Private GP in Kent · The assessment
Find it while it's still quiet.
Most people are told they're fine after ten minutes and one blood test. This is half a day with one doctor, and a written plan for the next ten years.
Paid in full at booking, refundable in full until your date is fixed.
What you leave with
A plan, not a folder of numbers.
Most health checks sell you a set of results. You get a folder, a green tick against most lines, and no idea what to do next. What you leave with is the opposite.
- Where you actually standA clear, honest read on your health today, in plain English rather than reference ranges.
- What to do about itWhat to change, how hard, and for how long. Specifics you can start this month, not general advice.
- How you will know it is workingThe markers I would watch from here, and what a good move in each one looks like.
- Yours to keepThe plan is yours whether or not you ever join the practice.
What happens
Unhurried, and thorough. Here is how it goes.
Your background, read in advance, and a pack in the post
You complete a full history before we meet and I read it beforehand, so the day itself goes on your story rather than on filling in boxes.
The pack contains a urine pot. Collect the first sample of the morning on the day we meet and bring it with you. It gives an albumin to creatinine ratio, which finds early kidney damage that a filtration rate on its own cannot see.
Half a day, and the whole picture
We start by talking, for as long as it takes. What worries you, what you want from the years ahead, how you actually live, sleep and work. Half a day is what lets me pick up on the things you mention once and go back to them, rather than let them pass.
Then the examination, unhurried and thorough, followed by your bloods, your measurements, and a short check of fitness, strength and balance.
Your written plan
A plan for the next ten years, in plain English. Where you stand, what needs attention now, what we watch but do not act on yet, and what to do next. It commits to specifics, not vague advice. Then we talk it through and decide what to act on first.
What's included
Everything the half-day takes in.
One appointment, and a genuinely thorough look. Far more than a standard health check, and every part of it earns its place.
A full history and examination
An unhurried conversation about your health and what you want from the years ahead, then a thorough clinical examination.
Heart checks
A resting 12-lead ECG and blood pressure on both arms, which is where silent pressure and rhythm problems show up first.
Aerobic fitness and body composition
Oxygen uptake measured at every stage rather than predicted from work rate, so your training threshold is read straight from expired gas and your VO2 max is given as an estimate with a range. Body fat is measured by ultrasound rather than guessed at from a scale.
Strength and balance
Grip strength, a sit-to-stand test and balance, which a standard health check never looks at.
The full biomarker set
The proactive markers, ApoB, Lp(a), fasting insulin and glucose, HbA1c and hs-CRP, alongside the standard panel in full: lipids, kidney and liver function, full blood count, thyroid, sex hormones including oestradiol, vitamin D, active B12 and folate, calcium and phosphate, and a urine albumin to creatinine ratio.
A written ten-year plan
About a week later, in plain English, with the markers that tell you it is working.
Why it works this way
Fifty adults, and nothing sold on the side.
Fifty adults and no more, because that is what it takes to do it properly. My fee pays for my time and my judgment, so I earn the same whether I investigate you or reassure you.
Every test on the day has cleared two questions.
- Is there good evidence behind it?
- Will the result change what we do?
Both, or it stays off. Leaving something off is not a refusal, and if your history or your examination makes a test the right thing to do, we do it.
A test that can't change what I do isn't medicine. It's decoration, and you're paying me to know the difference.
Who it is for
For people who would rather know than wonder.
This is built for you if:
- You feel well, and you want to be sure rather than assume.
- You carry a family history that sits at the back of your mind.
- You have reached the age where you want a straight, thorough read on where you actually stand, while there is still time to act on it.
If you would rather find something while it is small than wait for it to announce itself, this is for you.
"Being able to speak about issues and concerns at length, and on a more personal level. Having things like blood test results explained in depth."
Before you book
Start with a conversation, if you would rather.
Twenty minutes on the phone, and it costs nothing. What is on your mind, what runs in your family and at what age it showed up, and what has changed in the last couple of years. At the end I tell you whether the Assessment would find you anything you do not already know. If the answer is no, I say so and we stop there.
The fee
What it costs, and what comes back.
The fee buys the half day, the panel and the plan. Join the practice within thirty days of receiving your written plan and the whole fee credits against your membership.
Nothing is ordered without you knowing the cost first.
If your history or your examination turns up something that needs a test beyond the set, I tell you what it is, why it matters and what it costs before anything is booked. Those tests pass through at what they cost me, with nothing added, and they are always your decision.
Individual
- Time to say the thing you would never raise in ten minutes
- The silent cardiometabolic risks found while they are still cheap to fix
- How well you are ageing, measured rather than guessed
- A plan you can start this month, and a doctor who explains it
Couple
- Everything in the individual assessment, for both of you
- Your own history, examination, panel and plan, each of you
- The risks you share, because you eat, sleep and live in the same house, found once and read together
- Where you share a risk you share the work of changing it, so it is something you do together rather than something one of you keeps up alone
You can try the whole thing and pay nothing.
Half a day, one doctor, and a written plan for the next ten years. Join within thirty days of receiving your written plan and that fee comes off your membership in full.
If the first ninety days of membership don't convince you, I refund every penny you have paid me. Only the laboratory costs are not refundable, because they are paid to a third party. You keep the assessment and you keep the plan.
The only thing you can lose here is the time it takes to find out.
Common questions
Straight answers, before you book.
Is this the same as a health check?
No. A health check hands you numbers. This ends in a plan, written by the doctor who took them and held against next year's. Being inside the normal range is not the same as being well.
What if I don't join?
Then you keep the plan and run it yourself, and that is a fair use of it. It stands on its own. There is no pressure to join and nothing withheld if you don't.
Do you arrange the referrals or treatment I need?
Not off the back of the assessment, no. You take the plan to your own GP or your insurer, or you can become a member and I coordinate it for you.
Start here
Book the assessment.
Half a day, one doctor, £1,750, credited in full if you join.
The Long View, in two pages.
The few things that actually decide how long and how well you live, and how to tell the signal from the noise. I'll send it to you now.