Real Time Reception Ltd was founded in 2005 by Jennifer Spencer, a podiatrist in private practice, to provide remote reception services to fellow clinicians. Howard Hughes joined in 2006, coming from a business consultancy & healthcare background.From the beginning the business has catered for the health professions providing a first class, virtual reception service including a telephone answering service, and on-line appointment booking service to clinics all over the UK. We cater in the main to Podiatrists, Physiotherapists, Osteopaths, Acupuncturists, and Chiropractors, but any clinical appointment based practice will benefit from our services. When you are in business you need complete peace of mind, knowing that every call is picked up and handled personally for your business.We provide cover from 8am to 7pm ensuring calls are answered both before and after your own opening times, with a 24 /7 voicemail service included. Customers or patients expect their calls to be dealt with promptly and courteously, it is no longer acceptable to be left holding on a call for more than a few minutes. Using our service ensures that calls are answered with 10 seconds. We provide a complete practice management service to our clients, including incoming and outgoing calls, appointment reminders and a full range of diary managing, plus liaising with insurance companies, invoicing, and we will take payments by card over the phone.Quality customer service is our priority, every call matters; whether they are a new customer or repeat customer they can expect a consistently polite, friendly and effective service.Our support services for start-up clinics, help them to grow through maintaining contact with clients with appointment reminders, newsletter, Christmas messaging etc. ensuring you are always aware of you business profile.And all this can be achieved at a considerably lower monthly fee than you would pay in salary, making your business much more profitable.