You want to understand your current health and establish a meaningful baseline.
Who it is for
Is the Foundational Health Assessment right for you?
There is rarely an obvious deadline for having a thorough health assessment when nothing feels wrong. But there are times when understanding where you stand becomes more important.
Perhaps it has been several years since your last thorough assessment. Your family history, workload or circumstances may have changed. You may have spent so much time looking after work and family that your own health has quietly moved down the list—or you may simply want greater confidence that you understand your health properly.
You do not need to wait for symptoms or a health concern to want clearer answers. The Foundational Health Assessment is designed for the point when you want to understand what matters, address what needs attention and establish a baseline while you are well.
Looking after your health helps you remain capable, present and able to keep showing up for the people and things that matter most.
You want cardiovascular, metabolic and physical capacity considered together.
You want a personalised, data-driven assessment that considers cardiovascular and metabolic health, physical capacity and lifestyle together.
You want clear recommendations, follow-up and a way to track progress over time.
Not sure which assessment is appropriate? Our team can help you choose the level of assessment that best suits your priorities.
Clinical value
A clearer picture of your health
Your pathology, medical and family history, physical-capacity measures, exercise results and clinical examination are interpreted together. This allows the team to identify current concerns, recognise emerging risks and explain which areas deserve attention.
Understand your baseline
Establish measures of body composition, grip strength, balance, mobility and cardiovascular fitness.
Focus on prevention and early detection
Consider cardiovascular risk, cancer screening, dementia risk and mental health so appropriate action can begin earlier.
Leave with a clear plan
Receive an integrated report, practical recommendations and follow-up for any additional investigations.
Your appointment
What your assessment involves
Each stage contributes to one integrated clinical picture and a practical prevention plan.
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Before your appointment
Pathology and preparation
Complete your blood tests during the four days before your assessment. This timing allows the doctor to review your results and request additional tests if a finding requires clarification.
- Medical-history information completed before the visit
- Preparation guidance supplied by the clinic
- Pathology available for integrated review during the consultation
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Approximately 45–60 minutes
Exercise physiology, nutrition and physical capacity
An exercise physiologist with additional nutrition training reviews your diet, current exercise, physical goals and the factors affecting your ability to make sustainable changes.
- Body composition, including muscle, fat and an estimated bone measure
- Grip strength, balance, mobility, flexibility and functional movement
- Review of current exercise and dietary habits
- Individual recommendations aligned with your health and goals
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During your physical-capacity assessment
Treadmill Exercise Stress Test
The treadmill assessment examines how your heart responds to exercise and may identify findings that warrant further cardiac investigation. It also provides an estimate of cardiorespiratory fitness, including estimated VO₂ max.
The Foundational Health Assessment provides a treadmill-based estimate of VO₂ max. VO₂ max assessment with a CardioCoach mask is included in the Signature and Foresight Health Assessments.
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In-depth doctor consultation
Doctor consultation and physical examination
Your doctor integrates your pathology, exercise findings, medical and family history, personal concerns and sources of stress.
- Cardiovascular and metabolic risk, including blood pressure, cholesterol and lipoprotein(a)
- Mental health, relevant cancer screening and dementia-risk reduction
- Top-to-toe physical examination and discussion of priorities
- Assessment for peripheral vascular disease and examination of the heart and lungs
- Visual skin examination and breast and cervical screening test, or testicular examination, where clinically appropriate
- Recommendations for additional pathology, imaging or specialist review where clinically appropriate. These may include CT Coronary Angiography, Mammogram, Bone Density Scan, Hepatic Elastography to assess liver stiffness and possible liver damage, and other investigations based on individual findings and risk.
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After your assessment
Integrated report and follow-up
You receive an integrated report of approximately eight pages, bringing together your exercise and dietary recommendations, your doctor’s interpretation, key risks, clinical priorities, any further investigations and practical next steps.
- Follow-up of additional investigations ordered during your assessment is included in the assessment price
- The team will contact you or arrange a phone consultation when discussion is needed
- Your Exercise Physiologist contacts you at approximately three months
- Where indicated, two follow-up Body Composition Analysis appointments with an Exercise Physiologist are included during the year to review progress, support accountability and help refine your recommendations.
Total appointment time: approximately 1.5–2 hours
Assessment inclusions
What is included
The Foundational Health Assessment combines physical-capacity testing, intensive prevention, clinical interpretation and continuing follow-up.
Exercise, nutrition and physical capacity
Assessment with an exercise physiologist who has additional nutrition training.
- Diet and exercise review
- Body-composition assessment
- Grip-strength assessment
- Balance assessment
- Mobility, flexibility and functional-movement assessment
- Individual exercise and nutrition recommendations
Cardiovascular and metabolic health
Testing and interpretation focused on current risk and physical response to exercise.
