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Every unanswered call at your care agency is a family choosing another provider. Our AI care agency receptionist answers every call, every time — handling new care enquiries, visit requests, carer coordination and family calls 24/7, starting from just £10/month. Built for UK domiciliary, home care and residential care providers, it holds genuine two-way conversations and integrates directly with your care management software — even at 8pm on a Sunday.
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Good afternoon, thanks for calling. How can I help today?
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of calls to small care businesses and community health services go unanswered (UK SME Telephone Study, Alliance Virtual Offices / Paperclip Research, 2025)
of calls to care services between 8am and 5pm are missed, almost doubling in the evenings and at weekends (TrustedCare Enquiry Handling Research)
of potential new clients whose calls go unanswered do not call back; they contact another provider (PATLive / Clearwave Healthcare Research, 2024–2025)
of families are likely to choose a different care provider following a poor or unanswered first contact (Spruce Health / Healthcare Communications Research, 2024)
Care agencies consistently lose new care package enquiries to competitors simply by missing or delaying the first call. Each missed enquiry represents an ongoing care package, weekly visit hours and a long-term client relationship lost. Coordinators and managers spend an estimated 10–20 hours per week handling routine phone enquiries that could be automated (Care England / Prosperwell, Care Sector Enquiry Handling Research, 2026).
Built specifically for UK care agencies, domiciliary care providers, home care businesses and residential care operators. It answers every call in a natural, professional voice, understands the needs of families and healthcare professionals, and integrates directly with leading care management platforms — capturing new enquiries, routing urgent carer calls and sending confirmations automatically.
Any time of day or night, including bank holidays and after hours.
A warm, professional voice that represents your care agency correctly.
New care enquiry, visit request, urgent safeguarding concern, carer availability query or coordination call — understood in natural conversation.
Logs the enquiry into your care management system, escalates urgent calls to the duty coordinator, sends confirmations and records everything.
Research from TrustedCare confirms that more than 22% of calls to care services during standard business hours go unanswered. In the evenings and at weekends, that figure almost doubles. For care agencies handling new enquiries, missed calls are a direct revenue loss — families researching care options rarely try a second time. They move on.
Our AI receptionist answers every single call, simultaneously, with no engaged tone, no queue and no wait. Whether it is 7am before your coordinators have started their shift or 9pm when a family member finally sits down to make that call, every enquiry is captured professionally and every detail is recorded.
“Your AI receptionist answers 100% of calls, before a family ever considers calling another agency.”
For most care agencies, new care enquiries arrive at unpredictable times and require a sensitive, well-handled first response. Research published by Care England and Prosperwell in 2026 identifies slow or impersonal first contact as one of the primary reasons care enquiries fail to convert into care packages. Families are often calling at a moment of stress or urgency.
The AI care agency receptionist handles new enquiry calls professionally, capturing all relevant details and ensuring every family feels heard from the very first contact.
“Every family that calls your agency receives a professional, empathetic response, at any hour, without your coordination team lifting a phone.”
Care needs do not follow business hours. A daughter realises on a Friday evening that her mother can no longer manage alone. A GP discharges a patient on a Saturday morning and the family needs domiciliary care to begin on Monday. Without after-hours cover, all of these calls go unanswered until the following working day — if the family has not already moved on.
The AI receptionist operates continuously, capturing after-hours enquiries and triaging urgent calls to the appropriate on-call contact. Your agency is never dark, and no family is ever left without a response.
“Families need reassurance at all hours. Your AI receptionist is always there to provide it.”
Care agencies receive calls that go beyond routine coordination. A family may report a safeguarding concern. An existing client may call in distress. A healthcare professional may require urgent communication about a care package. These calls demand an immediate, structured response — a recorded message is not acceptable, and a missed call could have serious consequences.
Our AI receptionist is trained to recognise urgent language patterns associated with safeguarding concerns, welfare checks and clinical escalation. When detected, the AI immediately transfers the call live to your designated duty coordinator or on-call manager, provides appropriate interim support, and logs the full interaction with a timestamp.
“Your agency is never unreachable. Every urgent call is heard, escalated, and documented.”
Skills for Care data for 2024/25 confirms that 111,000 posts remain unfilled across adult social care in England, with home care vacancy rates running at over 10% — more than double those seen in care homes. The CQC’s State of Care report notes that 55% of directors of adult social services are concerned about the impact of high vacancy rates on service delivery. Coordinators are regularly interrupted by routine phone enquiries during visits, assessments and client care activity.
By automating routine inbound calls — new enquiries, visiting hour queries, general information requests and carer availability calls — the AI receptionist frees your team to focus entirely on care delivery and client relationships.
“Let your team do what no AI can — be present, attentive, and focused on the person in their care.”
