New Patient Clinics

If you have been referred to the Breast Clinic by your GP, your first appointment will be in one of our New Patient Clinics.

At this appointment you will be seen and examined by one of the breast surgeons or by one of the junior doctors working in their team, helped by our team of clinic nurses who will help put you at ease during your visit and explain the clinic process. If needed, you will be offered appropriate imaging of your breasts, which will happen the same day. This is usually a mammogram and/or an ultrasound scan.

The mammogram/scans are reported while you wait and any tissue biopsy test that is needed can be performed at the same time. If you need a biopsy you will need to come back to clinic the following week for the results. In some cases we may be able to write to you with your results.

As there is a lot happening at these busy clinics it can often take a few hours to have all your examinations and investigations completed and reported, so please come prepared to be at the clinic for most of the morning. There is a drinks machine in the unit and a café in Noble’s providing hot drinks, snacks and sandwiches. If all your investigations are normal or show a benign (harmless) cause not needing a biopsy, you can often be discharged from the clinic on the same day.

If you need a biopsy that is guided by an MRI scan this will be arranged for a different date.