Pyrexia

Problem

As the NHS shifts care into the community, staff increasingly work across multiple organisations. Currently, every move triggers a restart of recruitment checks, mandatory training, and occupational health clearance across siloed emails, spreadsheets, and portals. This fragmentation forces managers to chase paperwork and candidates to repeat the same checks, resulting in delays of 8-12 weeks to get staff into post.

This duplication creates significant operational drag: slow time-to-start leads to rota gaps and high locum costs; manual tracking creates compliance risks; and the administrative burden drives burnout. It disproportionately affects practices in high-deprivation areas and internationally recruited staff who face extra verification hurdles. Ultimately, a fragmented analogue workflow is blocking the NHS’s ambition for a flexible, digital-first workforce.

Solution

Pyrexia unifies recruitment, onboarding, and compliance into a single AI-enabled platform, anchored by a digital staff passport. It replaces fragmented point solutions with one seamless workflow that serves as a single source of truth.

AI agents automate the heavy lifting: parsing CVs for longlisting, verifying identity/right-to-work, extracting data from documents, and mapping evidence to the Core Skills Training Framework. It integrates directly with NHS systems like e-Learning for Health and digital ID/DBS providers to validate credentials in real-time.

For staff, this creates a predictable “one-link” journey where verified evidence travels with them via their passport, eliminating repeat checks. For managers, real-time dashboards provide organisation-wide oversight of who is ready and who is non-compliant, reducing time-to-start from weeks to days.

Impact

• Primary Care (North Central London): Reduced total back-office admin time by ~88% (recruitment 35 to 4 hours; onboarding 6.5 to 2 hours; compliance 114 to 18 minutes per staff member)
• Cost Savings: Delivered ~£20.5k net annual savings per practice through time recovered, tool consolidation, and reduced locum bridging
• Safety: Increased organisational compliance from ~70% to 98% using real-time dashboards
• Secondary Care (North West London): Over 800 applications screened with AI, automating ~120 checks per applicant
• User Experience: Achieved 90% “easy to use” and 94% recommendation scores from staff and managers
• Efficiency: Onboarding time routinely reduced from ~8 weeks to ~5 days by eliminating duplicate checks