Phone calls and care records exist in separate silos across most care agencies. Enquiry details taken over the phone are not entered into care management software in real time, leading to missed information, duplicated effort, and coordinators chasing notes scribbled during a busy shift. This creates risk, inefficiency and a poor experience for families and professionals.
Our AI receptionist integrates natively with leading UK care management platforms. Every call is logged. Every enquiry is captured. Every record is updated automatically.
“Connected to the software your agency already uses. No double-entry. No missed enquiries.”
The latest AI-powered receptionist technology provides features that streamline care agency operations, reduce coordinator workload and improve the experience for families and healthcare professionals.
Identifies the purpose of a call using natural language understanding, routes callers to the correct coordinator, team or escalation contact, and handles high call volumes during peak periods without missed calls.
Handles new care enquiries with no human intervention — automatic logging of enquiry details to your care management system, follow-up confirmations to callers, and capture of caller data for compliance and safeguarding records.
Directs calls efficiently without manual intervention, provides information on services and visiting hours, ensures calls are never missed, and prioritises urgent welfare and safeguarding calls to the duty manager.
An AI phone receptionist never misses a call, so every new care enquiry and family contact is responded to promptly — fewer lost care packages, more reassured families.
Reduces the need for extended office cover or additional administrative staff, lowering payroll costs while maintaining consistent service quality.
Handles increases in call volume as your client base grows or as you take on new local authority contracts — adjusting in real time without extra staff.
Consistent, professional communication 24/7 — calls answered, enquiries resolved and new care requests captured automatically.
Prioritises urgent safeguarding and welfare calls, manages escalation to the duty coordinator, and provides call summaries for the coordination team.
Integrates seamlessly with care management software, CRM platforms and scheduling systems, capturing call data and logging enquiries automatically.
Streamline your processes and increase operational efficiency with care agency software integration.
Make calls directly from your care management system with one click. Eliminate manual dialling.
Keep client and family records up to date by syncing your care platform contacts with your phone system.
See full caller details — the family member’s name, relationship and relevant notes — before answering.
Client and family records appear on screen the moment they call, enabling an immediate personalised greeting.
Instantly search and access client family contact details directly from your phone system without switching applications.
Callers are greeted with a professional, agency-branded message with bespoke audio branding.
Callers select their reason for calling — new care enquiry, urgent welfare or safeguarding concern, existing care package query, carer or staff call, or speak with the coordinator — and are routed automatically.
Caller name and relationship to the care recipient, nature and urgency of care required, preferred area and start date, reason for call, preferred callback time and existing client reference if applicable.
A completed call summary is emailed to the coordination team with the call recording and sentiment analysis for processing and action.
Based on your agency’s call volumes and needs.
Set scripts for new enquiries, urgent welfare calls, existing client queries and FAQs.
Connect your care management system to manage calls, enquiry capture and client data.
With your agency-specific knowledge, service areas and scripts.
Using real-time analytics in your dashboard.
We provide UK care agencies with tailored AI receptionist systems built for domiciliary care, home care and multi-branch care group environments, integration with your care management software, CRM and scheduling systems, transparent pricing from £10/month, and full UK-based support.
| Feature | AI Receptionist (AI Answering Service) | Human Receptionist |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly Cost | From £10/month | £1,500–£3,000/month* |
| Annual Cost | £120–£1,440/year | £18,000–£24,000/year + NI + pension |
| Availability | 24/7 · 365 · Bank holidays | Business hours only |
| Simultaneous Calls | Unlimited — never engaged | One at a time |
| Missed Calls | 0% | 22%+ during busy periods |
| After-Hours Urgent Call | Automatic escalation | Not available |
| Care System Integration | Carerix, Zoho, HubSpot | Manual data entry |
| Enquiry Capture | Automated with instant logging | Manual process |
| Setup Time | 24–48 hours | 2–4 weeks recruit + train |
| Consistency | Perfect every time | Varies by individual |
Yes. AI receptionists can answer care agency calls 24/7, handling new care enquiries, family calls, routine questions and urgent escalations without staff involvement.
Pricing starts from £10 per month for care agencies, with packages scaling based on call volume and feature requirements.
Yes. The AI accurately captures caller and enquiry details and logs every interaction in your care management system for coordinator review and follow-up.
Yes. The AI integrates with Carerix, Zoho, HubSpot and other care management and CRM platforms used across UK care agencies.
The AI transfers the call to a live coordinator or duty manager, so callers are never left without a response.
Yes. UK care agencies and home care providers are increasingly using AI receptionists to reduce missed calls and free up coordination time for care delivery.
No. It handles routine inbound calls so your team can focus on delivering care, building client relationships and conducting assessments, rather than replacing them in their role.
Live in 24–48 hours. From £10/month.