Annual Health Checks for Smarter Health Decisions
Taking control of your health starts with regular check-ups. Annual health checks are an essential tool for maintaining your wellbeing, allowing you to catch potential health issues early and make informed decisions about your lifestyle and care. These routine assessments provide a comprehensive overview of your health, including key measurements like cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and vital organ function.
By having an annual health check, you can track your progress year after year, ensure you’re on top of any emerging health concerns, and make smarter choices that support your long-term health and vitality.
In this guide, we explain what you can expect from an annual health check, the benefits regular check-ups can offer and how a Private Health MOT from Bluecrest Wellness can help you make smart health decisions.
What is an annual health check?
An annual health check provides you with valuable insights into your general health. This can provide you with a better understanding of key health metrics like your cholesterol level, blood pressure and weight and help identify your risk of a range of common health issues like diabetes or heart disease.
Gaining insights into your health can be a powerful tool if you want to make smarter health decisions and stay fit, active and healthy for longer. That’s because many health conditions are more treatable or may even be preventable if they are picked up sooner.
What checks are typically included in an annual health check?
The full range of tests included in an annual health check can vary, but it will generally include:
- Analysis of the health of key organs, such as your heart, lungs, kidney and liver
- Blood tests for a range of common health conditions, like type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels
- Blood tests to offer insights into essential vitamin and mineral levels to highlight any possible deficiencies
- Weight check
- Risk factor scores for common health conditions based on the results of tests and any relevant lifestyle factors
What does an annual health check from Bluecrest Wellness include?
At Bluecrest Wellness, we are committed to providing comprehensive annual health checks that provide smart insights into your health. As a result, our annual health check includes a:
- Cholesterol and diabetes test
- Body composition scan
- Blood pressure check
- Lung function check
- Blood health markers
- Kidney function test
- Essential proteins and iron levels
- Bone health, energy, and muscle tests
- Heart rhythm (ECG test)
- Heart disease and stroke risk
With annual health checks, you can compare your results year-on-year, gaining further insights into whether your results are improving or deteriorating. This allows you to take proactive action to maintain or improve your health.
Understanding your results
To help you gain the most insight from your results, some of our packages, like our cancer risk packages, include a review with a doctor, or you can book a private GP consultation separately.
This enables you to discuss your results with a doctor and understand more about how your lifestyle, medical and family history may be contributing to health concerns. They can offer advice on any follow-up actions they recommend, such as seeking treatment or further investigation or making changes to your lifestyle.
What are the benefits of annual health checks
Having an annual health check provides you with vital insights into your health that can be compared year on year. This enables you to make smart decisions based on annual data-driven insights, ensuring you take proactive action, such as making lifestyle changes or seeking medical support as and when needed.
Additional benefits of having annual health checks include:
- Earlier detection of health conditions – getting your health monitored annually can help you detect the early signs of potentially serious conditions, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and even certain cancers. This can help ensure you can seek timely interventions and potentially have better health outcomes.
- Preventing certain health conditions – regular annual health checks can provide insights you can compare year or year, allowing you to notice sooner any issues that may develop. These smart insights into your health can help you take proactive action, such as lifestyle changes to prevent certain conditions. For example, if you see your blood sugar levels starting to creep up year after year, you can make adjustments to your diet and lifestyle to prevent the onset of prediabetes or type 2 diabetes.
- Better monitoring of existing conditions – for those with chronic health conditions like asthma, diabetes or heart disease, annual health checks allow close monitoring of your condition, enabling you to adjust your treatment as required.
- Gaining lifestyle support – although the primary function of annual health checks is to assess certain health parameters, this knowledge can also open up conversations about your lifestyle that may be impacting your health.
- A mental health check-in – at an annual health check, it’s important to consider not just your physical but also your mental health. Understanding and comparing how you feel annually can help you take proactive steps to improve how you are feeling, which in turn can positively impact your physical health.
- Peace of mind – annual health checks can offer reassurance that all is well with your health.
Smart annual health checks for peace of mind
Book an annual health check today to take a proactive approach to managing your well-being and gain smart insights into your health.
Not only will you receive insights into key health metrics and your risk of certain health conditions, but by having regular annual checks, you can make smarter decisions to help you keep track of your health.
Our annual health checks can be booked across the UK, making it easy for you to find a location convenient for you. Plus, you can be confident that we will deliver fast, efficient and accurate results as we have established links with leading UK laboratories and are fully accredited for a wide range of tests. In addition, alongside a comprehensive Results Report, you get free 24/7 access to a GP helpline for a year following your tests.
