Ella · Caring Scout
Approachable presence for bright, lightweight and everyday customer conversations.
AI Receptionist · Physiotherapy & Podiatry
Allied-health clinics live and die by the diary, and the phone rings all day: new bookings, rescheduled sessions, care-plan questions, someone who rolled an ankle an hour ago. LUNA's AI receptionist answers for your clinic, after hours, on overflow when reception is slammed, or around the clock: efficient at filling the book, careful never to diagnose, and built on the actual codes of conduct that govern physiotherapy and podiatry in Australia.
Why the phones matter here
A physio or podiatry book runs on volume, and a caller who hits voicemail rings the next clinic on the list. The agent picks up, answers the common questions from your approved knowledge base, and captures the enquiry properly, or books straight in where that's enabled. No referral needed for a private first visit, so most callers can be booked on the spot.
The agent answers questions about your services, your practitioners and how booking works from an approved knowledge base, then captures name, number, reason and urgency, or books directly into Cliniko where enabled. It handles the routine traffic so your reception team can look after the people in the waiting room.
A caller wants to know if it's a torn ligament or just a strain. The agent won't guess, and it won't reassure. It captures the complaint in the caller's own words, sorts the genuinely urgent from the routine, and leaves every clinical judgement to the practitioner at assessment.
The scope line, held on every call
The whole value of an allied-health front line is speed without overreach: fill the diary, capture the enquiry, and know the handful of presentations that belong with a GP or an emergency department, not a physio booking. Here is how the agent holds that line across the three situations that matter most.
Most calls are ordinary: a new patient, a rebooking, a question about what you treat. The agent moves them along quickly, answers from your approved knowledge base, and either books them in or captures a clean, structured enquiry. It states no referral is needed for a private first visit and gets them into the diary.
When a caller asks what's wrong with them, the agent declines to name a condition or predict a treatment or a session count. It records the complaint in their words, offers to book an assessment, and makes clear the practitioner works it out in person. No cure language, no guaranteed-relief promises, ever.
A few presentations need a GP or an emergency department, not a physio slot: saddle numbness with a change in bladder or bowel, a suddenly hot, swollen, painful calf, or a foot infection in a person with diabetes. The agent recognises these, gives the configured escalation script, and does not book them as routine.
Hear it yourself
Stride Physio & Podiatry is our fictional Brisbane clinic, invented so you can test the agent without any real patients or practitioners involved. Ask it anything a caller would ask you: ask it to tell you whether your knee is a torn ligament, promise to cure your sciatica, or quote how much Medicare gives you back on a care plan. The interesting part is what it refuses to do.
Ella is the voice you just heard, and the name is always Luna whichever voice your clinic chooses. Tap any card to listen, or browse the full gallery at lunasystems.com.au/ai-voice-selection.
Approachable presence for bright, lightweight and everyday customer conversations.
Polished, bright Australian female for friendly professional assistance.
Warm and highly relatable, excellent for customer service.
Friendly, happy adult female for engaging conversations.
Strong, composed female voice suited for giving instructions with clarity and authority.
Deep and firm male voice with a relaxed, conversational delivery.
Neutral, confident young adult male fit for voiceovers and customer interactions.
Inviting, friendly male for customer support and product videos.
Casual, friendly young male for authentic and engaging conversations.
Laid-back with a relaxed, low-key delivery for effortless, grounded customer support.
Smooth professional delivery, perfect for calm customer support.
A bright, expressive Australian male with an engaging, animated delivery that adds natural personality and warmth to any script.
Clear, professional adult female for customer communication.
How she's trained
Natural Australian conversation, an efficient register for a busy booking line, proper message-taking, booking discipline, and the golden rule underneath it all: if it isn't configured or approved, she says so and captures the question rather than improvising.
AHPRA and National Board advertising guidelines, the Privacy Act and state health-records law, TGA advertising rules, Medicare and fees accuracy, emergency escalation, honest AI disclosure, and recording-consent statutes in all 8 states.
The Physiotherapy Board and Podiatry Board of Australia's codes of conduct and scope-of-practice standards, the Medical Board's advertising rules on claims, and the Medicare chronic-disease-management and DVA plan rules, distilled into a no-diagnosis scope line, no cure or guaranteed-relief claims, no rebate or covered-visit figures over the phone, allied-health title discipline (a physiotherapist is not a doctor or a specialist), and the red-flag refer-out triage that sends the genuinely urgent to a GP or emergency department.
Your physiotherapists and podiatrists and their exact titles, your services, fees policy and hours, your care-plan and fund-check stance, your red-flag and escalation pathways, plus your own materials: patient information sheets, exercise and aftercare handouts, and a specialised go-live questionnaire about how your clinic actually runs.
