Celerix Health

Helping the NHS with patient discharge workflowsRomasal Malhi

 

Founder(s) name: Romas Almalhi 

Industry Sector: HealthTech (Health Technology), Software as a Service (SaaS) 

Celerix Health is a pioneering UK health-tech venture tackling one of the NHS's most pressing operational challenges: hospital discharge delays. Every year, inefficient discharge processes waste approximately 2.5 million bed days and cost the NHS over £3 billion across more than 15 million patient discharges. These delays do not just strain hospital resources, they directly impact patient wellbeing, with extended stays increasing infection risk by 20% and causing functional decline particularly among elderly patients. 

Our Story

Founded by Romas Almalhi and currently part of the prestigious University of Birmingham’s Elevate programme, Celerix Health is developing Discharge Central, a mobile-first, cloud-based platform designed to revolutionize how healthcare teams coordinate patient transitions from hospital back into the community. Our solution addresses the root causes of discharge delays: fragmented cross-organizational communication, inefficient task management, complex patient-to-service matching, and time-consuming documentation. 

Discharge Central transforms how teams coordinate patient transitions. Secure messaging connects hospital wards, social care, and community providers in real-time, no more phone tag or lost information. Intelligent checklists keep everyone on track. Smart matching algorithms find the right care placement fast. AI writing tools turn 30-minute discharge letters into 3-minute tasks. And analytics dashboards reveal exactly where bottlenecks occur, so teams can act on these. 

Next Phase

Built with clinical input, our platform will be FHIR-ready and designed to integrate seamlessly with existing NHS systems. We are starting with high-impact wards in mid-sized acute trusts, areas where discharge delays hit hardest before scaling across regions and nationally. 

Our B2B SaaS model offers tiered solutions designed to scale from individual wards to entire trust-wide deployments, with a focus on demonstrating rapid ROI through measurable bed-day savings. We have built early momentum through acceptance into the Elevate programme, current development of our MVP, and are looking to engage very soon with potential NHS partners. 

Our path forward focuses on rapid validation: building an MVP, running an initial pilot to prove impact, and then expanding based on demonstrated results. We are committed to meeting NHS security and data standards while keeping our solution accessible and easy to adopt. 

Our vision is ambitious yet achievable: to become the operating system for NHS discharge coordination, transforming healthcare transitions so that no patient spends an unnecessary day in hospital. By freeing billions in healthcare resources and returning patients to their homes with dignity and speed we are not just building software, we are reshaping how the NHS delivers compassionate, efficient, and coordinated care across organizational boundaries. 

Get Involved

We’re preparing a 400k seed package: 

Funding will support MVP development, cloud hosting, clinical safety compliance, and our first NHS pilot deployment. 

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