Braintree.
Coming to you.
The nearest clinics today, and a way to be told the day we arrive.
There is no trusted clinic in Braintree. The nearest is Plaza Pharmacy in Colchester, about 14 miles away, listed below with two others. Elixir Health plans to run booked testing days in Braintree — none is booked yet, and no date is shown that does not exist. If you leave your postcode area, you will be told when one is.
Two things you can do today: be told the day a venue is booked, and open the account your result will live in — so the first visit is the test, not the paperwork.
Find the one nearest you.
The three nearest are below — the closest is 14.5 mi from the centre of Braintree. But that is the centre: if you are on the far side of Braintree, or out toward the county border, a different clinic may be closer to you. Put your postcode in and we will point you at that one instead.
Opens the full clinic finder. Every clinic listed runs the same analyser; you book and pay with the clinic directly.
Nearest clinics to Braintree today
Same analyser, same fifteen-minute result. Distances are from the centre of Braintree, as the crow flies. Book and pay with the clinic directly.
| Clinic | Where | Distance | Menu |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plaza Pharmacy | Colchester · CO4 6EE | 14.5 mi | 13 tests |
| Skin Beautiful UK | Bishops Storfford · CM23 3XY | 16.6 mi | 18 tests |
| Cryo Wellness | Brentwood · CM15 9AU | 20.6 mi | 19 tests |
Where a day would run.
A market town with countryside on every side and no clinic within easy reach. Golf clubs, village halls with a private room and the larger employers on the A120 are where an Elixir Day would land.
Ten minutes, start to finish.
A quiet room, a table, two chairs. Not a clinical space — a committee room or a members’ room, borrowed for the morning. We bring everything else.
Before
You book from your account. We send one page first: what is measured, what it is not, and that the result is yours.
In the room
About ten minutes. A finger prick, or a small sample taken and spun on site, and the analyser runs it while you sit there.
The result
Printed and talked through on the spot, against the reference range printed for that test. Fifteen minutes, not a week and a PDF.
After
You keep the paper. A GMC-registered clinician reads the panel, and anything that belongs with your own GP is said to you plainly.
What an Elixir Day is — and isn’t.
It is
- A point-of-care measurement, run and explained in the room while you wait.
- The same analyser as every clinic listed on this page, so a number means the same thing wherever you had it done.
- A printed result that belongs to you, read by a GMC-registered clinician.
It isn’t
- Not a diagnosis — a single measurement on a single day cannot be one.
- A laboratory. This is measured at the venue, never sent away; where a lab is the right answer, we say so.
- A clinic or a pharmacy. Elixir is neither, and nothing measured on the day decides anything we send you.
What the analyser measures
Every Elixir Day and every clinic listed here runs the same point-of-care analyser. Each marker, what it measures and how the sample is taken is set out in plain English on one page — what it measures, never what it means for you, which is the clinician's job.
Be first to know when we come to Braintree.
One message per new Elixir Day within fifteen miles of your postcode area — the venue, the town, the date. Nothing else, ever. Its own permission, withdrawable in one click.
Type your full postcode if it is easier — we only keep the first part (the CM1 in CM1 1GU), because that is all we need to know which days are near you. We keep your name, email and that postcode area. No result, ever, decides whether you hear from us. How that works.
Open your account now.
It is where your result will live, beside the next one. Passwordless, nothing collected that is not needed, and you can delete it in one step. When the Braintree day is booked, you book from inside it.
Open your Elixir account