The UK-based start-up Push Doctor is presently Europe’s largest digital health provider. The healthtech company founded in 2013 enables users to book a video consultation with a doctor and manage other aspects of their health digitally.
This company has now announced that it has raised $26.1 million (£20.2 million) from a cohort of investors in Series B funding.
Leading the round are Accelerated Digital Ventures, and Draper Esprit, with participation from European VCs Oxford Capital, Partech Ventures, and Seventure Partners. It brings total funding for Push Doctor to date to over $37.5 million.
This round of investment will help further expanding the company’s value-proposition for patients as it couples its market-changing instant access doctors with complementary products and services.
Push Doctor charges people £20 for a 10 minute consultation via a smartphone app or website. Following the consultation, the patient can then be issued with a prescription, a sick note, or a GP referral. It is the first truly digital health consumer brand in the UK, connecting patients to a smart network of thousands of UK qualified GPs, giving them access to a d¬¬octor in as little as six minutes on any device.
“No one before Push Doctor has provided
consumers with access to a single digital health platform that combines responsive medicine and chronic condition management as well as fitness and nutritional conditioning,” says the company’s CEO Eren Ozagir.Push Doctor, which competes with the likes of Babylon, said it will use the funding to help it bring new products to market, adding that the first of which will be available later this year.
It’s not the only telemedicine app in the UK. AI-based babylon, which recently raised $60 million to build a next-generation app and released the results of a six-month trial with the NHS in north-central London, has also been embraced by many in the UK as a means of dealing with the nationwide doctor shortage. Therefore, by providing a quick method to access primary care, Push Doctor also wants to become a digital health service in its own right.
