Product Updates

Velastria is built continuously, and everything shipped is listed here — month by month, newest first, in plain English.

Not every feature is available on every plan. Some of what you see below is included only on higher tiers or as an optional module — see pricing for what each plan includes, or ask us about anything specific.

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July 2026 20 updates
Milestone

Switching Systems, Onboarding & Setup

Moving a clinic across from its old system now brings over invoices, payments, clinical photographs and documents, with a short list of questions only the clinic can answer and a guarantee that imported records can never accidentally text or email a patient. The switching assistant is now open to every clinic, alongside a revisitable setup guide, clearer sign-up and discount codes.

New Feature

Theatre & Surgical Lists

A new Theatre Planning Meeting page, plus List, Cards and Gantt views with day-by-day navigation, and theatre cases that now keep the patient's appointment in step when they're moved, cancelled or deleted. Lists show the operation name, patient ID, allergies and relevant medical history, with a one-tap theatre clock for timings and new theatre utilisation reporting.

New Feature

Analytics, Budgeting & Strategic Planning

A new Strategic Planning centre with a saved report library, a plain-English verdict on whether you're short of clinic hours or short of demand, true practitioner and room utilisation, and retention/recall analysis. Budgeting arrives too — expenses split into cost of sales and fixed, profit waterfall, last-year comparison pulled from your accounts, and a Lost to Follow Up report you can schedule.

New Feature

Marketing Hub & Google Ads

Edit daily budgets, pause and resume campaigns and see every budget change without leaving Velastria, alongside new website analytics, search-listing and full marketing report tabs. An Outcomes view now follows real enquiries through to consultations and surgery, ad clicks are matched to bookings, and you can invite a marketing agency in with tightly restricted access.

New Feature

Competitor & Market Intelligence

Build a watchlist of local competitors — found by radius search, map link or company director — organised into groups with company filings, Google review tracking and AI-written briefings. A price comparator lines their published prices up against your own.

New Feature

Email Marketing

A brand-new email campaign tool with a drag-and-drop visual builder, audience and segment builder, scheduled sends, approval and edit history, and per-recipient open and click reporting. Autosave, 'save and close' and a gentle warning when a colleague is already editing keep work safe.

Improvement

Finance, Bookkeeping & Accounts

Reception and till sales, refunds and payouts now flow through to your accounts as properly itemised paid invoices, with sales, payment methods and locations mapped to the right accounts and a new All Transactions ledger. Refunds can be recorded manually with manager approval, 'already paid elsewhere' payments are supported, backdated payments save correctly, bank statement imports cope with large volumes, and the patient wallet shows money the clinic is holding.

New Feature

Gift Vouchers, Point of Sale & Retail

Gift vouchers from end to end — issue and redeem in clinic, sell online, nominate a recipient, send a designed e-voucher or print a PDF, with expiry and reconciliation handled in the accounts. The till now takes multiple items in one sale (treatments and products, VAT per line, stock adjusted automatically) with type-to-filter pickers, and the stock counting screens have been tidied up.

Improvement

Enquiries & CRM

Duplicate leads are consolidated to one per patient per pipeline and tidied up nightly, so unbooked patients stop disappearing from the board. Enquiry pages gain a consultation timeline and coordinator summary, lead outcomes are now yours to configure, a column shows where a patient got to in their previous journey, and web enquiries record where they came from.

New Feature

Content Studio

Compose patient-story content on a visual canvas, with the patient's photos along a timeline, procedure tagging, image and short-animation output and a publisher panel. Photos are only ever available where genuine marketing consent exists, and finished articles can be downloaded rather than published straight to a website.

New Feature

Staff, Roles, Access & Security

Staff can now switch on two-factor login, hold more than one role at once (with combined permissions), and each staff member has an Activity tab. Every view of a patient record and every photo or document download is now logged with a per-patient access history, and rota and practitioner details — ad-hoc sessions, working patterns, registration numbers, prescriber status — are easier to edit.

New Feature

Patient Records, Photos & Exports

A new one-click export produces the complete patient record as a single, legible PDF for subject access requests and referrals — chronological timeline, proper consultation layout, photographs the right way up and nothing printed twice. The Photo Library and Gallery are now one Photos area with a view toggle, live camera preview works on more phones and browsers, big photo imports run quietly in the background, and patient merge lets you search for the two records yourself.

