ENT hospitals · Follow up systems
Call the family that said they would think about it, with answers ready.
A follow-up system for an ENT hospital is the written routine that runs after a surgeon advises an operation or a hearing assessment and the family leaves without booking. GullySales works on who calls, what they send and how each call is noted.
Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.
What follow up systems means
A follow-up system is the set routine for calling, messaging or emailing an enquiry more than once, since most buyers do not decide on the first conversation. GullySales sets the number and timing of follow-ups so an undecided buyer keeps hearing from you until they decide either way.
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For ENT hospitals
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“I will think about it means a question went unanswered”
The family leaves with a worry nobody named: the anaesthetic, the stay, the bill, the school. A follow-up call that asks which of these is holding them back, and answers it, turns a vague pause into a decision.
“Insurance waiting is where families drift”
While pre-authorisation is pending, nobody tells the family what is happening. A call that reports the stage, even when there is no news, stops the family looking at another hospital because it feels ignored. Silence reads as indifference.
“A hearing decision runs through separate visits”
Assessment, trial and decision fall on different days. A coordinator who remembers where each family stands, and rings at the next step, stops the journey ending after the first consultation. Each stage needs its own reminder and its own short script, so nothing depends on one person's memory of a family seen weeks earlier.
“A reminder is not a follow-up”
An appointment reminder tells a family when to arrive. Follow-up after advice asks what is holding the family back. They are different calls, with different scripts and different owners, and treating them as one leaves the second undone.
What we do
What we deliver for ENT hospitals.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
A call list after every surgical advice
A list built at the end of each consultation, showing every family advised surgery and the coordinator assigned.
Result: No advised family leaves without a name against the next call.
A written answer sheet
One sheet covering the day, the anaesthetic in general terms, the stay and the paperwork, approved by your surgeons.
Result: The family holds something to show the other parent.
Insurance status calls
A routine for telling the family what stage pre-authorisation has reached, and who at the hospital is chasing it.
Result: A family never has to ask where the file is.
Reminders along the hearing journey
A reminder against each family at each step, from assessment to rehabilitation, with a script for the call.
Result: The coordinator calls at the step, not at random.
A reason logged for every pause
A short script and a place to log the reason a family gave for waiting.
Result: A list of reasons shows what stalls bookings.
A way to stop
A recorded note when a family asks not to be contacted, honoured on every list.
Result: Nobody is called after saying no.
How the result is measured
- Follow-up completion rate
- Average number of follow-ups before close
- Enquiries closed after repeat follow-up
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
Who it is for
This is written for these ENT hospitals.
- ENT hospitals offering day-care and inpatient surgery
- Paediatric ENT units within hospitals
- Cochlear implant and hearing rehabilitation centres
- Head and neck and thyroid surgery units
- Sinus, endoscopic and skull base surgery centres
- Voice and swallowing clinics
- ENT and audiology hospitals with vertigo services
- Charitable and trust-run ENT hospitals
How it works
From your first message to the first report.
No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.
First
Your brief
You tell us what you need in a few short steps: your business, what you want, where enquiries come from and how they are handled.
After the brief
A conversation and a written scope
We read it, then talk with whoever handles your enquiries. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come in writing, and nothing starts before you have read them.
Before work starts
Baseline recorded
The numbers this work is meant to move, such as enquiries, quotations, orders, visits or renewals, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.
After the baseline
The first fix goes live
The fix we agreed to start with is put in place and measured against the baseline, whether that is a reply, a follow-up, a page, a listing or the handover between marketing and sales.
As agreed
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words. How often you get it is set in writing before work starts.
At renewal
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. The length is agreed in writing before anything starts.
How the follow up systems work runs
- 1
Measure today's reply time
From last month's enquiries, we measure how long each waited for a first reply and how many follow-ups it got.
- 2
Agree targets and the sequence
We set reply targets and the follow-up sequence with your team, based on its real hours and workload.
- 3
Set up templates, tasks and ownership
Templates, first-call questions, CRM tasks and named owners go live, with cover for leave and weekends.
- 4
Track and adjust every month
Reply time and follow-up completion are reported against the baseline, and the routine is changed where it is not kept.
Why us
Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.
Marketing and sales, as one job
Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.
The person on the first call does the work
No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.
A baseline before anything starts
Your numbers are written down on day one, so every later report compares against something honest.
The fee in writing, split three ways
Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.
No guarantees we cannot keep
The term is agreed in writing and never a default twelve months. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.
One office, and we say so
Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. We work across India by call and WhatsApp and travel when a session needs to be in person.
#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.
Your brief
Tell us what you need, and we will read it before we call.
Eight short steps about your business, what you want and who decides. Most questions are a tap, and you can skip any you would rather answer on the call.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
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Who should make the follow-up call?
How frequently should we call a family?
Is it right to call a family that decided against surgery?
How much does it cost?
How long is the contract?
How soon will we see results?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
What if we are not happy with the work?
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Your next practical step
Tell us what you are trying to grow, and we will read it before we call.
Eight short steps, mostly taps. Skip anything you would rather answer on the call.