The parties have started, the office is buzzing and Santa is on his way!
“Are you getting anything nice for Christmas?” – Jewellery? – New sneakers? – Chlamydia?
Seems a silly question right? However 1 in 10 people are set to get an STI this festive season! And low and behold most of them will come from your office Christmas bash!
London’s mayor Sadiq Khan is calling on the government to revise health budget cuts, claiming London is currently suffering ‘stark health inequalities’. Leaving “health variations from postcode to postcode, borough to borough”. [Read more…]
Obesity is being branded “the new smoking” as it has now become the second biggest cause of cancer.
Posing further risks to health, with deadly diseases such as type two diabetes and heart disease, NHS England have now demanded action should be taken to tackle the growing crisis. [Read more…]
As a parent, you do everything possible to keep your children happy, healthy and safe, however the grey areas of children’s vaccinations has caused much debate.
It is easy to risk assess physical dangers such as young children playing near a road, or running by a pool. In most cases as parents we intervene to prevent our children from suffering pain. [Read more…]
As NHS STI clinics across London struggle to keep up with the high demands due to budget cuts, a bigger demand for self testing kits (also known as e-STI testing) have proved to be a relief to a burgeoning NHS. [Read more…]
The boys have won in a long battle to be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted HPV (human papilloma virus).
The announcement came this week from the health secretary Matt Hancock, calling for all boys between 12 and 13 to be vaccinated from September 2019, if not sooner. [Read more…]
Recently we have had a lot of stories of the “new” super bacteria Mycoplasma Genitalium (MG), and although this may be new to you, it been around since 1981. However MG was never classified as a STI. [Read more…]
In 2014 our government promised to provide the over 75’s with a named doctor. Within 2 years everyone would be seen by the same doctor. Lavish promises of surgeries opening for 12 hours a day, 7 days a week seemed to be the tonic that overstretched Accident and Emergency rooms needed. [Read more…]
A well documented and alarming rise in sexually transmitted infections is causing concern across London. But can we blame budget cuts or is this down to a lack of education?
Paying extortionate rates, planning the well deserved holiday and taking time off work all for the love of that sun, sea and sand, but many people don’t plan for illness so here’s some top travel tips on how to avoid getting sick on holiday and what to do if you are! [Read more…]
