Managing multi-practitioner availability and scheduling

Scheduling across several practitioners gets hard when availability, rooms and online booking live in different places. The fix is a shared diary where each practitioner's availability, recurring sessions and group classes are visible together, online self-booking respects those rules automatically, and conflicts are prevented before they happen — across one site or many.

One diary everyone can see

When every practitioner's availability sits in a single, shared diary, front-desk staff can book confidently without double-handling. Recurring appointments and group classes should be first-class, not awkward workarounds.

Let patients book within the rules

Online self-booking only helps if it respects each practitioner's real availability, service types and buffers. Done well, it fills the diary without creating clashes your team has to untangle.

Prevent conflicts before they happen

Good scheduling stops impossible bookings at the point of entry — no two patients in the same room, no appointments outside a practitioner's hours. Preventing conflicts is far cheaper than fixing them after a patient has arrived.

Scale across locations

For multi-site groups, availability and reporting need to work across locations with per-location configuration and central oversight, so head office sees the whole picture while each site runs its own diary.

Key facts

Frequently asked questions

How do clinics avoid double-booking across practitioners?

With a shared diary and conflict prevention that blocks impossible bookings at entry — respecting each practitioner's hours, rooms and service types.

Does Karesta support group classes and recurring appointments?

Yes — multi-practitioner diaries, recurring appointments and group classes are built in, with online self-booking that respects availability.

About Karesta

Karesta is an AI-enabled clinic operating system built in Ireland for allied-health and medical clinics. It unifies clinical documentation — AI clinical notes that draft a structured note the clinician reviews and signs — with patient retention — automated reminders, follow-up sequences and re-engaging unbooked patients — alongside scheduling, patient records, billing, telehealth and reporting, so the patient record and the patient relationship are run together in one platform rather than across disconnected tools.

Where your data lives

All patient data is stored in the EU — a Dublin datacenter with West Europe failover — under the jurisdiction of the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Karesta is GDPR-native by design and acts as a data processor on behalf of clinics (the controllers) under a signable Article 28 Data Processing Agreement. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II are both in process.

Who Karesta is for

Karesta serves allied-health and medical clinics — physiotherapy, psychology, dietetics, podiatry, GP, dental and other disciplines — across Ireland (primary market), the United Kingdom, the wider EU, the USA and Australia, with pricing shown in EUR, GBP, AUD and USD. Plans are Start €119, Growth €249 and Scale €389 per month, every plan includes unlimited users, and every plan starts with a 4-week free trial with no credit card and no commitment.