DocTap Health Pulse
The monthly Patient Concerns Index
The health concerns patients across our London clinics bring to our GPs, published every month — the busy months and the quiet ones alike.
What our patients came to us about in August 2026
The share of health concerns our GPs were asked about. Visits that were only about repeat medication, test results, paperwork or preventive checks raise no health concern and are not counted, so these shares describe what people were unwell with rather than how our service is used.
| Concern | Share of concerns | vs last month | vs last year |
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| Skin, hair & nails | 17.0%
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| Mental health & wellbeing | 14.5%
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| Ear, nose & throat | 13.4%
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| Muscles, bones & joints | 9.2%
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| Digestion & gut | 8.4%
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| Coughs, colds & flu | 5.7%
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| Women's health | 5.0%
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| Urinary & kidney | 4.8%
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| Headaches & neurological | 4.2%
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| Heart & blood pressure | 3.2%
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| Sexual health | 3.0%
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| Other | 2.9%
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| Men's health | 2.2%
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| Tiredness & general symptoms | 2.0%
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| Asthma & lung conditions | 1.6%
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| Wound care | 1.3%
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| Allergies & hay fever | 0.6%
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| Hormones, diabetes & thyroid | 0.4%
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| Weight management | 0.4%
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Movement is shown in percentage points. Shares are of all health concerns raised in the month shown, so they total 100%.
How the index is put together
Every health concern raised with a GP at our London clinics is categorised at the point of care into a fixed set of plain-English categories. A single visit can raise more than one concern, and each is counted. We count concerns a patient came about — a new problem, or a clinical review of an existing one. Visits only about repeat medication, discussing test results, paperwork, or preventive checks such as health screens and travel appointments raise no health concern, and are left out of the numbers entirely on both sides.
Shares are percentages of all concerns raised that month and total 100%. Movement is shown in percentage points against the same category a month and a year earlier. We publish every month on the same basis, and the category definitions are versioned: if they ever change, we say so here rather than quietly restating history.
These figures describe what patients bring to DocTap's London clinics. They are not a measure of illness across London or the UK, and no absolute numbers are published.