GPDQ

GPDQ is a UK primary healthcare company that connects patients with qualified GPs for face-to-face consultations at the patient's home, workplace, hotel, or clinic — on demand, through a mobile app. Founded in 2015 as the UK's first doctor-on-demand service, the company brings a familiar model from earlier generations of British medicine into the digital era, combining clinical rigour with the convenience of modern consumer technology.

The problem GPDQ addresses is structural: NHS GP availability has deteriorated significantly over the past decade, and patients requiring a same-day or urgent but non-emergency consultation frequently cannot access their own practice in time. The common alternatives — A&E departments and urgent treatment centres — are expensive and inappropriate for primary care needs, yet they carry the burden of millions of GP-level presentations each year. GPDQ positions itself as a complement to the NHS, not a replacement: giving patients with acute needs a convenient, high-quality alternative that takes pressure off overstretched public services.

The company's service model spans private and NHS channels. Corporate clients can offer GPDQ as an employee health benefit, and the company has partnered with NHS bodies — including GP federations, primary care networks, and integrated care systems — to deliver clinical surge capacity. Consultations take place in person (home, workplace, or clinic) or via video, with a multidisciplinary team including GPs, physiotherapists, mental health practitioners, audiologists, and healthcare assistants. GPDQ became the UK's first doctor-on-demand app in 2015 and subsequently expanded into a full primary care support platform.

Having raised multiple funding rounds including a £2m Series A, GPDQ now serves businesses, NHS Trusts, local authorities, and private patients across the UK. The company is led by its founder Dr Anshu Bhagat, a third-generation NHS GP who appeared in Pulse magazine's Power 50 in both 2018 and 2019 for his contributions to reducing NHS waiting lists and advancing digital healthcare.