Our Clinical Governance Team is led by Dr. Adam Staten and is made up of extremely talented doctors who ensure that our testing panels are accurate, innovative and up-to-date on current science and medicine developments.
Dr Adam Staten (MA MBBS MRCP(UK) MRCGP DRCOG DMCC PGCertCE) trained at Cambridge University and King's College London. After serving as a medical officer in the British Army, he returned to the NHS and is now an NHS GP and GP trainer. He has an interest in stress and burnout and has written several books on the subject. He is also the editor of a textbook used by GPs and family physicians all around the world.
Dr Staten is a firm believer in empowering patients to manage their own health and sees educating people about common health problems as the best way to achieve this.
The power to manage your health - GPs blogs at One Day Tests.
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What is Pre-Diabetes?
The idea of pre-diabetes is a relatively new concept and reflects a more pro-active approach to the identification of those at risk of diabetes and a more pro-active approach to the prevention of diabetes. By identifying pre-diabetes, we gain the opportunity to act, the opportunity to reverse the trends of rising blood sugar that will eventually lead to diabetes.Read now -
Vitamin B12
Like all vitamins, B12 is a substance that our body can’t make for itself but needs in small but vital amounts that we get from our diet. Vitamin B12 is most abundant in meat, fish, eggs and dairy products. As you can see from this list, vitamin B12 can be lacking from vegetarian and vegan diets and, as these types of diet have become more popular, vitamin B12 deficiency has become more common.Read now -
Dr Mike Forsythe on Hair Loss and Its Causes
A few months ago, a male patient of mine proudly declared that he believed there to be only 3 certainties in life; death, taxes and losing one’s hair. He had made his peace with his new found baldness, but for many people hair loss can be very distressing.Read now -
Dr. Mike Forsythe on Erectile Dysfunction
Read nowThere are many euphemisms for erectile dysfunction - ‘I can’t get it up, doc’, or ‘it’s stopped working down there’ - this is because the problem is both difficult to talk about and extremely common. So what exactly is Erectile Dysfunction? And perhaps...
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Understanding Cardiac Risk
The British Heart Foundation collates some very frightening statistics about heart disease. In the UK a heart attack occurs about every 5 minutes. Over seven and half million of us are living with heart or circulatory disease, causing a quarter of all deaths which equates to about a death every 3 minutes. It is a massive issue, both for individuals and for our health as a population.Read now -
Chronic Kidney Disease: What Does it Mean for Me?
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a frightening term. The idea of a chronic disease attacking your vital organs is very unsettling, but CKD is actually very common. Around 3 million people in the UK are estimated to be suffering from it and many of these people will have no idea that there is a problem.Read now -
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Unexplained Exhaustion
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), sometimes also known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), is a condition of exhaustion without an obvious medical explanation. It is diagnosed when someone is suffering from debilitating fatigue, malaise after exercise, unrefreshing sleep, and cognitive problems (commonly called ‘brain fog’), without an identifiable cause for a period longer than six weeks.Read now -
Tired All the Time? Causes of fatigue, diagnostics blood tests and treatment.
The complaint of feeling tired all the time is unfortunately very common. It is so common in fact that, if I type the letters TATT into my system at work, the computer will automatically convert this to read ‘tired all the time’. It is a pervasive and sometimes debilitating complaint that may have a serious underlying cause or may have no obvious cause at all.Read now -
Anaemia: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
People with anaemia suffer with shortness of breath, tiredness, weakness, lightheadedness and, in severe cases, chest pain because the heart itself is not getting enough oxygen. Sufferers may also be pale because they lack the haemoglobin that gives them a healthy colour.Read now -
Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Unexplained Abdominal Symptoms
One of the commonest unexplained medical problems is the condition we know as ‘Irritable Bowel Syndrome’. Perhaps as many as 20% of us suffer with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and I would guess almost all of us have experienced unexplained abdominal discomfort at some point in our life.Read now -
The Thyroid: Metabolic Command Centre
The thyroid gland sits at the front of the neck and is often described as ‘butterfly shaped’. This little gland is incredibly important. By secreting two hormones into the bloodstream, the thyroid effectively controls our metabolism. Because of this important role, if the thyroid gland isn’t working properly, the consequences can be very wide ranging.Read now -
Fatty Liver Disease: A Silent Pandemic and the liver function blood tests
In Fatty Liver Disease, fat builds up in the liver in the same way as fat builds up elsewhere in the body. This can affect liver function and Fatty Liver Disease is the most common cause of abnormal liver function tests. For many people the condition may remain stable and may cause no symptoms but, in a minority of people, inflammation of the liver develops, and this can progress to cirrhosis (permanent scarring of the liver), liver failure, liver cancer, and eventually death.Read now
Test panels from Dr. Staten
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