Product design and build
Web and mobile services for patients, carers and frontline staff. Researched with the people who will use them, and designed to stay simple on a hard day.
Health tech for Scotland
Digital care that never clocks off.
Circle24 Digital designs, builds and runs software for Scotland’s health and care services. Safe by design, simple to use, and dependable at three in the morning.
00:00 in Scotland. Care is still happening.
Need doesn’t keep office hours. The technology behind care shouldn’t either.
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What we do
From first sketch to three in the morning.
We are a small, senior team. The people who design your service are the people who build it and keep it running.
Safe, guardrailed AI
Assistants and decision support that know their limits. Clinically cautious, fully auditable, with a human in the loop and a clear route to escalate.
Cloud and reliability engineering
Secure, UK hosted platforms with the monitoring and on call practice of engineers who have run large production systems. Built so that 3am looks like 3pm.
Integration and data
Joining up systems across health, social care and the third sector with open standards such as HL7 FHIR, so information follows the person.
Discovery and prototyping
From a problem statement to a tested prototype in weeks. Evidence you can take to a board, a pilot or a funding bid.
Security and information governance
Privacy by design, UK GDPR, data protection impact assessments and the security practice public sector buyers expect, handled from day one.
Built for
- NHS boards
- Health and social care partnerships
- Local authorities
- Third sector organisations
- Digital health innovators
How we work
A calm way to build things that matter.
Four stages, no theatre. You always know what we are doing, why, and what happens next.
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Listen
Start with the people closest to the problem.
Those receiving care, their families and the staff around them. We don’t propose solutions until we understand the day to day.
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Safe AI
AI that knows its limits.
In health and care, a confident wrong answer is worse than no answer. We design every AI feature around that fact.
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Guardrails first
Clear boundaries on what the system will and won’t do, tested against the hard cases before anyone relies on it.
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A human in the loop
AI supports people’s judgement and never replaces it. When risk rises, it hands over to a person, fast.
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Open to scrutiny
Every suggestion can be traced, reviewed and explained: to clinicians, to governance boards and to the people it affects.
Why Circle24
Circle, for the circle of care around every person. 24, because need doesn’t keep office hours.
We believe support shouldn’t stop at five o’clock, or at the edge of a postcode. Good software, built with care and run properly, can help close those gaps across Scotland, from the central belt to the islands.
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Person first
We design for someone having the worst week of their year, on an old phone, with patchy signal. If it works for them, it works for everyone.
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Accessible to everyone
WCAG 2.2 AA is our starting line. Plain language, assistive technology and low bandwidth are part of the brief from the first sketch.
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Dependable
Monitoring, on call and honest incident reviews. If it matters at 3am, we treat it that way.
Get in touch
Let’s build something that’s there when it matters.
Tell us about the problem you are trying to solve. A real person will read it and write back.