Most of what shortens a life is building quietly for years before anyone looks. I find it while it is still small, I build you a plan, and I manage it across the year. Your family gets me the same day when something goes wrong fast.
Start with a full assessment See how it worksBy the time something shows up in a ten-minute appointment, it has usually been building for years. The heart risk, the metabolic drift, the slow change no single test flags on its own. Standard care waits for the symptom because that is all it has time to do. This practice is built to catch the thing while it is still small, and to stay with it until it is dealt with.
A rushed appointment finds what you came in for. A proper one finds what you did not know to ask about. The difference is not skill, it is time, and time is the thing general practice has lost.
Continuity is what turns a set of results into a trend. When the same doctor reads your numbers year after year, a small change tells a story a one-off check never could.
Almost everything that shortens a life is cheaper, simpler, and less frightening to deal with early. The whole point of watching closely is to act while acting still costs you little.
Five things, done properly, for a deliberately limited number of patients. The practice is built around watching your health over time rather than waiting for you to bring me a problem.
A long first appointment, in person. Full history and examination, resting ECG, body composition, heart rate variability, blood pressure profile, and a broad blood panel with every laboratory test included. It ends in a written strategy, not a set of results.
Your results tracked over time rather than read in isolation. I interpret every panel, including ones you have had done elsewhere, and I tell you what changed and what it means.
When you or your child needs a doctor today, you get one who already knows you. I tell you what it is, what to watch for, and exactly which signs mean it needs more. Home visit when it is needed.
Metabolic health, cardiovascular trajectory, sleep, body composition, strength, and hormonal status. Measured properly, tracked, and managed toward where you want to be.
VO₂ max, ambulatory blood pressure, biological age testing, pharmacogenomic testing to guide prescribing, and more. Used where they change a decision, never as a product.
The why is one thing. Here is the practical shape of it, from your first appointment through the year that follows.
Your first appointment is a long one, in person. We go through your full medical history, any current concerns, family history, lifestyle, and what you want from the next decade. A full examination, cardiac and metabolic testing, and a broad blood panel follow, with every laboratory test included in the fee. You leave having been assessed properly, most likely for the first time.
Within five working days you receive a written strategy. Where you stand, what needs attention now, what we are watching, and what we do next. No jargon. No folder of numbers. A clear, honest account of your health and what we do about it.
From here, I am your doctor. Reviews are booked by the practice rather than requested by you, results are tracked over time, and I contact you when the data warrants it. You are never chasing your own care.
Start with the assessment. It stands alone, and it is credited in full against membership if you join within 90 days.
Family covers two adults and up to two children under 16.
The proper look most people have never had. A long appointment, a comprehensive panel, and a written plan for the decade ahead.
A named doctor watching your health across the year. Your yearly assessment, scheduled reviews, and same-day care when something needs a doctor today.
Your health actively managed, not just reviewed. For people who want their health run like something that matters, with a doctor working a plan all year.
The assessment is paid once. Join within 90 days and the full fee credits against your first year, so it is never a cost on top of membership. Your assessment includes every test in the panel, and beyond that any imaging, consultant or drug costs pass through at cost, with nothing added.
Zone 1 is up to 30 minutes' drive from my office, Zone 2 is 30 to 60 minutes. Your zone is fixed when you join, from a weekday journey to your registered address.
If you use testosterone or other performance compounds, Sentinel is a focused monitoring programme built around that. See Sentinel →
A few things are open to anyone. Everything else on the schedule below is for members.
Here is the part that matters. If I judge a test, a visit or an investigation is clinically needed, it is part of your care and not a charge. This schedule prices only the things you might ask for beyond that, and it is published so you can see there is nothing hidden. Laboratory fees, imaging, consultant fees, vaccine stock and drug costs pass through at cost, evidenced on request.
Investigations I run on my own equipment, the ECG, body composition and heart rate variability, are included whenever I judge them clinically necessary. Third-party investigations, laboratory tests and advanced imaging, are always charged at cost, with nothing added. Allowances run per membership year and do not roll over. Zones are fixed at joining from your registered address. Read the full membership terms →
This is proactive medicine. I assess you properly, I watch what matters over time, and I act early. For members, that includes a same-day assessment when you or your child is unwell, within practice hours, including Saturday mornings, with a home visit when it is clinically needed.
It is not urgent or emergency care, and it is not an out-of-hours service. If someone is seriously unwell, call 999. If something cannot wait until morning, call 111 or the NHS out-of-hours service. Those services exist and they are good at what they do.
What I offer instead is the thing they cannot. A doctor who already knows your history, who has followed your health over time, and who can tell you today whether this needs more than reassurance.
I'm a GP with nearly 20 years of NHS and private practice experience. I set up this service because general practice has lost the two things that change outcomes, which are time and continuity, and no amount of faster appointments puts them back.
The model is simple: fewer patients than a normal practice, a complete picture of each one, and medicine that acts before you are ill. I know your history. I know your family.
Alongside this practice I lead clinical work in biological risk and executive performance through Ravn Health, which means patients who want to go deeper on cognitive and executive performance have that option too.
"Most people don't need more healthcare. They need a doctor who was already watching."Dr Ben Ingram
Not a figures-only approach. The whole picture gets looked at, and you’re listened to rather than diagnosed by threshold. The level of contact and accessibility is unlike anything I’ve had from a GP before.
I was able to speak about what was going on at length, on a genuinely personal level, and have test results actually explained. Less anxiety, earlier awareness of symptoms, and real improvements from monitoring alongside the consultations.
I developed an understanding of how my body responds to diet and exercise that I’ve carried forward ever since. Blood pressure down, blood sugar down, and I’ve reached goals I hadn’t expected to reach.
It stands alone, and it is credited in full against membership if you join within 90 days. Book a time that suits you.
Book an assessmentNot ready to book? Send an enquiry and I'll come back to you myself. No obligation, just a conversation about what you want from your health and whether this practice is the right place for it.
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See Sentinel monitoring →Dr Ben Ingram provides proactive medicine and private GP care across Kent, including Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone, Canterbury, Faversham, Sittingbourne, and surrounding areas. The practice does not provide urgent, emergency or out-of-hours care.