Medvivo is a provider of
telehealth
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and related services based in
Chippenham, Wiltshire, England and owned by the
Eight Roads venture capital fund.
The company was founded in 2004 as Wiltshire Medical Services, in response to a change to the contract to run
GP out-of-hours services for North Wiltshire Primary Care Group. Its name changed to Medvivo in 2013 after it was acquired by Moonray Investors, an arm of
Fidelity Ventures
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, which became Eight Roads in 2015.
The company acquired Medvivo Careline Limited, an alarm monitoring service formerly known as Magna Careline, in 2014 from the Magna Housing Group. In the same year the company was said to be one the major UK players in the telehealth market. It is part of the Argenti telehealthcare partnership which has a contract with
Hampshire County Council
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for technology-based care. It is a member of the Innovation Council of the New Engineering Foundation.
The company still runs the out-of-hours service for Wiltshire. It also runs an advice telephone line for health and social workers in Wiltshire and
Bexley
Bexley is an area of south-eastern Greater London, England and part of the London Borough of Bexley. It is sometimes known as Bexley Village or Old Bexley to differentiate the area from the wider borough. It is located east-southeast of Ch ...
’s emergency link line. Its service in Surrey is claimed to be the largest telehealth deployment in the country.
Medvivo was involved, with other agencies, in the response to concerns over a human trafficking operation at a travellers' site near
Semington
Semington is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is about south of Melksham and about northeast of Trowbridge. The parish includes the hamlets of Little Marsh and Littleton. , Wiltshire, in April 2015.
From 2016, the company partnered with Care South to provide respite and reablement support for people in their own homes in Dorset, for which Medvivo provides a technology package and daily reassurance phone calls.
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.medvivo.com/
Private providers of NHS services
Health in Wiltshire