Two tiers of comprehensive health check — one for a baseline, one for when something is wrong and nobody has found it.
Referred by a GMC-registered GP, results reviewed by the same doctor
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Results explained in plain English, not just a number
Your NHS records in the room, with your consent
Care led personally by Dr Khan
Attentive, unhurried care that listens properly
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A health check is worth having for one of two quite different reasons, and they call for different panels.
The first is that you feel well and want a baseline — something to measure against in five years, and a check that nothing is quietly developing. The second is that you do not feel right, you have been told your results are normal, and you want someone to look properly.
We offer both. The value in either case is the review, not the numbers: every result is gone through with a GP who explains what matters to you, what is normal variation, and what needs following up.
Full blood count, liver and kidney function, cholesterol with apolipoproteins and a cardiovascular risk score, HbA1c with insulin and C-peptide, thyroid function, iron status, metabolic syndrome markers, urinalysis and tumour markers.
Around 100 markers, weighted toward cardiovascular and metabolic risk — which is what most people are actually screening for.
Everything above, plus the things that explain symptoms rather than predict risk: full hormone profile, vitamin B12, folate and antioxidant status, coeliac antibodies, H. pylori, thyroid antibodies, immunoglobulins and inflammatory markers, pancreatic enzymes and parathyroid hormone.
Over 150 markers.
Choose the Standard tier for: a general baseline, a family history of heart disease or diabetes, reaching an age where you want a benchmark, or an employer or insurer asking for a health assessment.
Choose the Advanced tier for: persistent fatigue with no explanation, unexplained weight change, brain fog or low mood, recurrent digestive symptoms, joint aches, or a set of "normal" results elsewhere that did not match how you feel.
Standard if you feel well and want a baseline, or you have a family history of heart disease or diabetes you want to get ahead of. This is the right choice for most people under 45 with no symptoms.
Advanced if you have symptoms nobody has explained — persistent fatigue, weight change, brain fog, low mood, joint aches — or if a basic panel elsewhere came back normal and you are not satisfied that it answered the question.
If your main concern is unexplained tiredness specifically, say so at your consultation — there is a more focused and less expensive panel built for exactly that, and it may serve you better than either of these.
Your consultation establishes which panel is appropriate. A referral is issued for you to attend a Randox Health clinic for the sample, and results are returned to us for review.
A 10 to 12 hour fast is usually required for accurate cholesterol and glucose results. Water is fine. Confirm at your consultation before fasting.
Reference ranges are defined so that about 5 per cent of healthy people fall outside them on any single test.
Run thirty tests on a well person and the chance of at least one being flagged is high — close to certain on the largest panels. That is not a fault in the laboratory; it is how the ranges are constructed.
Which is why a results review matters more than the panel. Knowing which flagged result is noise and which is signal is the entire value.
Most commonly: raised cholesterol, prediabetic HbA1c, mildly abnormal liver enzymes, vitamin D deficiency and iron deficiency.
Two of those are genuinely useful. Prediabetes leads to the free NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, which roughly halves progression. Fatty liver — the usual explanation for mildly raised enzymes — improves substantially with around 7 to 10 per cent weight loss.
Blood pressure. It is the single most valuable measurement for long-term health, it is silent, and we cannot take it remotely.
Many pharmacies check it free without an appointment. If you do one thing after reading this page, do that.
Genuinely reassuring for what was measured, and a useful baseline to compare against in future — a trend across years is worth considerably more than any single set.
It does not mean you are healthy in the broader sense. Smoking, alcohol, weight, activity and sleep shape long-term health far more than any of these markers, and none of them appears on the report.
General health checks in people without symptoms have been studied repeatedly and have not been shown to reduce death or serious illness.
What they reliably produce is borderline results, repeat tests, occasional scans, and anxiety — in people who were well when they started.
We state this on a page selling the test, because the alternative is selling it on an implication we know to be false.
"Full" describes the panel, not your health.
The Standard tier includes tumour markers because they come with the Randox panel, not because they screen for cancer. They do not.
CA-125, CEA and CA19-9 are raised by a long list of benign conditions, and in people with no symptoms a flagged result far more often leads to scans and worry than to a diagnosis.
We go through what they do and do not mean before you test, and we would advise against paying extra for any panel sold on the strength of them.
Symptoms, a family history, or a specific question. A targeted test asking something real beats a broad panel asking nothing.
The NHS Health Check — free every five years for adults aged 40 to 74. Cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes risk, BMI and a cardiovascular risk score, which is the substance of what a paid panel offers, plus the blood pressure we cannot take.
