{"id":2733,"date":"2024-02-09T12:09:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/Resources\/managing-hospital-referrals-and-appointments-in-the-nhs-app\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:39:30","slug":"managing-hospital-referrals-and-appointments-in-the-nhs-app","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/Resources\/managing-hospital-referrals-and-appointments-in-the-nhs-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Referrals and Appointments in the NHS App"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Managing Referrals and Appointments in the NHS App<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>You can use the NHS app to view, confirm and change the details of any upcoming hospital referrals from your GP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Open the NHS App and make sure you are logged in<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select <strong>Appointments<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You will see optons for appointments at your GP practice and Hospital<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You may be able to <strong>Book an appointment<\/strong> at your GP practice. You can <strong>Manage GP appointments<\/strong> to cancel or reschedule.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You will see details of any <strong>hospital or special appointments<\/strong>. Select for options to cancel or reschedule.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select <strong>Referrals<\/strong> to see any specialist care you have been referred to<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Depeding on the hopsital or care provider, you may see information on <strong>Waiting Lists<\/strong>, or any action you need to take &#8211; this is called <strong>Patient initiated follow up (PIFU)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u0WFp0iMD5s?list=PLnhASgDToTkuPtdsIVQStTmgo4Bij5T4k\" title=\"How to manage your appointments in the NHS App (BSL)\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing Referrals and Appointments in the NHS App You can use the NHS app to view, confirm and change the details of any upcoming hospital referrals from your GP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"resourcetype":[318,503],"resourcecategory":[504],"class_list":["post-2733","resources","type-resources","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resourcetype-how-to","resourcetype-video","resourcecategory-nhs-app"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 17:08:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"resourcetype","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources\/2733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resources"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4289,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources\/2733\/revisions\/4289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"resourcetype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resourcetype?post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"resourcecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resourcecategory?post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}