The HPV vaccine is one of the very few vaccines that prevents cancer, not just infection, and that is the reason it is worth thinking about well beyond school age. Human papillomavirus causes almost all cervical cancer and a large share of anal, throat, penile, vulval and vaginal cancers, as well as genital warts, and Gardasil 9, the vaccine used here, protects against nine HPV types including the ones responsible for the great majority of those cancers.

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Tired all the time is one of the most common reasons anyone sees a doctor, and one of the most commonly brushed off, told it is stress, age or modern life and sent away without a proper look. Yet persistent fatigue, exhaustion that rest does not fix and that is affecting work, mood and daily life, very often has a findable, treatable cause, and the way to find it is a focused history and the right blood tests read against your symptoms rather than a single TSH and a shrug.

Acne is one of the most searched-for skin problems in the country and one of the most under-treated, because the NHS pathway is slow, the shelves are full of products that do little, and the treatment that transforms severe acne, isotretinoin, still known by the brand name Roaccutane, sits behind a specialist referral and a long wait.

‍A urinary tract infection is one of the most common reasons anyone contacts a doctor, and for a straightforward one the answer is simple and quick: the burning, urgency, frequency and lower abdominal discomfort of cystitis are assessed, a urine sample confirms it, and the right antibiotic is started the same day, often within the hour.

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Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome affects around one in ten women, and it is both over-diagnosed on a single ultrasound and under-diagnosed in women whose symptoms are dismissed for years, which is why getting the diagnosis right matters more than the label suggests.

Chronic bloating, unpredictable bowels, cramping and the catch-all label of IBS are among the most common reasons people seek private help, and among the most poorly served, because the usual choices are a long wait for a gastroenterologist, an expensive camera test that often comes back clear, or a supermarket intolerance kit with no clinical meaning.

‍Hormone replacement therapy is the most effective treatment for the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause, and for most women who start it before the age of sixty or within ten years of their last period, the benefits outweigh the risks, a balance that the scare a generation ago got badly wrong and that better evidence has since corrected.

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Most coughs are viral and settle within two or three weeks, but a cough that outlasts that deserves a reason rather than another bottle of linctus. A cough lasting more than three weeks is subacute and one lasting more than eight weeks is chronic, and while the common causes are reassuringly ordinary, post-viral airway sensitivity, asthma, acid reflux, post-nasal drip, or a blood-pressure tablet can require early intervention.

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‍A same-day blood test is one of the few things in private medicine that does exactly what it promises: blood drawn in the morning, processed by an accredited laboratory, and the result explained by a doctor within 24 hours, so a worry that would sit on an NHS list for weeks is answered before the day is out.

If you already have an ADHD diagnosis, from the NHS, a previous private clinic, or a doctor overseas, and you need your medication prescribed and managed in the UK, the step you need is not another assessment but a transfer of care.

‍Choosing a health check in London means choosing between products that share a name and almost nothing else, from a £169 blood panel read by an algorithm to a £32,000 imaging programme, and the price tells you far less than four questions do.

The hardest part of getting therapy in Britain is not the therapy, it is the door. NHS talking-therapy services are free and effective but carry waits that run from a few weeks for assessment to several months for treatment, and the private market that fills that gap is a directory of thousands of names with no one to tell you which is right for you.

In most companies the largest uninsurable risk is the health of 2 or 3 named individuals. It is also the least examined asset on the balance sheet. Key person cover pays out after the event. Nothing else in the corporate toolkit lowers the probability of the event itself.