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Cancel a date range

To cancel a date range

1. Select the relevant site.

2. Click on view availability or create availability using the top menu or the cards on the page.


Screenshot of National Booking Service showing View availability and Create availability tabs.

 

3. To cancel a date range select change availability

You can find this button on both the view availability and create availability pages. While its position on the screen may change slightly, selecting change availability always starts the cancel a date range process. 

Screenshot of National Booking Service showing Change availability button.

 

Screenshot of National Booking Service showing Create availability button.

 

4. Click continue to cancel.

Screenshot of National Booking Service showing Continue to cancel button.

 

5. Select the date range that you want to cancel and click continue

Screenshot of National Booking Service showing how to select date ranges.


Cancelling a date range and managing affected bookings

If you cancel a date range that has existing bookings, you must decide what to do with those bookings. You can choose to keep these bookings or cancel them. 

Cancelling a date range and keeping the affected bookings

6. In this example, we want to cancel from 14 April 2026 to 17 April 2026. Enter the dates and click continue.

Screenshot of National Booking Service showing how to select dates to cancel.

 

7. Cancelling these dates affects 11 sessions and 4 bookings. To keep the bookings, select keep bookings and then continue. The 4 bookings will stay in your appointment list.

Screenshot of National Booking Service showing an example 'You are about to cancel 11 sessions'.

 

8. Check your answers are correct, then select cancel sessions.

Screenshot of National Booking Service showing Cancel sessions button.

 

9. This screen confirms you have cancelled the sessions. You do not need to do anything else.

Screenshot of National Booking Service showing example with '11 sessions cancelled'.

Cancelling a date range and cancelling the affected bookings

10. In this example, selecting these dates cancels 5 sessions and 4 bookings. To cancel the bookings, select cancel bookings and then continue. We will then email or text patients to tell them their booking is cancelled.

Screenshot of National Booking Service showing example 'You are about to cancel 5 sessions'.

 

11. Check your answers are correct, then select cancel sessions.

Screenshot of National Booking Service showing Cancel sessions and bookings button.

 

12. This screen confirms you have cancelled the sessions. You do not need to do anything else.

Screenshot of National Booking Service showing example '5 sessions and 4 bookings cancelled'.

Last edited: 21 April 2026 10:38 am