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Athlete Blood Monitoring
On-site blood monitoring for professional and elite sport
Gentle Draw provides professional, on-site blood collection designed to work alongside your club’s existing medical and performance team.
Structured monitoring can help provide objective health information across areas such as blood health, iron status, nutrition, metabolic health, cardiovascular health, kidney and liver function, thyroid, hormones and inflammation.
On-site. Professional. Flexible. Built around your club.
Why Athlete Health Monitoring?
Elite performance is built on more than training and talent.
Underlying health, nutrition and recovery can all influence an athlete’s ability to train consistently, recover effectively and remain available for competition.
The Gentle Draw Athlete Health Monitoring Programme is designed to make access to structured blood monitoring easier by bringing professional phlebotomy directly to your training environment.
Rather than players attending individual external appointments, collections can be organised as planned squad sessions around your training schedule.
What Can Be Monitored?
Depending on the requirements of your medical team and agreed laboratory profile, monitoring may include:
Blood Health
Full Blood Count and associated haematology markers.
Iron Status
Ferritin, iron and appropriate iron studies.
Nutritional Health
Vitamin D, B12, folate and other appropriate nutritional markers.
Cardiovascular Health
Cholesterol, lipid profiles and clinically appropriate cardiovascular markers.
Kidney Health
Kidney function, electrolytes and associated markers.
Liver Health
Liver-function markers.
Muscle & Joint Health
Appropriate muscle and musculoskeletal markers.
Bone Health
Relevant nutritional and biochemical markers.
Thyroid Health
Appropriate thyroid-function testing.
Hormonal Health
Clinically appropriate hormonal investigations.
Metabolic Health
Glucose, HbA1c and other relevant metabolic markers.
Inflammation
Appropriate inflammatory markers.The exact blood profile is tailored to the club’s clinical requirements. Results should be interpreted within the athlete’s wider clinical picture by an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
A Programme Across the Season
Want to see how the programme could work for your club?
Download our Athlete Health Monitoring Programme brochure for an overview of what can be monitored, the potential benefits to players and clubs, and an example season-long monitoring pathway.
Looking for something tailored to your club?
Every programme can be adapted to your squad size, sport, clinical requirements and budget.
Benefits to Your Players
Earlier clinical insight
Blood investigations may help identify relevant health or nutritional abnormalities requiring further assessment.
Individual monitoring
Repeat testing can provide a clearer picture of an athlete’s individual results and trends over time.
Convenience
Blood collection takes place within the club environment rather than requiring separate external appointments.
Support for athlete wellbeing
Objective clinical information can contribute to the wider assessment of athlete health, training and recovery.
Benefits to Your Club
Whole squad. One visit.
Multiple players can be collected during one organised clinic.
Less disruption
Sessions can be scheduled around training and competition.
Additional clinical capacity
Access professional phlebotomy without employing permanent additional phlebotomy staff.
Supports your medical team
Objective laboratory information can contribute to clinical decision-making and monitoring plans.
Longitudinal monitoring
Agreed biomarkers can be compared across different points of the season.
Flexible service
Individual, squad and ad-hoc collections can all form part of the programme.
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BUILT AROUND YOUR CLUB
Every Club Is Different. So Is Every Programme.
Gentle Draw can work with your medical and performance team to establish a programme appropriate for your organisation.
We can discuss:
Squad size • testing profile • monitoring frequency • collection schedule • laboratory requirements • reporting pathway • ad-hoc support
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Costings available following consultation.
Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all package, Gentle Draw provides a tailored proposal based on your club’s requirements.
About Gentle Draw
Gentle Draw is a CQC-registered mobile and community phlebotomy service, providing professional blood collection across the West Midlands.
The service is nurse-led and designed around flexible, high-quality clinical care.
For professional sports organisations, Gentle Draw can provide on-site squad phlebotomy, individual athlete collections and structured monitoring programmes, working alongside existing medical and performance teams.
Clinical Governance
Gentle Draw provides the professional blood-collection element of the pathway. The investigations undertaken, interpretation of results and subsequent clinical management are determined through the agreed clinical and laboratory arrangements.
The Athlete Health Monitoring Programme is a health-monitoring service and is not an anti-doping testing service.
