A Study of the Registrar Review Clinic of Cheltenham

Medical practise is about innovation, invention and discovery. The Registrar Review Clinic (RRC) was set up to reduce pressures in other department where obstetrics and Gynaecological patients are seen, especially in the out-patient clinics where patients wait for months before been seen in the Gynaecological Out-Patient Department (GOPD) or wait for hours before been seen in other busy units like the Accident and Emergency, Early Pregnancy and Fetal Assessment Clinic (EPAC), Gynaecology Wards, etc. It is a fast-track clinic for benign non-emergency cases so that patients are attended to faster and earlier, and appropriate referral made quicker or earlier if that is the appropriate course of action. The experience of Cheltenham General Hospital in 2007 was studied and analysed in this study performed in 2008 and is now presented.