Health Screening

A nutrition check is a 20 to 30 minute review with an Accredited Practising Dietitian, focused on what you eat: a validated healthy eating questionnaire, your score explained, and a couple of changes to work on. A health check is the fuller appointment and covers type 2 diabetes risk, blood pressure, weight and waist, nutrition and everyday habits, with finger-prick tests on request. If you are not sure which suits you, call our care team and they will tell you.

Yes, and we have run both this way before. The questionnaires, your scores, the explanation and the plan all work over video, which suits people out of town, on a roster or short of time. For blood pressure, weight and waist we will ask you to use your own monitor, scales and tape measure and read the numbers out, or we can take them at a later visit. Finger-prick tests have to be done in person.

The RACGP recommends a risk check with AUSDRISK every three years from age 40. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be screened every year from age 18 with a blood test rather than the questionnaire. If you have had diabetes in pregnancy or have been told your blood glucose was high, see your GP about a blood test, because you are already in a higher risk group.

Screening with us does not attract a Medicare rebate, and our care team will confirm the fee when you book. On-site screening for a workplace, university or event is quoted to the organisation instead. Your GP can bill Medicare for some health assessments, including one every three years for people aged 40 to 49 at high risk of type 2 diabetes, a yearly assessment for people aged 75 and over living at home, and a Heart Health Check.

We explain your results on the day and, with your consent, send a summary to your GP, who can arrange blood tests and a full heart health risk assessment. If you are diagnosed with a chronic condition, your GP can prepare a Chronic Condition Management Plan, which gives Medicare rebates for up to five allied health visits a calendar year with our team.

Prediabetes means your blood glucose is higher than normal but not yet in the diabetes range, and it is diagnosed with a blood test arranged by your GP. Large trials in the United States and Finland found that structured changes to eating and activity cut the number of people who went on to develop type 2 diabetes by more than half over about three years. Our dietitians and exercise physiologists can help you make those changes.

No. You can book a screening directly online or by phone. With your consent we send your results to your GP, so they stay in charge of any tests or treatment you need.

The person screened does. Their results are theirs, and with their consent we can send a summary to their GP. The employer, university or event organiser receives de-identified group results only, so they can see the themes across the group. Nothing that identifies a person is shared without that person's written consent.

Yes. We screen on mining and resources sites, at universities, in offices and at community events, and we work around rosters and shift changes. Tell us the date, the location, roughly how many people and what you want covered, and we will quote for the day. You provide a private space; we bring the clinicians and the equipment.