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The problem with specialist healthcare
32Co was founded to support general clinicians, our doctors and dentists, in communities all over the world work at their full potential. Generalist clinicians (family doctors and dentists) can treat a wide range of conditions and are the backbone of healthcare services. Specialists only cover one specific area of healthcare. Both are essential to delivering quality healthcare services.
In an increasingly sub-specialised, fast-moving healthcare world it’s impossible for our doctors and dentists to have access to every latest treatment, device and technology to serve every single need.
Patients are finding themselves being referred by their family doctor or dentist to different hospitals and specialists through increasingly tortuous systems to get access to these.
Bring expertise to the patient, not the other way around
32Co’s view is that patients shouldn’t need to travel to a specialist to get the latest, most innovative, specialised types of healthcare.
Specialist knowledge, skill and experience can be brought to the patient. By connecting their trusted general clinician with world experts in every single sub-speciality and allowing them to work together, virtually, for the first time, we are changing healthcare for the better.
‘Harley Street on the High Street’ is now possible, using technology to connect real human experts.
Why I founded 32Co
I founded this company after training as a doctor at Oxford, and practicing at some of the world’s top teaching hospitals, but also in the community. Moving into strategy consultancy at BCG, and later working in health tech building apps for patients with rare disease gave me a unique perspective on the challenges of our constantly evolving healthcare systems.
To ensure that the latest in healthcare innovation is available everywhere, things need to change - in an industry which is notoriously slow to move. Connectivity between different types of doctors is something patients assume is commonplace, but it isn’t.
We’re building an technology ecosystem which allows any doctor or dentist, anywhere, to connect 1:1 with a world expert in a very specific area, to give their patients access to the best care, no matter where they live. I’m passionate about creating a world where doctors feel empowered through technology which recognises the value of real life human experience, and not where technology is being used to cut corners, save costs and cut out clinical experience.
Increased quality, increased access, decreased costs of healthcare. By re-drawing the map we are creating a win-win-win scenario for our clinicians and our patients. Our specialist experts can now support patients thousands of miles away. Our local generalists can deliver new types of treatments and services, collaborating with the best in the world. And patients no longer have to travel to super specialist centres to get the type of healthcare which is usually only accessible to the lucky few.
Why we’re backed by the world’s top VCs
We’ve received backing from the same VCs who backed revolutionary companies like Revolut, Depop, Zoe and Cleo;’ companies that don’t accept the status quo, and are creating a new world.