$A scrubbed kitchen table in low evening light, papers and reading glasses spread across it and a doctor's leather bag on the chair$

The First Visit

One evening, at your kitchen table.

Most people are carrying more information about their own health than anyone has ever sat down and explained to them.

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One doctor, fifty adults Serving Kent and the South East CQC registered BSc MBBS MRCGP Still an NHS GP partner today

What you're already carrying

Is anything quietly going wrong?

Loose paperwork, hospital letters and a watch spread across a dining table at dusk, a folder spilling open and one lamp lit at the edge of the room

You're holding more information about your own health than anyone has ever sat down and read.

Blood tests from a work medical.
A private health check somebody bought you as a present.
A hospital letter with one sentence in it you never quite understood.
Two years of sleep and heart rate data on your wrist.
Your GP record, which you can now open yourself in the NHS App.
A family history you know matters, which nobody has ever asked you about properly.

Your NHS GP has seen almost none of it, and that isn't a criticism. Ten minutes is the part everyone talks about, and it isn't the whole problem. Nobody holds two thousand histories in their head and reads a folder as well.

So it sits there, and the question sits with it.

The First Visit is where someone reads it all and tells you what's worth acting on.

Knowing costs you an evening. Wondering can go on for years.

What happens

An evening, in your own home.

A green front door under wisteria in an old brick house, lavender either side of the path

I come to you

Allow an hour or so, depending on how much you bring. Nowhere to drive to, no fasting, no blood tests.

Bring everything you've got

Results, letters, reports, scans, whatever your watch has recorded. I read all of it with you, out loud.

A full history

Taken properly, which is the part general practice no longer has room for.

Three measurements

Blood pressure, height and waist. Between them they say more about your cardiometabolic risk than your weight does.

Your medicines and your family history

Gone through together, because that is what decides which screening actually applies to you.

A screening audit

Against the schedule I keep for my own members. What you're entitled to, what you've missed, and what the NHS doesn't offer that your history says you should think about.

Then you keep it

I write it as we go, so you leave holding it: what looks fine, what's worth watching, what needs doing, and the first step for each.

What it isn't

It tells you whether there is a question. The Assessment answers it.

It works with what already exists. Beyond blood pressure, height and waist there's no panel and no full physical, so what you get is a clear read on what you're already carrying and whether any of it needs looking at properly.

When something does, that is the Assessment: half a day, the full panel, and a written plan for the next ten years. And when you want a doctor watching it year on year, that is membership.

An open notebook and a fountain pen on a desk by a window, a stack of old books and a cup beside them

What it costs

An evening, and it comes off in full.

Go on to the Assessment or straight into membership and the fee comes off in full, so the evening has cost you nothing. Stop here and you keep the summary: what looks fine, what's worth watching, and what to do first.

A single worn leather armchair beside a tall sash window in a quiet room, morning light across bare floorboards

One adult

£480

An evening at your table

Comes off the Assessment or membership fee in full

A long scrubbed kitchen table in the evening, laid and not yet cleared, coats over two of the chairs and one lamp lit

Two of you

£680

Both in the same evening

Comes off the Assessment or membership fee in full

Beyond about an hour's drive from me a travel charge is agreed before anything is booked.

Who is coming

I'm Ben Ingram.

I'm an NHS GP partner in Kent, and alongside that I look after fifty adults privately. Not fifty one. That number is what lets me hold someone's whole history in my head and still answer the phone when they call.

Arrange a visit Or call 01795 358853

Evenings and weekends across Kent.