Dr Anshu Bhagat

Dr Anshumen (Anshu) Bhagat is a British-Indian GP and health technology entrepreneur from North London, the son and grandson of practising physicians — a third-generation GP whose family roots gave him a profound early understanding of what good primary care looks and feels like. He trained as a doctor, qualifying in 2001, and spent several years working in London hospitals before completing his GP training in 2005 and building a portfolio of private and NHS clinics across the capital.

After more than a decade on the clinical frontline, Dr Bhagat became increasingly frustrated by the structural inadequacies of the primary care system he observed from the inside. NHS GP capacity was declining while demand was rising, leaving patients with urgent but non-emergency needs caught between an overloaded GP system and an A&E built for something entirely different. His response was entrepreneurial: in 2015 he founded GPDQ, the UK’s first doctor-on-demand mobile app, which allowed patients to book a qualified GP to visit them at home, at work, or in a hotel within a short window — combining the clinical quality of a proper consultation with the convenience of a modern consumer platform.

As Founder and Chief Medical Officer of GPDQ, Dr Bhagat leads a company that has grown from a pioneering consumer app into a full-service primary healthcare platform serving private patients, corporate clients, NHS GP federations, primary care networks, and integrated care systems across the UK. GPDQ’s multidisciplinary clinical team delivers services across home visits, clinic consultations, video appointments, and on-site workplace sessions, keeping patients out of secondary care and relieving pressure on NHS resources.

Dr Bhagat’s contribution to digital healthcare has been widely recognised. He appeared in Pulse magazine’s Power 50 list of the most influential figures in general practice in both 2018 and 2019, acknowledged for his role in reducing NHS waiting lists through the application of technology and for raising awareness of mental health challenges faced by GPs. He was also recognised as a DigitalHealth.London Digital Pioneer for Innovation in 2016.