Long-Term Health
Take control of your health for the long term.
Good healthcare shouldn’t only respond when something goes wrong.
If you’re living with diabetes, arthritis, a heart condition or several ongoing health problems, it can be difficult to see how everything fits together. And if you’re currently well, knowing which preventative steps genuinely matter can be just as difficult.
Over six months, you’ll work with the same GP to understand where your health is now, identify what matters most, develop a personalised Health Plan and measure the progress you make together.
A different approach to long-term health
Your health is more than a collection of diagnoses and test results. Living well with a long-term condition involves much more than responding to individual symptoms. Healthcare can easily become fragmented.
One appointment deals with your blood pressure. Another reviews your diabetes. Someone else treats your arthritis. Test results arrive at different times and recommendations can accumulate without anyone stopping to ask which things matter most to you.
Our Long-Term Health service starts from the opposite direction.
Your conditions, medications, lifestyle, physical health, family history and personal priorities all interact. Managing them well means understanding those connections and deciding where your attention will make the greatest difference.
Our Six-Month Health Plan creates dedicated time to do that properly. The objective isn’t to medicalise your life. It’s to help you make better decisions about your health.
Why choose our Long-Term Health service?
See the whole picture
We review your complete health rather than managing each condition in isolation.
Avoid unnecessary testing
We’ll use recent investigations wherever they’re suitable and only recommend additional tests where the results could usefully inform your care.
Build a relationship with your doctor
The same GP works with you throughout your six-month plan, developing a deeper understanding of your health, circumstances and priorities.
Who is the Health Plan for?
Diabetes. Arthritis. Heart disease. Blood pressure. Medication. Family history. Exercise. Sleep. Weight… Your health doesn’t experience these things separately, so neither should your healthcare.
Living well with diabetes
Diabetes affects much more than your blood sugar.
If you’ve already been diagnosed with diabetes, we’ll review how well your current treatment is working, identify opportunities for improvement and help you understand the different things you can do to protect your future health.
Where appropriate, you can add our Diabetes Investigations package to ensure the measurements needed to inform your plan are up to date.
Maintaining movement with arthritis
Living with arthritis isn’t simply about controlling pain. Maintaining movement, strength, independence and the ability to keep doing the things that matter to you can be just as important.
We’ll review how arthritis is affecting your life, your current treatment and medication, and what could help you maintain or improve your function.
Our optional Joint Health package includes an assessment with our physiotherapy partner to help develop the movement and rehabilitation aspects of your plan.
Protecting your cardiovascular health
If you’re living with a heart condition, high blood pressure or another diagnosed cardiovascular problem, we’ll help you understand the different factors affecting your health and bring them together into one coordinated plan.
Our Cardiovascular Investigations package can be added where relevant investigations aren’t already up to date.
Staying well before illness develops
You don’t need to wait until you become unwell to invest in your health.
We don’t believe preventative healthcare should mean carrying out dozens of tests simply because they’re available. Instead, we’ll consider your medical and family history, lifestyle and individual risks and recommend investigations where knowing the answer can genuinely help you make better decisions about your health.
Your Six-Month Health Plan
Understand where you are. Decide where you’re going. Measure the difference.
Your Health Plan combines comprehensive medical assessment with six months of continuity and structured review.
Step 1
Before your first appointment
We’ll send you a detailed health questionnaire to complete in advance.
This gives your doctor the opportunity to understand your medical history, existing conditions, medications, lifestyle, recent investigations and what you most want to achieve before you meet.
If you’ve recently had blood tests, scans or other investigations elsewhere, we’ll ask you to share the results where possible. We don’t repeat investigations unnecessarily.
Step 2
Comprehensive Health Assessment
Your first appointment is dedicated to understanding your health as a whole.
We’ll review your diagnosed conditions, medication, previous investigations, specialist care, lifestyle, relevant risks and preventative healthcare alongside the things that matter most to you.
Together, we’ll identify your priorities and develop your personalised six-month Health Plan.
Step 3
Month 3 Progress
Review
Three months gives you time to put your plan into practice and for many meaningful changes to begin showing results.
We’ll review your progress, discuss what’s working and what isn’t, consider relevant measurements or investigations and adjust your plan where necessary.
Step 4
Month 6 Health
Plan Review
At six months, we’ll bring everything together.
We’ll review the progress you’ve made, assess the measures that matter to your health and agree what happens next.
There is no automatic programme or unnecessary series of appointments after this point. Your doctor will simply agree the ongoing monitoring and care that’s right for you, which then continues through our normal GP service.
For £499, you get:
✓ Detailed pre-appointment health questionnaire
✓ 60-minute comprehensive Health Assessment
✓ Personalised six-month Health Plan
✓ Review of your conditions, medication, existing investigations, specialist care, lifestyle and preventative health
✓ 30-minute three-month progress review
✓ 30-minute six-month Health Plan review
✓ Continuity with the same GP throughout the programme
✓ Coordination of your wider care
✓ Transition into appropriate ongoing GP care
The same doctor throughout
Continuity is at the heart of the Health Plan.
You’ll have the same GP leading your care throughout the six-month programme, including your initial assessment and scheduled reviews. If you need an additional GP appointment relating to your Health Plan during this period, we’ll arrange this with the same doctor. Additional appointments are charged at our normal consultation rates.
Very occasionally, circumstances outside our control may mean your doctor can no longer continue your care. If that happens, we’ll arrange a full clinical handover to another suitable GP so that the knowledge and progress built through your Health Plan aren’t lost.
Investigations that fit your health
There isn’t one standard panel of tests that everyone needs. That’s why investigations aren’t automatically included in the core Health Plan. Instead, you can add the relevant investigation package if you need it, from the below choices. If none of these suit your needs, your doctor will suggest appropriate investigations during your initial consultation.
Diabetes Investigations
For patients with diagnosed diabetes who don’t already have sufficiently recent monitoring results.
£379
✓ HbA1c
✓ Full lipid profile
✓ Urea & electrolytes
✓ Urine ACR
✓ Creatinine/eGFR
✓ Liver function tests
Joint Health Assessments
There are no standard investigations that everyone with arthritis needs. Your doctor will review any previous imaging and may recommend an updated X-ray or other investigation if existing results are old or no longer sufficient to guide your care.
£85
Add an initial assessment with our physiotherapy partner, focusing on movement, strength, pain and function, with recommendations incorporated into your wider Health Plan.
Cardiovascular Investigations
For patients with an existing heart or cardiovascular condition who need an up-to-date clinical baseline.
£589
✓ 12-lead ECG
✓ Full lipid profile
✓ HbA1c
✓ Urea & electrolytes
✓ Creatinine/eGFR
✓ Liver function tests
✓ Urine ACR
✓ Full Blood Count
✓ Thyroid Function
Preventative Investigations
For patients taking a proactive approach who would benefit from establishing an appropriate baseline.
£439
✓ Full blood count
✓ HbA1c
✓ Full lipid profile
✓ Urea & electrolytes
✓ Creatinine/eGFR
✓ Liver function tests
✓ Thyroid Function
Common Questions
Long-Term Health Specialist
Dr Sarah Ord
Dr Ord is our Clinical Lead, and an NHS GP Partner with expertise in musculoskeletal medicine, joint injections, safeguarding and preventative healthcare. She combines a strong clinical background with a passion for delivering personalised, patient-centred care across all aspects of general practice.