Health Services In The UK

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One of the more important and heavily used of all the health services in the UK is the sexual health services otherwise known as GUM clinics. GUM stands for genitor-urinary medicine. These clinics are usually located at hospitals or health centre offering a range of sexual health services.

These clinics offer sexual health services such as contraception and contraception advice which includes the emergency contraceptive. They also offer testing for sexually transmitted infections such as Chlamydia which is the most common right through to HIV and AIDS. They offer counselling and treatment when they are needed.

As well as STI’s the GUM clinics offer health services that covers urinary systems which are the systems that produce, store and remove urine from the body. It also covers bladder infections and urethritis which is the name for a infection of the urethra. It also covers a number of other types of infection. For more information look up information online or see your GP.

With the rise in STI’s the GUM clinic is proving to be one of the most important of all the health services available. They perform a quality service that is not only vital but also highly confidential and on top of that is free under the National Health Service.