Asterix Health, a remote workforce platform hiring UK-registered GPs to support NHS primary care, has raised £2.1 million in a pre-seed round led by Triple Point, with participation from D2, Entrepreneurs First, Basis Capital and a group of notable angels. Founded in 2024, Asterix Health connects NHS practices with remote doctors through its proprietary DoctorOS platform and is already live with GP surgeries serving 250,000 patients.
Rising pressure on NHS primary care has been driven by workforce shortages, with the number of patients per fully qualified GP increasing by 15% since 2015 and 2 in 3 doctors considering working abroad. Asterix Health addresses this by hiring GMC-registered GPs based abroad to carry out clinical admin and telephone consultations remotely, helping practices increase capacity and maintain patient access. Integration with Electronic Patient Record systems including EMIS and SystmOne enables doctors to access patient information and complete tasks more efficiently.
The model frees up approximately one GP session per practice per day, allowing time to be reallocated to proactive care services. More than 3,000 hours of care have already been delivered through the platform. Wider adoption could generate annual savings of £250–300 million for UK primary care, according to company estimates, and the approach has been referenced in the NHS 10 Year Plan.
Founded by Julian Titz and Max Thilo after both experienced serious health conditions, Asterix Health was built to address delays in access to care linked to staffing shortages. The founding team met through the Entrepreneurs First programme in London. Clinical leadership has been strengthened with the appointment of Dr Mike Bewick, former Deputy Medical Director of NHS England responsible for Primary Care.
For the first time in decades we are actually growing the pie — increasing the number of highly qualified GPs available to deliver primary care rather than simply moving existing GPs around the country. Our early partners are already seeing significant productivity gains and reallocating the saved time into new proactive care services for patients as a result.
The NHS has the talent – it just needs the infrastructure to deploy it properly. Asterix has built that. There are thousands of GMC-registered GPs who left not because they wanted to stop practising, but because the system didn’t work for them. I joined Asterix as they are creating a more sustainable workforce that meets the needs of modern primary care, with a relentless focus on quality and governance.
Julian and Max are exactly the kind of founders EF exists for — people who've lived the problem and have the depth to fix it at scale. The NHS workforce crisis isn't going away, and this is the most credible solution I've seen. Asterix has the potential to be a defining company in UK Healthtech.
Every time healthcare gets more productive, demand grows to meet it. Unfortunately, there's no fixed amount of medicine to be done. Asterix is unlocking a pool of brilliant doctors who couldn't otherwise reach NHS patients, and creating a new model of care that unlocks the capacity expansion the system actually needs. Asterix is taking a meaningful step towards greater healthcare abundance in the UK.
