Private GP in Kent · The assessment
Know where your health really stands.
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.
A £200 deposit holds the day, refundable in full until your date is fixed.
What it costs
The assessment is £995 for one adult and £1,495 for a couple. The £200 holds your day and the balance falls due only once the date is fixed. Join the practice within ninety days and the whole fee credits against your membership.
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 are passed through at what they cost me, and they are always your decision.
If it isn't right
The £200 comes back in full if we never book a date. If you join the practice and change your mind inside ninety days, I refund the membership fee, less the cost of any tests already done. You keep the assessment and you keep the plan.
Why it works this way
This practice takes fifty adults and no more. That cap is the whole model, not a marketing line. My fee pays for my time and my judgment, so any investigation I recommend passes through at what it costs me, and I earn the same whether I investigate you or reassure you. Nothing is sold on the side.
Every test on the day has cleared two questions: is there good evidence behind it, and will the result change what we do. 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.
What patients say
In their own words.
"Over a three-month wait to see our own GP pushed us to look. We chose the family concierge package and are extremely happy. Amazing communication, home visits when needed, and a forward-thinking approach to health."
Barry A. · Google review"Ben has been brilliant. The work he has done has really started to change my health for the better. He has the measure of me and understands what is needed. His concierge health service is amazing."
Michael J. · Google review"Personal and holistic. Understanding the whole picture, not a figures-only approach, and listening rather than working to a threshold."
Andrew W. · memberWhat happens
Unhurried, and thorough. Here is how it goes.
A detailed history, read in advance
You complete a full history before we meet, and I read it beforehand. It means I already know your background when I arrive, and our time together goes on understanding your story rather than filling in boxes.
The history and the examination
We start by talking, for as long as it takes, and this is where the real picture forms. What is worrying you, what you want from the years ahead, how you actually live, sleep and work, the things a questionnaire never draws out. Someone waking at three every morning for a year does not write that on a form, and it never surfaces in a ten-minute appointment. Then a full clinical examination, unhurried and thorough.
Your tests and measurements
Then the hands-on part: your blood draw, a set of physical measurements, and a short check of your fitness, strength and balance. What each one is, and why it earns its place, is set out below.
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, your concerns and what you want from the years ahead, then a thorough clinical examination.
Heart checks
A resting ECG, a blood pressure profile taken on both arms, and your arterial stiffness, a marker of how your vascular system is ageing.
Fitness and recovery
VO2 max, measured rather than estimated, and one of the strongest predictors of long-term health we have. Alongside it, body composition and heart rate variability.
Strength and balance
Grip strength, a sit-to-stand test and balance. Simple measures of how well you are ageing that a standard health check never looks at.
The full biomarker set
The proactive markers: ApoB and Lp(a), fasting insulin, which moves years before HbA1c does, HbA1c itself, and hs-CRP for background inflammation.
The standard panel, in full: lipids, kidney and liver function, full blood count, thyroid function and sex hormones. Every one of them earns its place, and you get both halves.
A written ten-year plan
About a week later, in plain English: where you stand, what to act on now, what to watch, and the markers that tell you it is working.
This is the reading everything later is measured against.
One set of results tells you where you stand today. It is the second and the third, taken years apart and read by the same doctor, that show which way you are going and whether what you changed actually worked. Everything measured on the day becomes the baseline for that.
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: a clear, honest picture of where your health stands today, and a plan that says what to do, how hard, for how long, and the markers to watch to know it is working. Written in plain English, so you can actually use it.
The investment
What it costs, and what comes back.
The fee buys the half day, the panel and the plan. It buys nothing else, and nothing is sold on the side. Join the practice within ninety days and it comes back to you in full, against your first year.
Individual
- An unhurried history and a full examination
- Heart, circulation and metabolic risk read properly
- Fitness, strength and balance measured, not guessed
- A written ten-year plan, and the conversation that goes with it
Couple
- Everything in the individual assessment, for both of you
- Each with your own history, examination, panel and written plan
- One doctor seeing the whole household: the risks you share and the picture that only shows when you look at the two of you together
The full assessment fee is credited against your first year's membership if you join the practice within ninety days.
Try the whole thing
You can try the whole thing and pay nothing.
Start with the Assessment at £995. Half a day, one doctor, and a written plan for the next ten years. If you join the practice within ninety days, that fee comes off your membership in full. And if the first ninety days of membership don't convince you, I refund the membership fee, less only the cost of any tests already done. You keep the assessment and you keep the plan.
The only thing you can lose here is the time it takes to find out.
Who it is for
For people who would rather know than wonder.
This is for adults who feel well but want to be sure, who carry a family history that sits at the back of their mind, or who have reached the age where they want a straight, thorough read on where they really 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 built for you.
Common questions
Straight answers, before you book.
Is this the same as a health check?
No. A health check is a snapshot sold as a product: a set of numbers on one day, handed over in a folder. The assessment ends in a plan, read by one doctor who then holds it against next year's results. Sitting inside the normal range is not the same finding as being well, and one reading on its own cannot tell you which way you are going.
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?
The assessment gives you a written plan with clear, prioritised actions. I don't run investigations or referrals off the back of it. You take the plan to your own GP or insurer to arrange those, or you become a member of my practice and I coordinate them for you. Nothing is sold on the side.
What tests are included?
The proactive markers, from ApoB and Lp(a) to fasting insulin, HbA1c, hs-CRP and VO2 max, and the standard panel in full: lipids, kidney and liver function, full blood count, thyroid function and sex hormones. Plus a resting ECG, arterial stiffness, body composition, grip strength and balance. All of it is set out in everything the half-day takes in, above, read together by one doctor and turned into a plan.
Could there be extra costs on the day?
Only if I find a reason for one, and never without telling you first. The fee covers the half day, the full biomarker set and the plan. If your history or examination turns up something that needs a test beyond that set, I tell you what it is, why it matters and what it costs before anything is booked. It is passed through at what it costs me, and it is your decision.
Can a couple book together?
Yes. A couple is £1,495 for two adults, assessed in the same half-day visit, each with their own history, examination, panel and plan.
Start here
Book the assessment.
Half a day, one doctor, £995, credited in full if you join.
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