New Feature

Subscription, Billing & AI Usage

Monthly usage statements for SMS and AI are now generated, emailed as a PDF and collected by Direct Debit, with a tenant-facing 'My Monthly Fees' page and self-service Direct Debit setup in Organisation Settings. Plan tiers are driven by a single matrix with a 'show as' preview, plus discount codes, a referral reward programme, multi-currency billing and per-feature switches for every AI capability.

Improvement

Consents & Questionnaires

Several consent forms can now be signed in one appointment at every clinic, and medical photography consent can be sent from the consultation workspace or Photos tab with an editable cover email and a notification when it's signed. Completed medical questionnaires are filed as a PDF in the patient's documents, pre-op questionnaires gained height, weight and BMI on your own letterhead, and the 'system error' that blocked some patient submissions is fixed.

Improvement

Consultations, Dictation & Meetings

Dictation is far more dependable — an honest microphone level, surviving a tab switch, no more silently lost audio, a resizable transcript box and AI notes that come through properly formatted. There's a new 'Repeat a previous treatment' shortcut, and meetings gain folders with access control, attached documents and typed-in transcripts.

Improvement

Calendar & Diary

A Wide View toggle hides both side panels for a full-width diary, calendar preferences get their own page and prominent button, and the staff filter is type-to-search. Group bookings and appointment add-ons are now supported, and several fixes stop appointments double-booking, keep break edits showing, and carry session location changes onto booked patients.

Improvement

Automations & Patient Messaging

A new rule chases patients who started a booking but never paid, without ever creating duplicates, plus a per-booking switch to silence emails and texts and an automatic questionnaire for returning patients. Messaging is steadier too: shared quick-reply snippets, capped privacy reminders, no repeat sends to addresses that bounce, and more reliable inbound texts.

Improvement

Legal Agreements, Quality & Compliance

One dated agreement pack you can read and sign on-device with a proper record of signing, plus published security and data-transfer documents so you no longer have to ask for them. Audits now have a sample-size step, automatic emails to lead auditors and a manager sign-off with visual summaries, alongside a compliance document review queue and a public QR-code incident report form.

New Feature

Prescriptions & Formulary

Write a prescription, send it for prescriber approval and get a branded one-page PDF filed straight into the patient's documents, with the clinic's letterhead, email and signature block. A clinic-curated list of drug templates makes writing common items a couple of clicks.

Improvement

Patient Portal & Public Website

Clinics can now choose which tabs patients see in the portal, with a mobile preview, and review invitation emails can be edited before they go out. Public enquiry forms send reliably from verified clinic addresses, and the Velastria website was refreshed with clearer pricing, feature detail and an automatically published monthly changelog.

June 2026 17 updates
New Feature

Front of House & Reception

A brand-new reception desk: a welcome screen with a flip-clock and the day's patients as cards, live status chips, star-to-open a friendly patient snapshot, incoming-call pop-ups with caller ID, an end-of-day cash-up, quick walk-in checkout, and forms-to-sign tiles that hand a patient a QR code, on-screen form or email.

New Feature

Consultation Proformas

A whole new proforma system with a drag-and-drop visual form builder — tables, rich text, product lists, measurement tables, diagrams, photo and signature fields, conditional logic, and polished PDF output.

New Feature

Treatment Packages

Courses of treatment can now be sold as a single priced package, with partial payment recognition, refunds, a package builder, and a scheduler that books the appointments near your chosen dates.

New Feature

Content Studio

A full canvas image editor: pick patient photos, auto-remove backgrounds, auto-align before-and-after compositions, collage templates, layer ordering, background colours, and save-and-reopen editable designs — now also on mobile.

Improvement

Calendar & Diary

Per-practitioner diary columns with a 'Show diaries' chooser, break blocks you can drag and resize, a default-diary preference, and a 'send selected patients an SMS' day blast on its own page.

Improvement

Patient Questionnaires & Medical History (MHQ)

Questionnaires are now built visually with no code — dropdowns, combined text answers, 'ask for details if yes', and a preview — and a patient's pre-consultation medical history now feeds into AI-written letters and notes.

New Feature

Clinical Photography

Guided mobile capture with camera zoom, reusable capture sets, automatic photo-angle and post-op-milestone tagging, automatic background removal, and proper iPhone-photo (HEIC) handling. Patients can also upload existing photos in the portal.

