richmond & wandsworth · adult social care

Care technology check-ins, by voice

The residents the team worried wouldn't pick up engaged with the calls

A voice-AI pilot to check the council's care-technology fleet - and what it found about who actually answers the phone

outbound calling adult social care richmond & wandsworth 2024-2025
An older man at home, smiling, on the phone - the kind of resident a council adult social care team calls on a care technology check-in
Close-up of a hand holding a personal alarm pendant with a green CALL button on a lanyard - typical council-issued care technology
the problem

Thousands of devices out there, no live picture of which were still in use

many no longer used no live overview recovery done by hand faults missed for months

Unused kit sat in cupboards. Faulty kit went unfixed

A small team could not realistically call every resident, one by one

what we did

Voice agents that check in, fix, and escalate

call every resident confirm it's in use troubleshoot live flag anyone at risk

Always introduced as an automated assistant. Anything urgent goes straight to a person

Calls run in waves, hundreds at a time. Outcomes land in the council's existing tools, with a written summary of every call

// device check · outbound live
agent
Hello, I'm from the council adult social care team, calling about the alarm pendant on your account. I'm an automated assistant. Do you still use it day to day?
resident
Most days, yes
agent
Good. Could you press the button now, so we can check it still connects to the team?
resident
Hold on... I've pressed it. Nothing's come up
agent
Thanks for trying. I'll log this for a battery check and the team will be in touch this week
flagged: battery check · escalated to the TEC response team
how it runs

Built for adult social care, not retrofitted to it

consent

The agent introduces itself as automated and tells residents about the pauses on the line, so they know how to talk to it. Residents are identified by name or authorisation. They can opt out at any point, and the opt-out is logged

escalation

Anything urgent goes straight to the council's existing TEC response team, in real time, with full context. Safeguarding cues trigger immediate prioritisation

data

Calls, transcripts and summaries stay in UK data centres. GDPR, Cyber Essentials Plus, SOC 2 Type 1, IBM Cloud for Financial Services Validated

integration

Outcomes land in the systems the team already uses - Liquidlogic, Mosaic, Eclipse, or a CSV export

speed

Outcomes land within seconds of the call ending. The team can prioritise the urgent cases the same day, not weeks later

limits

The agent does not make clinical judgements, does not handle 999 routing, and does not replace the wellbeing call. It handles the routine, so the team can do the rest

the result
the pilot

Complete coverage of the cohort on the council's care-technology register

Calls run in parallel waves - the same method scales from hundreds to thousands

77%
// device status confirmed

of calls confirmed a device was still in use, or kit ready to reallocate

Older and less tech-confident residents engaged with the calls

not just the digital-confident - across age groups, including the residents the team worried wouldn't pick up

recovery

Unused kit found and queued for reallocation, automatically, without staff having to chase

repair

Faults picked up on the call and routed to the team that can fix them

focus

Skilled staff back on the people who actually need a human conversation

what it shows

AI communication is better than no communication

the strongest takeaway from the joint Tovie + Richmond & Wandsworth pilot wrap-up, January 2025
01

Voice reaches residents across the board

Older and less tech-confident residents engaged with the calls. Several said they were pleased the council had called and not forgotten them

02

Routine work comes off the team

Skilled staff are freed for the residents who actually need a human conversation

03

Conversations are shorter and more to the point

The agent presents a clear reason to call, the resident gets a definitive outcome - no padding either way

04

It works for any council carrying a fleet of care technology

Personal alarms, falls detectors, telecare units - any kit that sits with a resident and needs checking in on

05

The same call handles two questions at once

With the digital switchover on the way, councils need to check not just what's in use, but what still works on the new network. The same outbound campaign answers both

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Wondering how much of your kit is still in use

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uk-based team · experienced with councils and adult social care
gdpr · cyber essentials plus · soc 2 type 1 · ibm cloud for financial services validated · ico registered · uk data residency
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