Streamlining Ambulatory Gynaecology Services

Jilly Goodfellow has worked at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne for 35 years; she has worked within Gynaecology for 32 of those, as both a Staff Nurse and Ward Sister. She is one of the Nurse Practitioners for Colposcopy/Gynaecology and she is also the Senior Sister in the Women’s Health Unit.

Jilly works with Jill Fozzard (Nurse Practitioner for Colposcopy) and they are known locally as the CERVIX SISTERS for their love of their job and the fact they like to knit/bake/stitch anatomically correct pelvic organs! 

Jilly has presented her work both nationally and internationally, in relation to supporting women who have learning disabilities, for cervical samples and colposcopy examination. She is on the committee of the UK and Ireland Colposcopy Nurses Group and helped pre-pandemic to organise a yearly conference. 

Jilly is married to Alan and her weekends are spent being the Church Warden and Authorised Lay Minister of St Peter’s Church in Falstone near Kielder reservoir where she lives. The role is certainly not just ringing the bell and giving out the hymn books on a Sunday – like nursing there are always courses and meetings to attend!!

Susannah trained at St Bartolomews Hospital, qualifying in 1994. She has worked in several London teaching hospitals initially as a Urology nurse specialist and then in Urogynaecology. Susannah moved to the South Coast in 2008 and now works as Urogynaecology clinical nurse specialist at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth. Her roles include providing nurse led Urodynamics, running an ever-growing pessary service, performing flexible cystoscopies, and she is raining to give intravesical botox.