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A feature request to have a recall overdue alert next to the Medical history overdue alert

Appointment Finder is a good way to search for appointments, but there's a couple of ways you could make it really useful:1.) In the appointment finder filter, add a 'days of the week' filter so I can select only the days I'm looking for, without having to scroll through loads of appointment slots on days I don't want.2.) 5-minute intervals for spaces is much too short, and leads to a lot of bloat and endless scrolling - If there's a space at 11:30, I don't need to know there's also a space at 11:35 (and 11:40, and 11:45... etc). Instead, just put the first available time in that space, and then set the interval to 30 minutes. So the gaps would read: 11:30, 12:00, 12:30 etc. It would vastly cut down on bloat, and allow finding spaces further down the line much faster.3.) Separate point - Please bring back the appointment matrix from Exact so I can see spaces weeks & months ahead again. The 'Practitioner utilisation forecast' is already a good start, please add a horizontal scroll t

It would be very helpful to have a group messaging option like there used to be on SOE Exact. 

Please can there be a setting on the online booking list to organise patients in time order of when they booked so it is easier to monitor and we know if we have checked a patient or not 

Hi   Has anybody been able to report on items in custom fields on the radiograph treatment item? We are looking to report on how many small radiographs had “acceptable” in the evaluation box etc.Our x-ray images are stored on a separate system to Dentally so Ellie bot’s suggestion of using the radiograph audit report would not work.Thank you

 Description:At the moment, we have to manually select sections and copy and paste to carry forward monitoring points from the last visit. A one-click “duplicate last clinical note/history” button would save a lot of time and help ensure nothing is missed.Suggested workflow:Open a patient’s clinical notes Click “Duplicate last note” (or similar) The previous note is inserted into a new note for today, ready to amendThis would be especially useful for ongoing monitoring (e.g. “still monitoring X”, “reassess Y”).  

Good afternoon,I’m interested to see the launch of the new Dentally Kiosk to allow for self check in.  However as we have 2 waiting rooms, it’s not really viable for us at the moment.  Are there any plans to develop Kiosk further so that it is able to direct to more than one waiting room?Interested to hear your thoughts.Many thanksKateBurgess Hill Dental

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Hello, just a few suggestions It would be useful if the information box that appears when you hover over patient’s name, would have notification if NHS PR form needs to be signed (currently, it notifies us when a medical history form needs to be filled out, but for NHS forms we must check every patient’s nhs tab in their file). Additionally, it would be great if the information box also showed patient’s NHS exemption there. If patient has two back to back appointments booked with different clinicians, It would be useful if notification popped up when checking them in for the first appointment, notifying us that there is a second appointment and asking if we want to check patient in for second appointment as well.

At the moment, tasks don’t support a threaded back and forth conversation, so it’s hard to keep task-related messages in one place. It would be really helpful to have a private conversation thread that stays linked to the task, visible only to the task creator and the person it’s assigned to.Use case:Creator assigns a task and needs to ask a quick question or share an update Assignee replies in the same thread, so the full history stays with the task No need to use internal chat for task-specific messages

I have brought this up several times but it is a huge hinderance not being able to see NHS charge for each item next to the item in the treatment plan. It makes it very difficult to discuss costs per appointment or even answer simple questions during appointments. EXACT has the NHS cost and fee next to each charted item and the total cost charted for each appointment in the treatment plan as you chart. This is hugely helpful. 

Good morning everyone I’ve noticed Dentally runs quite slow these days- the animated Dentally logo is present for quite a while when opening patients. I’ve tried all of the troubleshooting tips- caches cleared, everything updated etc. but to no avail- we’ve tried it on a range of PCs older and newer.  Are other practices having the same problem and does anyone know of a fix?

