St Erme Medical -
Private GP and Women's
Health Specialists
Cornwall and Devon Health Clinics with virtual consultations available.
Private General Practice with expertise in Women's Health
St Erme Medical is a private General Practice founded by Dr Sarah Gray. She is both a GP and a specialist in women’s health and is regarded as a national expert. She has provided both NHS and private specialist services for 25 years. She now leads a team of doctors who work with her to the same high standard.
What we do
We are continually extending our range of services. Please contact us if you cannot see what you are looking for.
Private GP
Our private GPs will allow you the time to explain your concerns and treat you as an individual.
Women's Health Specialist
We support women through a wide range of problems arising from being female from birth. We have the time, knowledge and experience to help even when these are complex.
Our services
Everyone is different. We will listen to you, do our best to understand your background and personalise our advice to you. We treat everyone equally but may need to know about characteristics such as disability, gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation in order to tailor our assessment and advice.
Men's Health
Whether you are wanting to discuss a general health problem, to review your overall health or address a sexual or emotional issue that you find difficult to talk about we can help.
Sexual Health
Sexual health covers a wide range of problems from sexual function to family planning to sexually transmitted infection. We can offer help with all of these.
Women’s Health
Children's Health
The NHS will see and manage children who are acutely unwell. We can see children for other reasons as experienced GPs and refer on to specialists if appropriate.
Nursing Services
Our nurses have many years of experience and provide additional support and care.
Vaccinations
Medicals
Medicals can be provided for a wide range of insurance, visa and other purposes. Contact us to discuss your reguirements.
Occupational Health
Our Prices
We invoice prior to appointments and expect payment in advance. If additional services are suggested, these will be explained along with the cost before you agreed that we go ahead.
What our patients say
We always welcome feedback to help us improve our services. Occasionally, we will conduct a formal patient survey and would ask for your co-operation.
Who we are
St Erme Medical is a private general practice based in Cornwall that serves patients across the UK. It is led by Dr Sarah Gray, a GP who has worked in the private sector for 25 years, alongside her previous NHS work. She has developed specialist expertise across the broad range of women’s health issues that are seen in general practice and is nationally recognised for this approach. Her team of experienced doctors include four with specialist recognition from the British Menopause Society.
The practice offers face-to-face consultations both in a purpose-built surgery in St Erme and the Nuffield Health hospitals in Plymouth and Exeter. They also offer secure video and telephone consultations for patients throughout the country.
St Erme Medical prides itself on offering a holistic approach to evidence-based treatment and advice. The practice provides general GP appointments and sexual health advice for all people, health reviews, and medicals for a variety of purposes. The team work closely together to deliver a multisystem approach.
The doctors are involved in developing national women’s health guidance and have the knowledge, skills, and experience to help all women across their lifespan, including those with very complex problems.
“Private general practice can supplement the NHS, as it offers patients more time with an experienced doctor and the opportunity to take a personalised approach. While the average NHS GP appointment lasts between 10-15 minutes, general health appointments at St Erme Medical typically allow 30 minutes. Women’s health assessments allow an hour. This enables our doctors to identify and consider the factors that affect the options available. They can take time to understand concerns alongside providing information and explanations. This empowers patients to choose what is right for them.”
Truro, Plymouth and Exeter
St Erme Medical is based in its own premises in the centre of Cornwall. All services offered can be provided here. The administration team is based in St Erme. Consultations with a doctor can also be offered in the Nuffield Health hospitals in Plymouth and Exeter.
All services are available face-to-face in St Erme. Drs Gray and Patton offer women’s health at the Nuffield Hospital in Plymouth, and Dr Gillies offers women’s health and general practice for adults at the Nuffield Hospital in Exeter.
Secure video and telephone appointments allow consultations with patients throughout the UK. These are co-ordinated by the team at St Erme.
What to Expect
St Erme Medical supplements the services provided by the NHS providing time with experienced doctors, continuity of care and management options that are evidence based and supported by guidance. As leaders in our field we can offer advice to all women, even those with highly complex histories.
Those patients who see us in person will be able to park and consult in an environment that is relaxed and welcoming.
1. Contact Us
Whether you contact us by telephone, email or via the website, we will ask you to provide an outline of the service you are looking for so that we can help you as best we can.
2. Questionnaire
You will be asked to fill in a medical information questionnaire to brief the doctor and allow you to focus on assessing your current situation during the consultation.
3. Confirmation
You will be sent confirmation of your appointment and a reminder the day before. We will invoice and expect payment in advance of the consultation.
Enquire Now
Do not suffer in silence – do something about that health problem that has been niggling for a while. Take stock of your health and look at what you can do to improve things now and reduce risks for the future. Do not assume that because you have a long term health issue that nothing can be done to help other problems that are affecting how you feel and what you can do.
We can help across the age range with any of the problems that can arise from being female from birth.