What happens when a patient calls to say they are running late?

Amy takes the message, notes how late, and gets it in front of the team immediately so the schedule can be adjusted before the gap becomes dead time.

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How it goes today

This call usually rings out because the desk is with a patient, and the practice finds out when the patient walks in twenty minutes late.

What Amy does

Answers on the first ring even when the desk is busy.
Records how late the patient expects to be.
Puts it in front of the team right away.
Offers to move the appointment when the delay is too long.

Where Amy stops

Amy does not decide clinically whether a shortened appointment is workable. The team makes that call.

She never gives medical advice, never diagnoses, and never makes a clinical decision. Anything clinical goes to the provider.

Why this call matters

Knowing at 9:05 instead of 9:25 is what lets the desk reshuffle instead of losing the slot.

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What the caller hears

Amy answers even when every person at the desk is with a patient, which is exactly when this call normally rings out. She asks how late the patient expects to be and reads it back so there is no ambiguity, then tells them what happens next rather than leaving them guessing whether the message landed.

What your team sees afterward

The delay is in front of your team straight away, with the caller's own words and the recording, while there is still time to reshuffle. Knowing at five past instead of twenty-five past is the whole value: the desk can pull a waiting patient forward or shorten the visit instead of watching the slot die.

When a person gets pulled in

Whether a shortened appointment still works clinically is not Amy's call and she does not make it. She captures the delay and routes it to a person. If the practice has told her a delay past a certain point should be offered a new time, she offers one; otherwise your team decides and Amy simply makes sure they know in time.

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