About Us

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.

Health and Social Care's Best Company to work for 2023

The UKs Top 25 Best Mid-Sized companies to work for 2023

Best Companies to Work For - three-star accreditation

"Like no other place I've worked! There is a great family atmosphere with everyone working to the same goals. We hold each other to account, and support each other equally. "

Mahesh Mistry, Head of Medicines Optimisation

"I have been with Spirit for nine exciting years. Spirit is where the fusion of vision, ambition, effort and teamwork have been harnessed to try to create a better world and we are succeeding. I love it!"

Jim Swift, Health Economist

"Being part of Spirit means being part of a strong family that never stops learning, always stays positive and makes it happen."

Trupti Lagli, Education Services Administrator

"At Spirit every day is different and new challenges and opportunities arise constantly, so I find great comfort in always feeling supported by our fabulous teams - even when the support is someone being a critical friend!"

Nadine Miles, Director of Service Delivery

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.

Having a collective mission means we work together, and a good culture is vital. We’re proud to say that we have been recognised as one of Best Companies’ top 100 companies to work for since 2021,which we believe, highlights our focus on creating a fantastic culture where our people can thrive.

Read our 2023 Yearbook to see what it’s like working at Spirit.

Join our family

"Spirit means working with passionate colleagues to challenge the norm and push boundaries to make health easy for patients"

Selma Abed, Head of Medicines Optimisation

"At Spirit, you gain a family whether you're working in the office or from home. The goals that have been set for Soar 25 are a challenge and make it a great place to work. "

Jiten Gandhi, 2nd Line IT Support

"Spirit is somewhere you can learn, develop and challenge yourself."

Sadiq Ibrahim, Finance Assistant

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

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.

Want to find out more?

If you want to find out about our award-winning products and services, we would love to hear from you! Get in touch to see how we can help you.

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Company News

With around 200 employees working to make healthcare easy and accessible, there’s always a huge amount happening at Spirit. Find out what’s been going on below!