What a UK employer should buy as corporate health screening

The board wants staff health checks, and the quickest idea on the table is to book everyone an executive day. It sounds thorough. For most teams, what works better is a scoped corporate screening programme: named tiers matched to roles, a reporting process that protects medical confidentiality, and screening days at Harley Street or at your office.

Executive assessments still have their place, for senior leaders, embassy principals and critical-role staff. Annual employee medicals and workforce screening days cover everyone else, at a depth that fits the job.

If you already know roughly what you need, send the headcount, roles, location and any dates you hold through the contact page, or call the corporate desk on 020 7183 7056. A written proposal comes back within one working day, and a screening date is often available within two weeks, subject to cohort size and location.

How a corporate programme works

The Health Screening Clinic has practised at 117a Harley Street since 1984. Corporate work is CQC-registered, delivered by GMC-registered doctors, supported by UKAS-accredited laboratory partners, and reported under GDPR. There's no monthly retainer. You pay for the screenings you commission, with volume pricing for larger cohorts.

A programme answers an employer's question: how do we screen this group, in this place, with these reporting rules? It runs from five staff upwards, subject to clinical scope. An executive day answers a question about one person, with more imaging, more pathology and an in-person results review. Booking that for everyone gives most roles more than they need, and leaves HR without a specification it can repeat next year.

Which employer tier fits which role?

Employer tiers are priced separately from personal Health MOTs. That matters when a finance team sets a £210 workforce screen beside a £495 personal MOT, because they're different appointments.

Essential, from £210 per employee, includes a doctor's physical examination, blood pressure and pulse, urinalysis, a lifestyle and cardiovascular risk discussion, and an express written report. It suits routine annual checks for general office and operational staff.

Advanced, from £349 per employee, adds a resting ECG, visual acuity, audiometry, spirometry, a chest X-ray at a partner imaging centre, and a Silver blood profile. The Silver profile covers full blood count, kidney, liver, lipids, glucose and ESR. Advanced suits safety-sensitive roles, new starters and mid-career checks where lungs, hearing, vision and a broader laboratory panel matter.

Executive screening, from £599 per employee, adds a Gold blood profile including iron, free T4 and TSH, an in-person results review with a Harley Street doctor, a condition-management plan, and consultant referral letters where indicated. This is the executive day, and it belongs with senior leadership, embassy principals and critical-role staff.

Bespoke occupational add-ons are priced per panel, and they're worth adding when a role calls for them. The usual requests are:

• spirometry, audiometry and vision
• heavy metals, including lead
• rapid drug and alcohol panels
• immunity status and vaccination programmes
• skin prick testing with an in-house immunologist
• TB Quantiferon with a same-day chest X-ray

Screening at your office

Most organisations send staff to the Harley Street clinic. For five or more staff, a screening day can run at your office, subject to space, equipment and clinical scope. The team brings portable spirometry, audiometry and vision equipment, drug and alcohol testing kits and ECG, and any blood samples are couriered to pathology partners the same day.

Chest X-ray, MRI and ultrasound are done at partner imaging centres a few minutes' walk from Harley Street. If your specification includes imaging, those staff visit the partner centre, so build that time into the day.

What HR receives, and what employees keep

Individual clinical reports go to the employee. The employer receives consented summaries: fit-to-work letters, attendance confirmation, or structured corporate reports as scoped. That holds whoever pays the invoice.

This is a clinical and data-protection rule, and it protects the programme as much as the people in it. Health information is special category data under UK GDPR. GMC guidance on disclosure for employment purposes is built around consent, relevance, and sending a limited opinion rather than a whole record. The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 places duties on employers for health, safety and welfare, and those duties sit alongside medical confidentiality rather than replacing it.

If the organisation needs more than attendance and fitness, that extra disclosure is agreed with each employee, in writing, when the programme is scoped. Embassy, leadership and high-profile cohorts can have named-doctor liaison and encrypted delivery to a single nominated contact.

Annual medicals, workforce days and specialist assessments

Annual employee medicals are a repeatable check, often used to monitor wellbeing as part of a wider HR commitment. HMRC guidance at EIM21765 describes an exemption for no more than one health-screening assessment and no more than one medical check-up per employee in a tax year, with a narrow definition of each. It's specific, particularly for directors and group schemes, so confirm the treatment with your accountant, as the clinic doesn't give tax advice.

One-off workforce screening is a single clinical day, or several, at your office or at Harley Street. It suits a return to the office, a post-merger health audit or a pre-quarter cohort. Executive and critical-staff assessments are the deeper visit described above. Embassy and discreet assessments are confidential medicals for ambassadors, diplomats and high-profile principals.

