The blind spot in modern healthcare

For three incredible years, we’ve been passionately dedicated to supporting your health journey. For our wonderful community here in Melbourne, that has meant providing a nurturing physical space – your third space – where you can build strength, balance, foster community and cultivate your wellbeing. For our valued subscribers around Australia and the world, it has meant a consistent flow of our weekly newsletter, delivering the latest science-backed insights on health and longevity directly to your inbox.

Whether you’re with us in person or engaging with us online, our unwavering commitment to your wellbeing has consistently pushed us to ask a deeper, more profound question: How can we make the effort you put into your health even more personalised, powerful, and truly effective, no matter where you are in the world?

This curiosity led us directly to Dr Gillian Singleton, a remarkable individual and, fittingly, one of our own Be Well members. Her life’s work is built upon a fundamental insight that resonated deeply with the core of our mission. After 25 years as a dedicated GP, she witnessed firsthand a significant gap in our current healthcare system. While it is undoubtedly brilliant at treating illness and acute conditions, it is simply not set up for prevention. It’s a system inherently forced to be reactive, stepping in after problems arise rather than proactively guiding us to avoid them.

As Dr Gill powerfully articulates, “Our healthcare system… just isn’t equipped to deliver effective prevention. It’s shocking that in 2025, people are still dying young or living burdened by diseases that could have been prevented.”

Dr Gill also noted that over half of us aren’t accessing the screening we need, often not because we don’t care, but because life gets busy and health slips down the priority list. Guilty as charged! This critical observation compelled her to create Thrive, a visionary platform designed specifically to fill that void. She has spent years developing algorithms and realised that it was possible to estimate risk for over 20 major conditions from information individuals could enter themselves, automating this crucial insight. When we discovered Thrive, we immediately saw  its potential to empower individuals with proactive health insights was something we absolutely had to make accessible to all of you, our Be Well community.

In a few weeks, we are incredibly excited to introduce you to this groundbreaking new, deeper layer of personalisation. It represents a significant and thrilling evolution of our mission at Be Well, making truly data-driven, preventative health accessible to every single one of you.

Get ready for a new level of clarity and control over your long-term health and wellbeing.

Looking forward to seeing you at Be Well again soon!