For private GPs
The best AI receptionist
for private GPs.
Patients ringing for an appointment hate phone trees and "we will call you back". They want the slot now.
A Saturday morning, told straight
A private patient who books today comes back twice a year for life. Miss the call and they never knew you existed.
It is a Monday morning. A father is ringing about his fourteen-year-old daughter who has been getting headaches for six weeks. The NHS has offered him an appointment in nine weeks. He is going private. He is willing to pay £180 for a same-week appointment. He has three clinics in the area and rings yours first because you came up top in the search.
Your reception is fielding three other calls and a patient who walked in for an ECG. The phone rings out. He rings the next clinic. They pick up on the second ring and book his daughter in for Thursday. That is £180 today, follow-ups every six months, blood panels, his wife's HRT review, his own annual check, the kids' travel jabs, and the referral letters they will all need over the next decade.
Foan picks up in two seconds in a calm, clinical-sounding voice. Asks what is going on, who the appointment is for, whether they have been seen by an NHS GP about it, when they could come in. Books the appointment in Cliniko or Semble. Texts the registration form so the doctor walks in already briefed.
Private GP economics are about lifetime value, not the first consultation fee. A family that stays with you for a decade is worth £4,000 to £8,000 in fees alone, before the prescriptions, vaccines, and referral commissions. Lose the first call and you lose the entire decade.
This is a textbook Established-tier use case. One family per quarter retained pays for the platform six times over. Most clinics we work with say they miss seven or eight enquiries a day in surgery hours.
Works the same for HRT enquiries, mole-check requests, travel medicine, executive health screens, and the after-hours calls that go to a competitor on rota.
The maths for a private gp
Capture three missed calls a month at £213 and you've recovered £8k a year.
Average ticket for private GPs: £75 to £350. Foan costs less than one missed call a year.
Avg ticket
£213
Per month
£639
Per year
£8k
When the phone rings, you can't answer.
The caller will try three private GPs before the one that picks up wins their booking.
Foan answers every line at once.
Unlimited simultaneous calls. Ten callers at the same time, ten conversations. Your number is never busy.
What Foan does on a typical private gp call
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Picks up on the first ring, even when you're on site, in court, or up a ladder.
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Captures their name, phone number, and exactly what they're calling about, read back to confirm.
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Texts you a summary the second the call ends — or emails it, your pick. Call back while they're still warm.
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Books appointments straight into your calendar (Calendly or Google Calendar).
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Sounds like a real receptionist, not a robot. Trained on your website, your services, your prices.
Works with the software private GPs already run on
Speaks private GPs' language. Plugs into your stack.
Foan reads your live diary, books straight in, and writes the outcome back. No spreadsheets in the middle, no tabs left open at the end of the day.
Connect the rest of your stack
Foan plugs into the systems you already run on. The agent reads your live data, books, and writes the result back. No spreadsheets in the middle.
Private GP + Cliniko
Clinic appointment bookings on Cliniko during the call. Agent reads practitioner availability, books, sends the confirmation. Popular with UK + AU clinics.
Private GP + Pabau
For UK private clinics + spas on Pabau. Live diary, treatment-aware booking, deposits taken on the call.
Private GP + SimplePractice
Therapists, counsellors, allied-health on SimplePractice. Agent books sessions, takes pre-payment, captures intake details.
Private GP + Power Diary
Allied health, physio, mental health practitioners on Power Diary. Live diary access + booking during the call.
Private GP + Stripe
Take payments on the call. Send a Stripe link, check invoice status, handle billing questions.
Private GP + Google Calendar
Charlie checks your calendar in real time and books meetings on the call. Invite goes out the moment the caller agrees.
Run the numbers
Curious what missed calls actually cost you?
Plug your average ticket and missed-call rate into the calculator. Most private GPs pay for Foan with the first three captured calls of the month.
Open the missed-call calculatorTry Foan on your own business in 60 seconds.
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Tier 1: every missed call is a mortgage payment