National MRI Scan

About National MRI Scan

National MRI was born in Nottingham, UK. Coincidently, Nottingham is also thebirthplace of the MRI machine!

Jasper, our co-founder & practicing Osteopath was shocked and saddened by the 100's ofpatients he saw in his Osteopathy clinic who were struggling to get a potentially life-savingmedical diagnostic scan. He wondered why.

After some digging, what he found was shocking. Waiting times in the UK's NHS fordiagnostic imaging scans were awfully long, however there were huge amounts of latentsupply in the private sector. Imaging machines in private hospitals were sat there underutilised, whilst patients in the NHS were waiting for a scan in excruciating pain and/oranxiety for many months.

He came together with Charlie, Oli & Joe to build a product which could help these100'000s patients across the UK.

The first iteration of our solution was a managed marketplace in the UK to connect patientswho are looking for a MRI scan to private hospitals with an excess supply of MRImachines. Having built this marketplace whilst working full-time jobs, we were staggeredby the continued growth in demand.

But what we found even more staggering was at a global level just how inefficient thewider diagnostic imaging ecosystem was. In the year 2021, we couldn't quite comprehendthat diagnostic imaging centres were using CDs, fax, numerous phone calls and letters toschedule scans and communicate results. What saddened us the most was that this led tovery poor patient outcomes: higher prices, longer waiting times and human error.

Out of curiosity, we also started to cast our eye towards a global market.

We found that many countries around the world had equally broken, if not worse,diagnostic imaging ecosystems than the UK!

At this point, we decided we wanted to build a solution to this global problem, startingwith Germany & the USA. But we couldn't do it alone. We needed to #1 quit our jobs andgo full time #2 grow the team.

So we turned to the best investors in the UK to back us to do this. We are incredibly luckyto have been backed by some of the best investors in the UK from the likes of OxfordCapital (major investors in PushDoctor), YZR.VC (founders of TeleClinic), FoundersFactory, Tom Blomfield (founder/ex-CEO @ MONZO), Harry Hurst (Founder/CEO @PIPE), Evelyn Bourke (ex CEO @ BUPA) and Lopo Champalimaud (founder/ex-CEO @Treatwell).

We're now building a global company, and if you're ready to shape the future of healthcare.