Get A Drip, the UK’s leading Vitamin Drip provider, who in recent months have taken the capital by storm by offering affordable, widely accessible IV (Intravenous) Drip treatments and Booster Shots in prime locations across the city – including Boxpark Shoreditch, Westfield Shepherd’s Bush, Westfield Stratford City and Canary Wharf.
You may have seen a host of celebrities from Harry Styles to The Kardashians using IV Drips recently, painting an image of the rejuvenating treatments as a luxury reserved for celebrities. However, Get A Drip’s mission is to make the drips and their host of benefits accessible to the general public, not just in hospitals or for the super wealthy.
A 77% rise in the global popularity of IV Vitamin Drips seen since 2004 also, it was in 2010 when founder and CEO Richard Chambers, 33, first considered the idea to democratise the administration of IV Vitamin Drips.
“I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes on my 18th birthday and three years later found myself rushed into intensive care after suffering with complications,” explains Richard.
Off the back of the experience, in and out of hospital for seven years due to a weakened immune system, Richard was overwhelmed by the benefits of IV treatment as a major factor in his recovery and set up the business in October of 2017.
With no affordable options on the market, he wanted to provide an alternative, more efficient and cost-effective way for people to supplement their diet to meet the extensive list of vitamins and minerals required to maintain optimum bodily function.
Richard explains: “Vitamin Drips are a very effective way of receiving high doses of essential nutrients as they allow the vitamins to bypass the gut and go straight into the bloodstream, therefore avoiding any absorption issues and ensuring the nutrients are 100% bioavailable for the body to use, with results felt quickly.”
Since the business’s inception, more than 35 medical professionals have administered over 40,000 Vitamin Drips and Intramuscular (IM) Booster Shots, and seven clinics have opened in Boxpark Shoreditch, Westfield Shepherd’s Bush, Westfield Stratford City, Canary Wharf, Junction 6 Dublin, Brown Thomas Dundrum and Rotterdam.
In addition to these ground-breaking clinics, Get A Drip offers a call-out service via four mobile clinics based in London, ensuring optimum nutrition is as accessible as possible to anyone, with the service operating door-to-door anywhere within the M25.
Alongside building out their list of franchise sites, they have also gradually expanded their product line to now offer over 15 different IV Vitamin Drips affording benefits spanning tiredness and fatigue, sleep, metabolism, immune function, and anti-ageing, hair and skin health, fitness and more.
To ensure the safety of customers at all times, all of the clinics in the UK are CQC registered, upholding the highest medical standards, and Get A Drip only employs registered nurses, doctors, pharmacists, dietitians and nutritionists.
Even though the products are IV nutrients and not registered medicines, all products are also sourced from pharmacies with GMP (Good Manufacturing Processes) certificates, prepared aseptically in a ‘clean room laboratory’ and rigorously tested to ensure their absolute quality and safety.
Including through building out their franchise portfolio, and continued product and category expansion, Richard hopes to help consumers realise and benefit from IV Vitamin Drips as a mainstream option.
Richard explains: “Many people around the UK are deficient in essential nutrients such as Vitamin D and Vitamin B12, and struggle to get these nutrients on the NHS. We believe that everyone should have access to affordable wellness solutions, without losing quality of product and service.”
Richard adds: “Franchising our clinics was a major breakthrough in our mission to bring accessible and affordable IV Vitamin Drips to the masses. Typically, the drips have only been available to celebrities and the super-wealthy – our aim is to overcome that.”
In February 2019, Get A Drip became the first Vitamin Drip company to introduce DNA testing for customers, so any nutritional deficiencies can be identified, and the drip therapy can be tailored specifically to individual needs.
Expansion continued earlier this year with the appointment of Tecsa as an advisor, former Holland & Barrett CEO and founder Tony Buffin, co-founder Dave Battiston and CEO Anthony Morris now providing strategic, operational and partnership advice alongside Tecsa’s investment in Get A Drip.
Get A Drip is in the hunt for further investment to support its growth ambitions too, currently engaged in a Series A fundraise.
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