Specialist nurses: plan wound care follow-ups

Wound care runs on a schedule set by the care plan: dressings every two or three days, for weeks, at home or at the practice. Managing that by phone and paper diary takes time and leaves room for gaps. With Book, you book the series of visits yourself from your list, organise home rounds by area, and give patients or relatives each date in their calendar.

On Book, each service has a name, a price and an optional description, all shown on your public page. Each slot belongs to one service, sits within one day and has its own capacity.

Durations are examples: set your own according to the rules and care plans that apply to you. Use neutral service names; they appear in patients' calendars.

When a care plan starts, book the visits yourself from your bookings list at the frequency it sets, for example a week or two ahead at a time. First and last name are enough; with the patient's or a relative's email, they get a confirmation with a calendar file for each visit. Book doesn't send reminders, so those files keep the visits visible.

Frequencies change as care progresses. Booking only a short period ahead means fewer bookings to move. Move or cancel visits from your list, and tell the patient yourself, since Book doesn't email patients about changes.

Create a home service per area and open its slots on the days you cover it. Slots repeat weekly on the weekdays you choose until an end date. Ask for the address, door code and access in the note; it reaches you in the new booking email.

Patients who can travel book clinic slots themselves, at times you open for walk-in style care. Slots of different services can overlap, so keep clinic and round times separate.

A relative or carer may be the contact. Put the patient's name on the booking and the relative's email and phone, so they receive the calendar files.

Notes appear in the calendar file. Keep them practical, such as access details, and ask patients not to write health details in them. Keep care records in the tools you use, according to the rules that apply to you.

Book doesn't store care records, plan routes, take payments or send reminders. One booking page per business, no staff field: in a nursing practice, create services per nurse. Book costs €5/month, everything included: unlimited services and bookings, no commission, no contract.