UK Private Blood Test Prices — Pricing Index

Open dataset · Version 0.1.9-day9 · Last updated 2026-05-24 · CC BY 4.0

Single-test prices by provider

Lowest verified price per provider × test combination. Where a provider has both a finger-prick and a venous option, both are shown. Where the cornerstone gave only a range, both bounds are recorded.

Legend: ● single verified price · ◐ range or approximate · — no extracted price

Full row-level data (61 rows)

Every individual row in the dataset, including sample type, turnaround, accreditation, and verification date. Use the CSV for analysis; this table is for browsing.

Multi-marker panels (43)

Where a provider's catalogue is structured around bundled "general health" or "advanced" panels rather than single-marker tests, those are recorded separately here. Useful when comparing per-marker value.

Methodology

Sources

Every price in this dataset has been extracted from one of two source classes:

1. Provider primary sources. Public-facing UK pricing pages from each provider's website, viewed without login or session-specific pricing. We use the displayed list price; we do not include promo-code or "first-order" discounts.
2. Our own cornerstones. Where a price has already been verified during cornerstone authoring (e.g. vitamin D, ferritin, the comparison guide), we re-use that verification with the date recorded in the source file. Cornerstones cite primary sources inline.

Confidence flags

• ● high — single explicit verified price ("£39 finger-prick, verified [date]"). Most actionable for comparison.
• ◐ medium — range ("£35–£45") or approximate ("around £25") in source. Suggests pricing varies by sub-product or by date; treat as indicative.
• ○ low — currently unused; rows that would be low-confidence are excluded entirely rather than published as misleading data.

Update cadence

Targeted quarterly. We re-verify each row's anchor price during cornerstone refresh cycles; the dataset's verified_date field shows when each row was last checked. We will also update opportunistically whenever a provider materially changes their pricing structure.

What we deliberately exclude

• Promotional / first-order discounts. List price only — these change frequently and muddy comparison.
• Subscription-only pricing. Where a provider only sells a test as part of a recurring subscription (e.g. some Thriva tiers), we record the equivalent one-off price if available; otherwise we mark the row medium-confidence.
• Bundle implicit per-marker prices. We don't divide a £159 panel by 13 markers and call it "£12 per marker". Bundles are tracked in the panels table with their full composition.
• Loyalty / corporate / B2B pricing. Consumer self-pay prices only.

Known gaps

We are open about what we don't yet have. Current gaps:

• Bluecrest Wellness and Yorktest: bundle-led businesses with no easily-extracted single-test prices. Tracked here for reference; cells are blank by design, not omission.
• Forth: Cloudflare bot-protection prevents reliable automated re-checking; all Forth rows are medium-confidence pending a manual re-verify pass.
• Liver function (LFT): nobody in the UK consumer market sells this as a standalone test — it's bundle-only. Recorded in the panels table rather than the matrix.
• PSA (prostate): only Medichecks has a verified standalone consumer PSA at the time of writing. The market gap is itself the story.

Limitations

Pricing data is a snapshot. Providers reprice without notice. Always verify with the provider before relying on a specific number. We are not a price-comparison engine — we don't fetch prices in real time. This is a curated reference, updated on a published cadence.

Download

• uk-blood-test-prices.csv — flat CSV, all rows + panels, suitable for spreadsheets and analysis.
• uk-blood-test-prices.json — structured JSON, includes metadata, field notes, and source-cornerstone attribution per row.

How to cite

The dataset is licensed CC BY 4.0. You may reuse it commercially or non-commercially with attribution.

Blood Test Guide UK (2026). UK Private Blood Test
Prices — Pricing Index (Version 0.1.9-day9). Retrieved [date]
from https://bloodtestguide.co.uk/data/uk-blood-test-prices/

Source: <a href="https://bloodtestguide.co.uk/data/uk-blood-test-prices/">UK Private Blood Test Prices — Pricing Index, Blood Test Guide UK</a>

Corrections & contributions

Spot a wrong price, a missing provider, or an outdated row? We want to fix it.

• Email: aether@bloodtestguide.co.uk with the row, the correct value, and a primary source (provider URL).
• Or use the contact form.

We log all corrections with a public dated entry on this page in the next update cycle. Material errors get fixed faster than the cadence; cosmetic fixes are batched.

Changelog

• 2026-05-24 — v0.1.9-day9: initial public release. 61 provider × test rows, 43 panels, 53/108 matrix coverage. Built from existing cornerstone verifications dated 3–6 May 2026.

Dataset version 0.1.9-day9 · Last updated 2026-05-24 · Maintained by Blood Test Guide UK · Licensed CC BY 4.0