UK Society of Medical Longevity · Est. 2026
Setting the standards in longevity medicine and science.
The UK Society of Medical Longevity is a professional body for physicians practising longevity medicine, inside the NHS and beyond it.
The society exists because
Healthy life expectancy in the UK is falling.
Longevity clinics are proliferating across the UK without consistent governance, evidence standards, or clinical frameworks. Clinicians lack a professional home. Patients lack reliable guidance. The field risks being defined by commercial interests rather than science.
60.7
Healthy life years
UK male healthy life expectancy — the lowest since records began.
18
Years in poor health
Average for UK men. For women, 22.5 years.
40%
Preventable burden
Of the burden on UK health services, considered avoidable.
20
Year healthspan gap
Between England's most and least deprived areas — and widening.
Sources: Office for National Statistics, Healthy life expectancy UK 2022–2024, released 19 February 2026; Healthy life expectancy by national area deprivation, released 14 April 2026; House of Lords Select Committee on the Long-term Sustainability of the NHS.
Who we are
The UK's first clinician-led society for longevity medicine.
We define longevity medicine in conservative, geroscience-aligned terms: optimising healthspan and delaying age-related functional decline. We critically evaluate emerging diagnostics and therapies and only recommend interventions when benefit, risk, and cost are supported by robust evidence.
What we stand on
Three pillars.
Clinical excellence
Implementation of geroscience and metabolic science in day-to-day practice, with clear guardrails against hype and non-evidence-informed interventions.
Research and innovation
A conduit between clinics, academic groups, and industry to standardise protocols, biomarkers, and outcomes for healthy longevity clinics.
Policy and systems change
A recognised voice informing the NHS, royal colleges, and government on the safe, equitable integration of longevity and healthy ageing into mainstream care.
Our work
Four programmes. Named deliverables, not vague promises.
The society is newly formed. We would rather tell you what is running and what is still being built than imply everything is ready.
In development
Clinical Forum
Monthly virtual grand rounds and case conferences — including where interventions didn't work.
In development
Clinic Network
Clinics committed to defined standards of evidence, ethics and patient safety.
In development
Education Pathway
Geroscience, metabolic health and the ethical boundaries of emerging therapies.
Active
Policy Taskforce
Policy briefs for commissioners and model governance frameworks for longevity clinics.
Where the field comes together
Upcoming events.
1–2 October 2026 · ExCeL London
Meet the board at the Medical Longevity Summit
Members of the founding council will be at the Medical Longevity Summit, part of CCR, across both days. Registration is free, and delegates can earn up to 15 CPD points.
13 November 2026 · Notting Hill, London
Inaugural Scientific Meeting
The first gathering of the society — founding members, faculty, and the evidence discussed in public.
Membership
The founding cohort.
We are recruiting our first hundred founding members — clinicians and researchers who will help shape the society's direction, contribute to its governance, and be listed as founding members.
Membership opens shortly. Be first to know.
Get in touch
Setting the standards in longevity medicine and science.
Whether you are a clinician interested in membership, a researcher seeking collaboration, a media enquiry, or an organisation wishing to partner with UKSML — we would like to hear from you.