Today, we’re announcing that Medicus is joining forces with Doctolib, Europe’s leading AI and digital health company.
Together, we will accelerate our mission: building cutting-edge, safe and intuitive technology that helps GP practices, PCNs and ICBs deliver high-quality care, simplify daily work and give teams more time for patients.
Medicus will continue to be led by its founder and CEO, Emile Axelrad, with the same UK-based team and the same commitment to NHS primary care.
A new chapter for Medicus
Medicus was founded with a clear belief: GP practices need technology built around the reality of primary care.
Since 2019, we have worked closely with NHS England to build one of the most important recent innovations in UK general practice: the first new GP clinical software system to enter the NHS in 25 years.
By joining forces with Doctolib, we will combine:
What will stay the same?
We know that trust matters. That is why continuity is central to this next chapter.
Medicus will continue to operate with:
Why Doctolib?
Today, Doctolib supports 520,000 health professionals, including 40,000 GPs, and 90 million patients across Europe. Its suite of technologies includes appointment scheduling, patient communication, secure professional messaging, electronic health records, and AI assistants for clinical and administrative tasks, and workflow automation.
For Medicus customers, this partnership brings access to greater product, AI, engineering and service capabilities, while preserving the proximity and clinical understanding that practices already value from our team.
Supporting the future of NHS primary care
This investment directly supports the direction of travel set out for the NHS: moving care from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, and from reactive to preventive.
Together, Medicus and Doctolib will focus on practical technology that helps GP teams make these shifts actionable in daily practice.
A long-term commitment to the UK
Doctolib plans to invest more than £100 million in the UK over the coming years, hire 150 people in London and establish a dedicated R&D centre focused on primary care innovation.
This investment will reinforce Medicus’ UK-based team and help accelerate the development of new capabilities for GP practices, PCNs and ICBs across the country.
This is not a short-term move. It is a long-term commitment to UK primary care.
Emile Axelrad, founder and CEO of Medicus
“This is an important step for Medicus, for the GP practices we support and for the future of primary care in the UK. By joining forces with Doctolib, we will strengthen the platform, accelerate innovation and give practices access to even greater product and service capabilities, while preserving the quality, proximity and understanding they already value from our team. Together, as a British team, we want to raise the standard for GP technology across the UK.”
Medicus is joining forces with Doctolib to accelerate the development of the next generation of GP technology in the UK.
Together, we will build on Medicus’s NHS-native platform and Doctolib’s healthcare technology, AI and service capabilities to better support GP practices, PCNs and ICBs.
Yes. Medicus will continue to operate with the same CEO and founder, the same UK-based team and the same focus on NHS primary care.
Doctolib also plans to invest more than £100 million in the UK over the coming years, hire 150 people in London and establish a dedicated R&D centre focused on innovation in primary care.
Existing customers will continue to be supported by the Medicus team.
Over time, this partnership will strengthen the platform and bring additional product, service and innovation capabilities to GP practices, supported by Doctolib’s plan to invest more than £100 million in the UK over the coming years.
Yes. Patient data will continue to be processed securely, in compliance with UK GDPR and applicable NHS requirements, and hosted in the UK on secure, compliant infrastructure.
Medicus introduced the first new GP clinical software system to enter the NHS in 25 years.
By combining Medicus’s deep understanding of UK primary care with Doctolib’s technology and AI capabilities, we can help practices modernise workflows, improve coordination and give health professionals more time to focus on patients.
Medicus’s platform, team and clinical safety expertise remain the foundation.
This partnership will help us accelerate product development and bring new capabilities to GP practices, particularly around workflow automation, documentation support and smarter assistance for clinical and administrative teams.
