General health check-upA full check-up in one day.£890, all inclusive.

What each examination actually looks at

A check-up is a list of measurements. None of them is a diagnosis, and none of them means anything until a physician reads it next to the others and next to you. What follows is plainly what each item on the package sheet looks at, so the day is not a series of unexplained rooms.

The five consultations are where those measurements stop being numbers.

Two things worth holding on to. A value slightly outside a reference range is common and frequently means nothing on its own — reference ranges are population statistics, not personal verdicts. And a set of normal results is not a clean bill of health: these tests see what they are pointed at, on the day they are taken, and nothing else.

How the day is put together

The exact order is set by the hospital and appears on your appointment documents. The logic behind it rarely changes, and knowing it makes the day easier to plan.

The fasting tests come first, because your fasting window ends the moment the blood is drawn and the abdominal ultrasound is taken — food and gas in the gut make that scan harder to read. Imaging tends to follow while you are still in the same part of the building. The cardiac work sits together, because the treadmill test is easier to interpret when the resting trace and the echocardiogram have already been recorded. The consultations come last, once there are results for the specialists to read. That is what makes the single day possible: nobody is asked to come back tomorrow for an opinion on a number that already exists.

Plan nothing else for the day. The stress test alone means changing clothes, walking to a target and recovering afterwards, and the consultations are appointments with real people rather than a queue you can leave.

What the £890 covers, and what it does not

The package price covers the 11 examinations and the 5 specialist consultations listed on this page, and your results. Nothing on that list is an optional extra and nothing outside it is inside the price.

What it does not cover is worth reading twice, because "all-inclusive" without a printed edge is where complaints start. Flights and travel to your departure airport are yours. Hotel nights and transfers are separate unless they are written into your confirmation. Anything a physician recommends after reading your results — a further scan, a referral, a repeat test — is a new decision with a new price. So is treatment for anything the day turns up, which is quoted by whoever would provide it.

And this package contains no dentistry at any price. It shares a website with WeCare's dental campaigns because it shares the audience, the partner and the one-day-in-Antalya shape, and for no other reason. The free London to Antalya dental comparison trip is a separate campaign on separate dates: on that trip the flight, the hotel night, the transfers and three dental consultations cost nothing, while any dental treatment that follows is quoted and billed by the clinic you choose. Neither campaign makes treatment free.

Who a day like this actually helps

• You are past forty and cannot remember the last time anyone measured your blood pressure, your blood sugar or your cholesterol.
• You are self-employed or between jobs and have no occupational health scheme quietly doing this for you.
• Your family history includes something cardiac, and you have never had a baseline recorded to compare against later.
• You would rather have one set of numbers taken on one day than chase six appointments across a year.
• You are already coming to Antalya, so the marginal cost of the day is the day itself.

A baseline is the underrated part. A single set of results tells a physician less than two sets taken three years apart, and the second set is only useful if the first one exists.

Who honestly does not need it

• You are already under regular review by a GP or a specialist for the same systems. You would be repeating tests you have had this year, and repeat imaging is not free of downsides.
• You have a specific symptom right now. A check-up is not the route to a diagnosis. A symptom needs a doctor who is looking for its cause, and usually needs one sooner than a flight allows.
• You are under thirty with no symptoms and no family history. A broad panel finds very little in that group, and what it does find is more often a borderline number that leads to another test than anything that changes your life.
• You are pregnant, or might be. A chest X-ray and a treadmill stress test are not appropriate for everyone. Say so before you book and let the hospital decide what is suitable.
• You want a diagnosis and a treatment plan out of the day. What the day produces is a set of measurements and five specialist opinions on them.
• You are looking for cancer screening. This is a general check-up, not a screening programme. Organised screening — bowel, breast, cervical — runs in the UK on its own schedule and for good statistical reasons. Keep attending those regardless of what you do here.

What to do with the report afterwards

Ask for everything in writing before you fly home: the full laboratory report with its reference ranges, the imaging, and the consultation notes. Then take it to your GP. A set of results from abroad is most useful to a UK doctor as a baseline in your record, and least useful sitting in an email you never forwarded.

If you are combining the day with dental plans, ask when you enquire rather than assuming — the two campaigns run on different dates and different terms, and any combination has to be confirmed in writing before you travel. The UK dental information days in Leeds and Birmingham are the easiest place to ask both questions to a person.