Midwives: scheduling postnatal home visit rounds

Postnatal visits can't be fixed months ahead: the birth date moves, the family comes home on a day nobody predicted, and the first visit has to happen within days. Keep a home visit service open on your round days, by area, with travel time inside each slot; book the first visits yourself when the family calls after the birth, and the follow-ups at the end of each visit. Your rounds stay in one part of town, and families get a time they can count on.

On Book, each service has a name, a price and an optional description shown on your public page, and each slot belongs to one service, sits within one day and has its own capacity. Create a postnatal home visit service and open its slots only on the days you do rounds.

Durations are examples: set your own, and state your fees in each description.

Create one home visit service per area, each open on its own days. Slots repeat each week on the weekdays you choose until an end date, so your round pattern takes minutes to set up. Make each slot long enough for the visit and the drive to the next address.

When a family calls to say the baby is born, book the first visits yourself from your bookings list in the right area: first and last name are enough. If you enter their email, they receive a confirmation with a calendar file. When a slot is booked, it leaves your page.

During pregnancy, note the expected due date in your own records rather than booking a visit on a date that will move. Keep some slack in your round days around busy due-date weeks, so you can fit new families in quickly.

The booking form takes first name, last name, email and phone, plus an optional note that appears in the family's calendar file. Ask for the address, door code, floor and parking there, and keep health details for the visit itself.

At the end of each visit, book the next one from your list. Rescheduling works across services, so a home visit can become a check at the practice once the family can travel. Book doesn't email clients about changes, so confirm new times yourself.

Online booking isn't for urgent concerns. Say in the description who to call in an emergency and how to reach you. Book doesn't send reminders or take payments. Book costs €5/month, everything included: unlimited services and bookings, no commission, no contract.