Specialist chiropractors: booking specialist assessments

Give each kind of specialist assessment its own bookable service: a sports assessment, a paediatric assessment, a pregnancy assessment, each with the slot length it really needs and a description that says what to bring. Patients then book the right appointment from the start, you know before the day which kind of assessment is coming, and a forty-five-minute sports assessment never lands in a twenty-minute adjustment slot. Place each assessment type at the times that suit its patients, and keep treatment sessions as separate services.

A specialist practice sees patients with different needs: an athlete before a competition, a parent with a baby, a pregnant patient in her third trimester. Their first appointments don't follow the same course or last the same time. Separate services make that visible on your page and in your bookings list. 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 with one place.

Durations and prices are examples: set your own.

An assessment covers the history, the examination, an explanation and, where appropriate, a first treatment. Set the slot for the whole sequence, not only the hands-on part, and leave a few minutes after it to write notes before the next patient. If an assessment type regularly runs over, lengthen its slots rather than squeezing the next booking.

Use each description to list what helps you on the day:

The booking note reaches you in the new booking email and appears in the patient's calendar file, so ask there only for short practical details, such as the child's age or the weeks of pregnancy, and keep medical history for the appointment.

Each group has its own constraints. Athletes who train after work may want evening slots; babies do better between feeds and naps, which may point to mornings; pregnant patients appreciate times without a long wait and a comfortable gap after the previous patient. Open each assessment service on the days and hours that suit its patients, and repeat the pattern weekly on the weekdays you choose until an end date. Don't open two services at the same time: Book doesn't stop slots of different services from overlapping, so plan the week so they don't.

For paediatric assessments, a parent books in their own name, with their email and phone. Ask in the description for the child's first name and age in the note, and say whether both parents may attend. A confirmation with a calendar file goes to the parent, which helps when appointments are juggled around nursery or school.

Athletes ask for assessments before an event or after an injury, and the timing matters to them. Keep a few sports assessment slots free in the weeks before local events you know about, and say in the description how much notice you need. If demand rises, open extra evening slots for those weeks rather than overloading your usual days.

When treatment follows, book the next sessions yourself before the patient leaves, in the treatment service: first and last name are required, email and phone optional; enter the email so they receive a confirmation with a calendar file. Book doesn't send reminders, so a date in their calendar is what keeps the plan on track. Patients can't move bookings online: they contact you, and you reschedule from your bookings list and tell them yourself, since Book doesn't email clients about changes. Book costs €5/month, everything included: unlimited services and bookings, no commission, no contract.