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How to stay healthy while staying in
How are you feeling about this second lockdown? Anxious about the health of your family and friends? Lonely? Frustrated? Bored? However you’re feeling at the
Get clued up and checked out for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and that means – whether you’ve checked your breasts before or not – it’s time to get in touch.
Calling All Freshers – have you had your meningitis vaccine?
Heading off to university this autumn? Even if freshers’ week isn’t shaping up quite the way you’d hoped, getting a meningitis vaccine is as important
Cortisone Joint injections as we recover from the Coronavirus pandemic
The use of steroid injections in musculoskeletal medicine is a standard treatment, but recent events with COVID-19 has asked questions of these. Although there is
We remain open
During this time of Coronavirus isolation Dorset Private GP remains open for your medical care but with a few changes. We are now offering 20
Antimalarials for Travel
Planning a trip away? Depending on where you’re heading, you might be at risk of malaria. And that means it’s a good idea to take
The Chicken Pox Vaccine
The chickenpox vaccine is not part of the NHS childhood vaccination schedule in the UK but it is in other countries such as the USA.
Hay Fever
Hay fever is a common allergic reaction triggered by allergens that affects 1 in every 5 people at some point in their lives. These allergens can
Winter Sun
More than a third of Britons now head abroad each winter to seek the sunshine. With travelling times becoming shorter and trips abroad to exotic
Seasons Greetings from Dorset Private GP!
Here at Dorset Private GP we would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. With the festive season currently in
Diabetes: keeping it short and sweet
4.6 million people are living with diabetes in the UK. Around 90% of people have Type 2 Diabetes and 10% have Type 1 Diabetes.
All in a spin? Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) affects 9 in every 100 adults. To unpick the name further, this is a harmless condition that comes and goes,
