What does EMIS Group do?

EMIS Group builds clinical software and data solutions for NHS and wider UK healthcare organisations. Their systems are used by 100,000 healthcare professionals across 10,000 organisations, covering GP practices, community pharmacies, A&E departments, community care teams and more.

Where is EMIS Group based?

EMIS is headquartered at Fulford Grange, Micklefield Lane, Rawdon, Leeds LS19 6BA. They also have international operations in Brazil, India, Ireland and the United States, and are part of Optum.

EMIS is owned by Optum, the health services division of UnitedHealth Group. The emishealth.com website carries a direct link to optum.com, and employee spotlights reference Optum recruitment.

EMIS Web is EMIS's primary care GP clinical record system and their flagship product. It has made EMIS the number-one clinical system supplier in primary care in the UK. A separate EMIS-X platform is being developed to modernise GP and pharmacy workflows.

Does EMIS work with the pharmaceutical industry?

Yes. EMIS works with pharmaceutical companies and academic researchers, supplying real-world data and insight, supporting clinical trial recruitment through their Recruit product, and helping accelerate medicines and health technology adoption through clinically embedded digital tools.

Is EMIS Group hiring?

EMIS has an active careers section on their website covering roles across engineering, data and clinical domains. They have been recognised with a Tech Team of the Year award and were shortlisted for the Economic Times Human Capital Awards 2024.

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Emis Group

Clinical software and data for NHS healthcare

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EMIS Group builds clinical software and data solutions used across the NHS and wider UK healthcare system. Their systems are in use at 10,000 healthcare organisations, supporting 100,000 healthcare professionals. They hold the number-one position in primary care, community pharmacy and A&E clinical systems, and the number-one spot for independent patient services apps. Headquartered in Rawdon, Leeds, they are now part of Optum.

What they do

EMIS Group makes clinical software for every major NHS care setting. GP practices, community pharmacies, A&E departments, community care teams, hospices and hospital pharmacy wards all run EMIS products. The headline numbers are significant: 10,000 organisations and 100,000 healthcare professionals rely on their systems daily.

The product catalogue runs to around 50 items. The best-known is EMIS Web, the GP clinical record system that has made EMIS the number-one supplier in primary care. For pharmacy, ProScript Connect handles dispensing and PharmOutcomes supports pharmacy services delivery. EMIS-X is a newer platform spanning both GP and pharmacy workflows. ScriptSwitch and Prescribing Apex sit in the medicines optimisation space, helping clinicians make cost-effective prescribing decisions. Pathway is their population health tool, designed to help teams identify at-risk patients before conditions deteriorate.

Beyond clinical systems, EMIS works with the pharmaceutical industry and academic researchers. They connect study sponsors with their network of healthcare professionals and patients to recruit clinical trial candidates, and they supply real-world data and insight to life sciences organisations. That side of the business sits alongside their NHS-facing work and reflects a deliberate push into the data and analytics market.

They also offer a GP IT managed service — a single point of contact for practice IT issues — and Recruit, a tool for embedding clinical trial recruitment directly into primary care systems.

For patients, their independent app (listed as the number-one independent patient services app) allows self-triage, appointment management and access to health records. The app sits alongside Patient Access for Professionals, which London pharmacies have been using to increase footfall, according to a customer story on the EMIS site.

AI is mentioned as an area of active development. The company says it is introducing AI to improve productivity, give teams faster access to insight and reduce manual tasks, though specific AI products are not detailed in the public-facing material.

Where they sit in Leeds

EMIS is based at Fulford Grange, Micklefield Lane, Rawdon, Leeds LS19 6BA — a site in the north of the city, close to Yeadon and the airport corridor. The address appears consistently across their website as the primary contact point.

The company has been operating for nearly 40 years, according to their own site copy, which puts the founding somewhere in the mid-1980s, though no specific year is given publicly. They are now a subsidiary of Optum, the health services arm of UnitedHealth Group, and their website carries a link to optum.com alongside international presences in Brazil, India, Ireland and the United States.

Despite the global parentage, the Rawdon office remains the registered address and the operational centre for UK work. The careers pages describe roles supporting NHS transformation, and recent news items include EMIS being awarded Tech Team of the Year and a shortlisting for the Economic Times Human Capital Awards 2024.

For the Leeds tech community, EMIS is one of the larger established employers in health tech. The scale of their NHS footprint — number one in primary care, community pharmacy and A&E — means their engineering and data teams are working on systems that touch a significant proportion of UK patient interactions every day. That is a different kind of problem from most Leeds software shops, and it shows in the breadth of the product catalogue and the depth of the clinical domain knowledge required to work there.

What they offer

EMIS Web — the primary care GP clinical record system, used across the majority of GP practices in England and Wales.
EMIS-X — a newer platform with variants for GPs and pharmacy, designed to modernise workflows across both settings.
ProScript Connect / PharmOutcomes — dispensing and pharmacy services software for community pharmacy.
Pathway — population health management tool for identifying at-risk patient cohorts and supporting proactive care.
ScriptSwitch / Prescribing Apex — medicines optimisation tools helping clinicians make evidence-based, cost-effective prescribing decisions.
Recruit — clinical trial recruitment embedded into primary care systems, connecting study sponsors with patients and professionals.

FAQs

What does EMIS Group do?: EMIS Group builds clinical software and data solutions for NHS and wider UK healthcare organisations. Their systems are used by 100,000 healthcare professionals across 10,000 organisations, covering GP practices, community pharmacies, A&E departments, community care teams and more.
Where is EMIS Group based?: EMIS is headquartered at Fulford Grange, Micklefield Lane, Rawdon, Leeds LS19 6BA. They also have international operations in Brazil, India, Ireland and the United States, and are part of Optum.
Who owns EMIS Group?: EMIS is owned by Optum, the health services division of UnitedHealth Group. The emishealth.com website carries a direct link to optum.com, and employee spotlights reference Optum recruitment.
What is EMIS Web?: EMIS Web is EMIS's primary care GP clinical record system and their flagship product. It has made EMIS the number-one clinical system supplier in primary care in the UK. A separate EMIS-X platform is being developed to modernise GP and pharmacy workflows.
Does EMIS work with the pharmaceutical industry?: Yes. EMIS works with pharmaceutical companies and academic researchers, supplying real-world data and insight, supporting clinical trial recruitment through their Recruit product, and helping accelerate medicines and health technology adoption through clinically embedded digital tools.
Is EMIS Group hiring?: EMIS has an active careers section on their website covering roles across engineering, data and clinical domains. They have been recognised with a Tech Team of the Year award and were shortlisted for the Economic Times Human Capital Awards 2024.