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Public holidays

Thirteen Polish public holidays are already in Heltio, and the practice is closed on each of them by default. This is where you decide which ones you nevertheless work through.

Required permissions:
Clinic Admin
Reviewed: 2026-08-24

Heltio knows the Polish public holidays and writes them into the calendar by itself — including the movable feasts whose date changes every year. You do not have to enter them or keep track of them.

By default the practice is closed on every one of them: the working hours from the template do not apply that day, and the computed availability is empty. This page exists so you can name the exceptions — the holidays you work through anyway.

Open public holidays

How to do it

01

Pick the year

The Year field switches the table. The holiday calendar is prepared several years ahead, so you can sort out next January right now.

02

Untick the holidays you work

The table has the columns Holiday, Date, Clinic closed and Notes. Clear the tick in the Clinic closed column next to the holiday on which the practice operates. The change is confirmed with Holiday updated.

The Notes column takes a short remark — for example on call 9–13 — visible only to the team.

03

Close everything at once

Mark all as closed for … restores the starting state for the whole year, after the question Confirm all closed? It is useful when a few holidays were opened last year and you want to start from a clean slate.

Which holidays these are

Thirteen days. Four are movable and Heltio computes them itself for every year.

HolidayDate
New Year's Day1 January
Epiphany (Three Kings)6 January
Easter Sundaymovable
Easter Mondaymovable
Labour Day1 May
Constitution Day (3 May)3 May
Pentecost (Whit Sunday)movable
Corpus Christimovable
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin15 August
All Saints' Day1 November
Independence Day11 November
Christmas Day25 December
Boxing Day (Second Christmas Day)26 December

When something goes wrong

Error

Failed to load holidays.

What this means: The list did not load from the server.

What to do: Refresh the page. If the message comes back for every year, report it to Heltio support — without this list the closures do not work.
Error

Failed to save holiday observance.

What this means: A single change did not go through.

What to do: Repeat it. Then check the state of the field — until you see the confirmation, the previous setting applies.
Error

Failed to bulk-update holidays.

What this means: The operation across the whole year did not complete.

What to do: Repeat it, or set the holidays one at a time. The bulk operation is all-or-nothing — on an error nothing is saved.
Error

The work schedule feature is not enabled for this clinic.

What this means: The practice does not have the schedule module enabled, and public holidays are part of it.

What to do: Contact Heltio support.

Who has access

Clinic Admin

Only an administrator and the practice owner can change this; the decision applies to the whole site, not to a single person. The rest of the team sees the effect in the calendar but does not edit the table itself. Every toggle leaves an entry in the audit log.

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