The GP Builder Ecosystem
Tools I rate, built by clinicians like me
Some of the most useful digital tools in general practice aren't built by big suppliers — they're built by GPs and practice teams solving their own problems and sharing the result. Arjus is one of them: I build it alongside my clinical work as a GP and PCN Clinical Director. This page lists others I genuinely rate, what each is best at, and how they complement what Arjus does.
I have no commercial relationship with the tools listed here. I link to them because they're good.
Dr Neil Paul's apps
Small, self-contained tools that explore how general practice actually operates. The GP Appointment Demand Simulator lets you model appointment supply, demand streams and triage approaches and watch what happens to waiting times. The Usual GP Continuity Analyser reads an EMIS appointment export on your own machine and scores how often patients actually see their named GP. There's also a multiplayer triage game for teaching queue management. The continuity tool was built for clients of Howbeck Healthcare, the primary care consultancy Neil co-founded, but it is free for anyone to use.
The apps sit inside Neil's blog, which he has been writing since 2002: over 350 long-form pieces on practice funding, workload, primary care IT and AI in general practice, from someone who has been a partner for 25 years and builds the tools himself. If you like the apps, the writing behind them is worth your time too.
How it fits with Arjus: Neil's tools work on your own appointment book — simulating the model you might move to, or measuring continuity from your real EMIS data. Arjus shows how your access and continuity compare with peers using the national published data. Test the change there; track the outcome here.
Ankit AI
An AI assistant for the non-clinical side of running a practice: contract and funding questions, policies, workload and responsibility queries, and drafting — off-listing letters, practice policies, templates. It has answered hundreds of thousands of questions from GP teams, and it comes with a growing library of ready-made templates and operational resources.
How it fits with Arjus: ask Ankit AI what the rules say and for ready-made admin resources; ask Arjus what your practice's data says — and how it measures up against the rules. Many teams will want both open in different tabs.
GP Access Research Dashboard
Ask questions in plain English about every GP practice in England — appointments, online consultations, telephony, GP Patient Survey, workforce, payments, prescribing and Fingertips — with monthly data back to March 2023. What makes it special is the architecture: the AI writes SQL that runs entirely in your browser (DuckDB-WASM), so no data leaves the page, and every query is shown before it runs. You can even point it at your own AI model.
How it fits with Arjus: Anne Marie's dashboard is the privacy-first way to explore the national open-data picture, with a longer monthly history and datasets like prescribing and payments. Arjus focuses on your own practice and PCN — benchmarked, mapped, and cross-checked against QOF and contract rules. Explore nationally there; interrogate your own position here.
Tools listed on this page are independent of Arjus. A listing reflects my genuine opinion at the time of writing, not a commercial partnership, endorsement of every feature, or a guarantee of fitness for your practice's needs — always do your own information-governance checks before adopting any tool.