New Feature

Stock & Retail

A new retail catalogue for selling products to patients, a mobile Barcode Wizard that scans a code per product, and an Import Wizard that handles spreadsheet uploads with export-for-editing round-trips.

Improvement

Finance & Bookkeeping

Self-correcting bank-statement reading that learns each bank's layout, Tide reconciliation into Xero, deleting a payment now reverses it in Xero, and automatic weekly and monthly profit-and-loss snapshots.

New Feature

Injectables Records

Anti-wrinkle and filler reconciliation now works from your own product list, reconciles automatically after a label scan, and works out label-reading aliases for you.

Improvement

Quality & Compliance (QMS)

Observational audits, a CQC evidence pack that gathers your existing records automatically, multi-staff document sign-offs, and tenant-managed regulatory references.

Improvement

Phone & Call Answering

The AI phone answering was moved to its provider's new service (fixing an inbound-call outage), with monitoring, alerting, a voicemail fallback, and automatic call summaries you can switch on.

Improvement

Automations

A friendlier action picker with per-clinic gating, human-readable activity results, better before/after timing anchored on the appointment date, and automatic photo and letter push-and-pull with partner clinics.

Improvement

Analytics & Forecasting

Tidier deferred-income handling, a provider-aware committed-revenue floor, a fixed quarterly report window, and a new 'Unpaid Balances' list for patients who've paid a deposit but not settled.

Improvement

Consent Forms

A rich-text editor in the consent generator, automatically created signing links for anything a patient needs to sign, and seeded consent forms for new clinics.

Improvement

Website & Reviews

The public website gained a verified-reviews page with 120 five-star reviews, a new FAQs page, and updated gallery links.

Improvement

Security & Permissions

Front-of-house roles now have clinical notes, letters and documents hidden from them, and managers (not just super-users) can manage clinic setup.

May 2026 12 updates
New Feature

2D Rhinoplasty Planner

A brand-new 2D rhinoplasty planning tool that marks facial landmarks on a patient's side and front photos and reshapes the nose to show a planned result. It offers zoom and pan, adding and removing points by hand, lasso and region-brush edits, a silhouette view, and saved plan snapshots you can revisit.

New Feature

Automations & Workflows

Automations can now be organised by area of the practice and run reports on a set timetable, and they can trigger from events such as a quote being sent, a surgery being completed, or a questionnaire being submitted. A friendlier rule builder and more reliable choice of who gets notified round it out.

New Feature

Analytics & Forecasting

New analytics for the consultation-to-surgery journey, including a velocity view showing how quickly enquiries convert, AI-written drop-off analysis, a dedicated Quotes pipeline view, and monthly revenue drill-downs you can save and reopen.

New Feature

Online Booking & Appointments

Patients booking online can now pick a named practitioner or simply take the fastest available slot. Every appointment now requires a location and a genuine clinical session, closing gaps that previously let bookings land in the wrong place.

New Feature

Staff Management & Permissions

A redesigned Staff Detail page with auto-save and a dedicated practitioner tab, plus location-based teams so a staff member's calendar access and patient-record access are granted together and kept in step. Team and department lists are now sorted clearly and the Anaesthetist role is fully supported.

New Feature

Patient Questionnaires & Forms

A new visual form builder for questionnaires, with calculated fields such as automatic BMI, a PDF saved straight to the patient's documents when a form is submitted, and rules that can fire the moment a form is completed.

New Feature

Billing & Stripe Onboarding

New clinics are now guided through a proper card-payment setup and payment-terms agreement before they can take payments, with self-service acceptance and a welcome flow. Fixes also ensure one clinic can never see another clinic's payment information.

Improvement

Calendar & Diary

Day-view improvements including more ways to open a location's day, a clickable date that pops open a date picker, a Check Patient Duplicates button, and staff names shown in column headers. The Next Theatre List and reschedule flow are also more robust.

Improvement

Finance & Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping is steadier, with a daily safety-net that catches stray card payouts, protection against duplicate invoices, and more reliable reading of Tide statements.

Improvement

Patient Letters & Communications

Patient letters now carry per-user sign-offs, each clinic's own legal footer and logo, and a tidier two-column header and footer. Text-message greetings are also drawn from the individual clinic rather than a single global setting.

