About 📚

We're on a mission to make the NHS the most advanced healthcare system in the world.

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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.

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⚡️ 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 ten 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.

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💙 2024

We began this year as a selected supplier of automation for the NHS Register with a GP service and have saved more than 85,000 hours of NHS staff time.


Our second automation, lab report filing, is helping to save the clinical time of tens of practices every single day and our sights are set on continuing to automate away repetitive admin processes so that NHS staff can focus on what matters.

Powered by our principles ⚖️

Whenever we design a new feature or write an email, our principles guide us.

☝️ One less task for NHS staff

The way we fix the NHS is by giving staff one less task. This is the founding principle of the company. It’s our responsibility to assess the tasks NHS staff do, simplify the complex, and automate the task away.

🏅 Do your life's best work

At Healthtech-1 we have the rare opportunity to make huge positive impact on a national scale. But right now, we’re a baby company! So, to help us reach the mission, you are given complete agency with a single condition: do your life’s best work.

🧘🏽‍♂️ 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.

💚 Be an owner, not an employee.

Absolutely everything we have created so far has been created by a collective of people. The individual is an illusion. With that in mind, we ask you to think about the whole company. Owners take responsibility for large areas of work and care deeply for the outcome they’re responsible for.

🎓 Simultaneously be a student and a teacher

The rate of improvement - how fast we are learning - is a critical factor of winning in this space. Speed and agility are characteristic traits of a startups. The faster we growth the more impactful we can be. Having a learning culture helps us strive to the next level.

🎉 Find the Fun

If work becomes fun, it’s no longer work. We should aspire to love the doing. Love and laughter sit right next to each other. A common saying in the NHS is “if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry”. So when you're designing something new or writing an email, throw in the confetti animation or emojis.

We're backed by the best.

The world's most influential investors have placed their bet on us.

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