Welcome to my very first post

In here I would like to write about things I am so often asked but for some reason have not yet found the time or space to answer.

Thank you all for the lovely emails to my website and messages on my Facebook profile, they really made me realize how keen you are to find out more about getting fully fit, healthy eating, wellbeing and other such stuff. I'm also going to write in general about things that interest me, and hopefully they might interest you too.

This week has been very very busy, filming in Southend on Sea today for my new Channel Four show about cosmetic surgery -The Ugly Face of Beauty. It's going to be a cracking show and I hope will make people realise the crying need for more regulation and control over the cosmetic surgery industry. And we filmed some amazing surgeries too.

Londoners need a trendy sex clinic

Despite decades of pleading from doctors to take the nation's sexual health more seriously, the Government is only just getting round to addressing the issue.
Its answer, as is so often the case, is to throw money at the problem, and so bring on a shiny new walk-in centre in Soho, complete with designer wallpaper and wi-fi access.

The glossy brochure looks like an advert for a new Grouchoesque members' club and its pages boast that "the colours, finishes and quality of materials and furnishings have created an inviting, comfortable, reassuring and stylish environment".

My gut reaction was to groan at the vast sums of taxpayers' money wasted on hardwood flooring and Cole & Son's wallpaper instead of medical supplies but the great difference between sexual medicine and most other specialities is that its success relies on getting people through the door and screened, not on expensive drugs or high-tech equipment.

Many STIs do not cause any symptoms and so people need to volunteer themselves for regular screening if we are to get on top of the problem.

Most NHS clinics I've worked in were around the back of the main hospital building, seedy, dirty, badly lit and certainly not places you wanted to be seen coming out of. Even the discipline itself, ungraciously called veneriology, was part of the dermatologist's remit. It's now a glorious speciality in its own right.
This new clinic offers exactly the same services as most other GUM clinics but the big difference is that it is trendy and welcoming, even, dare I say it, "cool".

Here's hoping that the bright young things agree with me and don't mind being seen coming out, for then our battle is half won.