An online prescription platform has partnered with a health record app to give its users direct access to over 1,700 community pharmacies and their services.
Healthera announced today that its partnership with Evergreen Life will allow the app’s 1.5 million users to “receive same-day care for common conditions without needing a GP appointment”.
It said patients can search for nearby participating pharmacies, view appointment availability and book services such as Pharmacy First “directly within the app” for both in-person appointments and video calls.
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Healthera is also integrated with the askmyGP system “at participating GP practices”, the company added, and has the “potential to reach 3.5 million users over time through wider GP service integration”.
It said that by making services such clinical consultations, prescribing and vaccinations “easier to discover and book”, the partnership aims to “improve access for patients while helping pharmacies make better use of available appointment capacity”.
“More visible and accessible”
Healthera chief executive Quintus Liu said “too many patients still default to contacting their GP first” when seeking treatment for common conditions.
“By bringing Pharmacy First directly into Evergreen Life, we’re making pharmacies more visible and accessible, helping patients receive care sooner while supporting the NHS to use its resources more effectively,” he added.
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And Evergreen Life executive chairman Stephen Critchlow said patients “increasingly expect healthcare to be as easy to access as other digital services”.
“By partnering with Healthera, we’re making it simpler for millions of people to connect with community pharmacies and receive timely care when they need it,” he said.
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It comes after Healthera in January launched an AI-powered platform that it said will allow pharmacies to offer “fully automated” prescription tracking “for the first time”.
And it follows Healthera confirming in December that pharmacy owners can request to have their businesses removed from its directory after pharmacy owners and leaders accused the platform of being “misleading” and “unethical”.