Every month, every call is audited: drop-off points, unanswered question types, improvement candidates. Changes are approved with you and versioned into the agent, and regulation-change monitoring updates the rules when guidance moves. Better every month, never changed without sign-off, and never self-retraining on its own.
The guardrails are the product
Every generic voice bot can answer a phone. The question your practice principal, your indemnifier and AHPRA would ask is what it says on a recorded line at 9pm with nobody supervising. Tap a question to see how Luna handles it.
Traceable, versioned, maintained
The agent's behaviour is built from layered, versioned rule sets distilled from the primary sources: the Physiotherapy Board and Podiatry Board of Australia's codes of conduct and scope standards, the Medical Board's advertising rules, AHPRA advertising guidelines, and the Australian Privacy Principles. When a regulator updates guidance, we know which rules are affected and which agents need updating.
✓ approved · v1.1
Scope of practice, advertising discipline, privacy, emergency escalation, honest AI disclosure on every call.
✓ approved · all 8 states
Recording consent statutes, the state complaints body, after-hours escalation pathways, jurisdiction privacy law.
✓ approved · v1.0
No-diagnosis scope line, no cure or guaranteed-relief claims, allied-health title discipline, red-flag refer-out triage, no rebate or covered-visit figures over the phone.
Guidelines for advertising a regulated health service · shared Code of Conduct · guidance on using AI in healthcare
Code of conduct · scope-of-practice standards · advertising and title-protection guidance for physiotherapists
Code of conduct · scope-of-practice standards · guidance on the diabetic foot and appropriate escalation
Medicare chronic-disease-management (care plan) rules · DVA allied-health plan rules · eligibility capture, not quoting
Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles (OAIC) · TGA advertising rules · ACCC advertising guidance on claims
Call-recording consent statutes · health complaints bodies (HCCC, HCC, OHO) · state health-records legislation
Distilled from LUNA's living library of 8,900+ Australian regulatory and professional documents, independently verified against source text, and monitored for regulatory change. When a guideline updates, we know exactly which rules and which agents are affected.
From go-ahead to go-live
Your physiotherapists and podiatrists and their correct titles, services, fees policy, hours, care-plan and fund-check stance, red-flag and escalation pathways and contacts, plus your own materials: patient information sheets, exercise and aftercare handouts. A specialised go-live questionnaire makes sure every answer the agent gives is yours, not a generic one.
Your agent is built from the approved compliance layers plus your configuration, then attacked with a physiotherapy and podiatry-specific test script, no-diagnosis scope, red-flag triage and title discipline included. It must pass every probe before it ever answers a real call.
Your number routes to the agent, changeable in seconds, never a dead line. Monthly call reviews and regulation-change monitoring included.
Cliniko, Best Practice, Medical Director, Genie, Gentu, Halaxy, Coreplus, your dental suite, whatever runs your day: we design the agent around your systems, never the other way round. You don't change how your practice works to suit us.
Where your practice software has API access, Luna books and writes back in real time. Cliniko is live today, with more connectors on the roadmap.
No API? We wire structured, qualified messages into your existing inbox, CRM or task list, formatted exactly the way your team already works.
Locked-down legacy system? We stand up a clean parallel capture and booking layer for you, and your team reconciles it in minutes, not hours.
Fair questions
Always. Every call opens by saying it's an AI assistant and that the call is recorded, and it confirms it plainly if asked. That disclosure is fixed at the compliance layer; no clinic setup can remove it, which also satisfies the strictest Australian recording-consent standard.
They contain health information, so they're treated that way: moved to Australian-hosted storage promptly after each call, deleted from the voice platform, delivered only to the contacts you nominate, and retained for a period you set. The full detail is on our data handling and security page, and you get it in writing as a one-page summary.
No. The agent won't name a condition, predict a treatment or a session count, or promise a cure. It captures the complaint in the caller's own words and books an assessment, because every clinical judgement belongs to the practitioner in person. That keeps you inside the Physiotherapy and Podiatry Boards' scope-of-practice and advertising standards.
It runs your configured triage before booking anything. Saddle numbness with a bladder or bowel change, a suddenly hot and swollen calf, or a foot infection in a person with diabetes get the escalation script, not a routine slot. The agent gives the caller the immediate step, points them to a GP or emergency department per your pathway, and raises an urgent alert. It never diagnoses and it never talks anyone out of emergency care.
Where your practice software supports it (Cliniko first, more connectors coming), yes: real bookings into your calendar. No referral is needed for a private first visit, so most callers can be booked straight in. Otherwise it captures qualified, structured enquiries for your team to action first thing.
Built by LUNA Systems, Brisbane
Because it does. Book a discovery call and we'll walk you through how the agent fills the diary, holds the no-diagnosis scope line and triages the red flags, plus exactly what setup looks like for your clinic.