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Health Assessments

Start with a clearer understanding of your health. We explore your concerns, medical history and lifestyle, recommend appropriate investigations and agree your next steps.

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Assessment areas

Five assessment areas

Choose the area closest to what you would like to understand. These are starting points for a clinical assessment, not specialist departments or fixed testing packages.

General Health

An overview of your health, lifestyle and priorities, with appropriate blood tests.

Heart & Metabolic Health

Focus on cardiovascular risk, cholesterol and blood sugar.

Energy & Fatigue

Explore persistent tiredness through your symptoms, sleep, lifestyle and appropriate investigations.

Gut & Nutritional Health

Focus on digestive concerns, diet and nutritional status.

Hormonal Health

Explore hormone-related concerns, including men’s health, women’s health and thyroid function.

Each assessment starts with a clinical conversation. Your clinician recommends tests based on your history and needs, explains your results and agrees your next steps.

Purpose

What an assessment is for

People come to us for different reasons: to understand a concern, to get a clear baseline, to make sense of how they have been feeling, or to decide where to put their effort. The assessment brings your history, lifestyle and goals together with appropriate testing, so the advice you get fits you rather than a template.

It should leave you knowing more than when you started, including when the honest answer is that no test or treatment is needed.

Who it may suit

Anyone who wants to understand their health

  • You want a clear picture of your health as it is now.
  • You have a specific concern, such as tiredness, digestion, weight, hormones or family history.
  • You want test results explained properly, with a plan you can follow.
  • You want support that works alongside your GP and the NHS.
How it works

Four steps, agreed with you

  1. Start with a conversation

    Before anything is tested, we talk: your health history and family history, current concerns, medicines, lifestyle and what you want to get out of the assessment. This sets its purpose.

  2. Build a clearer picture

    Where it helps, we add appropriate measurements and tests. Blood samples are taken in person at a partner collection site; we will explain the arrangements. We explain why each test is suggested and what it can and cannot show.

  3. Understand your results

    We go through your results with you in plain language, alongside your history. You will hear what looks reassuring, what needs watching and what, if anything, needs your GP or a specialist.

  4. Agree your next steps

    Together we agree a plan. It might mean lifestyle changes, monitoring, further investigation, referral, or a treatment where it is clinically appropriate. If your plan includes follow-up, we agree when and how that happens.

Before, during and after

What to expect

Before your assessment

Contact us and tell us briefly what you would like to understand. We will explain how the assessment works and what it costs before you decide to go ahead. It helps to have a list of your medicines and supplements, and any recent test results, to hand.

During your assessment

The conversation covers your health history, family history, symptoms or concerns, lifestyle, sleep, activity and diet, and your goals. If tests would help, we agree which ones and why. Some people need few or none.

What the assessment can consider

Depending on what matters to you, the assessment can consider your current concerns, general health, lifestyle, diet, sleep, energy levels, work patterns including shift work, sunlight exposure, medical history, family history, allergies, relevant risk factors and other information that helps.

Gut health, nutrition, weight and metabolic health

If your concern is digestive symptoms, nutrition, weight or metabolic health, this is where to start. The assessment looks at the whole picture first, checks for anything that needs NHS care, and uses tests only where UK guidance suggests they will help. Our Health Insights explain the evidence in more detail.

After your results

We review your results with you and explain what they mean for you. Anything that needs NHS care is pointed out clearly. You leave with an agreed plan, and you are free to share your results with your GP.

What an assessment is not. It is not emergency or urgent care, it does not replace your GP, and no set of tests can rule out every condition. If you have worrying symptoms, contact your GP or NHS 111 now rather than waiting for an assessment. In an emergency, call 999.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to be unwell to have an assessment?

No. Many people come for a baseline or because of a family history or a specific worry. The aim is to understand your health early, while there is most room to act.

Will I need blood tests?

Not always. We suggest tests only when they could change the advice you receive. When blood tests are useful, samples are taken in person at a partner collection site. Read about blood tests.

Is this the same as the NHS Health Check?

No. The NHS Health Check is free for eligible adults aged 40 to 74 in England and we encourage you to have it. A Vivarta assessment is a private service that can look more widely at your concerns and goals.

Do I have to have treatment afterwards?

No. Many plans involve no treatment at all. Where a treatment might help, we explain the options, their limits and the alternatives, and the decision is yours.

Will my GP be told?

Your results belong to you and you can share them with your GP. If something needs NHS care, we will tell you clearly.

How much does it cost, and how long does it take?

Contact us and we will explain the options and costs before you commit to anything.

Next step

Ready to start?

Tell us briefly what you would like to understand. We reply by email and can explain how an assessment works before you decide. Please do not include detailed medical information in your message.

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