Eighty calls in a morning, and one of them cannot wait in a queue.
Before their stay, patients call because something in the letter was left unclear. The switchboard answers the same questions about documents, registration and procedure again and again, and puts callers through as soon as a question belongs with a specialist department. The emergency call waits in the same queue.
80calls in a morningMost concern documents, where to register and what happens before the stay.
5recurring questionsFive questions come up every morning and are answered one by one.
4 minutesper callGreeting, follow-up question, answer and transfer take this long, even for simple information.
1emergency callIt waits in the same queue as the question about the registration desk.
Of the 80 calls in a morning, only the conversations a person has to handle remain, and call volume falls by up to 60%.
The reduction of up to 60% in phone calls is this agent's headline figure. The number of calls, the call length and the five recurring questions describe a typical morning in patient management; they are not measured values.