Cheshire · Private health check
The private hospitals around Cheshire will sell you a health assessment for £600 to £1,200. You get a morning of your time back in exchange for a physical examination, a fitness test, a consultation, and a blood panel of roughly thirty to forty markers. The examination is genuinely useful. The blood panel is the thin part, and it is the part that would have told you where your cardiovascular and metabolic risk actually sits. A TrueVitals panel tests 114 markers for £349 or 230 for £799, and for most of Cheshire it happens at your own kitchen table before the school run.
At-home visits across every Cheshire postcode for £39. Signature collected at Randox Manchester. Written report in 48 hours.
Last reviewed 17 September 2026
The short answer
If nobody has examined you in years, or you want an ECG, a fitness test and a doctor's hour, book the hospital assessment; those are real things a blood panel cannot do. If you want to know your numbers, buy the panel: ApoB and Lp(a) rather than a basic cholesterol, fasting insulin rather than waiting for HbA1c to move, cystatin C rather than creatinine alone, a full thyroid panel rather than a TSH, and the complete hormone picture. Ultimate is £349 with a £39 at-home draw. Signature is £799 with the draw and physical measurements included, collected at Randox Manchester.
The local reality
A hospital health assessment is a half-day appointment, fasted, usually starting at eight, somewhere like Cheadle, Wilmslow or Stockport. If you live in Knutsford or Prestbury that is an early drive, a car park, and a morning written off. So it gets booked for a quieter month, and the quieter month does not arrive. The blood work is the part with the shortest shelf life and the highest value, and it is the part that can be done in ten minutes at your own table, on a Tuesday, without telling anyone.
At home · £39
WA16, SK9, SK10, SK11, WA14, WA15, SK7, SK8, SK12 and every CW and CH postcode. Morning slots, which is what cortisol, insulin and testosterone need anyway.
In clinic · £19
Two clinics in Crewe, one in Chester, Ellesmere Port for the Wirral side, Widnes for Warrington, and Didsbury or Deansgate if you are heading into Manchester anyway.
Signature · £799
The 230-marker panel includes blood pressure and physical measurements taken on the day, so it is collected at a Randox Health clinic. Manchester is the nearest for the whole county.
Compared
| Private hospital assessment | TrueVitals Ultimate | TrueVitals Signature | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blood markers | Roughly 30 to 40 | 114 | 230 |
| ApoB and Lp(a) | Rarely included | Both | Both, plus ApoA1 and ratio |
| Fasting insulin and HOMA-IR | No | Yes | Yes |
| Cystatin C | No | Yes | Yes |
| Full thyroid with antibodies | Usually TSH only | Yes | Yes |
| Physical exam, ECG, fitness test | Yes, and this is the main thing you are buying | No | Blood pressure and physical measurements only |
| Your time | Half a day, plus the drive | Ten minutes at home | A clinic appointment in Manchester |
| What you take away | A consultation and a summary | A written report explaining every marker in context, compared with your last test | The same, with the deepest panel available in the UK |
| Price | £600 to £1,200 | £349 + £39 at home or £19 clinic | £799 all in |
Assessment figures are approximate from public listings in 2026. Detailed comparisons: Bupa, Nuffield, Bluecrest, premium panels.
What to check, and when
| Decade | The question worth answering | What to measure |
|---|---|---|
| 30s | Where am I starting from, and is anything hereditary already showing? | Lp(a) once for life, ApoB, fasting insulin, full thyroid, ferritin and vitamin D. A baseline is worth more the earlier it is taken |
| 40s | Is my risk drifting while I feel fine? | ApoB, HbA1c with fasting insulin, hs-CRP, liver including GGT, full thyroid, testosterone with SHBG or oestradiol and FSH |
| 50s | What needs acting on now rather than watching? | Everything above plus cystatin C, PSA with the free ratio for men, tumour markers, and a full iron and nutrient picture |
| 60+ | Is my kidney function really what the standard test says? | Cystatin C rather than creatinine alone, ApoB, HbA1c, full thyroid, B12, and the markers behind tiredness that get blamed on age |
By life stage: at 40 for men, at 40 for women, at 50.
Which panel
The annual one
Ultimate
114 biomarkers · £349
ApoB, Lp(a), fasting insulin and HOMA-IR, cystatin C, full thyroid with antibodies, the complete hormone set, PSA with free ratio, tumour markers, hs-CRP, full iron studies and vitamins. Drawn at your kitchen table.
View UltimateSignature
230 biomarkers · £799
Randox Manchester, with blood pressure and physical measurements on the day and Randox's own laboratory behind it. Extended cardiovascular, autoimmune, digestive and neurological screening. Draw included.
View SignatureHealth plans
2, 3 or 4 tests · from £706
One panel is a snapshot; two is a direction. Buy the next few years upfront at a lower price per test, and every report is compared against the last.
View health plansAt-home draw £39, clinic £19, included on Signature. Fast from 10pm, book a morning slot. Pay monthly available.
Honest comparison
If you have a symptom rather than a question, book a doctor, not a panel. If you are over fifty and nobody has listened to your heart or taken your blood pressure in a decade, the physical examination has value that no amount of biomarkers replaces. If there is cardiac disease in the family and you want an ECG and an exercise test, that is exactly what the hospital assessment is for. What it is not good at is blood depth, cost and frequency, which is why a reasonable pattern for most people here is an assessment every three to five years and a comprehensive panel every year in between. Anything abnormal in the panel is also the fastest route to a useful private appointment locally, because you walk in with 114 markers and a written interpretation rather than a vague worry. What to ask your GP for.
FAQs
Private hospital assessments in and around the county typically run £600 to £1,200 for a half day including a physical examination and 30 to 40 blood markers. A TrueVitals Ultimate panel is £349 for 114 markers plus £39 for an at-home draw, and Signature is £799 for 230 markers with the draw included.
Yes. At-home visits cover WA16 Knutsford, SK9 Alderley Edge and Wilmslow, SK10 Prestbury and Macclesfield, WA14 and WA15 Hale, Bowdon and Altrincham, SK7 Bramhall and every other Cheshire postcode, for £39. Full Cheshire coverage.
Usually ApoB and Lp(a), which predict cardiovascular risk better than cholesterol alone; fasting insulin, which shows insulin resistance years before HbA1c moves; cystatin C, which reads kidney function accurately in muscular or older people; free T3 and thyroid antibodies rather than TSH alone; and most of the hormone picture.
Only for the Signature panel, which includes physical measurements taken at a Randox Health clinic. Advanced and Ultimate can be drawn at home anywhere in Cheshire, or at clinics in Crewe, Chester, Ellesmere Port and Widnes.
Identical. A registered phlebotomist takes the same venous sample into the same tubes and it goes to the same UKAS-accredited laboratory. It is not a finger-prick kit.
Annually for most adults, or every six months if you are actively changing something or managing a result. The second test is where the value is: one panel tells you where you are, two tell you which direction you are going. Why annual testing.
Advanced and Ultimate reports arrive within 48 hours of the laboratory receiving your sample, usually the same day as the draw. Signature takes around 12 working days.
114 or 230 biomarkers, drawn at home anywhere in Cheshire or at Randox Manchester, with a written report in 48 hours and year-on-year comparison built in.
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