Asterix Health

Asterix Health is a London-based healthtech company that provides NHS primary care practices with remote general practitioners. Its workforce consists of GMC-registered doctors, many of whom studied, trained and worked as GPs in the UK before relocating abroad, and who are then embedded remotely into UK practices. The company states it is the first and only provider approved under new NHS regulation to employ GMC-registered doctors based outside the UK to support NHS GP practices.

The service concentrates on non-patient-facing clinical administration and telephone-based work: interpreting and filing laboratory results and documents, an abnormal labs service, clinical triage support, and telephone consultations. According to the founders, a typical UK GP spends around 40% of their time on clinical admin such as filing blood tests and documents; Asterix doctors take ownership of that workstream end to end, deciding next steps as a UK-based GP would. Delivery is wrapped in clinical governance led by GP Partner and Founding Chief Medical Officer Dr Dan Bunstone, with a bespoke accreditation programme for doctors developed with primary care providers and CQC-approved ongoing clinical audit. Processes are co-created with each practice and the company monitors quality and productivity KPIs.

Asterix positions its model against the workforce commitments of the NHS 10 Year Health Plan for England, which states the NHS will explore deploying UK-registered professionals working in other countries to provide remote services to NHS patients. The company also markets to Primary Care Networks and states that its GPs are now eligible for ARRS (Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme) funding.

Founding story

Asterix Health was founded in 2024 by Julian Titz and Max Thilo, who met on the Entrepreneurs First programme in London. Both founders had navigated serious health conditions — Thilo was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma and Titz is awaiting surgery for a bicuspid aortic valve repair — and cite frustration at the lack of timely and preventative care caused by chronic workforce shortages as the motivation for starting the company [5][7].

Business model

Asterix Health employs GMC-registered doctors located abroad and supplies their capacity to UK primary care providers — individual practices and Primary Care Networks — as a remote workforce service, with tailored processes co-created per practice. It operates as a CQC-registered healthcare provider and markets access to clinicians at lower cost than local hiring; its GPs are stated to be eligible for ARRS funding for Primary Care Networks [0][3][5][6].

Traction

The company states its platform supports practices serving approximately 250,000 patients and that more than 3,000 hours of care have been delivered. It claims to free up the equivalent of more than one GP session per practice per day, with early partners reallocating saved time into new minor acute clinics and longer face-to-face consultations. It also claims broader adoption could save the NHS/UK primary care £250m–£300m annually [3][4][5][7].

Latest developments

On 7 May 2026 Asterix Health announced £2.1m in pre-seed funding led by Triple Point with participation from D2, Entrepreneurs First, Basis Capital, DLB Ventures and angel investors, to be used to onboard more NHS practices and expand its network of remote GMC-registered GPs. It concurrently appointed Dr Mike Bewick, former Deputy Medical Director of NHS England for Primary Care, as Strategic Medical Lead [4][5][6][7].