We’ve historically used Open Treatment Plans very effectively for diary utilisation and identifying outstanding treatment opportunities. However, one key limitation we’ve encountered in Dentally is the inability to efficiently filter and identify specific unbooked treatment items within open treatment plans.At present, if we try to search or filter by treatment type, the system also returns closed, completed, and historical treatment records. This makes it extremely difficult to isolate treatment that is still outstanding and genuinely unbooked.Having the ability to filter specifically for:Open and incomplete treatment only By treatment type/procedure With no future appointment bookedwould significantly improve diary management and operational efficiency.This would be particularly valuable for:Filling last-minute diary gaps with appropriate treatment Managing clinician-specific availability Supporting visiting clinicians who only attend for certain procedures Improving utilisation of o

Hi, I have a couple of large reports that are not fully loading and constantly spinning. How do I stop / cancel them so I can start again? Many thanksd

Would it be possible to create the % of unstable pocket depths on the perio chart as well as bleeding, which you have recently added. I have to physically get the calculator out to work out pockets of 4mm bleeding on probing or above.I’m sure lots of hygienists and periodontists would appreciate thisThank you

Has anyone else experienced anyone booking an appointment via the dentally app in an appointment slot that doesn’t exist? E.g. Tom has an appointment for 60 minutes ( 2pm-3pm) but it’s allowed Tim to book an appointment at 2.30pm via the dentally app (with the same clinician on the same day)

​@Saymon  Do Dentally have any plans to integrate with WhatsApp, it can be easier to manager (And cheaper than SMS) a few of our patients say they dont use SMS. Tom 

Is there a way to turn off this annoying new feature ‘ready to book’ or have it automatically toggled on by default? Its just another button to press before reception can book pts in.

Hi new to dentally (over the last 10 months) and i couldn't find this question in archive. When writing notes i am finding the cursor seems to jump around, occasionally i’ll be editing my template and the cursor would randomly have jumped to a different line, or end of the line or a different position and its making note writing difficult as i am consistently having to correct its positioning. I have tried multiple keyboards and wired to see if it was a keyboard issues but it seems to be a constant problem with all surgeries here. Is this a known bug with the library used? Is there any fix for this? Thanks in anticipation. Sim

Hello, We are a group of practices from Scotland, that have just moved over to Dentally from SOE Exact and I was looking to feedback some features that I think are crucial and would really appreciate being explored.   When submitting an NHS treatment plan, could the software please be altered to allow number of teeth, restorations needed, BPE and radiographs taken be pulled automatically from the charting as it previously.  Can the display of the pages have improvements when on the chart tab. Could the sidebar be adjusted to be made wider, allowing for more text to be seen. In addition if the treatment tab at the bottom or base chart be allowed to be moved up or down to allow more visibility.  I would also really like to request if the software design can be made more dyslexic and colour blind friendly with tabs being spaced out more, headings bolded or in bubbles. Difficult to process all the information.  Calendar side window display feature to be added on like on SOE where we can be

Really disappointed at the lack of effort in adapting the software for Scottish users. The software has clearly been optimised for English users privately or in the UDA system and while we pay the same for the same software, it is shamefully lacking in functionality and clunkier than older softwares especially for use within the Scottish NHS SDR.

I am trying to fill out patient’s occupation in line with the notes audits we do, which covers occupation being listed. I am finding it hard to select and option for all patients as the occupation is a drop down menu of set ideas of an occupation.There is a lot of occupations that aren’t on the list, nor have something similar. How do other people manage this, and doe we feel as though it should be a free entry section, rather than a selection of prewrittten options. A lot of patients don’t want to give this information, so would be handy to have an option to put this down too. 

Hi  Does anyone know if Dentally hold a training session for new practices, either in person or remotely? I am trying to set up a training session for a new practice were 90% of the staff haven’t used Dentally before. I was hoping to hold an afternoon training session with all staff members. Is this something Dentally will offer?

Today we had a medical emergency at the practice. On Exact we had a button we could press which would alert all clinicians logged in of an emergency situation on their computers.There is no feature on dentally yet, therefore my suggestion would be if we could one day have a feature where we can alert all clinicians of such a situation, as there were multiple clinicians unaware of this today whilst they were in their rooms. Vas - Receptionist Smile Dental Care Gosport

I like having the pop ups but it takes time to hide each one when there are several and they don’t hold a lo of visible text