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We also have a very competent Band 4 nurse within some of our hysteroscopy clinics. As Caroline mentioned, we have band 5 nurses present just along from the clinic room on the adjoining Gynae ward and our competency paperwork states Band 4 or 5 nurse that has been trained and deemed competent and confident within the outpatient clinic.
Happy to share my experience of setting up our first nurse led service for my Trust, please drop me an email with any questions or thoughts and we can make contact – ruth.pitman@hhft.nhs.uk
I would also love to see this please – ruth.pitman@hhft.nhs.uk
We have an OPH specific consent form I’d be happy to share with you if you send me your email address to ruth.pitman@hhft.nhs.uk. We are actually in the process of updating it however to reflect more of the BSGE consent form. Have you looked at that one for guidance in creating your own?
Within my Trust it is again the responsibility of the Practitioner to contact their patients with their results. Depending on the nature of the result this may be via telephone, inviting someone in to an appointment or letter. We fulfil the two week wait requirements & all benign menstrual disorder results are communicated within our 12 week result target.
We use omniscopes 95% of the time for our hysteroscopies & do the vast majority vaginoscopically very successfully with these. For biopsies we just pop a speculum in at the end briefly & take a pipelle.
We like Caroline just keep an eye on wear & replace as & when required. I can’t remember the last time we needed to though so they must have a pretty long life span.
We would only do this in the OPH clinic if the patient was going to require a speculum i.e. for local anaesthetic & they obviously gave consent. Otherwise no as we’re always trying to provide a vaginosocpic approach for comfort.
