The Wellness8 September 2026Last reviewed 8 September 2026
A private GP membership in London is worth it when you use it more than a handful of times a year. Memberships in the city are published between £5,000 and £20,000 a year. At The Wellness a telephone consultation is £59, a standard appointment £150 and a same day appointment £220.
A membership is not a discount card. It buys three things that are hard to buy one at a time.
It buys access, which is a doctor on the day you need one rather than the day one is free. It buys continuity, which is the same doctor reading your history for the fourth time rather than a new one reading it for the first. And it buys somebody whose job is the next step, so a referral, a scan and a letter are arranged rather than handed to you as a task.
Everything else a membership advertises is usually available to anybody who pays for it on the day.
The Wellness does not publish a membership price today. What we publish is the catalogue, and it is the same catalogue that runs our checkout, so you can do the sum yourself against whatever a membership is quoting you.
A telephone consultation is £59. A standard appointment is £150. A same day appointment is £220. Specialist navigation, which is the liaison who finds the consultant and brings the letter back, is £295 a case. An executive physical is £2,495 and a longevity consultation £250.
Set that against the London range. A membership published at £5,000 a year is worth it if you would otherwise buy roughly twenty two same day appointments, or a mixture of appointments, panels and navigation that reaches the same figure. Below that you are paying for availability rather than for care, and availability is worth paying for only if you actually need it at short notice.
The range itself is wide, and the reason is that the word covers different products. HCA publishes a GP membership at £600 a year with a screen and unlimited GP appointments. Doctorcall publishes a membership from £15 a month. At the other end, family and concierge arrangements in London run to £20,000 and above. Read what is inside before you compare two numbers.
The case for a membership is strongest for somebody with a condition that needs holding to a target over years, and weakest for somebody who is well and wants reassurance once a year.
It is worth asking who the doctor would be, and for how long. Our primary care lead, Dr Adel Elalfy, has been a GP in Britain for more than twenty five years, has been a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners since 2001 and has held the same partnership since 2007. Those are facts on his own profile on this site rather than a promise on a sales page, and they are the kind of fact worth asking any practice for before you pay an annual fee.
A membership that cannot tell you the name of your doctor is selling you access, not continuity.
A 2024 systematic review in the American Journal of Medicine found that concierge and direct primary care models were associated with fewer emergency visits and hospital admissions and higher patient satisfaction. That is the honest case for paying for continuity.
The annual health check that most memberships lead with is a weaker argument. The 2019 Cochrane review pooled 251,891 people and found that general health checks did not reduce deaths from any cause, or from cancer or cardiovascular disease, while producing more diagnoses. Most of the trials in it ran before 1999, so it is not the last word, and it is still the best evidence there is.
That is why we would rather sell you a doctor who knows you than an annual screen, and why a membership justified mainly by its yearly check is justified badly.
If you saw a GP twice last year and both times it could have waited a week, a membership will not repay you. Pay for the appointment you need on the day you need it and keep the difference.
If you live outside London and would use video only, most of what a London membership charges for is the room, and you would be paying for a building you do not enter.
And if a membership will not name your doctor, will not put its promise in a number, or will not show you the price of everything that sits outside the fee, the honest answer is that it is not worth it at any price.
£5,000
to £20,000 a year is the published range for concierge and private GP memberships in London.
Published London membership prices, surveyed for the front doors research pack, September 2026
£600
a year is HCA’s published GP membership with a screen and unlimited GP appointments, and Doctorcall publishes a membership from £15 a month.
HCA and Doctorcall published prices, surveyed September 2026
251,891
people were pooled in the Cochrane review of general health checks, which found no reduction in death from any cause and more diagnoses.
Krogsbøll LT and colleagues, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2019 Open the paper
2024
is the year of the systematic review associating concierge and direct primary care with fewer emergency visits and hospital admissions.
Systematic review of concierge and direct primary care. American Journal of Medicine, 2024
We do not publish one today. When we do, the price will be on the page in the same place as every other price on this site, read from the catalogue that runs the checkout.
Yes. Ask for the doctor by name when you book and you will see the same person. The membership buys the availability, not the relationship.
Ours does not exist yet, and most published ones do not cover the specialist’s own fee. Ask what happens to a consultant bill and to a scan before you sign, because that is where the cost usually reappears.
On the evidence, not as the reason to buy a membership. A check aimed at a risk you already carry is a different thing from a general screen, and it is the one worth having.