For physiotherapists

Clinic hours look normal until you add the weekend rota and the domiciliary list

Physiotherapy looks like a nine-to-five from outside, which is the problem. The clinic day is only part of it: there is a weekend rota across the team, a respiratory on-call in many hospitals, and community lists whose length is decided by geography rather than by the clock.

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The schedules this actually has to cope with

Freeish is built around these, not around a nine-to-five with the occasional exception.

Clinic days

Booked back to back, which means the finish time is decided by the last appointment rather than by the rota.

Weekend rota

One in four or one in six across the team, set months ahead — and the thing extended family most want to plan around.

Respiratory on-call

Overnight and at weekends in acute settings. At home, phone on, and not available.

Community and domiciliary lists

A day shaped by driving between houses. Traffic decides the finish, not the caseload.

What it sounds like at home

“Everyone assumes I finish at five because it is a clinic.”
“On-call weekends read as ordinary weekends to my family.”
“A community list runs long and nobody knows why I am late.”
“The weekend rota is decided in advance and forgotten by everyone but me.”
“I am the one who has to remember which weekend I am on.”

Where Freeish fits

On-call goes in as its own block, so being at home does not read as being available.

Weekend rotas are visible months ahead, which is when family actually plan.

Put a realistic finish on community days rather than the rostered one.

What you are doing stays yours — the people following you see busy and free, not caseloads.

One week, start to finish

Hana, acute physio

The six-month weekend rota comes out and Hana puts it in once.
Her partner can see which weekends are hers without asking.
On-call nights go in as blocks rather than as evenings at home.
A community list overruns and she extends the event from the car.
Her parents book a visit around a weekend she is genuinely off.

Questions physiotherapists ask

How do I show on-call?

As an event covering the on-call window. What matters to the people following you is that the time reads as unavailable, which it does whatever you label it.

Can it handle a one-in-six weekend rota?

Yes — set it as a repeating pattern and it generates forward, so the calendar is right six months out without you re-entering it.

Is anything about my patients stored?

No. Freeish holds times. There is nothing clinical in it and nothing to type about a caseload.

Stop being the schedule. Start sharing it.

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