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When Samim Azim started working as a doctor in England 14 years ago, his main job was to diagnose and treat patients for the National Health Service.
Today, he's the founder and CEO of NovaHS, a not-for-profit that Azim says was designed "to quietly transform the way GP services are delivered."
That's because NovaHS, which Azim says he came up with while "Pooling clinicians' personal experience of best practice throughout England, he formed a team to design a system that would both streamline administrative and clinical tasks and ensure these services were more affordable and to practices burdened by budget constraints," according to a press release.
Since April 2020, NovaHS has served 1.7 million patients across 32 Integrated Care Boards in England, saving the National Health Service some 13,000 extra GP appointments or 80,000 clinical hours, the press release says.
Azim's "unique position within healthcare to offer scalable solutions at scale that address the current and future challenges of primary care in the NHS" has led to "meaningful improvements in GP services and patient care," the press release says.
Azim tells the New York Times that NovaHS has saved the National Health Service more than $100 million in the past year alone, and that's without even realizing it.
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