2000 headquarters coventry west midlands united kingdom area served united kingdom website www.scriptswitch.com scriptswitch limited now part of unitedhealth uk is a software company that develops and supplies a realtime decision support tool to gp surgeries in the united kingdom . its primary product scriptswitch is sold predominantly to nhs primary care organisations who use it to provide gps with locally authored information and advice at the point of prescribing which can contain patient safety messages drug switch recommendations and other information . as of april 2010 it is in use in more than 4 400 gp practices across 116 nhs primary care organisations which covers 27 million patients 1 and is reported to save the nhs more than 20million per annum . 2 contents 1 history of the company 2 awards 3 external links 4 references history of the company edit scriptswitch limited began life in early 2000 as a private partnership formed by kelvin acford a retail pharmacist matthew berryman and andrew bodsworth both university of warwick students to explore the initial idea of a decision support tool for general practitioners . after a successful incubation period of prototyping and refining the concept and expansion of the original team the partners eventually formed a limited company that was then known as akm software limited in 2001 . akm software limited s first real success came in early 2003 when it launched its first commercial product that was piloted in a number of gp practices . in order to raise external capital expand operations and sales and provide a more focused direction in mid 2003 a new company was created named scriptswitch limited which absorbed all the assets of akm software limited and has been trading under this name since . 3 scriptswitch limited raised its first round of investment from venture capital firm midven in mid 2003 and in early 2006 was acquired by isis equity partners . 4 in late 2009 scriptswitch limited was acquired by unitedhealth uk a subsidiary of us healthcare giant unitedhealth group for a reported 50m . 5 awards edit scriptswitch limited was awarded the prestigious queen s awards for enterprise in the innovation category in 2009 . 6 external links edit scriptswitch limited official website . references edit scriptswitch market statistics . retrieved 3 may 2010 . article on scriptswitch savings in nhs . retrieved 3 may 2010 . article in birmingham post on scriptswitch in 2006 . isisep acquisition announcement . unitedhealth buys scriptswitch for 50m . queen s awards for enterprise winners 2009 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title scriptswitch limited & oldid 715362719 categories technology companies of the united kingdomsoftware companies of the united kingdomcompanies established in 2003 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 april 2016 at 09 31 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view