Minor Procedures

The Practice itself at Highgate Hill Doctors has been physically set up to match the advanced procedural skills of the doctors. Our GPs  have many years of rural and emergency medicine experience. This means we have great array of GP appropriate surgical-skills amongst the doctors!

The treatment room is beautiful and modern with operating lights, electrical beds and all the latest medical equipment including:

• Zeiss operating hands-free ear microscope
• Surgical cautery machine
• Audiometry
• Advanced ECG and spirometry machines

Our days of taking out appendixes and doing Caesarean sections under general anaesthetic are over, but we are all very comfortable doing the following procedures amongst more (usually under local anaesthetic):

• Skin cancer biopsies and excisions
• Toenail Wedge Resections
• Excising skin cysts, abscesses or boils
• Cleaning deep abrasions and treating burns
• Removing foreign bodies from skin, eyes, ears, noses and other cavities…
• Removing skin tags
• Treating warts including deep plantar warts and penile or vaginal warts

Our Nurses runs our treatment room.  Their gentle manner and calm professionalism also helps procedures to be as pleasant as possible. Most of our procedures are performed under Local Anaesthetic (and for the needle anxious, we have a variety of tricks to smooth this out).

Please call the clinic for appointments 3036 2678