Now Healthcare Group
Now Healthcare Group was a health technology company founded in 2014 and based in Salford. It developed the NHS online pharmacy platform NowPatient which operated in the United Kingdom.
It was approved by the Care Quality Commission and was said to have 20 million customers.[1]
It closed in May 2020 after losing the Aviva contract.[2] NowPatient was acquired by Infohealth ltd in July 2020 and has extended its reach to cover United States and United Kingdom.
Now Healthcare Group Ltd is dissolved and no longer an entity. [3]
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It provides digital GP services to Aviva clients, using its mobile app, Aviva Digital GP, which allows people to book video consultations with a GP, get remote diagnoses and advice on simple medical queries.[4]
Now Pharmacy, in Liverpool, is a "tele-pharmacy super hub". It will be able dispense around 500,000 prescriptions per month. It uses robotics technology, called Rowa and made by Becton, Dickinson.[5]
An artificial intelligence mobile app called NowPatient is used in Now Pharmacy for patients with chronic health conditions.[6]
Its video consultation platform, Now GP, is being trials by five groups of NHS practices and one additional large practice. The company also employs its own GPs.[7] It is being offered free. Patients will be asked if they would like Now Pharmacy to deliver any prescribed medicine. It will forward their prescription to a local pharmacy as a ‘click-and-collect’. This service is already offered to the company's private medical insurance clients.[8] It claims this will help over-stretched NHS services.[9]
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References[edit]
- ^ "Now Healthcare Group promotes appoints COO". Manchester Evening News. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ "Now Healthcare Group closure due to Aviva contract loss". Cover. 10 June 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ "NOW HEALTHCARE GROUP LIMITED overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 2024-04-26.
- ^ "Manchester's Now Healthcare Group collaborates with Aviva on new GP app". Bdaily. 27 April 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ "Now Healthcare to open robot-powered 'digital pharmacy' in Liverpool". Digital Health. 28 August 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ "Is the pharmacy the next casualty of the high street?". Essential Retail. 3 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ "GPs to trial Now Healthcare platform". Practice Business. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ "Online pharmacy offers GPs free use of video consultation app". Pharmaceutical Journal. 17 September 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ "Now Healthcare announces video consultation team-up with GPs". Digital Health Age. 11 September 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.