How To Create A Spreadsheet Form With Connection To Calendar

I am a novice Access user. The idea is to build a visit tracking database. We are currently using excel to input appointments and outlook for statistics and patient data (as contacts). I am basically doing double the work.

The excel sheet is one week (Mon-Sun), the dates are in the top row; the names of patients are in t/he left-most column. The visit is marked by the name of the therapist. So, if John Doe has a visit from Linda on 08/25/12, there would be a "L" in the cell corresponding to the date and patient. There are also initial visits by the head therapist and there is a letter "IV" in the cell to indicate that.

I know that I can import the contact list from outlook and create a table and I know there's a calendar function.

Is there a way to
1. Create a form that will act as a weekly calendar (with each cell in a column having the same date, indicated in the top row) with connection/sync with outlook?
2. Be able to customize this form: add and delete patients in the left column.
3. Have the form count number of visits (# of total visits, # of total visits after the initial visit). In other words keep statistics of various sorts.