About 📚
We're on a mission to unlock access to healthcare by navigating patients to the right place, first time.
NHS staff need one less task.
We automate repetitive processes for healthcare systems and we're starting with the most famous: the NHS. Because we believe not all heroes wear capes, they wear NHS lanyards.
🌱 2021
Healthtech-1 was born. Our name is actually a codename for what was supposed to be a short project for Pete and Raj to help Raj's parent's GP practice with tech during the COVID pandemic.
⚡️ 2022
In just months, we grew to a team of five and had automated 25,000 new patient registrations. We began working across boroughs and ICBs to support GP practice staff and secured funding from Innovate UK.
🚀 2023
We reached 40 practices at the beginning of 2023 and by the end of the year, with now 10 people on the team, we were automating for over 400 - that's 10% of the nation's registrations every week.
We embarked on a journey to bring the world's best tech and talent home to help fix the NHS from San Francisco at Y Combinator. And we took to the stage at our first Best Practice Show to launch our second automation.
💙 2024
This year saw us become a selected supplier of automation for the NHS Register with a GP service and have since saved more than 134 years of NHS staff time with Automated Registrations.
Our second automation, Automated Lab Filing, liberated the equivalent time of more than 3,600 GP appointments each week.
We ended the year having reached 17% of GP practices in England and registered 1.1 million patients.
⭐ 2025
We began the year launching our third automation, Automated GP2GP Filing, for EMIS practices.
Every day, 1 in 6 new patients in England will get registered through Healthtech-1.
We became a team of 26 and set our sights on improving access to primary care for patients. The year ended with us speaking in Parliament and being voted Digital Solutions Provider of the Year by GP practices for the second year in a row.
🌀 2026
We're starting the year with a team of 38 laser focussed on our mission of unlocking access to healthcare by navigating patients to the right place, first time.
Serving 26% of England's GP practices, we're all in on building Bookable - bending technology, policy, and people to create a healthcare system where all appointments are transparent and instantly bookable.
We bleed blue 💙
We're engineers, accountants, surgeons and a couple of GPs on a mission to make something people need.
🎧 Listen to what we believe
Powered by our principles ⚖️
Whenever we design a new feature or write an email, our principles guide us.
🏅 Do your life's best work
Healthtech-1 was founded to be a place where exceptional people can do their life’s best work.
Not every role, project, or week will feel monumental, and that’s okay. Life’s best work isn’t about daily perfection or solo heroics, it’s about persistence. When you retire, we want you to be able to look back at your time here with a pride and positivity: “Oh I really did my life’s best work back then”.
💙 Care deeply
Purpose comes from caring deeply. Life is most meaningful when we commit ourselves to grander purposes - things beyond yourself. A mother for her child. A nurse for his patient. A teammate who shows up when it matters. Every minute of every day, a member of staff in the NHS is caring deeply for people they may never meet again. Helping our loved ones live longer. So, it is our duty to respond with deep care too.
🧘🏽♂️ Trust in Radical Truth and Radical Transparency
We play long-term games with long-term people. Strong relationships and incredible performance are both built on a bedrock of radical honesty. How do we change if we don’t know what to change? How can someone improve if no one tells them what they really think? That's why every 7 weeks we have a truth circle, in which we give radically honest feedback to each other.
🥳 Find the fun
We should aspire to love the doing. If work becomes fun, it’s no longer work. We interact with NHS staff every day, and they’re incredibly fun and bloody hilarious! They’ve committed their lives to helping others, so let’s add a bit of confetti in their lives and ours at the same time!
🤝 Be your word
In simple terms, great team work comes from great trust. And great trust comes from reliably delivering on what you said you will or will not do. Notice in life that you are always making little promises or contracts: “Yes I’ll get that to you end of day”, “See you at 12pm tomorrow”. Each time you break one of these contracts, you break trust. It may seem small at the time, but over time they compound and eventually you’re considered a person that makes commitments but never delivers. Alternatively, there’s an exciting place where we all commit to what we say we would do, or update each other when we’re not on track. We have such high trust that we can come together to tackle a problem, split tasks and come back together with all parts completed. This is one of the best feelings of teamwork, when everything comes together and you succeed together.
🏋🏼♂️ Work hard
We are attempting something rare and serious: unlocking access to healthcare and restoring pride in one of the most important institutions in this country. If we fail, patients suffer, clinicians burn out, and the fragile public belief we have in the NHS erodes. If we succeed, we change the lived experience of millions of people. That level of responsibility demands effort. Real effort. Sustained effort. We do not believe work of this importance can be achieved by coasting or by strictly containing our energy to office hours. We believe hours matter, because progress compounds when talented people apply consistent time, focus, and care to a hard problem. Working hard is not about suffering in silence. It is about choosing to care deeply and acting accordingly.
We're backed by the best.
The world's most influential investors have placed their bet on us.
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