HealthTech platform Asterix Health has raised £2.1 million in pre-seed funding to help NHS GP practices tackle the primary care workforce crisis using remote UK-registered doctors.
The round was led by Triple Point, with participation from D2, Entrepreneurs First, Basis Capital and angel investors.
Founded in 2024 by Julian Titz and Max Thilo, who met on the Entrepreneurs First programme in London, Asterix hires GMC-registered GPs to support NHS practices remotely through its proprietary DoctorOS platform. The pair founded the company in 2024 after both navigating serious health conditions themselves. Thilo was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Titz is currently awaiting surgery for a bicuspid aortic valve repair.
Over a call, Titz told Pathfounders “We work with GPs who are based abroad. All have the same registrations that a UK-based GP would have. And they basically become remote, embedded members of the GP Practice, and today we support those practices on owning that clinical admin workstream end to end. So a typical GP in a UK practice spends around 40% of their time filing blood tests, documents, etc. So our doctors support the practice remotely and own that work end to end. That means they would file all the documents and decide what needs to happen next just like a UK-based GP would.”
The company says its model already supports GP surgeries serving 250,000 patients and has delivered more than 3,000 hours of care. It claims it can save practices more than one GP session per day, with wider adoption potentially saving UK primary care £250 million to £300 million annually.
Asterix’s platform integrates with electronic patient record systems including EMIS and SystmOne, allowing remote GPs to handle clinical admin and telephone consultations with access to patient context.
The company says it is the first and only provider approved under new NHS regulation to hire GMC-registered GPs based abroad, opening up access to NHS-trained doctors who want to return to frontline care remotely.
The funding will be used to onboard more NHS practices and expand its network of remote doctors. Asterix has also appointed Dr Mike Bewick, former Deputy Medical Director of NHS England for Primary Care, as Strategic Medical Lead.
Asterix says it is CQC-registered, with all remote GPs GMC-registered and vetted to GMC standards.
