Services available

• Acute gynaecology - this includes: a dedicated early pregnancy assessment unit for women with problems in the first 18 weeks of pregnancy; acute gynaecology clinic, which is designed as a fast-track service for women with post-menopausal bleeding or pelvic masses; emergency gynaecology service, which is provided by the on-call gynaecology team, to provide rapid assessment of women referred by the A&E department or their GP.

• Colposcopy - a dedicated unit for the assessment of women with abnormal smear test results, providing treatment and referral as necessary.

• Fertility

• Vulval clinic - for the management of women with vulval disorders 

• General gynaecology clinics - for women with general gynaecological problems

• Urogynaecology and pelvic floor clinics - for women with urinary incontinence or prolapse, and for women who have suffered severe tears following childbirth

• Endometriosis clinic - for women with endometriosis 

• Outpatient hysteroscopy service - for women with bleeding problems who need this special test

• Termination of pregnancy service

• Surgical procedures - including: day stay cases, for minor gynaecological surgery including keyhole surgery; inpatient surgery, for women who require more major surgery or who have other medical problems.

Making an appointment

In most cases you will be referred to one of our clinics by your GP. Some clinics are available via Choose and Book.

Key staff

Gynaecology services are provided by 10 consultants. These are as follows, with their gynaecological interests:

Mr Yinka Akinfenwa
Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist with a special interest in high dependency obstetrics, prenatal diagnosis and fetal medicine, and perinatal urology

Mr Chris Barnick
Pelvic floor, urogynaecology, minimal access surgery, endometriosis

Mr Ed Dorman
Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist with a special interest in high risk pregnancy and feto-maternal medicine

Dr Katrina Erskine
Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist with a special interest in high risk pregnancy and maternal medicine.  She also has a special interest in colposcopy, vulval disease, and the management of massive fibroids

Mr Anil Gudi
Fertility, minimal access surgery, endometriosis

Miss Charlotte Kingman
Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist with a special interest in fetal medicine, management of intrauterine growth restriction and monochorionic twin pregnancies

Mr Eric Nyarko
Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist with a special interest in early pregnancy and gynaecology scanning, laparoscopy and hysteroscopy

Ms Lindy Stacey
Community gynaecology

Miss Sandra Watson
Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist with a special interest in early pregnancy, acute gynaecology and gynaecological ultrasound, outpatient hysteroscopy, fetal medicine

Miss Cathy Roberts
General obstetrician with a special interest in pelvic floor dysfunction

Maryam Parisaei
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist with a special interest in obstetric medicine and high risk obstetrics

Where are these services based?

• Priestley Ward, our gynaecology ward is on the first floor, blue corridor

• acute gynaecology unit is situated on the first floor next to Priestley Ward

• general gynaecology clinic, urogynaecology and pelvic floor clinic, the endometriosis clinic and the termination of pregnancy service are situated in Women’s Outpatients on the ground floor

• colposcopy department and the outpatient hysteroscopy clinics are situated in Chatsworth House, which is outside the main building, at the rear of the hospital

• fertility centre is situated in the main building, at the front of the hospital on the first floor.