What are Alerts?

Have details of an Emergency that you need patients to see.

In an Emergency, alerts are a handy way to give any visitor to your site a snippet of important information which they have to read before they can continue to your home page.

They can be configured to only be visible based on a date range, and they force the user to close the message before they are allowed to see your home page.

The reasons for not using an alert

• Alerts can only be seen once per visit the website, which means the patient won't see it if they re-visit the home page unless they have closed all tab instances of the website and start again.
• News articles are indexed by search engines including the one on the website. Alerts do not and therefore will not be seen in searches.
• Should you require additional alerts during an extended period of use, these additional alerts can be missed when viewed on a mobile as they work differently.
• Patients will get frustrated with persistent alerts and start closing them without reading them, this can be an issue if the message has changed or is different.