What’s involved in carrying out the assessment?
You’ll be greeted by a health adviser who will talk you through your assessment in detail. The health adviser will take a small amount of blood, collect urine samples from you and, depending on the assessment, carry out tests such as height, weight, hearing and vision. Your cholesterol and glucose tests require you to fast for six hours before your assessment. After these tests the health adviser will offer you a snack to eat and then you will be ready for your doctor consultation. The doctor will have the results of most of your tests and the medical questionnaire you have completed. The doctor will offer you advice and you’ll be given a personal health report and action plan to take away with you. For some tests, such as smears and prostate tests the samples need to be sent off to a laboratory for testing. The results of these tests will be sent to you within two weeks of your assessment. If we do discover anything that needs further assessment we’ll let you know what to do next and
