- Reference Number: HEY064/2024
- Departments: Gynaecology
- Last Updated: 31 May 2024
Introduction
The clinical Nurse Specialist Team have specialist skills, knowledge and experience within gynaecology oncology.
We are key members of the multi-disciplinary team involved in your care. Between us we have many years experience and chosen to specialize within the field of gynaecology and gynaecology cancer.
We have undertaken further studies to enable us to develop our specialist knowledge. We work as a team and offer support and guidance to patients who are being investigated or are diagnosed with gynaecological cancer.
What can we offer you?
These can be confusing and challenging times. Our role is to support you and provided a continuing link through all aspects of your investigations and care. This may include:
- Helping you and your family understand the treatment and care you will receive.
- Helping you make decisions about your care.
- Answering questions you may have.
- Helping you talk about the things you feel are important to you.
- Referring you other services for advice and support.
How will it help?
It can make things less worrying when you can talk to someone who has:
- Time to listen.
- The experience to answer your questions.
- The skill to support you.
No question is too small. If it helps in any way, please ask. It is important that you have access to all available support and know who to contact.
Where are based?
We visit the ward and clinical areas regularly to see all women who have been referred to us. We also make contact with patients over the telephone.
We are based at Castle Hill Hospital and office working hours are:
- Monday 8 am to 4 pm
- Tuesday 8 am to 6 pm
- Wednesday 8 am to 4 pm
- Thursday 8 am to 4 pm
- Friday 8 am to 4 pm
We do not work Bank holidays or weekends. All answer machine messages left will be dealt with either the same day or the next working day.
Telephone number: 01482 624033
What are our names?
Clinical Nurse Specialist team:
- Sarah Robertson – Clinical Nurse Specialist/Team Leader
- Judy Smith – Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Ashleigh Maugey – Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Kim Turner – Care Co-oordinator
Information on Gynaecology Services at Hull University Teaching Hospital can be found at Gynaecology | Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (hey.nhs.uk)
General Advice and Consent
Most of your questions should have been answered by this leaflet, but remember that this is only a starting point for discussion with the healthcare team.
Consent to treatment
Before any doctor, nurse or therapist examines or treats you, they must seek your consent or permission. In order to make a decision, you need to have information from health professionals about the treatment or investigation which is being offered to you. You should always ask them more questions if you do not understand or if you want more information.
The information you receive should be about your condition, the alternatives available to you, and whether it carries risks as well as the benefits. What is important is that your consent is genuine or valid. That means:
- you must be able to give your consent
- you must be given enough information to enable you to make a decision
- you must be acting under your own free will and not under the strong influence of another person
Information about you
We collect and use your information to provide you with care and treatment. As part of your care, information about you will be shared between members of a healthcare team, some of whom you may not meet. Your information may also be used to help train staff, to check the quality of our care, to manage and plan the health service, and to help with research. Wherever possible we use anonymous data.
We may pass on relevant information to other health organisations that provide you with care. All information is treated as strictly confidential and is not given to anyone who does not need it. If you have any concerns please ask your doctor, or the person caring for you.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018 we are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any information we hold about you. For further information visit the following page: Confidential Information about You.
If you or your carer needs information about your health and wellbeing and about your care and treatment in a different format, such as large print, braille or audio, due to disability, impairment or sensory loss, please advise a member of staff and this can be arranged.