Improvement

AI & Transcription

During a recorded consultation the AI notes and patient letter are queued while transcription finishes, and audio is now captured right to the very end so the tail of the dictation is never lost.

New Feature

Patient Portal & Video Consultation

The patient portal now shows photos more reliably, and a new video consultation option is available for clinics that choose to switch it on.

April 2026 13 updates
New Feature

Finance & Bookkeeping

A rebuilt bookkeeping workspace that imports Tide bank statements and reconciles them against Stripe payouts and Xero, with click-to-cross-reference between tabs, one-tap creation of invoices and bills, tenant-specific reconciliation rules, a new Patient Loans (Chrysalis finance) tab, cash-payment recording, and a mobile-friendly layout. A separate Gold Savings tracker was added for logging gold purchases and sales.

New Feature

Analytics, Forecasting & Financial Intelligence

A new Forecast tab projects revenue per practitioner with a fan chart of past actuals and future range, adjustable what-if assumptions, and business-driver breakdowns, alongside an AI-written Financial Intelligence report. New Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet views arrived with plain-English ratios, and charts across the analytics area now render more clearly and consistently.

New Feature

AI & Transcription

Consultation recordings now transcribe live as you speak, with more reliable capture of the final audio chunk and automatic catch-up when a tab loses focus. Patient AI summaries are fresher and more accurate, and the Serendipity clinical query tool gained a faster three-tier pipeline with richer clinical context.

New Feature

Quality & Compliance (QMS)

A new Workforce compliance dashboard, per-staff compliance and communications logs on staff profiles, and the ability to exempt individual staff from specific document requirements. Incidents now progress through investigate, complete and close steps, and recurring checklists and audits gained a proper Start Check flow.

New Feature

Content Studio (Marketing)

Content Studio was rebuilt from a five-step wizard into a single-view editor, with independent source panels, the ability to pull in content from a web link, clipboard or drag-and-drop, and a canvas-to-content bridge for turning designs into posts.

New Feature

Patient Reviews & Reputation

Reception can now invite happy patients to leave reviews from a dedicated page, with email tracking, per-user signatures and clear prompts for who's already been asked. A sentiment dashboard shows happiness distribution and monthly trends, with click-to-reveal patient lists and a recalibrated scoring that no longer penalises routine post-op findings.

Improvement

Automations

The automation engine can now create CRM leads and booking requests and add patients inline, and sends surgery balance reminders. It also makes less noise overall, and no longer auto-creates patients from Instagram messages.

Improvement

Calendar & Diary

A new Monthly Planner heatmap view, other surgeons' sessions now visible on the calendar, double-booking prevention, and Surgeon Letters added to the quick-search menu.

Improvement

Phone & Call Answering

Aria now recognises when a caller asks to speak to a person, alerts reception when it has promised a callback, and can talk knowledgeably about finance options and the patient portal. Phone numbers in enquiry timelines are now clickable to dial.

Improvement

Security & Permissions

Finance-role staff now see patient names anonymised on quotes and lists, menu items hide automatically based on each user's permissions, and a surgeon-portal login fault that could mix up sessions between staff was fixed.

Improvement

Patient Portal & Payments

Patients can now cancel appointments from the portal, invoice viewing and downloading can be switched off per clinic, and the outstanding-balance display updates correctly after a cash payment. Quotes can also show finance options with the required disclosure for Chrysalis finance clinics.

Improvement

Patient Information & Consent

Signed consent forms and privacy policies can now be viewed, and an 'Awaiting Signature' section with resend links appears on the patient documents tab. New patient leaflets were added, including a factual Brow Lift leaflet with pros and cons for each technique, the PERLE 10-Year Study consent form, and a 'How I Do a Facelift' education article.

Improvement

Stock & Retail

A new stock-transfer function and location browser for moving items between sites, plus fixes to editing the implant catalogue.

March 2026 14 updates
Improvement

Quality & Compliance (QMS)

A major expansion of the quality and compliance tools: build-your-own checklists and audit templates, automatic audit scheduling with reminders and sign-offs, a fully editable risk register with version history and mitigation tracking, organisational teams for grouping staff, and much easier editing of compliance documents with proper approval status.

Improvement

Finance & Bookkeeping

Card payments and refunds now flow straight into your Xero accounts automatically, including matching bank payouts back to invoices, automated deferred-income accounting, and hands-free processing of finance-company remittance emails. Refunds can now be issued directly from a transaction, and a new 'deposits awaiting treatment' list helps you keep track of money being held.

