Case Studies
Call Overflow Virtual Reception (COVR) helps Practice with excessive sick leave
Keeping the practice running when staff are home sick.
Background
This busy, well-established Surgical Practice had prided itself on personal communication with referring doctors, and the care and attention its admin staff gave to patients. They had more staff than comparable practices, but the benefits out-weighed the costs according to the two Principals.
Quarantine of two staff members due to COVID19 exposure had a crippling effect on even the most basic administration functions, leading the Principals to question how resilient their team really is.
Challenge
While the practice has effective and highly trained staff, we knew that the team did not have the resilience to deal with multiple absentees, and that we could also give the Principals clear recommendations about how to start optimising their admin processes and providing flexible outsourced support.
Solution
After initial contact, we outlined our proposal and scheduled an on-site review of administration processes, briefing the Practice Manager (PM) with a list of administration and HR-related documents to have ready for our meeting.
Once onsite with the PM, we reviewed key admin activities and workflows, position descriptions, staff-capabilities and quality-related benchmarks. This enabled us to follow up with a report suggesting process improvements for the PM to make and a cost benefit analysis of outsourcing some telephone and administration work.
The Gap Analysis Report was sent to the PM recommending:
- Call Overflow Virtual Reception to provide cover for absent staff and lock in resilience for the business (at no net cost to the business).
- Outsource bookkeeping and payroll to Hoxton MPM (saving 10 hours of admin time and $150 per month).
- Clear instructions for how to improve staff roles and duties.
- Several strategies to increase administration efficiency.
We also recommended 3 or 6-monthly reviews to monitor the practice and benchmark efficiency and business resilience.
The Call Overflow Virtual Reception service was connected within 5 days, providing a well drilled team of 4 off-site secretaries with deep knowledge of the practice, the patients and the attending surgeons. Bookkeeping and payroll services completely took over from the PM within 2 weeks providing, reducing her stress and improving financial literacy within the business. The review of practice processes allowed the PM to focus an dynamic management and strategic improvements for the business.
Results
The client now has:
- A resilient admin team that provides multiple levels of cover to allow the practice to deal COVID19 related staffing pressure, while improving overall business resilience.
- Access to staff qualified to provide bookkeeping and payroll, faster and more accurately than the PM.
- Net saving of $2000 per year.
Conclusion
By equipping you with off-site staff resources, business insights and a set of follow up steps, Hoxton can swiftly help any Practice cover staff leave and increase overall expertise with little or no overall cost to the business.
Improving resilience, efficiencies and the bottom line.
- Use Hoxton Call Overflow Virtual Reception Services to support onsite staff
- Increase your team's capabilities in specialised fields, such as payroll and bookkeeping
- Actionable steps towards better, more financially rewarding processes
- Financial benefit achieved within 10 working days of initial contact