Women's Health Assessment
St Erme Medical is an independent sector General Practice led by Dr Sarah Gray. She has provided General Practice with specialist advice in women’s health for over 30 years, seeing patients privately since 2000. She now leads a team of doctors who work to the same high standard and are supported by a healthcare assistant and the administration team.
What Makes Us Different?
Are you looking for a traditional, experienced and evidence-based approach?.
Continuity of Care
Your consultation will be with a doctor and where possible your care will be continued by the same doctor.
Experienced GP's
Our doctors are all up to date and highly experienced. They work as a team when issues are complex and will refer to other specialists if appropriate.
Time to Talk
You will have much longer to tell us your story, to be listened to and to discuss your concerns than is available in NHS General Practice.
Making a Decision
You choose which the option you would like to follow and we will help you to make decision that is informed and right for you.
What Women's Health services can we offer?
Explore our range of women’s health services.
Women’s Health Initial Assessment
Follow Up or New Concern
If we provide treatments we generally review at three months after they have started or been changed or after a year if stable. You can come back to us at any time in between if you have a concern. We generally allow 30 minutes for this.
Contraception
We can help you to choose the most suitable form of contraception for you and provide all reversible methods.
Intrauterine Device (Coil) Fitting
We can fit coils for all recommended reasons including contraception, control of bleeding and uterine protection in HRT. We offer effective local anaethetic, a relaxing envornment and a very experienced team to make this as easy as possible for you.
Minor Gynaecological Procedures
We can offer removal of cervical polyps, pipelle biopsy, oestradiol implants for HRT
Pessary Fitting
We can fit pessaries to manage both incontinence and prolapse. We stock a wide range and can source others. These need to be reviewed at regular (3-6 month) intervals, and we can arrange for this.
How can We Help?
Our women’s health assessment is intended to review and address any of the problems relating to being female from birth. This might include contraception; heavy, irregular, or absent periods; polycystic ovarian syndrome, premenstrual syndrome; menopause; bladder and vaginal concerns; osteoporosis and others.
We have some experience with non-binary and transgender people but will not initiate hormone modification programmes. We cannot offer appointments during pregnancy for pregnancy related conditions.
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. We offer health reviews for all and specialist advice in the field of women’s health. 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 you will be asked to provide an outline of the service you are looking for so that we understand where, how and who we can offer you.
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.
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Experienced GP's
Our GPs are fully qualified and all have years of experience. Medicine covers many areas, and no one can know everything. There are unknowns and gaps in the data. We will tell you when we cannot answer a question.
We then talk together as expertise is shared within the team and will research issues that we are less sure of.
Meet our women's health specialists
MBBCh MFOM MRCGP DFSRH DRCOG
Consultant Occupational Health Physician & GP
GMC 6115160
BA MBBS MRCGP DFSRH DRCOG
GP with an Extended Role in Women’s Health
GMC 6055908
MBChB MRCGP DRCOG DFSRH
GP with an extended role in Women’s Health
GMC 6160515
BSc, MBBS, MRCGP, DRCOG, DFSRH, FHEA
GP Specialist in Women’s Health
GMC 3135143
MBBCh MRCGP DRCOG DFSRH
GP with an extended role in Women’s Health
GMC 4538819
MbChB, MRCGP, MRCP, DFSRH, DRCOG
GP with an Extended Role in Women’s Health
GMC 6134672
FRCOG FFSRH DIPM
Consultant in Community Gynaecology and Reproductive Healthcare
GMC 2608187
MBBS MRCGP DRCOG DFSRH
GP with an Extended Role in Women’s Health
GMC 7130800
MBBS MRCGP DRCOG DCH
GP with an Extended Role in Women’s Health
GMC 3557426
Truro, Plymouth and Exeter
St Erme Medical is based in its own premises in the centre of Cornwall. All services are provided from here including the co-ordination of video and telephone appointments. The doctors who are Cornwall based and the nurses offer face to face appointments.
Both Dr Patton and Dr Gray can offer face to face appointments for Women’s Health in the Nuffield Health Hospital in Plymouth and Dr Gillies can do the same in Nuffield Health Exeter.
Secure video and telephone appointments allow consultations with patients throughout the UK.
Enquire Now
Find out how a women’s health assessment can help you to feel better and have peace of mind.
Any Questions?
Everyone is different. We will listen to you. We will treat you as an individual 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.
Are you a GP or Women's Health Specialist?
We see you as a whole person in the manner of a GP but overlay with more specialist women’s health knowledge to help you make the decsion that is right for you.
Where Are You Located?
St Erme Medical is near the church in the village of St Erme. This is central in Cornwall, north of Truro and south of the A30 main road.
When Are You Open?
St Erme Medical is open 0900-1700 on weekdays.
Do You Offer Walk In Appointments?
No we would ask you to contact us in advanve so that we can find out more information before you see us.
Related Services
Everyone is different. We will listen to you. We will treat you as an individual 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.
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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.
Our nurses have many years of experience and provide additional support and care.
Explore our locations in Truro, Plymouth & Exeter.
We allow an hour to understand your problem, examine if appropriate and talk you through what we think is the explanation. We would explain the options available to you along with their pros and cons and allow you to choose what you feel is the best for you. If we prescribe we will provide a private prescription.