ORB Connect partners with trusted medical advice website patient.info, bringing seamless patient record sharing to 8 million monthly users, who can now access their NHS records and share them with private practitioners through the ORB Connect platform
London, UK. Strictly Embargoed to Tuesday 14th October 2025 – ORB Connect, the health tech solution enabling patients to digitally share their full NHS records with private practitioners, has today announced a partnership with award-winning U.K. medical information website, Patient.info.
The collaboration means that patients in England can, from today, access and share their complete NHS GP medical records with healthcare professionals and organisations outside of NHS boundaries, securely, digitally and free-of-charge, via Patient.info.
Patient.Info’s partnership with ORB Connect allows patients to grant access to their NHS records for as long as the patient chooses, from a single consultation through to permanent access. With the ORB Connect integration, these will always be live and automatically up to date. The partnership not only enables patients to view their records, but also upload information to them via ORB Connect and that they can invite other practitioners and clinics to also upload notes.
The patient always retains control over the record, and they can share all, or part, of it with their healthcare provider – including non-CQC clinics such as chiropractors or physiotherapists. It is up to the patient if they are happy to grant permission for the information to be downloaded and they must specifically grant it in each case.
Access to a live GP record helps remove delays and repeated requests for the GP Summary. With consent, practitioners can review medications, conditions, allergies, test results and consultant and GP correspondence – before, after and during consultations.
More technical integrations between the two platforms will follow, including a patient dashboard showing a concise 3-month health summary and the ability for patients to click on a prescription in their NHS record and for the Patient.info-held advice on that medication to be displayed. Relevant functional changes and lifestyle advice drawn from Patient.info’s clinically reviewed information portal could also be shown to the user.
Danny Glover, CEO and Co-founder of ORB, says: “Patient.info is, like us, a clinician-founded company, which has become the most treasured and well-respected online source of health information in the UK. By bringing consent-led access to live NHS GP records into that relationship of trust, we can help millions of people use their own data safely and meaningfully when they’re seeking treatment. As millions of us now routinely use multiple providers for some of our care, we, in partnership with Patient.info, are working towards improving patient safety with health interventions based on patients’ actual health records.
“As Patient.info users link via ORB Connect, and as private providers – whether a GP, neurodevelopmental or MSK clinics – adopt the platform, patients get faster, better-informed care and NHS GP surgeries face fewer requests for manual GP Summaries. It’s a practical win for patients, clinicians and practitioners in the private sector and, also for the wider NHS system.
“Our medium term vision is to build on this collaboration by actively looking for other partners who can help us to build additional functionality into the Patient.info offer. In this way, we will be able to introduce new services with Patient.info that will deliver truly personalised, accessible health information that really resonates with that person’s own health concerns.”
Thomas Porteus, Director of Product and Partnerships, Patient.info, says: “At Patient.info, we care deeply about patient empowerment and choice. Everyone should be able to see and use their NHS health records easily, helping them make informed decisions about their own care.
“Our partnership with ORB Connect — a secure, clinician-led platform built to the highest standards of data protection — is about giving people confidence and control over their information. Patients decide what to share, with whom, and for how long.
“For the first time in the UK, this collaboration brings together two trusted sources — NHS patient records and the clinically reviewed information on Patient.info — to create a single, personalised experience that helps people better understand their health and treatment.
“By connecting diagnosis, prescriptions and GP advice with relevant, easy-to-understand information, we’re helping patients take an active role in their care. Everything is consent-led, privacy-first, and accessible from any smartphone or tablet.
“We’re proud to be leading the way in helping people turn health data into real understanding and better everyday decisions.”
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