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Patients in and around Stamford are benefiting from a new service to meet with demands on women’s healthcare.

A new outpatient gynaecology clinic is up and running at Stamford & Rutland Hospital to offer additional on-the-doorstep care to local women.

Demand for the service (which supports an existing clinic at Peterborough City Hospital) has so far resulted in the clinic seeing around 44 patients each month.

Overseen by Consultant Steve Havenga, it is hoped that the weekly clinic will continue to run beyond the original April end date.

Women attending the clinic are referred primarily with dysfunctional bleeding – after the menopause, in-between periods, irregularities in the frequency of menstrual cycles, the length of menstrual cycle, and abnormally heavy bleeding which can sometimes be caused by hormonal imbalance.

The consultation will usually include a biopsy of the womb lining to detect disease, together with any other necessary treatments.

Bridget Tarney, General Outpatients Sister at Stamford & Rutland Hospital, said: “The Stamford Outpatient nursing team is proud to support the clinician with the care and safety of women undergoing consultation here at Stamford.

“Our environment within the department is calming and relaxed in nature which in turn supports our women when they are already feeling apprehensive and anxious.”

Pic cap: Susie Mears Senior Staff Nurse, Mr Steve Havenga Consultant and Nichola Wells, Deputy Sister at the new Stamford & Rutland Hospital gynaecology clinic.