PocDoc and Patients Know Best announce partnership
- 12 February 2025
- A partnership between PocDoc and Patients Know Best (PKB) is allowing patients to easily access and share their screening results
- Through PKB’s platform, patients using the PocDoc Healthy Heart Check can view and share their screening results and see all of their data through the NHS App, which PKB is integrated with
- The service is available for patients in the 22 integrated care system regions across the country where PKB is live in the NHS App
A partnership between health tech startup PocDoc and personal health record and patient engagement platform Patients Know Best (PKB) is aiming to enable patients to more easily access and share their screening results.
Through PKB’s platform, patients using the PocDoc Healthy Heart Check can view and share their screening results and see all of their data through the NHS App, which PKB is integrated with, supporting the government’s vision for a single place for people to manage their health.
With the PKB integration, which launched on 3 February 2025, coded screening data is automatically sent to a patient’s personal health record.
Steve Roest, chief executive at PocDoc, said: “Our partnership with PKB is integral to helping us achieve our goal of helping people detect chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease (CVD) earlier and faster, through the use of our innovative and patented technology.
“By providing our users with the ability to see their results immediately in their patient record, accessible via the NHS App, we’re increasing the convenience of testing and helping ease the pressure on the health system.
“This functionality is brilliantly supported by PKB’s technology and we’re looking forward to further collaborations in the future.”
PocDoc’s Healthy Heart Check provides patients with a full cholesterol profile, body mass index score, NHS heart age and a 10-year risk assessment for heart attacks and strokes.
Patients can securely share their Healthy Heart Check results with their GP or other healthcare professionals, with the aim of ensuring timely interventions where needed.
By storing screening results alongside a patient’s complete health record, the service gives individuals a holistic view of their health.
This aims to encourage proactive engagement in managing overall wellbeing while accelerating the shift from hospital-centric care to more accessible, preventive healthcare services at home or in the workplace.
Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, chief executive at PKB, said: “The moment I learned about PocDoc’s rigorous home screening product, I knew it needed to be available to every patient and wanted to make it available to view in the NHS App.
“This is the future of preventative healthcare – where people can monitor and manage their health proactively using credible, NHS validated systems.
“By catching issues early, we stop expensive problems for health providers with manageable opportunities for intervention at home.
“Our integration with PocDoc is a clear sign of things to come.”
The service is available for patients in the 22 integrated care system regions across the country where PKB is live in the NHS App.
In January 2024, PKB announced that it had secured £6m in funding to scale its personal health record platform in the UK and expand internationally.
The platform is reported to be the largest of its kind in the world, integrating data feeds from all of England’s GPs and 25% of UK hospitals.
PocDoc announced in December 2024 that it had secured £5m in a pre-series A round, bringing its total pre-A funding to more than £10m.
The startup also partnered with the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership in January 2025 to roll out CVD health screenings to local communities.
