After India, Toronto-based Ask The Doctor is looking to the UK market for growth. There, they have acquired Patients Connected, one of the largest telehealth services in the country that connects thousands of patients to licensed physicians across the UK.

“We are excited to announce our second acquisition and welcome Patients Connected to the Ask The Doctor family,” said Prakash Chand, president and CEO of ATD Health Network Inc. “With NHS in a financial crisis and wait times at all UK hospitals and clinics increasing to over 5 hours to see exhausted physicians, the timing couldn’t have been better for us to integrate our ask a doctor platform with Patients Connected. ”

Ask The Doctor will use over 35,000 doctors on Patients Connected’s platform to fulfill the large demand of medical questions coming in from the United Kingdom. Also, with the acquisition, the company will have access to more patients from the UK and will be able to offer them immediate medical advice.

Ask The Doctor will use over 35,000 doctors on Patients Connected’s platform to fulfill the large demand of medical questions coming in from the UK.Ask The Doctor will take over the Patients Connected London office at the end of the month and has plans to open up new offices in Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the next 1 year.

The company has just over 500,000 active users globally on its secured medical platform (SMP) and receives a large volume of medical questions daily that are answered by top doctors within an hour by email. Ask The Doctor will be launching its phone, video chat and text chat options to the American market in their third quarter of this year.

In September, the company has acquired India-based health platform Sehat.