Customer Service Automation
The Walton Centre faced long waits and inefficient headache referral intake because clinicians spent large portions of first appointments collecting basic history manually, delaying treatment and making it hard to triage urgent cases quickly enough.
Reported impact
The Walton Centre improved the patient intake experience, gave clinicians earlier visibility into headache cases, reduced appointment time spent on history taking, captured almost all required referral information digitally, and created a more secure and consistent pathway into specialist neurology care.
The Walton Centre and TCS implemented a website-based conversational AI service to move headache triage and history collection upstream of the first specialist appointment. Patients use the AI chatbot to answer clinician-authored structured questions and provide additional details in natural conversation, while the service captures the response flow as a structured patient summary. TCS built the solution with AWS support and connected the output directly to the trust's electronic medical record system so consultants can review symptoms, history, and red flags before the first face-to-face visit. That architecture lets the trust standardize data capture, keep records secure, and reduce paper-based handling while giving clinicians a governed digital intake process that can identify severe cases earlier and shorten time spent on administrative questioning during appointments.
Patients interact with the AI chatbot on The Walton Centre website, answering clinician-prepared questions and adding extra details through natural conversation. The service turns that intake into a structured patient summary report, then sends the report securely into the electronic medical record system so consultants can review the case before the first in-person appointment.
"Capturing 95% of the required information through the AI chatbot service enhances clinicians' overall efficiency"
"Once the patient completes the entire flow, the output captured by this service (a patient summary) is sent to the electronic medical record system"
"Our AI-supported chatbot captures over 95% of the key information needed to provide specialist advice to these patients"
"The collaboration resulted in a chatbot service, employing conversational AI to address headache-related concerns."
"The overall appointment time for the first appointment (typically focused on history taking) can be reduced by 40%."
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