A racing or irregular heartbeat is often harmless, but chest pain, fainting or severe breathlessness changes the plan. Learn when to seek urgent help, what an ECG can show, and how a GP assesses recurring palpitations in London.

Red eye in London? Pain, vision changes and contact lenses can make it urgent. Learn when to seek eye care, what helps conjunctivitis and when antibiotics are useful.

Sinus pain after a cold? Most acute sinusitis clears without antibiotics. Learn the NICE timing, warning signs and when a GP examination matters.

Most sore throats settle without antibiotics. Learn the NICE FeverPAIN approach, urgent warning signs and when an in-person GP assessment helps.

Earache in adults in London. Whether it is an ear infection, wax or pain referred from the jaw or throat, when antibiotics help, the warning signs that need a doctor today, and when an ear examination may be needed.

An executive physical is a comprehensive annual assessment of a senior leader, and the format was established by the major American academic centres, where programmes at institutions such as Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic commonly run from several thousand to more than 10,000 US dollars and are built around a single long day on one campus. For executives based in or passing through London, the question is how to get the same depth without the flight. The Wellness provides it from 10 Portman Square in Marylebone, adjacent to Harley Street, sequenced around a working week rather than a clinic's schedule. An allocated doctor takes the history and specifies the testing before anything is booked. Blood collection is arranged at an accredited partner laboratory. Imaging is arranged at the London centre best equipped for each specific question, performed by an experienced sonographer and reported by a consultant radiologist. Where diaries allow, the bloods and imaging are compressed into a single morning, and an extended review then turns every result into decisions. The evidence behind the format is specific. Blood carries roughly 80% of what a comprehensive assessment finds, apolipoprotein B and lipoprotein little a change cardiovascular management more than any standard panel, and untargeted whole-body imaging has not been shown to improve outcomes across 12 studies and 5,373 participants. The Executive Health Programme is from £11,995. Fees appear further down this page.

In disability discrimination claims before the employment tribunal, the first question is frequently whether the claimant is disabled at all, and it is decided on medical evidence. Section 6 of the Equality Act 2010 defines disability as a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on the ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. Each element has a specific meaning that a report must address directly. Substantial means more than minor or trivial, which is a low threshold that is often overstated. Long-term means the effect has lasted at least 12 months, is likely to last 12 months, or is likely to last for the rest of the person's life. And the provision most often missed, paragraph 5 of Schedule 1, requires the effect to be assessed as it would be without treatment or correction, apart from spectacles and contact lenses. A claimant whose depression is well controlled on medication may still meet the definition, because the question is the deduced effect without it. Cancer, HIV and multiple sclerosis are treated as disabilities from diagnosis. The Wellness Medico-Legal Wing prepares independent reports on disability status, causation of psychiatric injury, capacity for work, and reasonable adjustments, for claimant and respondent solicitors and as single joint experts, from £1,950 plus VAT. Fees appear further down this page.

The Wellness provides private GP care for people working in the City of London and Canary Wharf, by video, at your office, or at our clinic at 10 Portman Square in Marylebone, which sits around 10 minutes from Liverpool Street and around 15 minutes from Canary Wharf on the Elizabeth line via Bond Street. For people working long hours in finance, law and consulting, the constraint is not access to medicine but access to time, and the numbers explain why that matters. NHS data for February 2026 shows 44.4% of GP appointments happening on the day they were booked and around 1 in 6 taking longer than 2 weeks, while standard appointments run at around 10 minutes. The conditions that most often take senior people out of work are silent or slow for years before they announce themselves, including raised blood pressure, metabolic drift, iron deficiency, thyroid disease and sleep apnoea, and they are found by a 30-minute appointment with an examination rather than a rushed one. Mental ill health accounts for 41% of long-term absence cases according to CIPD data, and early assessment is the most effective intervention available. Phone consultations cost £59 and video consultations are from £150. Confirm in-person and office visit fees and availability before booking. Prescriptions, fit notes and referral letters depend on clinical assessment; confirm any fee and delivery timing before booking.

Most chest infections are viral and clear up without antibiotics. When NICE says antibiotics help, the warning signs that need a doctor today, and what a private GP appointment costs in London.

Varicose veins affect around 1 in 3 adults in the UK, more often women and more often with age, pregnancy, standing occupations and a family history, and most people with them are told either that nothing can be done or that the NHS will not treat them. Both are partly true and neither is the whole picture.

Around half of UK adults have a total cholesterol above the commonly used threshold, which makes a raised result on its own almost meaningless, and it is the reason so many people are left uncertain whether to start a statin. The number that decides treatment is not your cholesterol. It is your overall 10-year cardiovascular risk.

The Wellness provides private medical care at 10 Portman Square in Marylebone, a few minutes from the hotels and apartments where many visitors from the Gulf stay. Hotel and residence visits across central London can also be arranged. Confirm Arabic-speaking doctor availability before booking. No NHS registration, referral, insurance or UK address is needed, and nothing creates an NHS record.

Most food poisoning settles within a week and fluids matter most. How long it lasts, how to rehydrate, the warning signs that need a doctor, and how visitors to London can arrange a private GP assessment.