Milestone

Regulatory & Audit Reports

A brand-new regulatory reporting centre that generates BAAPS Annual Audit and ISAPS survey reports as polished PDFs, with automatic procedure counting, complications tracking, and breakdowns by gender and practitioner across a clean three-tab layout.

Improvement

Calendar & Diary

Lots of diary upgrades: theatre sessions built from reusable templates with configurable start times, sticky notes on empty days, a live 'now' line across the day, richer appointment tooltips (implants, anaesthetic, quote), a new Visual Appearance page to choose your own calendar colours, a mobile-friendly Weekly Planner, protection for blocked-out slots, and your Google Calendar shown alongside the diary.

Improvement

3D Face Scanning & Imaging

Improved 3D face models built from patient photos, including an additional way to reconstruct them from ordinary photos and a dedicated rhinoplasty (nose) model. Models now display the right way up with smoother, seam-free skin texture.

New Feature

CRM & Sales Pipeline

New AI 'likelihood to convert' scoring on surgery-pipeline leads, shown right on the pipeline cards, plus a CRM Settings page for configuring your own stages, no card limits on columns, and leads that automatically move to 'won' once surgery is completed.

New Feature

Consultation Recordings & Transcription

You can now play back recorded consultations directly in the workspace with a proper audio player and skip-back/forward controls, and transcription is far more reliable thanks to an automatic fallback when the usual service is unavailable.

Improvement

Online Booking

Online booking now asks patients to confirm their city/location to prevent wrong-city bookings, shows the location (Glasgow/London) throughout the flow, and every appointment now records how and by whom it was booked.

Improvement

Patient Photos & Media

Better patient photo tools: select and download photos as a single ZIP, upload videos to a patient's record, share case-study images through secure links, and photos taken on phones now keep their correct orientation.

New Feature

Clinical Notes & Letters

A new Clinical Notes tab on the patient record with neatly formatted notes, plus fixes so letters no longer get stuck and can be approved by any authorised staff member.

Improvement

Stock & Retail

Stock imports are smarter, automatically matching spreadsheet columns and reading product labels for you, with a progress indicator during upload and new package-cost fields on products and suppliers.

New Feature

Phone & AI Receptionist

Reception staff can now take over a live AI-answered call and receive an SMS alert when the AI is on a call, and the AI receptionist can book real appointments while respecting any blocked-out diary slots.

Improvement

Patient Portal & Consent

Clearer prompts guiding patients into the portal from key emails, working consent and patient-information-leaflet signing inside the portal, and removal of the 30-day expiry on signing links.

Improvement

AI & Automation

Behind-the-scenes reliability boosts: the assistant now keeps itself on the latest AI models automatically, automated notifications only reach the correct clinic, and attachments on incoming emails are captured and shown.

February 2026 17 updates
Milestone

3D Face & Body Imaging

A completely new 3D scanning suite: capture a patient's face or body from your phone (guided QR-code flow, iPhone LiDAR, or an uploaded video) and turn it into a rotatable 3D model. Includes an interactive viewer with preset angles, lighting and image adjustments, plus a side-by-side before/after comparison tool.

New Feature

Clinical Photography & Before/After Morphs

A powerful photo comparison lightbox with side-by-side, slider and timeline views, precise zoom and pan, and smooth before/after 'morph' videos. Adds a searchable All-Photos gallery, consistent face-aligned auto-cropping, branded photo exports, iPhone (HEIC) support, and direct import of photos from RXPhoto.

New Feature

Automations

A new automation builder that carries out actions for you automatically — send an email, create a task, or post a notification — whenever something happens in the clinic, such as a new booking, a payment, a new patient, or a social-media message. Comes with 17 ready-made automations.

New Feature

Finance, VAT & Bookkeeping

Full VAT handling across quotes, invoices, payment links and the patient portal, plus tracking of facility fees and anaesthetist fees that sync straight into Xero bookkeeping. Invoices now use tidy sequential numbers, receipts are created automatically when a patient pays, and you can upload a supplier invoice and have it read for you.

New Feature

Theatre Management

A new theatre command centre showing today's cases and utilisation, a surgeon booking portal with secure one-tap links and per-surgeon rules, digital Surgeon Preference Lists, iPad-friendly WHO safety checklists that save as you go, and an automatic surgical pathway summary produced when a patient is discharged.

