{"id":30208,"date":"2026-04-27T01:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=30208"},"modified":"2026-04-27T01:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:15:25","slug":"talo-platform-aims-to-disrupt-healthcare-process-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=30208","title":{"rendered":"Talo platform aims to disrupt healthcare process \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Talo5-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"David Massie and Gavin Bell\" class=\"wp-image-194474 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1413\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Talo5-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"David Massie and Gavin Bell\" class=\"wp-image-194474 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Talo5-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Talo5-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Talo5-1024x754.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Talo5-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Talo5-1536x1130.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Talo5-2048x1507.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Talo5-600x442.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Mission: David Massie (l) and Gavin Bell<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Two Scottish brothers-in-law have launched a UK-wide online healthcare business promising a fast delivery option to traditional GP-pharmacy services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Entrepreneur Gavin Bell and pharmacist David Massie have teamed up to establish Talo, which will offer discreet, next-day delivery of treatments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Glasgow-headquartered Talo has partnered with Eastwood Pharmacy, an established GPhC-registered Scottish community pharmacy group, which handles all clinical and dispensing services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The initial focus will be on male health issues, with expansion plans already in motion to build towards a broader platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">All medicines are sourced through regulated UK pharmacy supply chains and checked by pharmacists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The whole process is handled online with no video or phone calls, with the digital-only solution underpinned by an audit trail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mr Bell, who sold his Edinburgh-based performance marketing agency Yatter in 2024, said: \u201cWhen I was exiting Yatter, I started looking at industries where the customer experience hasn\u2019t caught up with modern life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cHealthcare jumped out straight away. If someone wants a prescription today, they\u2019re still calling at 8am hoping for an appointment, then going to the GP, then heading to a pharmacy. Before they know it, half the day has gone. It\u2019s an experience that hasn\u2019t modernised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cBeing someone technology-minded, I got motivated to come up with a solution and reached out to my brother-in-law, who runs a number of community pharmacies, and explained that we needed to look at creating an online service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cIt only took a few conversations and we agreed that combining our skillsets to create a more modern and customer-focused service was the way forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cIn short, we\u2019re looking to disrupt the traditional GP-to-pharmacy-to-treatment journey by making it quick, easy and enjoyable online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cOur initial mission is to provide men with a safe space to get the treatments they need in a fast, easy, simple way, without any judgment or stigma, allowing them to live their life more confidently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mr Massie, who runs six NHS community pharmacies throughout Scotland having set up Eastwood Pharmacy in Glasgow in 2013, is the Clinical Lead at Talo and said: \u201cWe believe quality healthcare should be accessible to everyone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cFar too many patients are waiting too long for an appointment with their GP, fuelling demand for faster, private options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Talo #platform #aims #disrupt #healthcare #process #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission: David Massie (l) and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[1933,266,265,4019,17480,2019,28,1334,17482,17481],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}