Dr. Tim Cooper
GP & Medical Director, Suvera
Innovative technology is reducing demand on general practice by proactively managing long-term conditions. A GP highlights AI use to drive holistic and preventative healthcare.
Reactive patient care is costly and unsustainable as a healthcare model. How can primary care physicians, who are chronically overstretched, manage the rising demand for services while focusing on preventative, holistic care?
Harnessing technology for prevention
“The UK population is ageing; people are now living longer with multiple conditions,” explains Dr Tim Cooper, GP and Medical Director of Suvera. “Utilising technology is the only way to future-proof primary care services.”
CQC-registered digital healthcare organisation Suvera was founded in response to this rising demand. By partnering with GP practices around the UK, the company is proactively managing patient care. The principle is simple, explains Dr Cooper: “If we can identify risks earlier, we can intervene sooner, and help people live longer, healthier lives.”
Continuous and proactive engagement
through digital platforms avoids
the 8am scramble for appointments.
Improving access to life-saving care
Backed by clinicians, pharmacists and GPs, the platform integrates best-practice healthcare with technology, providing a trusted platform to manage patients remotely, with outcomes sent straight to your GP record. Patients can submit health data, book appointments for investigations and speak with clinicians from the comfort of home. Data is proactively reviewed to determine timely and personalised interventions.
“General practice is delivering more appointments than ever, but for many, access remains difficult. Continuous and proactive engagement through digital platforms avoids the 8am scramble for appointments,” explains Dr Cooper. “Long-term conditions are proactively managed, rather than left until they become urgent, which has a positive knock-on effect across primary care and the whole NHS.”
With inclusive user-friendly technology, Suvera works with diverse populations across over 320 healthcare practices, aiming to reduce the barriers of healthcare access, inequality and digital inclusion.
Using population health data to drive holistic care
With 91% engagement across virtual services, feedback has been positive. The next stage? Building automated care, supported by technology and moving away from the traditional 10-minute, one-problem primary care model.
“Technology lets us see the bigger picture, and population health data helps us to ask who needs help today, who needs it tomorrow, and what are the future risks?” says Dr Cooper. “With risk stratification, we can focus on the highest-need patients first and prevent long-term conditions from worsening, a central component of the NHS 10-year plan.”
With AI in GPs’ toolkits, patients receive timely and tailored care. This change from the traditional model is driving prevention in primary care, resulting in safer decisions and improved clinical outcomes.
