Executive Health Assessment in London 2026: What It Includes, Who It Suits and What It Costs

At The Online GP, the assessment is doctor-led throughout. An Executive Physical is £2,995 and an Executive Body Scan is £5,995; full physician-led programmes run from £6,995. Every price is published before you book.

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Why senior people get assessed

Responsibility, long hours, travel and broken sleep are not abstract risks. Chronic work stress is associated with elevated cardiovascular risk, and the common findings of midlife, raised blood pressure, abnormal lipids, creeping glucose, fatty liver, rarely announce themselves with symptoms. High blood pressure alone affects roughly one in three UK adults, most undiagnosed or undertreated. The case for assessment is not anxiety. It is that the conditions which shorten executive lives are measurable years before they are symptomatic, and the measurements are cheap compared with the disease.

What the evidence supports, stated plainly

Honesty first: the largest review of general health checks, a Cochrane review by Krogsbøll and colleagues updated in 2019, found that undirected annual check-ups in unselected adults did not reduce overall mortality. That is not an argument against assessment. It is an argument against undirected testing. An assessment earns its keep when each test answers a question that changes what you do next, and when someone owns the answer.

Directed testing has strong evidence. Treating blood pressure to tighter targets reduced cardiovascular events in the SPRINT trial (New England Journal of Medicine, 2015). Lipid assessment that goes beyond standard cholesterol to ApoB refines heart risk materially, per the 2019 European Society of Cardiology and European Atherosclerosis Society guideline. Finding fatty liver, prediabetes or thyroid dysfunction early changes management while change is still easy.

What the assessment covers

The panel is fixed with your doctor, not pulled from a shelf. Its core is comprehensive blood testing: full blood count, liver and kidney function, lipid profile, blood glucose, thyroid function, vitamin D, B12 and iron studies. The cardiovascular assessment covers blood pressure, a resting ECG and your formal risk score. Body composition is measured, not guessed. The physical examination covers heart, lungs, abdomen and whatever you have actually come about.

Then the part that justifies the fee: your doctor reviews every result with you, explains what each one means in plain English, and writes the plan. Where something needs a specialist, imaging or treatment, the referral is made through the same clinic and the follow-up is booked before you leave.

How it runs around a real diary

The assessment takes around ninety minutes, with early morning and weekend slots for fasting bloods and working diaries. Results return to the doctor who ordered them. You leave knowing your numbers, what they mean, and precisely what happens next, with a written report for your records. If nothing needs doing, we say so, and you simply have a baseline that makes every future comparison meaningful.

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Who it is for

Assessment makes most sense from forty onwards, earlier with a family history of heart disease, diabetes or cancer, and for anyone whose working pattern makes their GP's ten-minute appointment a poor instrument: high-stress roles, sedentary weeks, frequent travel, little slack. What it is not for: a specific new symptom, which deserves its own consultation first, from £59 by phone or £150 by video.

References

Krogsbøll LT, et al. General health checks in adults for reducing morbidity and mortality from disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2019.

SPRINT Research Group. A randomized trial of intensive versus standard blood-pressure control. New England Journal of Medicine, 2015.

Mach F, et al. 2019 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias. European Heart Journal, 2019.

Reviewed by The Wellness Clinical Team. Last updated 18 October 2026.