GPs are at the centre o every population's care, with more than 90% of clinical contacts occurring in Primary Care. Whilst General Practice is essential for patiet care, there are significant challenges around capacity, demand, access, quality and long term sustainability.
There is no programme that seeks to learn about the fundamental barriers blocking innovation in Primary Care. There is also no programme that finds innovation, tests them, codesigns with at-scale stakeholders. Innovators not only need access to clinicians, patients and data, but they need to demonstrate viable business models that can also scale to millions of patients and benefit the NHS.
1. Existing accelerators are either sector agnostic or focus on secondary care
2. Struggle to find large scale sites to pilot
3. Need clinical validation and strong health economic or business case
4. Need to show traction (revenue and/or sticky user engagement)
5. Need to expand at pace from a few customer sites to pan-NHS
Rather than take on large cohorts of startups, we provide bespoke support and acceleration. This means we take on startups on a rolling basis.
● We leverage the role of the GP at the heart of the health and care ecosystem, giving our startups unparalleled insight and access to stakeholders.
● Startups get access to experts, clinicians, data, patients, and our network of policy makers and thought leaders
● We leverage our resources across OHP, a 1,300 member strong GP group, to co-develop, pilot, and measure the impact of innovations
● We can be a large paying customer, and make warm introductions to our larger network of customers across the NHS
● Our work reduces risk for grant bodies and venture capital, driving further capital into Primary Care.
Social Justice
We ask for equity in startups and donate a portion of this to the community we serve
Previous accomplishments of the team
● Implementation of the National Health Promotion Scheme across five states in India
● Design of a model for primary care Service Delivery Networks in the Philippines, with private-public participation
● Expansion of Indonesian hospitals on a PPP basis
● Secondments to health ministries, including Botswana and Philippines, to design programs
● New Primary Care Clinic Chains in China, Saudi Arabia, Poland and Hong Kong
● Integrated health benefit management systems in India, Hong Kong, and Thailand
Low cost healthcare models
● Founded Health India Private Ltd, a chain of primary care clinics across India
● Designed clinical governance framework for Telenor Health, Bangladesh
Our role as Harbr is to leverage our ecosystem of capital, industry, government and customers to support entrepreneurs to build and scale new services.
Reach out to us if you want to contribute to this effort or require support.
