Vernus
Clinical admin tool
Built by an NHS doctor

Say what you need.
The admin is already done.

Vernus is a quiet layer that sits on top of the clinical system you already use and runs tasks for you. You give an instruction in plain language, the same way you would talk to a colleague.

You speak, it works, you approve. Nothing enters the record without you.

What you said

Today
09:34
Open any task to read it before you accept.
Speak or type|
Three parts, and that is the whole tool. You speak into the bar, the tasks gather in the tracker, and you open each one to read it before it goes anywhere.
01
What it does

The essentials, handled for you.

Freestyle

Anything else that lives in your clinical system. Describe it and it does the rest.

It gets better the more you use it.

Your systemIt works a task out once and is faster every time after.
Your voiceDrafts read like you, with inputted examples and self learning.
Your practiceIt picks up your preferences and follows them.
02
How it works

There is no migration and no second record to keep. It installs like an ordinary app on your machine.

You ask. It operates the system. You approve.

i

You ask

In plain language, spoken or typed, during clinic or between patients.

ii

It works

Inside your existing system, through your own login, while you carry on.

iii

You approve

Open the task, read the draft, then accept it, edit it or reject it.

03
The burden

A quarter to a third of the day, before anyone is seen.

This is not a side effect of the job. It has been measured, and it is one of the largest single claims on clinical time in the NHS.

30%

of GP time goes on administrative tasks such as fit notes and certification.1

25.3%

of their time is spent on admin and bureaucracy that does not always improve patient care, by GPs' own account.2

4 hrs

of admin for every hour of direct patient contact, measured across 137 UK doctors in training.3

In that last study, the doctors working on electronic records spent more of their time on admin than those still on paper, not less.3 Better software has not been the answer on its own.

References
1. NHS England, Delivery Plan for Recovering Access to Primary Care, 2023, as cited in RCGP, Tackling the GP Workload Crisis, April 2026.
2. RCGP GP Voice Survey 2025, reported in RCGP, Tackling the GP Workload Crisis, April 2026.
3. Arab et al., Time Allocation in Clinical Training (TACT), multicentre observational cohort study of 137 UK resident doctors, 2024. Published summary.
04
A morning in clinic

Ten patients, fifteen minutes each. The clinical work is identical in both columns.

The same morning, with and without.

Now
With Vernus
09:00
Thirty minutes on the inbox. Bloods, scans, hospital letters and updates, all read, ordered and actioned before clinic starts. You rush and overrun on this.
The same list, worked through out loud. Vernus orders and actions as you read, and you approve the lot in one pass. All admin completed with space before the first patient.
09:30
Ten patients, fifteen minutes each, back to back. Every one of them leaves admin behind and there is no room in the slot to do it. 5 minutes spent out of the 15 doing what little admin you could.
Ten patients, fifteen minutes each. You say what each one needs whilst with the patient, and it is drafted before the next patient sits down. You get a full 15 minutes with each person clinically.
12:00
The rest of the morning's admin left to complete. Referrals, letters, results to action, and the clinic has already overrun.
The tracker is already full of finished drafts. You read them, accept them, have time to spend thinking about each case, without rushing. You can even fit in a few emergency cases if needed.
13:00
Lunch, in theory. In practice it starts late, gets shortened, and some of the list still follows you home.
Lunch starts at one, with nothing outstanding behind it.

Illustrative, and drawn from an ordinary GP morning rather than a best case. We measure minutes saved against a baseline from day one of the pilot, and we will publish what we find.

05
Safety

Designed for clinician approval for every action. Full medical oversight.

Nothing enters the record without you.

Every action arrives as a draft on the tracker. You open it, read it, then accept it, edit it or reject it. There is no route by which something reaches a patient record, a colleague or a lab without a clinician explicitly actioning it.

Vernus never makes a clinical decision. It carries out the administrative work behind a decision you have already made.

Patient data is masked before it leaves

Identifiable detail is detected and removed on your machine, before anything is sent for processing.

Nothing is kept

No patient data is stored to disk or to the cloud, and none of it is used to train anyone's model.

It works within your access

Vernus uses your own login and permissions. It cannot see or do anything you could not.

A record of everything

Every instruction, draft and approval is logged and attributable, so an audit can follow the whole chain.

An emergency stop

You can halt anything mid task. It is always there and we expect it to be rarely used.

It fails safely

If your clinical system is down, or ours is, it stops and tells you plainly. It does not guess.

06
Who built it

I built Vernus because I was spending my day completing admin, instead of seeing patients.

The clinical part of the job is the part I trained for. The rest is finding the right screen, filling the same fields again, and writing letters that say what I had already said out loud in the room.

So Vernus is built around how we actually work. You give an instruction the way you would give it to a colleague, and you check the result the way you would check a colleague's. Every extra minute on admin is a minute not spent with a patient or thinking about a patient's care.

If you would like to try it in your practice, I would like to hear from you.

Dr Sam Singha
NHS doctor. Founder of Vernus.
07
Questions

What colleagues ask first.

Does it change my clinical system?

No. It sits on top of what you already have and operates it through your screen as you work with the patient.

What happens if it gets something wrong?

You see it before anyone else does. Nothing is sent, filed or ordered until you accept it, so a wrong draft is a draft you delete. We track how often drafts are edited or rejected and report it.

Is it making clinical decisions?

No. It does administrative work only. The decision was yours before you said it out loud.

How long does it take to learn?

There is nothing to learn. If you can tell a colleague what you want, you can use it.

What does my IT provider need to do?

We involve them from the start and agree every step with them. Installation is an ordinary app install, and we resolve any permissions or conflicts with them before anything goes live.

What about patient data?

Identifiable detail is stripped on your machine before anything is sent, nothing is stored, and none of it trains a model. The full information governance position is documented and we go through it with you and your IT provider before the pilot starts.

08
Pilot

Building it together, one step at a time.

Before anything goes live we test it in a test environment on dummy data, with your IT provider involved and agreeing each step. You will see it working on realistic practice data before you see it working on yours.

A direct line throughout

This is a live product. What you tell us changes it within days, not quarters.

Your practice as co-authors

We run it as a quality improvement project and publish the results with your team named.

Your data stays yours

Always, and you keep it at the end.

No obligation to continue

We review together honestly at the end. If it is working, we talk about what comes next.

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