Agentis Health Group, a UK-based digital health management specialist, officially launches today with the acquisition of Living With, a leading digital health company specialising in condition-specific therapeutics and remote patient assessment, management and rehabilitation. This marks the Group’s first strategic move in bringing together the critical services needed to strengthen its digital therapeutics offer and transform long-term condition management for the NHS.
Established from within Ashtons – a leading UK provider of medicines management and prescribing technologies – the Group has been created to address one of the most urgent challenges in NHS healthcare: how to deliver better health outcomes for people living with long-term conditions, while at the same time easing the clinical, operational and financial pressures at the frontline.
With a focus on chronic conditions relevant to NHS primary care, such as heart failure, COPD and diabetes, Agentis Health Group brings together a unique blend of expertise across clinical and digital excellence, therapeutics and healthcare management, medicines management and diagnostics. With the offer of managing long-term condition pathways end-to-end, Agentis Health Group is building a single, scalable platform designed to help the NHS deliver smarter, more joined-up care.
Stephen Tuddenham, Chief Executive Officer of Agentis Health Group, said: “Agentis is our answer to the Government’s rallying cry for more integrated, digitally enabled, patient-focused care. Over the past 40 years, we’ve proven the merits of a pharmacist-led approach to managing conditions and preventing ill health. Building on the strong foundations of Ashtons, we’ve engineered an organisation which is ideally structured to help the NHS deliver its ten-year plan to shift ‘from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, and from sickness to prevention’. “Bringing Living With into our group means we can offer even more of what the NHS needs, all in one place. Agentis unites clinical excellence, digital expertise, remote patient management, diagnostics, medicines management, therapeutics and more. We’ve made a clear commitment to help the NHS shape the future of UK healthcare. With our strong heritage, our expertise, and the acquisition of Living With, we’re hitting the ground running.”
“We’re excited about the next step in our journey,” said Chris Robson, CEO, Living With.
“Joining Agentis brings together Living With’s remote patient management and digital therapeutics platform with the Group’s medicines management, diagnostics, therapeutics, clinical and digital expertise. It creates a joined‑up, vertically integrated model for long‑term condition management that can help the NHS and other UK providers deliver the service transformation patients need. Above all, it unlocks the full potential of what we’ve built – giving us the scale, expertise and resources to grow faster, deliver more value for customers, and be an even better place to work.”
Ashtons will continue to serve more than 300 hospitals and care providers under the group’s specialist Agentis Therapeutics division, while the Agentis Healthcare division will focus on expanding the group’s offer to NHS primary care, integrated care systems and commissioners. Agentis Diagnostics offers relevant testing and diagnostics services to both NHS and independent healthcare providers, supporting the end-to-end management of long-term-condition pathways. With this structure, Agentis Health Group is uniquely positioned to help the NHS achieve its long-term ambitions: improving health outcomes, enhancing patient experience, preventing ill health and easing frontline pressures.
As Ashtons, Agentis has already delivered measurable benefits for the NHS using this integrated approach; for example, for GP practices based in West Devon and Essex, where Agentis’ bespoke solutions have directly enabled the NHS to enhance health outcomes, improve patient access to services, streamline processes, and reduce administrative burdens. See Case Studies.
Agentis is now engaging with healthcare providers and systems across the UK to scale its services nationally – helping to free up clinical time, improve operational efficiency and, ultimately, deliver better health outcomes for patients.