How to access the service
If you have been to see your GP with a concern about your breast, they will refer you to the hospital to see a breast consultant, registrar, or clinical nurse specialist, who will carry out an assessment.
Once referred, you will be seen as quickly as possible (usually within two weeks), in one of our new patient clinics. Most patients referred to the breast clinic will not have cancer, but it is important to establish the correct diagnosis for each patient quickly, so that appropriate advice and treatment can be given.
Assessment of the breast is divided into three parts, and is referred to as ‘triple assessment’:
- Clinic appointment – symptoms, history, examination
- Investigations – ultrasound scan, mammogram
- Biopsy – if appropriate, following the other two assessments