Uptake is low, largely because people do not know they are eligible. If you are in that age band and have not had one, that is the better place to start.
Where you have a symptom, a family history, or a question — and want twenty minutes to go through it. The consultation is the product; the panel is the supporting evidence.
If you feel well and have no particular risk factors — probably not, and we will tell you so.
General health screening has not been shown to reduce death or serious illness, and large panels reliably produce borderline results that lead to further testing.
If you have symptoms, a family history or a specific question, that is different — then testing is targeted and worth doing.
Because of how reference ranges work. Around 5 per cent of healthy people fall outside the range on any given test.
Run thirty tests and at least one flagged result is close to certain, even in someone entirely well. Most need nothing more than a repeat.
No. No blood panel screens reliably for cancer, and tumour markers are not screening tests — in people without symptoms they cause more harm through false positives than they prevent.
The screening that works — bowel, breast and cervical — is free, targeted and separate.
The NHS Health Check, every five years for ages 40 to 74.
It covers cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes risk, BMI and a cardiovascular risk score — the core of what a paid panel offers, plus the blood pressure measurement we cannot do.
Most people who are eligible have not had one, simply because nobody told them.
A 10 to 12 hour fast is usually required, water only, because glucose and triglycerides are both affected by recent eating.
Confirm the exact requirement at your consultation, and if you take insulin or a sulfonylurea, speak to us first — fasting needs planning.
Getting your blood pressure checked, and it is free.
It matters more for long-term health than almost anything in the panel, it causes no symptoms, and pharmacies do it without an appointment. We cannot measure it remotely, which is why we keep saying it.
Raised cholesterol, prediabetes, mildly abnormal liver enzymes, and vitamin D or iron deficiency.
Prediabetes and fatty liver are the two most useful, because both have a clear, free, effective response — the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, and modest weight loss.
Not annually, if you are well and the last set was normal. The yield is very low and the false-positive rate is not.
Every few years, or when something changes, is a more sensible rhythm — and a trend over time is worth more than any single set of numbers.
No, and we will not refer for one.
Whole-body MRI and CT screening find incidental abnormalities in a large proportion of people, almost all harmless, and have never been shown to save lives. What they reliably generate is follow-up scans.
Clinically reviewed by Dr Mohammad Zubair Khan, GMC 7563469
Last reviewed
August 23, 2026
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Told when a test isn’t needed
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Same day, usually
20 minutes
Yes, with your consent
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Yes, and told why
£40 for 20 minutes
Varies by practice
Typically 10 minutes
Yes, your full record
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Same day
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Same-day access is usually available, from 6am to 10pm, seven days a week. You choose a time that suits you rather than waiting on hold at 8am.
Yes. Care is led personally by Dr Mohammad Khan, so you are not passed between clinicians. Continuity is the point of a small practice: someone who knows your history and is listening attentively rather than working through a checklist.
Yes, with your consent. We can access your Summary Care Record during the consultation, so your current medications, allergies and significant history are in the room. That means fewer questions you have already answered elsewhere, and safer prescribing.
No. We are not here to replace GPs, only to support them. Your NHS practice remains responsible for your ongoing care, and with your consent we write to them after the consultation. We are useful when you need to be seen sooner, or want more time than a standard appointment allows.
Twenty unhurried minutes and a comprehensive assessment. A written treatment plan is included, along with any prescription, sick note or referral letter arising from the consultation, at no extra charge.
£40 for 20 minutes, self-pay. Membership is optional and never required. Priced for fairness, because we are not here to charge extortionate amounts for access to a doctor.
It means the diagnosis can usually be made from your history and photographs, and that treatment can be arranged safely without examining you. Where a condition is not marked treatable online, it is because examination is the diagnosis — listening to a chest, feeling an abdomen, examining an ear or a joint — or because a procedure or device is needed.
Yes, where there is a genuine bacterial infection — cellulitis, impetigo, bacterial urine infections, confirmed strep throat. We will also frequently tell you that you do not need one. Most sore throats, coughs, colds and earaches are viral, and an antibiotic gives you the side effects with none of the benefit.
If your problem turns out to be genuinely outside what we can do remotely, the doctor will tell you straight away, point you to the right service, and refund your fee in full. We would rather do that than fill twenty minutes to justify the charge.
Call 999 or go to A&E — do not book an online appointment and do not wait for a reply to an email. For urgent problems that are not emergencies, NHS 111 is available 24 hours a day, online or by phone, and can direct you to the right service.
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