How To Set Up Automated Recalls
Create and manage your custom automated recalls in the User Management Portal
💡Heads up! This feature is only available for Admin users.
🎥 Prefer watching? Check out the video tutorial, or scroll down for the full guide!
🔍 Identify Your Patient Population
- Open your Proactive Monitoring Tool.
- Navigate to Population View – here you’ll find all the filters you need.
- Choose your indication:
- Example: Select Diabetes to find diabetic patients.
- Tip: Your results table updates as you apply filters!
- Then, select the Task you want to monitor (e.g., Foot Check).
- Select Task Status:
- Options like Opportunistic or Overdue will help you target patients due soon.
- Options like Opportunistic or Overdue will help you target patients due soon.
⚠️ It’s important that each recall includes a Task Status, as this directs the recall to pick up the correct cohort of patients.
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- Examples: Palliative care, Housebound patients.
- ✅ Use Exclude from Recall Register for patients who opt out.
👉 Once your criteria are set and the patient list looks good, move on!
➕ Add Recall
Click + Add Recall (top of the patient list). This opens the setup flow where you’ll configure your automated recall.
🧩 Step 1: Patient Filters
- Review your selected filters to confirm the right cohort.
- Dynamic Birth Month Filter:
- Toggle ON if you want the recall to target patients born in the current or next month.
- Example: In May, “Next Month” = patients born in June.
⚠️ Keep message limits in mind when using birth month recalls.
⏰ Step 2: Schedule & Messaging Limits
Now, decide when and how many patients to contact.
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- Run Recall on These Days: Choose the days of the week and time of day.
- Maximum New Patients per Run: Set the maximum number of newly identified patients who will receive an invitation each time the recall runs.
- Tip: Reminder messages to non-responders are sent in addition to initial invitations, so keep this in mind when setting your limit.
- Patient Prioritisation: Decide who gets contacted first (e.g., Most Overdue).
🔄 Step 3: Recall Frequency
How often should patients be contacted?
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- Recall Interval: Set the number of days between each attempt.
- Maximum Attempts: Up to 5 per patient.
⚠️ For birth month recalls, consider capacity vs. non-responders.
🚫 Step 4: Recall Constraints
Avoid messaging patients unnecessarily.
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- Toggle ON to Skip patients who have already booked an appointment.
- Define:
- Specific staff member.
- Time range.
- When the time range entered expires, overdue patients will be contacted again (except if birth month ended).
💡 Set the timeframe as far ahead as patients can book to reduce the risk of duplicate appointments.
🔗 Step 5: Direct Links
Make it easy for patients to act.
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- Add a Booking Link or Questionnaire Link.
- Configure the Booking link:
- Slot types.
- Booking window.
- Appointment description.
✉️ Step 6: Patient Messaging
This is where you decide how to communicate with your patients and craft the perfect message.
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- Choose your communication method:
- ✅ SMS
- ✅ Or both for maximum reach.
- Write your message:
For example: “You are due a Foot Check. Please use the link below to book your appointment. If you’ve already booked, please ignore this message.”
- Choose your communication method:
🖋 Step 7: Writing to EMIS/SystemOne
This step ensures everything is properly documented in the patient’s electronic health record (EHR).
- Decide how the invite will be saved - Options include:
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- Free text note
- Attachment
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- Add optional details for completeness:
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- Patient needs summary – a quick overview of what the patient requires.
- SNOMED codes – for accurate clinical coding.
- Staff notes – any additional context for your team.
✅ Final Step
Click FINISH, review your recall, name it, and enable it. 🎉
Need to edit your recall after creation? See our step by step guide here!