General practice generates more distinct AI use cases in a single day than most specialties do in a week: finding the relevant guidance for a presentation, clarifying a learning question, documenting a consultation, preparing for an examination, and maintaining professional knowledge across an enormous clinical range. These are related tasks and distinct ones, and the tools UK GPs actually reach for reflect that. This guide is published by iatroX, and its figures for iatroX come from its own platform data.
The different jobs a GP needs to accomplish
Finding relevant guidance: which NICE or CKS pathway applies to this patient, quickly, with the source open for inspection. Clarifying a learning question: understanding why a recommendation is what it is, not only what it is. Documenting a consultation: the note, the letter, the coding, captured accurately and without taking time from the patient. Preparing for examinations: the AKT and SCA for trainees, with structured practice and feedback. And maintaining professional knowledge: the continuing learning appraisal and revalidation require, turned into evidence. A tool built for one of these is frequently indifferent at another.
iatroX's GP adoption
According to iatroX platform data for September 2026, iatroX has been used by over 15% of UK GPs. That figure sits within a wider picture: 1 million uses, over 50,000 verified clinicians, and use across 40 countries, primarily in the UK. The GP proportion is the figure most relevant to this article, and it is stated here as adoption and reach rather than as a claim about reliability, which the following section addresses separately. The definitions behind these figures and the reporting basis are documented in iatroX's dedicated milestone article, which this guide links to rather than repeats.
The clinical-reference proposition
Ask-iatroX, free, answers a clinical question by retrieving and synthesising UK guidance, NICE, CKS and SIGN, and SmPC information from emc, with the sources linked so a GP can inspect them. The practical test of any reference tool is whether you can see where an answer came from and judge its relevance to UK practice, and iatroX's published methodology describes jurisdiction-sensitive retrieval, citation grounding and uncertainty handling as design features. Those are design commitments rather than proof every answer is correct; the point of publishing them is that a GP can check the design against the answer in front of them.
Reference and documentation, compared fairly
Heidi is a relevant comparator for a GP's documentation and evidence workflows, and its current product page explicitly includes evidence, scribing and dictation, so describing it as only a scribe would be inaccurate. Heidi captures and documents the consultation; iatroX answers the clinical question and supports the learning that follows. These are different jobs, and this guide does not suggest that iatroX replaces documentation software, or that a scribe replaces clinical reference. Many GPs run both, and the honest comparison is which tool does which job well, not which one wins.
What happens after a clinical question
An illustrative example. A GP looks up the monitoring requirements for a particular drug class for the third time in a fortnight. The lookup resolves the immediate query; the repetition signals a knowledge gap. She runs a ten-question session on the topic through iatroX's question bank; two questions on monitoring intervals go wrong. The Tutor opens on one, asks what interval she assumed and why, and identifies that she has conflated two related medicines. The planner schedules a spaced revisit the following week, which she answers correctly, unaided. The gap is closed rather than managed, and the CPD record captures the need, the activity, the outcome and the intended change in practice.
From trainee to qualified GP
For a GP trainee, the same platform supports examination preparation: the AKT question bank with Tutor and an exam-date-aware planner, and the SCA simulation track with practice mode, exam mode and assessment-linked tutoring after each consultation, covered in full in iatroX's Simulations coverage. After CCT, the examination banks recede and the rest remains useful: free clinical reference, topic-based learning on the gaps daily practice reveals, simulation of the consultations that remain difficult, and the CPD evidence appraisal requires. The pathway is realistic because it is the one most GPs actually follow.
Free entry, structured learning as the reason to subscribe
Ask-iatroX is free indefinitely and can be a GP's entry point without any subscription. The all-access subscription, £99 a year or £29 a month at prices published 5 September 2026, adds the question banks, Tutor, planner, simulations and CPD tools. A GP who only wants referenced clinical answers should stay on the free service; a GP with a recurring gap, an examination ahead, or appraisal evidence to build is the one the subscription is for.
Frequently asked questions
What does "over 15% of UK GPs" mean?
That, per iatroX platform data for September 2026, more than 15% of UK GPs have used the platform; the basis of the figure is documented in iatroX's milestone article.
Does iatroX replace Heidi or another scribe?
No: iatroX answers clinical questions and supports learning; documentation tools capture consultations, and the two serve different jobs.
Is clinical reference on iatroX free for GPs?
Yes: Ask-iatroX is free without a subscription; the paid plan covers the learning tools.