Blood tests

What a blood test actually costs, once someone has taken the blood

Most comparison pages quote the test and quietly leave out the draw. Some providers charge £40 or £50 on top, and a “from £29” headline can end up dearer than a £159 one. Every figure below is a total.

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We show the price before you give us anything. No email, no phone number, no quiz. That is why there is no form above this table.

Health check panels, total price

These are the multi‑marker “well person” panels - the ones people mean by an annual blood test. Sorted by what you actually pay.

ProviderPanelTestDrawTotalMarkersSampleLab accreditation, as published
One Day TestsUltimate Healthy Woman £135Included£135 47Clinic UKAS ISO 15189 no. 29041 · CQC 1‑14470761199
MedichecksAdvanced Well Man £159Included£159 44Venous UKAS, number not published Home nurse instead of clinic, +£59
MedichecksAdvanced Well Woman £159Included£159 47Venous UKAS, number not published Home nurse instead of clinic, +£59
One Day TestsUltimate Performance Health Check £180Included£180 57Clinic or home kit UKAS ISO 15189 no. 29041 · CQC 1‑14470761199
SuperdrugAdvanced Health Check £179£40£219 Not publishedVenous UKAS lab, number not published CQC / HIS registered clinics
One Day TestsUltimate Longevity £325Clinic fee applies£325 + 71Clinic only UKAS ISO 15189 no. 29041 · clinic fee not published
Randox HealthEveryman / Everywoman £416Included£416 Up to 150 data pointsVenous and urine UKAS ISO 15189 no. 9329 · CQC registered · GP consultation +£65

Read from each provider’s own site on 15 September 2026. Third‑party comparison articles currently list the Randox Everyman at around £295; Randox’s own page says £416, and we use the provider’s figure. Urinalysis is not available at every Randox clinic - Winchester, Chester, York, Sheffield and Henry Street do not offer it on site.

Single tests and postal kits

Cheaper per test, but the collection fee is where the sums change. This is the part of the market where headline prices mislead most.

ProviderWhat you getTestCollectionTotalSampleNotes
LloydsPharmacy Online DoctorMen’s Health£79You collect£79Finger‑prick, postalCQC‑registered lab. Not available in Northern Ireland or the Channel Islands
LloydsPharmacy Online DoctorGeneral Health£97You collect£97Finger‑prick, postalSame lab and coverage
Private Blood Tests LondonSingle testsFrom £29£50 per visitFrom £79Venous, clinicCQC registered. Two London sites. The £50 is per visit, not per test
Blue Horizon MedicalsSingle testsPer test£15 deviceTest + £15Kit, clinic or home nurseSpire Pathology lab, UKAS ISO 15189 no. 8314. A GP referral is included in the price. Its genetic, IgG intolerance and Biome tests are stated by Blue Horizon to be non‑accredited
BootsIn‑store tests£76–£136Included£76–£136Venous, in storeHome kits £29.99–£75. Lab supplier stated to meet ISO 15189

Some providers price by subscription rather than per test - a headline of around £117 at one well‑known brand is a three‑month commitment, not a one‑off. Where we cannot show a genuine one‑off total, we leave the provider off this page rather than put an incomparable number in the same column.

What the accreditation letters mean

This is the most gamed part of the category. Four different standards get shortened to “ISO certified”, and only one of them is about the laboratory that analyses your blood.

UKAS ISO 15189
The medical laboratory standard. This is the one that matters, and it carries a number you can check yourself on the UKAS register. If a provider claims it without a number, it cannot be verified.
ISO 17025
A general testing laboratory standard - used for things like workplace drug testing. It is not a medical accreditation, and quoting it alongside 15189 blurs the difference.
ISO 13485 and UKCA
These certify the kit, not the lab. A company can hold 13485 for its collection device while its analysis runs somewhere unaccredited.
CAP
A United States laboratory accreditation. Legitimate, but it is not a UK credential and does not imply UKAS or CQC oversight.
CQC, HIS and RQIA
These regulate whoever takes your sample, not the lab. CQC covers England, Healthcare Improvement Scotland covers Scotland and RQIA covers Northern Ireland - so a single “CQC registered” badge does not cover the whole UK.
Postal kits are the gap
CQC’s own guidance says registration is not required for sending samples to a lab where the provider did not take the sample. A postal kit you collect yourself may involve no CQC‑registered party at all. That is not necessarily a problem - but it is not the oversight most people assume.

We publish whatever accreditation each provider publishes, and we say so when a number is missing. We do not repeat a claim we could not check, and we do not list a provider that publishes no laboratory accreditation at all.

Reading your results

Out of range is not the same as unwell

Reference ranges are built so that roughly one in twenty healthy people falls outside them on any single marker. Order fifty markers and the arithmetic alone will flag something for most people.

A single out‑of‑range figure, on its own, is usually not a diagnosis. It is a reason to repeat the test, or to talk to a doctor who can see it next to your history.

Who explains it to you

This varies more than you would expect, and it is worth checking before you buy. Some providers include a doctor’s written commentary. Some include a GP referral. Some deliberately provide no interpretation at all - Nuffield Health’s self‑referral pathology service says so plainly.

If you want someone to talk it through, buy that explicitly. Randox sells a GP consultation at £65; most add‑ons of this kind sit between £40 and £70.

Questions

Do I need a GP referral?

For almost everything on this page, no. The exceptions run the other way: Blue Horizon includes a GP referral in its price, and a few providers will only test on a practitioner’s order. Bupa puts its tests inside a paid GP appointment, so it is not a self‑referral product at all.

Finger‑prick or venous - does it matter?

For many markers a finger‑prick sample is fine. For others the volume is not enough, or the marker degrades, and a venous draw is the only reliable option. Where a provider offers both, the venous version is usually the one with the longer marker list.

Can I get a urine test posted to me?

Usually not. Medichecks states its microalbumin urine test is not suitable for posting and must be collected in clinic. Urine is largely an in‑clinic product - Randox includes urinalysis in its in‑clinic package, but not at every site.

How fast are results?

One to three working days is typical for a clinic draw. Postal kits add the time your sample spends in the post, so allow the best part of a week.

Is a blood test the same as a health check?

No. A health check pairs a blood panel with imaging. If that is what you are after, our health check packages combine a full body MRI with a Well Man or Well Woman panel.

Why is this provider not listed?

Either it publishes no laboratory accreditation we could verify, it prices by subscription so no honest one‑off total exists, or it does not sell direct to patients at all. Several of the best‑known laboratory names in the country - TDL, Synnovis, SYNLAB, HSL - have no consumer route; they run the testing behind other people’s brands.

Want us to arrange it?

Tell us what you are trying to find out and where you are. We will point you at the cheapest total that actually covers it - or tell you that you do not need the test.

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FindScan is a booking and comparison service, not a healthcare provider and not a laboratory. Tests are carried out by the named providers under their own regulatory registrations. Nothing on this page is medical advice, and a blood test cannot rule out disease. Prices were read from each provider’s own website on 15 September 2026 and can change without notice - we confirm the total with you before you pay anything.