Health technology that fits together.
Drystone is a British-led collaboration of health technology capabilities, services, clinical safety, knowledge sharing and behavioural change companies who work in the NHS, Health and Social Care sectors in the UK. Together we give regions, integrated care boards, trusts and home nations a joined-up way to use their data and AI, without being tied to a single supplier.
We believe in collaboration and co creation. We listen first, solve together.
Why Drystone as a metaphor
A dry stone wall is ubiquitous throughout the UK, has no mortar. Each stone is chosen for where it sits, and the wall stands because the pieces hold each other up. Take one out, put a better one in, and the wall still stands.
That's how we think NHS technology should work. Proven products from independent British companies, fitted together around what a region actually needs. No single supplier holding everything together, and no single supplier you can't walk away from.
Built on what already works
Every partner has experience and most technology live in the NHS today. Nothing here is a pilot looking for a customer. However the opportunity to build together is open.
One conversation, the right specialists
You talk to Drystone once. We bring in the partners who fit the problem, from data platforms to clinical decision support, to behavioural change, to AI.
Your data stays yours
Patient data is held and governed by the NHS organisation it belongs to. Partners work with it.
Our partners
Drystone brings together British companies whose technology is already in use across the NHS, covering data platforms, population health, clinical decision support, integration and secure infrastructure for millions of patients in thousands of settings.
Drystone is open to technology companies with products already deployed in the NHS. If that's you, we'd like to talk.
Ask about joiningWhat we stand for
Our mission is to give every part of the NHS access to the best British health technology, joined up and under its own control.
The NHS stays in control
Data is held and governed by the NHS organisations it belongs to. Decisions about it are theirs to make.
Open by design
We use open standards so every part can talk to every other part, and any part can be swapped out.
No lock-in
Clients can change partners, or leave, without losing their data or starting again.
Proven before promised
We only offer technology that's already working in the NHS, with evidence to show for it.
British-led
Led by UK companies and people who know how the NHS works, because they work in it every day.
We succeed together
Drystone only does well when the NHS gets real value and our partners win work on merit.
Papers
Two papers set out what Drystone is for and what it would take to build. Both are written for people considering whether to work with us.
Founding Principles
The twelve principles agreed when eighteen organisations met in London in July 2026, and what signing up to them means. Problems before technology, open standards, no lock-in, UK-led.
The Eight Components of Unified Patient Data
What real-time unified patient data actually requires, component by component: what exists today, what's missing, and what it would take to stand the whole thing up.
Both papers describe principles and approach only. They don't name participating organisations, commercial terms or launch dates.
Talk to us
Whether you commission services, run a trust or build health technology, we'd like to hear from you. Send a message and we'll come back to you.
info@drystonehealth.ai