections. You remain the controller of that data: ask only what you need, say what you keep, and confirm your obligations (HIPAA, UK GDPR or local equivalent) before collecting health information on a web form.
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