Pre and post-deployment checks are fit-to-work assessments for overseas postings, delivered by FCDO-registered doctors once your operations team shares the required forms. If staff also need destination visa papers, that's a visa medical, scoped to the embassy form they hold.

For GP-access work, the clinic's sister practice, Medical Express Clinic, is the corporate healthcare partner.

Some occupational work needs a specialist provider: musculoskeletal or manual-handling screens, COSHH dust and fume respiratory health surveillance, hand-arm vibration (HAVS) screening, statutory night-worker assessments, driver medicals for DVLA, taxi or HGV, and OGUK offshore medicals. If your programme includes any of these, the clinic can introduce a specialist.

Anyone who is unwell or has a new or worsening symptom should see a GP or call NHS 111, and 999 or A&E is there for emergencies.

Personal Health MOTs for small leadership groups

Health MOT packages are preventative assessments for individuals. The Essential Health MOT starts from £495, and the Advanced Health MOT is a deeper personal visit. Their prices and contents are separate from the employer Essential from £210 and the employer Advanced from £349.

A personal MOT can work as a staff package when that's what was scoped. A small leadership group might each want an individual preventative assessment, with a results review that belongs to them. Say so when you enquire.

Getting started

• For a repeatable annual medical for general staff, Essential is the usual employer tier.
• For roles that need lungs, hearing, vision, ECG and a Silver blood profile, Advanced is the usual employer tier.
• For a handful of critical people who need Gold bloods, an in-person review and referral letters, buy Executive for those people.
• If staff are deploying overseas, share the employer forms.
• If you want an annual scheme that may sit near the HMRC exemption, say so, and take the invoice wording to your accountant.

When you enquire, include headcount, roles, location and any forms you hold. Ask for the reporting arrangement in writing: clinical reports to the employee, consented summaries to the employer, and nothing further without explicit consent. Ask which tests happen at Harley Street, which travel to your office and which take place at a partner imaging centre, so time off is planned around the real locations.

If you have five or more staff and a specification to agree, enquire about a corporate screening programme. Full details are on the occupational health page, and the corporate desk is on 020 7183 7056.

Frequently asked questions

What should a UK employer buy instead of a one-off executive day?

A scoped corporate screening programme, with employer tiers matched to the roles in your cohort. Essential from £210 is the usual annual medical for general staff, Advanced from £349 adds ECG, vision, hearing, spirometry, chest X-ray and Silver bloods, and Executive from £599 suits senior, embassy and critical-role staff.

What is the minimum cohort, and is there a retainer?

Programmes start from five staff, subject to clinical scope, at Harley Street or on site. There's no monthly retainer: you pay only for the screenings you commission, with volume pricing for larger cohorts.

What does the employer receive?

Consented summaries: fit-to-work letters, attendance confirmation, or structured corporate reports as scoped. Individual clinical reports go to the employee.

How quickly can a programme start?

A written proposal comes back within one working day, and a screening date is often available within two weeks, subject to cohort size and location.

Are employee health screenings exempt from tax?

HMRC EIM21765 describes a narrow exemption for no more than one health-screening assessment and one medical check-up per employee per tax year. Your accountant can confirm how it applies, as the clinic doesn't give tax advice.

Can staff use a personal Health MOT instead?

A personal Health MOT can be used as a staff package when that's what was scoped, for example for a small leadership group. It has its own prices and contents, separate from the employer tiers.

Which occupational assessments need a specialist provider?

Musculoskeletal or manual-handling screens, COSHH dust and fume surveillance, HAVS, statutory night-worker assessments, DVLA taxi and HGV driver medicals, and OGUK offshore medicals. If your programme needs any of these, the clinic can introduce a specialist.

Sources

• HM Revenue and Customs. Employment Income Manual EIM21765
• General Medical Council. Confidentiality: disclosing information for employment, insurance and similar purposes
• Information Commissioner's Office. Data protection and workers' health information
• Health and Safety Executive. Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
• Care Quality Commission. Find a service
• NHS 111
• The Health Screening Clinic. Health MOTs
• General Medical Council. Medical register, Mohammad Bakhtiar, 4694470

Written By

Stephen Lingam

Managing Director

Managing Director of Medical Express Clinic and the Health Screening Clinic since 1984. Over 40 years of operational experience in private healthcare on Harley Street, overseeing patient care, clinical standards, and service delivery.

Medically Reviewed

Dr Mohammad Bakhtiar

MD, PhD, LRCP, MSc, DHMSA

Clinical Lead

GMC: 4694470

Leading our clinical team with a focus on comprehensive men's health and preventative oncology protocols.

Last reviewed: 25/09/2026