UK-based PushDoctor has raised $8.2 million Series for its on-demand doctor consultation service. The company will use the funds to bolster its marketing activities, and to develop the data side of its offering to improve integration with other healthcare providers.
Oxford Capital Partners and Draper Esprit led the round, with Partech Ventures also participating. Previously, PushDoctor has raised $1.2 million in seed funding.
The company enables users to video call a GMC-registered and NHS-employed U.K. General Practitioner (GP) for a consultation ranging from 10 minutes to 30 minutes. It has a network of 7,000 doctors which will respond on users’ requests within 3 minutes.
“We are working to provide patients with a greater choice — initially by offering simplified access to a registered GP, who in most ‘care journeys’ acts as a patient’s guide, confidant and advisor,” PushDoctor co-founder and CEO Eren Ozagir told TechCrunch. “We have removed the restrictions of access, consumption of time, and frequency of appointments.”
Ozagir says its clients include parents and parents-to-be who have regular questions during their pregnancy and early stages of parenthood, students who are living away from their regular doctor’s practice, as well as those with busy lifestyles who struggle to manage their health alongside work-life commitments.
PushDoctor, of course, is not the only game its town. In the UK, its competitors include Dr Now and Babylon Health.