An award-winning company with a mission
To put it simply, our mission is to make health easy and accessible for all. We aim to take the complications out of healthcare, improve the lives of patients and provide the best value for healthcare providers. We step back and take the time to understand the challenges our patients, partners and staff are facing.
Our services include cost-effective medicines optimisation programmes, innovative digital health technology, high-quality education services, patient-focused GP practices, and our diabetes-specialist pharmacy.
We’re proud to see our work recognised by some of the leading names in health and technology and we wouldn’t have been able to do it without our Spirit family.
The evolution of Spirit
It all started in 2007
Spirit was incorporated with a goal to save the NHS money, focusing on medicines optimisation.
Moving on a few years to 2011
Launched our Active Implementation service in medicines optimisation and licensed the first version of CliniTouch Vie from the US.
4 years later in 2015
Created our education services, starting with structured diabetes education. Launched CliniTouch Vie, our digital health platform.
1 year later in 2016
Launched our primary care offering through operating GP practices.
Here we are today
Now a growing team constantly developing our multi-award-winning services.
Passion, dedication and experience
Every person working at Spirit offers a wealth of experience, passion and dedication, with a genuine focus on our people, patients and customers.
Our family includes over 60 doctors, nurses, pharmacists, researchers and scientists, adding up to hundreds of years of direct NHS experience which we utilise everyday. Along with staff from non-clinical backgrounds, this means that we get a 360-degree view.
Having a collective mission means we work together, and good culture is vital. We’re proud to say that we were one of Best Companies’ top 100 companies to work for in 2021, an outstanding company to work for in 2022 and a world class company to work for in 2023!
Read our 2023 Yearbook to see what it’s like working at Spirit.
Living by our values
Whether we’re collaborating with the NHS to launch a virtual ward, or partnering with industry customers to help the NHS optimise value from medicines, we’re proud to carry our values throughout everything we do.
Family
We are accountable. Family requires us to jointly agree our goals and commit to delivering them together. We support our work family when they need us – beyond normal expectations.
Family also requires us to be accountable and do what we say when we say will do it, sharing direct, constructive feedback.
We understand each other, ourselves and treat everyone with respect.
Brilliance
We work to our strengths. Brilliance requires us to know our strengths (our superpowers) and spend most of our time working on them.
We show vulnerability, identifying our weaknesses and sharing them so others may work on them instead of us.
We provide informed data driven solutions designed to tackle root causes and deliver tangible results, brilliantly!
Vigour
We don’t give up. Vigour requires us to be persistent towards our goals – making sure we deliver. It also requires resilience, sharing learning widely and starting afresh with a different approach if we fail.
We challenge perceived wisdom, thrive on change and implement better approaches that are designed to tackle root causes.
Meet some of the team
Chris Barker
CEO a.k.a Chief Mischievist
Nadine Miles
Director of Service Delivery
Richard Palin
Medical Director
Selma Abed
Head of Medicines Optimisation
Bruce Adams
Sales Director
Kerry Taylor-Smith
People Director
Jamie Starr
Marketing Director
Duncan Richardson
Managing Director, Active Implementation
Collaborating with the NHS
We have close partnerships with many NHS and wider healthcare organisations, both in the UK and globally. Through our experience and staff, we have developed a deep understanding of the NHS, its pain points and its priorities for the future.
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