Software provider OneAdvanced has acquired AI primary care healthcare provider Patchs Health Limited following a partnership between the two companies.

The purchase of Patchs Health, which develops AI used by GP surgeries, intelligent triage, care navigation, and ambient AI scribe technologies, aims to accelerate the delivery of OneAdvanced‘s healthcare platform.

Ric Thompson, senior vice president of Health at OneAdvanced, said: “AI triage, online consultation, and the intelligent use of data are now essential to solving the NHS’s access and workload challenges.

“With Patchs joining OneAdvanced, we become the only UK provider able to combine these capabilities with national-scale clinical systems and workflow automation.

“It’s this depth of integrated data and technology that puts OneAdvanced in an unrivalled position to support the NHS to deliver upon the ambition of the 10-year plan through a single, intelligence-led platform.”

Patchs Health was founded by a team of AI specialists from the University of Warwick, and is led by chief executive Dr Marcus Ong and Dr Daniel Sprague, chief technology and science officer, to apply advanced AI and data science to real-life operational challenges.

Dr Ong said: “The coming together of Patchs Health and OneAdvanced will bring immediate benefits to both healthcare providers and patients.

“By combining Patchs’ AI innovation and academic research heritage with OneAdvanced’s established clinical systems and national reach, we will accelerate the delivery of more efficient, intelligent, and patient-centred services.”

The Patchs leadership will now take on senior roles in OneAdvanced’s healthcare innovation unit to strengthen AI-driven innovation.

Patchs Health has academic research partnerships with The University of Manchester and The University of Cambridge, where they are conducting the largest ever evaluation of AI in UK primary care, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research.

OneAdvanced intends to build on these academic partnerships to accelerate translational AI research into practical tools for clinicians and NHS operational teams.

Meanwhile, in August OneAdvanced completed the purchase of certain assets of In Practice Systems (INPS) relating to the Vision electronic patient record, which is the main GP software for Scotland.

INPS, the British subsidiary of Cegedim SA, voluntarily placed itself under administration in December 2024 owing to financial difficulties while Scotland was in the process of migrating all of its GP clinical systems from EMIS to the INPS Vision software.