Collaboration
Supporting joined-up working between GP practices, commissioners, hospitals and healthcare teams.
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Quasar has been retired — but the work it stood for still matters.
Quasar helped NHS teams collaborate, support research, monitor activity and share information more effectively across organisations.
The Quasar platform has now been retired following the loss of NHS funding support. However, Blue Donut Studios continues to help ICBs, hospitals, GP practices and healthcare teams develop practical web-based systems for collaboration, research, monitoring and service improvement.
What was Quasar?
Quasar was a web-based NHS collaboration and monitoring platform developed to support primary care, service improvement, innovation and research activity.
It was designed to help healthcare teams bring information together, improve communication, monitor projects and services, and make it easier for organisations to work across boundaries.
In practical terms, Quasar helped reduce the friction caused by scattered emails, spreadsheets, disconnected documents and fragmented project information.
What Quasar helped with
Monitoring
Helping services and projects track progress, quality, activity and key information more clearly.
Research
Providing a digital foundation for healthcare research, innovation projects and shared initiatives.
Information sharing
Creating a structured space for documents, updates, reporting and cross-organisation working.
Why was Quasar retired?
Quasar was retired because the NHS funding route that supported the platform was no longer available.
This reflected wider budgetary pressures and the difficulty many worthwhile NHS innovation projects face when ongoing support is reduced or withdrawn.
Its retirement was not a reflection of the platform’s usefulness. Quasar did valuable work and helped demonstrate what well-designed digital collaboration tools can achieve in healthcare settings.
We can still help NHS organisations
If your ICB, hospital, GP practice, PCN or healthcare team is looking to develop a project, Blue Donut Studios can help scope, design and build a suitable web-based solution.
We support organisations that need practical, well-considered systems for service improvement, collaboration, information sharing, research support and monitoring.
- Project and collaboration portals
- Research and innovation websites
- Monitoring and reporting systems
- Secure dashboards and structured information tools
- Internal web applications
- Document and knowledge libraries
- Stakeholder and team collaboration tools
- Bespoke healthcare project websites
If you were looking for the original Quasar service, please note that it has now been retired. If your NHS organisation would like to discuss a similar or new digital project, please use one of the options below.
Need a digital solution for collaboration, research or monitoring?
If you are exploring a new NHS or healthcare project, the best next step is to book a consultation or submit an RFQ through Blue Donut Studios.