"obtain appointment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to making an arrangement to meet with someone at a specific time. Example: I need to obtain an appointment with the doctor to discuss the results of my tests.
The General Accounting Office warned in a report last July that the United States was underrepresented at the United Nations despite State Department efforts to obtain appointments for more Americans.
First elected to Parliament in 1717, Pelham became a supporter of Robert Walpole (prime minister 1730 42), who helped him obtain appointments as lord of the Treasury (1721), secretary for war (1724), and paymaster to the forces (1730).
On the face of it, Melville's life was marked by failure: failure to make money, to obtain appointments, to achieve critical recognition, and in the final 19 years as a clerk in the Boston Custom House, failure of temper enough to drive his wife to the brink of divorce.
In rural areas, participants also used strategies to obtain appointments, but sought to use influence rather than assertiveness.
We found instances when patients would delay consulting and others when they used various strategies to obtain appointments.
These barriers were complex, both in terms of their effects on decisions to consult and the strategies patients used to obtain appointments.
The guidelines state that people with stable RA should be able to obtain appointments at a frequency (and location) suitable to their needs [ 22].
The inability to obtain appointments during non-business hours when many patients present to the ED is a notable barrier we attempted to overcome through mediating linkage.
Initiatives like "advanced access" are driven by assumptions about this kind of behaviour, and that the strategies patients use to obtain appointments increase demand and inefficiencies, and reduce access for others [ 12].
Although the percentage of attempts to obtain a general practice appointment that result in an A&E attendance appears to be small, the absolute effect is estimated to be large due to the considerable number of attempts to obtain appointments each year.
