When entering a student’s doctor details in People Management, the practitioner/provider number is currently a mandatory field, alongside the doctor’s name, practice, address and phone number.

Parents do not provide the practitioner/provider number on our enrolment forms, so staff would need to research each doctor individually to obtain this information. This creates a significant administrative workload for information we do not otherwise require for enrolment.

Could you please consider making this field optional? This would allow staff to enter the doctor’s contact details without spending additional time sourcing a provider number.

Thank you for considering this request.