Patchwork Health: against COVID-19 Company
Entity: Patchwork Health
Category: HealthTech
Description: Patchwork is a health tech start up providing software solutions in attempt to solve temporary staffing challenges. Patchwork was founded in 2016 by Anas Nader and Jing Ouyang, two NHS doctors with a passion for technology and innovation, to help hospitals fill vacant shifts more cost-effectively and to stem the tide of clinicians leaving the health service due to poor work-life balance. Patchwork transforms temporary staffing by connecting vacant shifts with a growing marketplace of healthcare workers.This saves the NHS millions while improving the experience for their workers, and ultimately, their patients—making sure a doctor is there when you need one most.
Project: Patchwork Free Health Solutions for NHS Trusts and care workers.
Summary: Giving vital support to the people on the frontlines who are tackling the virus head-on is one of the most immediate ways that healthtech has been helping. Patchwork Health has made their systems free for NHS Trusts and care workers for the next four months.
+ Investors; funders: Patchwork Health, a rapidly growing healthtech start-up on a mission to solve the NHS staffing crisis and bring flexible working to thousands of clinicians, has secured £3m in a funding round led by Praetura Ventures.
. Praetura Ventures
. BMJ Group
. BMJ Publishing Group
