Corporate Health Screening for Employers- What It Actually Involves, and What It Costs
Aug 2026
Sickness absence and presenteeism, staff attending work unwell and operating at reduced capacity, cost UK businesses a genuinely substantial sum every year, and health screening as an employee benefit has moved well beyond a handful of large corporates as a result. It now sits on the table for professional partnerships, agencies and founder-led businesses with a formal wellness budget, alongside the corporates who have run it for years. Done properly, a corporate health screening programme is a real investment in a team's health and output. Done as a tick-box exercise, doctor time cut to the minimum, no proper follow-up when something is found, it becomes an expensive way of finding problems and then doing nothing about them. The Wellness runs corporate programmes for teams of any size, from £3,495 per employee, built around doctor-led consultation rather than a print-out. Fees appear further down this page.
Reviewed by the medical team at The Wellness. Last updated August 2026.
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Why employers are looking at this now
The business case holds up before you even get to the individual health benefit. UK businesses lose a significant number of working days to sickness absence each year, presenteeism carries its own considerable cost in reduced output, and research from bodies including the British Heart Foundation has found that well-designed workplace health initiatives can deliver a meaningful return, with the strongest returns typically coming from programmes that look at overall health rather than a single narrow issue. It is also simply well received by staff. It signals that an employer takes wellbeing seriously, and for a meaningful number of employees, particularly those who would not otherwise prioritise seeing a doctor, this is the first proper health check they have had in years.
If you have already read our piece on what actually matters in an executive health screen after 40, the same principle applies here at team scale: the value sits in the tests that genuinely predict and catch disease, read by a doctor who turns them into a plan, not in the length of the list.
What a sensible programme actually looks like
The single biggest failure mode in corporate health screening is treating it as a data-collection exercise, a blood pressure cuff, a blood draw, a results letter in the post, rather than a genuine medical assessment. The useful version puts a doctor at the centre of it, someone who explains the results, flags anything needing follow-up, and gives each employee a clear next step rather than a spreadsheet of numbers they do not know how to read. Testing should be proportionate to the workforce too: a twenty-five-year-old graduate scheme and a fifty-five-year-old senior team carry different risk profiles, and a good programme tailors the panel by age and risk rather than running an identical, maximalist battery on everyone regardless of relevance, which mostly wastes budget on tests unlikely to change anything for younger, lower-risk staff.
Confidentiality has to be genuinely respected, not just stated. Individual results belong to the employee, not the employer. A properly run programme gives the company aggregate, anonymised insight into overall workforce health trends, useful for planning, while keeping individual results strictly between doctor and patient, and this needs to be agreed and communicated clearly before the programme launches, both for legal reasons and because staff will not engage honestly with a screening they do not trust. None of this matters, though, without a genuine follow-up pathway. A result flagging high cholesterol, raised blood pressure or an abnormal blood sugar is only useful if there is a clear next step, a proper consultation to discuss it and, where needed, a referral, arranged through the same clinic rather than left for the employee to sort out. And for most London-based teams, a mix of in-person appointments, useful for building trust and doing a thorough physical assessment, and video consultations for staff working remotely or across sites tends to work better than forcing everyone through a single format.
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What this typically includes
A properly built programme for most employers rests on three things working together. A real doctor consultation with examination, blood pressure, BMI, a proper history covering lifestyle and family history, and a physical examination where relevant, forms the backbone of the assessment rather than an afterthought to a blood draw. A tailored blood panel, covering full blood count, kidney and liver function, thyroid, cholesterol and blood glucose as a sensible baseline, with additional markers such as ApoB and HbA1c added by age and risk profile rather than by default, gives the assessment enough depth to actually catch what matters. And every employee should leave with a plain-English results conversation and, where needed, a specific referral pathway, not a letter that says everything is fine when nobody has actually looked at it properly.
A short checklist before you book anyone
Before committing budget to any provider, whether that is us or someone else, it is worth getting a straight answer to a handful of questions: whether the screening includes a genuine doctor consultation or only a results report, whether the panel is tailored by age and risk or identical for everyone, what happens when a result is abnormal, how confidentiality is actually handled between individual results and company-level reporting, whether appointments can be delivered flexibly for a hybrid team, and who is actually delivering the screening, GMC-registered doctors or a screening technician. If a provider cannot give clear, specific answers to those questions, that is worth knowing before you sign anything.
What corporate health screening costs in London
Basic biometric checks from larger national screening providers, blood pressure, BMI, a narrow blood panel, are often quoted at a low headline price per employee, but frequently include limited or no doctor time, which is exactly where the value gets lost. A doctor-led programme costs more per person because it includes the consultation, the interpretation and the follow-up that actually make the results worth having, in the same way we set out in our guide to what health screening in London should really cost: the useful question is never the cheapest price, but the least you can spend to reliably catch what matters.
At The Wellness, all figures are from prices.
Team Baseline Programme — full cardiovascular and metabolic panel, examination and doctor consultation per employee, from £3,495 per person.
Team Executive Programme — the above plus extended biomarker profiling and targeted testing by age and risk, coordinated centrally across the team, from £8,995 per person.
Board Programme — comprehensive biomarker profiling, aimed imaging where indicated, extended consultation and a written plan for senior leadership, from £15,995 per person.
Blood panels and any additional testing are quoted transparently before you commit, and for team bookings we discuss volume terms and a delivery schedule that works around your staff's diaries. Prices are correct at time of writing and confirmed at booking.
Why choose The Wellness
Corporate health screening only delivers value when someone actually explains the results and does something about the ones that matter. Every consultation is delivered by GMC-registered physicians rather than screening technicians, from our Marylebone clinic with video consultations available for staff who cannot easily attend in person, so your team gets a genuine assessment and a real follow-up pathway rather than a results letter that ends up in a drawer.
Message us on WhatsApp or email team@thewellnesslondon.com to talk through what would work for your team.
Frequently asked questions
How many employees do we need for this to make sense?
There is no strict minimum. This works for teams from a handful of people up to much larger organisations, and the right format, in person, video, or a mix, depends more on how your team is distributed than on headcount alone.
Do we, as the employer, get to see individual results?
No, and this should be a firm boundary with any reputable provider. Individual results stay between doctor and patient. Employers receive anonymised, aggregate insight into overall workforce health trends, useful for planning without compromising individual confidentiality.
Can this be run for a hybrid or remote team?
Yes. A mix of video consultations for remote or distributed staff and in-person appointments at the Marylebone clinic for those who can attend tends to work well, rather than forcing everyone into a single format.
What happens if a screening finds something concerning?
A properly run programme includes a clear follow-up pathway, a further consultation to discuss the result properly and, where needed, a specialist referral, arranged through the same clinic rather than left for the employee to work out.
Is this the same as an executive health check?
It overlaps, but corporate screening is typically built for a wider team across a range of ages and risk levels, while executive health screening is a more intensive, individually tailored assessment for senior individuals. Both should be led by a doctor rather than testing alone.
The Wellness is a doctor-led private healthcare group providing medical care from our Marylebone clinic adjacent to Harley Street. All doctors are GMC-registered. This article is general information and not medical, tax or legal advice.
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