Imperial College drives efficient omnichannel digital service and
an improved patient experience.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the UK’s largest trusts. They provide acute and specialist healthcare in north-west London – across five busy sites – to circa 1.5 million people every year.
With their Central Booking Outpatients, Admissions and Switchboard teams in one building, Imperial needed a contact centre solution that would effectively allow them to manage their patient contacts — delivering an omnichannel digital service.
Switchboard alone for example used to handle an average of 11,500 interactions a day. Call fluctuations and siloed departments made it difficult to meet daily demand – leaving upwards of 800 calls unanswered at times.
These missed calls presented a lost opportunity to free up availability of limited clinical resources and a significant amount of failure demand. The new solution would have to accept more calls, without extra headcount, and drive efficient digital patient interactions.
“Having Liberty platform allows us to be a fully digitised service. Our agents can successfully work from anywhere – including answering emergency calls from home. The only barrier we actually faced was upgrading hard-copy documents – once we created these digitally, everything worked seamlessly.”
John Wintour-Pittom
Head of Operations for Trust Telecom, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
By implementing Liberty Converse, Imperial can handle multiple skill and queue types. Agents use a single dashboard to view:
“On a typical day, by lunchtime, our Outpatients Team answers 575 calls and only had 10 abandoned calls. We are immensely proud of the consistent 95% average call waiting time and the low abandonment rate. Their performance is amazing because we have the tech to monitor and adjust at all times and the agents are free to get on with helping patients.”
John Wintour-Pittom
Head of Operations for Trust Telecom, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
95%
calls answered within 1 minute
<5%
call abandon rate
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time for other admin tasks
Manage volumes effectively while delivering a digital service to delight patients.
Missed appointments have costly impacts on a Trust. Relying on postal services was no longer enough for patients or Chesterfield Royal Hospital – they wanted an online portal which a patient can use to check and manage their appointment.
‘Did Not Attend’ (DNA) rates are a problem for many hospitals and NHS Trusts. The Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust DNA rate was 7.6% for new patients and 8.9% for follow-ups.