New Feature

Subscription Plans & Feature Access

Features now unlock according to your plan (Solo, Pro, Business, Enterprise), with clear 'locked' tiles and friendly upsell prompts instead of dead ends. A redesigned Account Settings screen puts your subscription front and centre, and clinics can opt in to try selected beta features early.

Improvement

Calendar & Diary

Your Google Calendar can now sit alongside the clinic diary as its own column, double-bookings are blocked across every booking route, and you can change an appointment's type straight from the calendar. Loading is faster and the booking form opens as a tidy pop-up.

New Feature

Organisation Settings & Branding

A new Organisation Settings area and a Document & Email Branding page let you control headers, footers and logos for each type of document. Clinic names, practitioner titles and web links now adapt automatically to each clinic rather than being fixed to one.

New Feature

Quality & Compliance (QMS)

A new Equipment & Governance module for tracking and booking equipment, CQC evidence-pack generation, a self-service compliance area reachable by secure link, a Fileshare portal for uploads, and bulk import of policy documents.

Improvement

Stock & Retail

Add and edit stock products faster by scanning a barcode or tapping 'Read Label' to have the details filled in for you, plus a dedicated label scanner for injectable products. Supplier records, purchase orders and stock classification were all tidied up.

New Feature

Phone & Call Answering

A new voice-activated assistant the surgeon can phone to look up patients and clinic information hands-free, a mobile-friendly phone hub, and a lightweight clinic email app ('Vmail') built for phone use. The AI phone assistant now emails patients their booking link.

Improvement

CRM & Leads

Messages arriving as social-media direct messages now flow into the CRM automatically, leads are marked 'won' when an appointment is booked, and the pipeline board shows accurate counts. A new overdue-activities tile keeps follow-ups from slipping.

Improvement

Analytics & Forecasting

Analytics Central gains a Staff Efficiency view and an end-of-month financial audit, with new headline figures for new appointments and enquiries and a clinic-wide month selector to compare periods.

Improvement

Consent Forms

Patients can now sign consent forms by scanning a QR code with no fiddly page navigation, and 'Show on Screen' works properly on iPad. Signing links were fixed so they always open on the correct clinic.

Improvement

Patient Portal & Booking

Patients can book appointments directly inside the portal, see auto-generated receipts, view VAT-aware pricing, and see the correct 'paid in full' status even when they have paid by bank transfer.

Improvement

AI Notes & Consultation Workspace

Consultation notes and patient letters now retry themselves automatically until they succeed rather than quietly failing, long consultations transcribe reliably, AI summaries are more accurate, and the consultation workspace gains a wide-view mode for drawing diagrams.

New Feature

Patient Reviews & Education

A new system that automatically invites patients to leave reviews, a Review Sites section in the menu, and several new patient-education articles on breast surgery.

January 2026 19 updates
Milestone

Stock & Inventory Management

A brand-new stock-control system covering product and supplier catalogues, purchase orders and goods-in receipting, batch and expiry tracking, phone-based barcode scanning, stock takes and cycle counts, quarantine holds and product recalls, and spreadsheet import/export with reporting.

Milestone

Theatre Management & Patient Journey

New theatre operations tools: book theatre cases (including for visiting surgeons), a live status board with card and timeline views, drag-and-drop tracking of each patient through admission, surgery and recovery, WHO safety checklists, printable patient wristbands, an automatic surgical-pathway summary at discharge, and theatre staffing rotas.

New Feature

Quality & Compliance (QMS)

A full quality-management system with incident reporting, a risk register, staff training and competency records, complaints and corrective-action tracking, controlled-document version control with approvals, and staff compliance monitoring with self-service sign-off for practitioners.

New Feature

Finance & Bookkeeping

A new bookkeeping dashboard that syncs payments to Xero across multiple locations and organisations, with manual bank-transfer entry, deferred-income and unpaid-deposit tracking, card-fee recording, and an anaesthetist-fee approval-and-payment flow.

New Feature

Analytics & Forecasting

Analysis Central, a single place for practice analytics across acquisition, clinical, financial and strategic views with executive summaries, plus the ability to ask questions of your data in plain English, save those questions, and build your own custom views.

