Introducing

Intelligent Access to Healthcare

Future proof your primary care network with smarter patient navigation

Speak. Be understood. Get the right care.

Rafana is an AI-powered digital front door to primary care. Our voice-first platform captures symptoms, intent, and clinical urgency at first contact, routing patients to the right service first time.

By reducing avoidable demand and administrative workload, Rafana helps healthcare teams improve access, optimise capacity, and deliver faster, more patient-centred care.

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What Rafana does

Rafana listens to patients in their own words - in regional UK accents and preferred languages - and turns that into clear next steps for care. It explains local options such as GP, Pharmacy First, community services and emergency care in plain, culturally appropriate language, showing what each service does, typical wait times, and how to access it.

For NHS teams, Rafana integrates with existing practice systems to automate large parts of triage, routing, and scheduling, cutting administrative workload while maintaining clinical safety and UK data residency.

Core outcomes and safety

Patient Clarity

Improves patient understanding of what to do and where to go by around 25% using adaptive, plain-English explanations tailored to each individual's health literacy and communication needs level.

Smart Routing

Reduces preventable or misdirected clinical visits by around 30% by routing patients to GP, Pharmacy First, or community services when safe, while escalating red-flag symptoms to urgent care.

Reduced Admin Burden

Lowers administrative workload for practices by 25-40%, freeing clinician time, improving operational efficiency, and increasing patient access, satisfaction, and overall quality of care delivery.

Clinically Safe AI

Minimises unsupported or hallucinated answers, targeting under 8% at claim level, using multi-agent verification and explicit abstention instead of guessing in high-risk situations.

How Rafana works

Regionalised Speech & Sovereign Deployment

Rafana uses UK-tuned medical speech recognition optimised for regional accents and clinical terminology, achieving target word-error rates of around 10% with sub-second latency. Models run on NHS-trusted UK infrastructure or on-premise edge devices, keeping data and computation within jurisdiction. This sovereign deployment pattern is designed to scale to other countries and dialects.

Adaptive Health Literacy Engine

A neuro-symbolic literacy engine rewrites complex clinical language into clear, accessible explanations matched to each patient's comprehension level, meeting NHS accessibility and WCAG 2.2 AA standards. It supports people with visual, motor, literacy, or language barriers. The same architecture can be retrained for new languages and regional styles, enabling country-specific deployments beyond the UK.

Clinically Verified Answers with Abstention

Multi-agent, retrieval-augmented generation verifies responses against trusted UK sources including NHS, NICE, and BNF. Lab validation has demonstrated zero hallucinations on a focused NICE-based test set, with project targets of ~90% expert-rated accuracy and less than 8% hallucination at claim level in broader evaluations. When confidence is low, Rafana abstains and routes queries to clinicians or urgent services rather than providing speculative advice.

Safe Routing & Emergency Redirection

Rafana's routing engine combines symptom descriptions, red-flag triggers, and local service configuration to steer suitable cases to GP, Pharmacy First, or community services, reducing panic-driven ED attendance and avoidable demand. It escalates concerning presentations - such as chest pain, stroke symptoms, or rapid deterioration - by signposting urgent or emergency care in line with locally agreed escalation rules.

This emergency redirection is core to Rafana's value: reducing inappropriate ED use while making it easier for patients to seek emergency care when it is genuinely needed.

Who Rafana is for

Patients & Carers

People who struggle with digital forms, portals, or written information - including older adults, individuals with limited health literacy, and multilingual or underserved communities - who need simple, voice-based access to care.

GP Practices & Primary Care Networks

Teams facing rising inbound demand and access pressures, seeking to reduce call volumes, automate safe routing (including urgent and emergency redirection), and improve access equity without increasing clinical risk.

Community Pharmacy, Urgent Care & Integrated Systems

Pharmacies, urgent and unscheduled care providers, and integrated care systems delivering Pharmacy First and demand-management initiatives, needing a voice-first, sovereign AI layer that routes patients appropriately and documents interactions safely.

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