EMed Healthcare UK has acquired Babylon Healthcare Services and certain assets belonging to Babylon Group Holdings and Babylon Partners.
EMed Healthcare UK will continue to provide Babylon’s digital-first 24/7 primary care and expand services through EMed’s remote chronic care management starting with a clinician-led weight management programme.
Babylon also provides the remote/virtual GP service for most of Bupa’s retail customers.
Health & Protection reported in August that Babylon Health’s proposed sale to Swiss digital therapeutics firm MindMaze had collapsed. The beleaguered tech firm said at the time that there would be no impact on the services it provides as the tech firm sought “new strategic alternatives” for its UK business.
EMed Healthcare UK currently employs around 1,100 employees with 700 clinicians, who delivered over 1.2 million patient appointments in the UK between August 2022 and August 2023.
Dr Patrice Harris, co-founder and CEO of EMed, said: “This is a new era for the company and for digital-first primary care in the UK.
“Our focus for EMed Healthcare UK will be clinical excellence, high quality care, customer service and redefining chronic care management.
“We are totally committed to all of our patients, NHS and private, and our vision will be powered by people and enabled by digital technology.”
Tim Rideout, president of global clinical services, said: “As EMed Healthcare UK we will be redefining what it means to provide digital-first primary care and chronic care management, with a relentless focus on the quality of care and the user experience.
“I look forward to continuing to work with both public and private partners to realise our ambition to be the go-to digital-first primary care service in the UK and beyond.”
Charlie Howard, managing director of EMed UK, added: “Our ‘North Star’ is to create best-in-class scalable, digital healthcare for everyone in the UK.
“We are excited to develop the EMed Healthcare UK offering into a world-leading digital health service.
“We are working fast to expand and improve existing services whilst introducing EMed’s chronic healthcare management platform starting with clinician-led weight management.”