UK Society of Medical Longevity UKSML
About us
The UK Society of Medical Longevity is a professional body for physicians practising longevity medicine, inside the NHS and beyond it.
UKSML is a clinician-led society advancing safe, evidence-informed longevity medicine in the UK through education, collaborative research, and policy engagement. It was founded in 2026 and is governed by a founding council of practising clinicians, researchers and policy leaders.
Our scientific position
Evidence-informed. Not hype-driven.
We define longevity medicine in conservative, geroscience-aligned terms: optimising healthspan and delaying age-related functional decline. Our primary tools are lifestyle interventions, cardiometabolic risk factor optimisation, and early detection of age-related conditions.
We critically evaluate emerging diagnostics and therapies, and only recommend interventions when benefit, risk, and cost are supported by robust evidence. Where the evidence is thin, we say so.
Where we sit
Complementary, not competitive.
UKSML works alongside existing professional bodies — the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine, the British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society, the British Geriatrics Society, and the British College of Functional Medicine. We occupy a distinct geroscience-focused domain rather than competing with them.
Longevity clinics are proliferating across the UK without consistent governance, evidence standards, or clinical frameworks. That gap is what the society exists to close.
The founding council
Every member named, with affiliations declared.
The council sets the society's standards, reviews membership applications, and is accountable for its positions. It is drawn from NHS and independent practice, medical education, and health policy.