A male health panel covering testosterone, prostate, cholesterol and diabetes risk, with a full GP review.
Referred by a GMC-registered GP, results reviewed by the same doctor
Taken at a partner site near you
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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Registered with the Care Quality Commission
The Well Man panel is a broad screen across the systems where problems in men tend to develop silently — cardiovascular risk, blood sugar, liver, kidney, thyroid and hormones — in a single blood draw.
It exists because of a well-documented pattern: men present later and die earlier of largely preventable conditions. High blood pressure, raised cholesterol and insulin resistance all cause nothing at all for years, and by the time they cause something, the window for easy intervention has usually closed.
Cardiovascular — full lipid profile with LDL, HDL, the ratio and triglycerides, plus high-sensitivity CRP. This feeds directly into a formal QRISK3 calculation rather than sitting as a number on a page.
Diabetes — HbA1c showing your average blood sugar over three months, which identifies prediabetes while it is still reversible.
Liver — ALT, AST, GGT, ALP, bilirubin and albumin. Fatty liver is the commonest abnormality found on a panel like this and is almost always symptomless.
Kidney — creatinine, eGFR and electrolytes.
Thyroid — including antibodies, which routine testing frequently omits.
Iron status — with ferritin. Worth knowing: iron deficiency in a man is not something to simply supplement. It is a red flag for gastrointestinal blood loss and warrants investigation, and this panel is one of the commoner ways it comes to light.
Testosterone — which is why the timing of the sample matters.
Bone health, urinalysis and full blood count complete the picture.
What a panel like this cannot do is replace a physical examination. Blood pressure, prostate examination and skin checks all need doing separately, and we will tell you which of those apply to you rather than let a clear blood result imply everything has been covered.
Included: full blood count · heart health with cholesterol, LDL, HDL, ratio, triglycerides and hs-CRP · liver function · kidney function · diabetes markers including HbA1c · bone health with vitamin D · iron status including ferritin · urinalysis · thyroid function with antibodies · total PSA · full hormonal profile including testosterone, SHBG and free androgen index.
1. Consultation. We establish what is actually worth measuring for you. A broad panel run without a question behind it produces incidental findings that generate anxiety and further testing without improving anything — that is a real cost of screening and worth being honest about.
2. Referral. To a Randox Health clinic at a time that suits you.
3. The sample. Fasting is usually required, and the testosterone sample must be taken before 11am — ideally between 7am and 10am, because testosterone peaks in the early morning and an afternoon reading is not interpretable. Book a morning slot.
4. Results review. A full consultation, not a PDF. A GP goes through every result against your history, calculates your actual cardiovascular risk, and gives you a written plan. Where results are entirely normal, that is a useful answer too — knowing what has been excluded is worth having.
Fasting is usually required. Testosterone samples must be taken before 11am, ideally between 7am and 10am.
Most commonly: raised cholesterol, a raised HbA1c in the prediabetes range, mildly abnormal liver function, and vitamin D deficiency.
Prediabetes is the most useful of those, because it is a genuine warning with a genuine response — the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme is free, and roughly halves progression to type 2 diabetes in people who complete it.
Extremely common, particularly alongside excess weight or regular alcohol, and reversible — around 7 to 10 per cent weight loss substantially improves it.
It is worth taking seriously rather than filing under "slightly off", because it is one of the few findings on a screening panel that both matters and responds.
If testosterone is included, the sample should be taken in the morning — ideally between 7am and 10am. Levels fall through the day, and a late sample reads low in men whose levels are normal.
One low reading is not a diagnosis either — that needs two low morning samples alongside symptoms.
Cardiovascular risk is not a cholesterol number. It combines cholesterol with blood pressure, age, smoking, weight and family history — and blood pressure, which we cannot measure remotely, carries more weight than the lipids do.
A perfect cholesterol result with untreated high blood pressure is not a reassuring picture.
General health checks in people without symptoms have not been shown to reduce death or serious illness. That has been studied repeatedly.
What broad panels reliably produce is borderline results — and across twenty tests, at least one is more likely than not, because reference ranges are built that way.
PSA should not be added to a health panel without a conversation first. There is no national screening programme precisely because the balance of benefit and harm is close.
Most raised results are not cancer, and overdiagnosis — finding cancers that would never have caused harm — is the central problem. That deserves twenty minutes, not a tick box.
Examine you, weigh you, or measure your blood pressure. All are free through NHS services and pharmacies, and all add more than another blood marker would.
Symptoms, a family history, or a specific question you want answered properly. And the twenty minutes — particularly for the PSA decision, which is genuinely difficult and routinely rushed.
Honestly, probably not — and we will say so.
General screening in men without symptoms has not been shown to reduce death or serious illness, and broad panels generate borderline results that lead to more testing.
The NHS Health Check covers the things that matter, free, if you are between 40 and 74.
Only after a proper conversation, not as a default.
There is no national prostate screening programme because the balance is genuinely close. Most raised PSA results are not cancer, and overdiagnosis is a real harm.
What shifts the argument towards testing: a family history, and Black African or Caribbean heritage. See the PSA page for the full picture.
Fasting is usually required.
If testosterone is included, book a morning appointment — ideally between 7am and 10am, because levels fall through the day and a later sample is not reliably interpretable.
On one sample, not much. Diagnosis needs two low morning samples plus symptoms.
Recent illness, poor sleep, stress and weight gain all lower it temporarily, and levels often normalise on a repeat.
Usually it is fatty liver, and it is both common and reversible.
Around 7 to 10 per cent weight loss substantially improves it, as does cutting alcohol. It is one of the few screening findings that both matters and responds.
That blood sugar is above normal but below the diabetes threshold — a warning, not a diagnosis.
The NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme is free and roughly halves progression in people who complete it. It is the most useful thing a raised HbA1c can lead to.
Because it matters more than most of this panel and we cannot measure it.
High blood pressure is silent, which is exactly why it is worth checking when you feel well. Many pharmacies do it free without an appointment.
Sometimes — but more often it is something else.
Sleep apnoea, iron deficiency, thyroid disease, depression and untreated diabetes all produce that picture, and sleep apnoea both mimics low testosterone and causes it.
Which is why the whole panel is read together, rather than reaching for one number.
Return the bowel screening kit if you are over 50. Men return it less often than women, it takes minutes, and it is one of the few screening tests proven to save lives.
Clinically reviewed by Dr Mohammad Zubair Khan, GMC 7563469
Last reviewed
August 23, 2026
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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.
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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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