Now Healthcare Group


Now Healthcare Group is a health technology company founded in 2014 based in Salford. Lee Dentith is the founder and chief executive.
Medicash is a substantial investor in the company. It has been approved by the Care Quality Commission and is said to have 20 million customers.
In July 2020, Now Healthcare Group was acquired by Honey Bright Ltd which is a health technology incubator and a subsidiary of Infohealth Ltd. Infohealth Ltd has interests in several health tech companies which trade primarily in the United Kingdom and United States.

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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.
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.
An artificial intelligence mobile app called Now Patient is used in Now Pharmacy for patients with chronic health conditions.
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. 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. It claims this will help over-stretched NHS services.