Your First Consultation

We're proud of our integrated approach to health and will involve you in every decision about the healthcare that you receive with us. 

At your first consultation, we'll ask for details about your condition, your current symptoms, how they came about and the treatments you are currently receiving or have received in the past.  We’ll also ask about your general lifestyle and wellbeing such as your diet, your stress levels and sleeping patterns.  These aspects can help us see what your day-to-day routine involves and whether there are other symptoms that may be linked to your problem.  This information can also help us see whether there are any other areas that may need attention whilst we’re dealing with your primary concern. Unique to Chinese medicine are pulse and tongue readings that we carry out as part of the consultation.  The quality, rhythm and rate of your pulse, and the colour and state of your tongue are important ways for us to assess the general state of your health and are used to help inform the treatment that we give you.   

To help make the most of your first appointment with us, please remember to:

• complete an online Patient Intake Form;

• email across, or bring with you, results from relevant blood tests or other medical investigations.

At the end of your consultation, we'll let you know how we think we can help and discuss with you the most appropriate treatment plan.  We'll also provide you with information in terms of what you can expect from our treatments and how soon you can see improvements.  A key focus of our treatments is to increase personal awareness of your wellbeing and we will seek to highlight any areas where you could help yourself further to help you make the most of your treatments with us. 

Depending on the health concern, some patients who come to see us are also actively under the care of their GP or other medical consultants. In these circumstances, we can discuss how Chinese medicine can fit into these other treatments you’re receiving at the moment, or how it can prepare you for any medical treatment that’s coming up. Our aim is always to work out a treatment plan that's suited to your needs, and to ensure that it fits in with other medical treatments or commitments in your life.