- Blood pressure and detailed pathology review
- Cholesterol and lipoprotein(a) interpretation
- Treadmill Exercise Stress Test
- Estimated VO₂ max and cardiorespiratory fitness
- Cardiovascular and metabolic risk assessment
- Referral for further cardiac investigation when appropriate
Intensive prevention and early detection
Screening is tailored to your age, sex, history, findings and individual risk.
- Colorectal and relevant prostate screening
- Individualised breast-screening review
- Review of indicators relevant to leukaemia and lymphoma
- Melanoma and skin-cancer risk, including visual examination
- Dementia-risk reduction and mental-health review
- Vaccination review
Comprehensive doctor assessment
- Detailed medical and family-history review
- Discussion of personal concerns, lifestyle and stress
- Integrated interpretation of pathology and exercise findings
- Top-to-toe physical examination
- Prioritised preventative-health recommendations
- Further investigations or specialist referral when indicated
Report and continuing follow-up
- Integrated report of approximately eight pages
- Exercise, nutrition and physical-capacity recommendations
- Doctor interpretation and prevention priorities
- Follow-up of additional investigations ordered during your assessment
- Exercise Physiology contact at approximately three months
- Where indicated, two follow-up Body Composition Analysis appointments with an Exercise Physiologist during the year
- Year-on-year comparison for those years that you attend for an annual health assessment
Year-on-year insight
Designed to track your health over time
The Foundational Health Assessment is typically repeated annually. Your first assessment establishes a detailed baseline; future assessments show how important results are changing over time.
Measures such as cholesterol, body composition, grip strength, balance and cardiorespiratory fitness can be displayed graphically from year to year. This makes progress easier to recognise, highlights areas beginning to move in the wrong direction and provides an additional level of accountability.
The aim is not simply to complete a collection of tests once. It is to build a clearer, evolving picture of your health and adjust your prevention plan as your results change. Where indicated, two follow-up Body Composition Analysis appointments with an Exercise Physiologist are included during the year to review progress, support accountability and help refine your recommendations.
See progress
Recognise where changes to exercise and nutrition are producing measurable improvement.
Identify changes early
See when important measures begin moving in the wrong direction and respond sooner.
Maintain accountability
Use annual comparison, the three-month Exercise Physiology contact and two follow-up Body Composition Analysis appointments where indicated to stay engaged with your plan.
Choosing your assessment
Why choose The Foundational Health Assessment?
The Foundational Health Assessment provides a comprehensive foundation for people who want detailed preventative screening, physical-capacity assessment and clear clinical interpretation without automatically including every advanced investigation.
Consider The Foundational Health Assessment
For a thorough view of your current health, major risks and physical capacity, with a clear plan and continuing follow-up.
Consider the Signature Health Assessment
For everything in Foundational, with VO₂ max assessment with a CardioCoach mask, hearing, lung-function and brain-processing-speed assessments and expanded discussion of female or male hormonal health.
Consider the Foresight Health Assessment
For everything in Signature, plus preventative genetic testing, digital mole mapping, dermatology review and on-site cardiac and abdominal ultrasound.
Additional testing
Optional enhancements
Selected advanced tests can be added according to your health history, family history, goals and preferred level of investigation. They are optional rather than automatically necessary for every client.
Digital mole mapping establishes an image record that can assist with monitoring skin changes over time.
Availability: Optional with Foundational and Signature; included within the advanced dermatology component of Foresight. It does not replace the doctor’s visual skin examination.
A blood-based panel examining selected genetic variants associated with preventative cardiac and cancer risk.
Availability: Optional with Foundational and Signature; included in Foresight. It may be particularly useful where personal or family history warrants further insight, and the team can advise on suitability.
On-site ultrasound assessment of cardiac structure and abdominal organs, including the liver, pancreas, gallbladder, kidneys, spleen and prostate.
Availability: Optional with Foundational and Signature; included in the $4,250 Foresight assessment price.
The Foundational Health Assessment
Price$1,650One assessment, integrated care
The assessment price covers your clinical appointments, included testing, integrated report, interpretation and follow-up of additional investigations. Optional enhancements and external investigations may add costs, which will be explained before you proceed.
Other options
Explore other assessments
Each assessment is cumulative. Signature includes everything in the Foundational Health Assessment, while Foresight includes everything in Signature.
Signature Health Assessment
Expanded annual insight
A broader annual assessment with more precise cardiorespiratory-fitness measurement, together with additional cognitive, respiratory, hearing and hormonal-health insight.
Explore Signature →Foresight Health Assessment
Our broadest preventative investigation
Everything in Signature, plus preventative genetic testing, DermScreen mole mapping, dermatology review and on-site cardiac and abdominal ultrasound.
Explore Foresight →Take the next step
Ready to understand your health more clearly?
Book The Foundational Health Assessment or contact the Executive Medicine team if you would like help deciding which level of assessment is most appropriate for you.