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Automated Telephone Assistant

Every patient call answered instantly. Every request completed by your team.

SMARTvoice is the telephone assistant from the team behind SMARTnavigation, built by NHS GPs, in NHS practices, and live across the UK. It takes the phones. Your receptionists keep the judgement.

Built by NHS GPs Live across the UK DCB0129 clinical safety case UK GDPR · DPIA in place Named Clinical Safety Officer

You know the 8am problem. So do we.

A queue of 28. A third of calls abandoned. Two receptionists trying to answer phones, work the triage list and book on the duty doctor's instructions all at once. A human can answer one call at a time. SMARTvoice answers every call at once, in under a second, and turns each one into a completed action or a tidy written task for your team.

1

Answers instantly

No queue, no engaged tone, no 8am scramble. Unlimited concurrent calls. Every caller is told up front they're speaking to an automated assistant and that the call is recorded.

2

Handles the request

Admin queries captured in the patient's own words. Prescriptions, sick notes and medication queries resolved with a secure link by text. Anything complex, clinical or urgent, including anyone who simply wants a person, goes to your team.

3

Delivers it to your inbox

Each call arrives as a structured email: caller's number, name, DOB, a summary, and the full transcript underneath. The patient gets a confirmation text. Your team works a written queue instead of a ringing phone.

What happened when we switched it on

Measured across live GP practices

48%
fewer calls needing the reception team
<1 sec
to answer, no matter how many patients call at once
100%
of requests that require a human are put through
New roles
receptionists redeployed to QOF recall, phlebotomy, and other roles.
“Our receptionists now spend their time bringing complex patients in for review and chasing childhood immunisations, instead of being pinned to the phones.”
Mia Wright, Practice Manager, Stirling Road Medical Centre

Safe by design

GP-written, deterministic scripts. Every word and route is pre-authored and clinically signed off. It cannot invent answers.

No diagnosis, no medical advice. Clinical matters go to people. Emergencies are signposted to 999 before anything else.

Humans stay in charge. Every request is actioned by your reception team. Nothing is booked or changed on a record by the assistant.

Never traps a caller. Ask for a person and you reach one. Two failed attempts at anything and you're through to the team. It never hangs up on a patient.

Fully auditable. Calls recorded, script version logged against every call, weekly review. All under a DCB0129 clinical safety case with a named GP Clinical Safety Officer.

Already using SMARTnavigation?

SMARTvoice was built to sit underneath it. The same GP-written triage scripts your care navigators follow on screen are being layered into the voice system, so clinical appointment requests will be navigated by phone using the identical questions and routing, with every booking still placed with your team.

Your patients already benefit from SMARTnavigation's consistency. SMARTvoice extends it to the way most of them still contact you: the telephone.

Simple, honest pricing

£1.50 per patient for admin requests, or £2.50 per patient to include SMARTnavigation integration. Everything is included: SMS messages, emails, set-up and support. No modules, no surprises.

Questions practice managers ask us

No. It replaces the ringing phone, not the people. SMARTvoice answers and captures the request; 100% of requests are then actioned by your reception team, and the assistant never touches the patient record. What changes is where your team's time goes: across our own practices it cut calls needing reception by 48% and lets you absorb vacancies without re-advertising.

Don't take our word for it. Ring it.

Call the demo line and try to catch it out: ask for a sick note, a prescription, or just say you want a person.

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