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Cliniko integration

An AI receptionist for Cliniko that fills the gaps.

Allied health clinics where the business is practitioner hours, and an unfilled hour never comes back.

Writing to Cliniko

Real time, on the call

patientMRN-4471902
provideralvarez-r
start2026-08-11T09:40
duration20 min
typefollow-up

Writing…

Encrypted in transit, audit-logged

Who runs Cliniko

Cliniko runs physiotherapy, osteopathy and allied health clinics across the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The whole business model is billable practitioner time, which makes utilisation and plan completion the only numbers that matter.

The problem

What is actually breaking.

The things practices tell us cost them the most, in the order they raise them.

01

Plans empty out by week three

Patients book one visit at a time, momentum goes, and a six-week plan quietly becomes three visits.

02

A cancelled hour stays empty

Somebody has to ring the waitlist, and by the time they do it is 5pm and tomorrow's gap is locked in.

03

Drop-off is noticed too late

A missed visit is spotted days later, once the patient has already moved on.

04

The phone rings during treatment

In a small clinic the practitioner is often the receptionist, and neither job is done well.

How it connects

Real time

BookAttendRebookBackfillOngoing

Written while the patient is still on the line. Every write logged and reversible.

How 2care solves it

One platform, not a point fix.

Inbound answering, outbound outreach, write-back and escalation are the same agent - which is why the whole problem moves rather than one part of it.

The whole plan booked in one call

Twice a week for six weeks goes into the diary at times the patient chooses. This is the single biggest driver of completion.

Same-day cancellation backfill

A morning cancellation is filled from the waitlist that morning, without anyone picking up the phone.

Drop-off caught within a day

A missed visit in an active plan triggers a call back the next day, not the next fortnight.

The phone stops interrupting treatment

Calls are answered and resolved while the practitioner is with a patient.

The difference

What changes on the Cliniko phone.

Filling tomorrow's cancellation at 5pm today is worth more than any new-patient campaign.

How it runs today

With 2care on Cliniko

Plans empty out by week three

Patients book one visit at a time, momentum goes, and a six-week plan quietly becomes three visits

Twice a week for six weeks goes into the diary at times the patient chooses

A cancelled hour stays empty

Somebody has to ring the waitlist, and by the time they do it is 5pm and tomorrow's gap is locked in

A morning cancellation is filled from the waitlist that morning, without anyone picking up the phone

Drop-off is noticed too late

A missed visit is spotted days later, once the patient has already moved on

A missed visit in an active plan triggers a call back the next day, not the next fortnight

The phone rings during treatment

In a small clinic the practitioner is often the receptionist, and neither job is done well

Calls are answered and resolved while the practitioner is with a patient

Scope

What it touches in Cliniko.

Three passes. The third is the one worth reading before you authorise the API.

Cliniko2care
Practitioner diary
Each practitioner's Cliniko diary as it stands at the moment of the call.
Appointment type
Appointment types and their durations, so an initial and a follow up differ.
Patient record
Existing patient files, so a returning client is not duplicated.
Availability rules
Buffers and blocks, including the times a practitioner is deliberately unavailable.
Location
Business locations, where a clinic runs from more than one address.

A Cliniko clinic, in their words

Getting the whole plan into the diary on the first call changed our completion rate more than anything else we tried.
Chiropractie LeidenClinic Owner, Chiropractie Leiden
94%
of care plans booked as a full block
2
languages handled on the same line
< 24h
to recover a missed visit
Read the Chiropractie Leiden story

Straight answers

What Cliniko practices ask before connecting it.

Who authorises the connection?

Somebody with admin access in Cliniko. It takes minutes, nothing is installed, and the scope is limited to what the agent needs to read and write.

Our practitioners each work different days. Does it know?

It reads the diary rather than a copy of it, so a practitioner's actual working pattern, breaks included, is what the caller is offered.

Can it fill a cancellation the same day?

Yes. The hour is released in Cliniko and offered onward to clients who asked for something sooner, within minutes rather than at the end of the day.

We are not granting broad write access to Cliniko.

Nor should you. Each practitioner's Cliniko diary, including breaks and the days they do not take new patients. Clinical documentation sits outside the scope entirely.

At a glance

The Cliniko connection, in the terms a review will ask about.

Cliniko runs physiotherapy, osteopathy and allied health clinics across the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The whole business model is billable practitioner time, which makes utilisation and plan completion the only numbers that matter.

Authorisation
Authorised through the Cliniko API by someone with admin access at your clinicAuthorised through the Cliniko API by someone with admin access at your clinic.
What it honours
Your own configurationEach practitioner's Cliniko diary, including breaks and the days they do not take new patients.
When it writes
During the conversationBooked into Cliniko before the caller hangs up, so nothing is written twice.
What changes
The phone stops competing with the treatment room for the same person's attentionThe phone stops competing with the treatment room for the same person's attention.
Reversibility
Every write is traceable and undoableEach one records the call that caused it.
Compliance
Agreement signed before any patient data movesRegional hosting and a DPA where you require them.

Go live

Weeks, not quarters.

Most practices on Cliniko are live inside a few weeks of authorising the connection.

1

Authorise the connection

Your Cliniko administrator approves API access. Nothing is installed, and nothing changes about how your team uses Cliniko.

2

Map your rules

We map your providers, locations, appointment types, booking rules and escalation paths - the things that make your schedule yours.

3

Test, then go live

We run your real scenarios against a test environment with your team watching, fix what surfaces, then switch the line over and monitor.

See it work

A call, a booking, and a write-back into Cliniko.

Recorded end to end. The system on screen is not yours, but the flow is the one described above.

Before you connect it

Questions about Cliniko.

Yes, the whole schedule goes in at times the patient picks, which is what actually drives plan completion.

The waitlist is worked within minutes of a slot opening, in your priority order, with no staff involvement.

People search it both ways. A Cliniko answering service describes covering the phone. A Cliniko integration describes what connects to what. Here they are one product: cover for the line that reads your diary and writes the booking straight into it.

Each practitioner's Cliniko diary, including breaks and the days they do not take new patients, confirmed while the caller is still speaking.

No. Callers are matched against what Cliniko already holds before anything new is created.

Yes. Transcribed and kept on the client file, so a practitioner can read a conversation they were treating through.

See 2care book into Cliniko.

30 minutes, on your own call flows. No commitment.

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