We run a weekly post-op general telephone clinic every Wednesday. It is run by one of our nurse practitioners.
Miss Catherine Wykes runs a weekly gynaecology clinic every Wednesday at Crawley Hospital where she sees adolescent patients.
Fast track clinics
These are held every Monday morning at Crawley Hospital and alternate Fridays at East Surrey Hospital. Women who are seen at the fast track clinics will have been referred either after seeing a consultant in another area of gynaecology or by their GP.
Consultants: Mr Peter Townsend, Mr Simon Butler Manuel, Dr Karen Jermy
Follow-up cancer clinics
Our follow-up clinics run once a fortnight at East Surrey Hospital with Mr Peter Townsend, and at Crawley Hospital with Mr Simon Butler Manuel.
Urogynaecology clinics
There are three or more clinics a month held on a Friday morning at East Surrey Hospital, Crawley Hospital and Horsham Hospital.
Consultants: James Penny, Maha Gorti and Anand Singh
Vulval clinic
This is held once a month on the third Friday of each month, to see women with vulval problems of premalignant disease, pain or dermatoses. The clinics are held at Crawley Hospital a.
Consultants: Mr James Penny, dermatology consultant, Irene Man and Dr Lucy Cox
Dr Lucy Cox also runs a standalone vulval clinic which runs alongside Mr James Penny’s urogynaecology clinic on the second Friday of every month at Crawley Hospital.
Hysteroscopy service
Outpatient hysteroscopy clinic are held twice a week at the Women’s Centre in Crawley Hospital – Tuesday and Thursday mornings. This includes the fast track one stop hysteroscopy service which runs over most of the week.
Hysteroscopy consultants: Miss Cinzia Voltolina, Miss Shalini Srivastava, Miss Helen Nicks, Miss Zahra Ameen and Outpatient hysteroscopy nurse Melanie Colburn-Jones
Recently, a dedicated room has been created for the hysteroscopy clinic. The newly opened facility will enable all women attending to be treated in a greatly enlarged, modern clinic environment with improved patient comfort and privacy with appropriate access facilities for disabled and elderly patients.
The primary aim of hysteroscopy is to assess the endometrium and patients will often be referred tohysteroscopy following a gynaecology outpatient appointment for abnormal bleeding.
At the appointment, the doctor will carry out diagnostic procedures and/or treatment. Biopsies may be taken and small polyps removed. If a patient is unable to have an IUCD inserted or removed at the GP surgery, this may be done in the hysteroscopy clinic.
Usually it is not necessary to use local anaesthetic for outpatient hysteroscopy clinics, however it may be used on occasions. In some cases, hysteroscopy is performed under general anaesthetic, either at East Surrey Hospital or Crawley Day Surgery Unit.
Colposcopy clinics
All colposcopy clinics are held in the Colposcopy Unit in the Women’s Centre at Crawley Hospital. Whilst most referrals are direct from the Trust’s pathology laboratory, GPs can also refer patients, where there is cause for concern. For more information, see colposcopy service.
Colposcopy consultants: Miss Maha Gorti, Mrs Pat Cook, lead colposcopy nurse, Miss Catherine Wykes
Colposcopy clinic incorporate part of the fast track clinic service as well as having routine clinics. The clinics are held at the Women’s Centre in Crawley Hospital and deal with GP referrals, direct to colposcopy referrals via the GP, onward referral once a patient is seen in the general gynaecology clinic and follow ups.
The team have a dedicated reporting of results of smears, LLETZ procedures and we perform cryo-cautery procedures within this service as well.
Pessary clinics
We have a dedicated pessary clinic every Friday afternoon alternating between East Surrey Hospital and Crawley hospital. The clinics are run by one of our nurse practitioners, Helene Fletcher.