New Feature

Internal Staff Messaging

A built-in staff messaging tool to replace outside chat apps, with direct messages, group channels, patient-specific discussion threads, @mentions, real-time alerts, file and photo attachments, and a rich-text composer.

New Feature

Consultation Recording, Notes & Meetings

Consultation recording is far more reliable, saving automatically every 30 seconds with an offline backup and recovery of interrupted recordings; a new Meetings tool also records, transcribes and AI-summarises team meetings and lets you ask follow-up questions about them.

New Feature

Clinical Coding

A dedicated coding tool for ICD-10, OPCS-4 and ICD-11 that suggests the right codes straight from the consultation notes, handles multiple procedures, and shows the agreed codes on the patient record.

New Feature

Content Studio & Marketing

Content Studio for creating social-media posts from branded canvas templates and a tagged image library, with suggested content drawn from consented before-and-after photos, plus Google account connection with a campaign builder and Instagram link-in-bio pages.

New Feature

New Clinic Signup & Onboarding

New clinics can now sign themselves up, choosing a plan tier, applying a promo code and accepting terms, then follow a step-by-step setup wizard while their account, welcome email and branded login page are created automatically.

New Feature

Quotes, Proposals & Implants

A rebuilt proposal editor that saves without losing your place, lets you create a quote in one click from the consultation, choose implants inline, and safely archive quotes you no longer need.

Improvement

Calendar & Diary

Lots of diary upgrades including a Potential Surgeries panel, all-day session markers, block-time and break-time controls, an appointment end-time override, video-consultation bookings, linking a quote to an appointment, and smoother swipe navigation on tablets.

Improvement

Patient Portal

The patient portal gained a post-op garments shopping tab, a clearer finance tab showing balances and bank-transfer details, a pre-consultation intake with a full CRQ questionnaire (and MHQ now held per patient), and the ability to accept or archive surgical proposals, pick a surgery date and upload photos.

New Feature

Staff Management & Access Control

New staff tools including employment-contract templates with counter-signing, finer control over who can see which patients and diaries, editable per-person permissions, role creation and editing, and a smoother invite flow that sets up user accounts automatically.

New Feature

Automations & AI Assistance

More routine work now happens for you: AI suggests enquiry follow-up actions from patient emails, nightly patient summaries and consultation-sentiment scoring, automatic import of hospital appointment emails, aftercare leaflet emails after appointments, and a tool for merging duplicate patient records.

New Feature

Consent Forms & In-Person Signing

A new iPad kiosk for signing any document in person at the clinic, a medical-photography consent form, interactive tick-boxes and initials on consent forms, and email signing links for patients.

Improvement

AI Receptionist & Phone

Aria, the phone receptionist, holds conversations more naturally, takes turns better and can send booking links, while longer calls are scored for sentiment and the Phone Hub now offers call playback, transcripts and summaries.

Improvement

Clinical Photography & Image Tools

Better clinical imaging: capture photos and video from a phone by scanning a QR code, pull and background-remove frames from a video, and star-rate photos to flag standout before-and-afters.

Improvement

Dark Mode & Mobile Experience

A dark theme was rolled out across the whole app, together with many mobile and iPad layout fixes so pages read and work well on smaller screens.

December 2025 19 updates
Milestone

The Birth of Velastria

Velastria in its current form was born on 13 December 2025 — though it had already seen its first clinic five days earlier, on 8 December 2025. Before that birthday it carried a working name that couldn't be kept for the long term for copyright reasons, and an early build was already running in a test clinic that day, in parallel with other EPR systems.

Milestone

Patient Records, Transcription & AI Medical Notes

The platform was born around a single clinical loop: a secure database holding each patient's details, the live recording and transcription of consultations, and AI-drafted medical notes and letters written from that transcript. It began as an early build — roughly a fifth of today's size — but was already capturing and AI-transcribing real patient consultations from day one.

Milestone

Online Booking & Appointments

The first patient self-booking system with an embeddable booking wizard, live slot availability, deposit payments, and automatic confirmation emails and calendar invites.

New Feature

AI Phone & Call Answering

A new AI voice receptionist that answers calls in a British accent, greets recognised callers by name, and saves a recording, transcript, and summary of every call, with a browser softphone so staff can make and take calls too.

New Feature

Calendar & Diary

An initial clinic diary with drag-and-drop rescheduling, right-click actions, adjustable session timings, and quick appointment editing.

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Clinical Photography

The first patient photo library with easy capture (including phone-based QR upload), iPhone photo support, automatic tagging of body region and view, and a lightbox for side-by-side before-and-after comparison.

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CRM & Enquiries

An initial enquiry-management pipeline with a drag-and-drop board, patient proposals, and ready-made email templates that guide a lead from first contact through to surgery.

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Patient Portal

The first patient login area where patients can view their photos, documents, and forms, choose a surgery date, and chat with the Aria assistant.

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Clinical Intelligence (Serendipity)

A new ask-anything tool that answers plain-English questions about the clinic's own data and searches records and images intelligently.

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Aria Chatbot & Knowledge Base

The first Aria web chat assistant that answers pricing and procedure questions and can take bookings, backed by a manageable knowledge base kept in step with the clinic's leaflets and price list.

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Email & Communications

An initial unified inbox and email and SMS composer with grammar and AI checks, letting staff read and reply to patient messages from one place.

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Patient Questionnaires (MHQ)

The first medical health questionnaire for patients to complete before appointments, with AI pre-fill from existing records and a tidy PDF for medical and hospital use.

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Consent Forms & Patient Information

An initial consent-form generator alongside tools for sending patients the right information leaflets and the practice's privacy and terms documents.

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Staff, Access & Recruitment

The first staff-management centre with healthcare-grade access controls, activity and audit logging, live session tracking, and a built-in recruitment and hiring panel.

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Finance & Bookkeeping

An initial finance layer that records booking deposits, raises invoices, connects to Xero for bookkeeping, and works out anaesthetist fees for theatre lists.

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Executive Dashboards

New at-a-glance dashboards for owners and managers (CEO, CFO, COO, CTO, and marketing) summarising business, financial, operational, and AI-usage performance.

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Theatre & Surgery Bookings

An initial theatre-coordination workflow with a bookings dashboard, surgery booking packs, patient surgery-date selection, and efficient theatre-list packing.

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Marketing, Website & Content

The first public shoaib.co.uk website (surgery and learn pages, blog articles, search visibility, and an in-app page editor), plus tools that turn consultation transcripts into content and summarise Google advertising performance.

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Automations

The first workflow automations that quietly handle routine tasks such as appointment confirmations, privacy-policy reminders, and follow-ups on unanswered messages.

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The Genesis

It all started on 12 November 2025, with the first formal commit to a version-control repository. Before that, the Clinical Intelligence System had no name at all — it was purely conceptual, a working title coded on a single laptop. From those first days two fellowships took shape, one of consultations and one of phonecalls, and a single ring of code was written to bind them together. A working prototype came within three days; by 18 November the system had chosen its name, Velastria; and by the end of the month it was live on the cloud.

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Patient Records

The first patient list and patient record, soon reorganised into a tabbed view that gathered each patient's details in one place.

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Calendar & Diary

The first clinic calendar — built, populated and made editable within days — with templated sessions, click-to-book appointments, and a right-click diary menu.

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Appointments

The first surgeon appointment view and booking screen, with appointments created straight from a click on the calendar.

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Proposals & Quotes

An early treatment-proposal form and a quote system, working well enough to hand a patient a proposal and a price.

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Clinical Photography

Photo upload with thumbnails and workflow routing from the very first day, later backed by secure cloud storage for clinical images.

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Phone & Call Answering

A telephone system added mid-November, with working phone calls by the 19th — the earliest ancestor of today's AI receptionist, Aria.

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Consultation Transcription & Dictation

The first speech tools — call and consultation transcription, and dictation into consultations — the beginning of the record-and-transcribe loop at Velastria's heart.

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Consent & Payments

A consent system with terms and conditions in place, and card payments (Stripe) added so the clinic could take deposits.

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Multi-Tenancy

Support for multiple clinics added on 16 November — the foundation that lets Velastria run many practices side by side today.

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Email & Communications

Gmail and Google Drive connected so patient emails flowed straight in, along with per-patient communication preferences.

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Security & Login

Login requirements and access controls put in place to protect patient data from the outset.

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Tasks & Workflow

A task list and extended calendar tools to keep day-to-day clinic work organised.

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Live on the Cloud

On 28 November 2025 the system went live on Amazon's cloud with its own domain and website — its first cloud home, and the moment today's live database can trace itself back to.