Breast and Skin Surgery

Our breast team offers a comprehensive range of care for patients presenting with a range of breast conditions:

  • One-Stop Breast Clinic – for patients with a new breast symptom.
  • Breast Pain Clinic – for the investigation and management of patients with breast pain.
  • Family History Clinic – for the assessment and management of patients with a family history of breast cancer.
  • Oncoplastic Clinic – for those patients who have previously undergone breast surgery, either for the treatment of breast cancer or in the cosmetic sector.
  • Gene carrier clinic – joining with teams from gynaecology, genetics, psychology and our breast care nurses, we offer a regional monthly specialist clinic for patients at high risk of developing breast cancer, either due to a genetic predisposition or as a result of previous treatments for other conditions.

How to access the service?

GPs and other medical professionals can referral patients to the Breast Unit in the following ways:

  1. Two-week rule referral using the network agreed referral form.
  2. Symptomatic breast referral using the local form.  
  3. Advice and guidance request using the enhanced surgical recovery (ESR) system.

Contact us

Hospital switchboard: 01483 571122

Email: rsc-tr.breastunit@nhs.net

Breast Care Nurses: 01483 406624

Medical secretaries for:

  • Miss Irvine: 01483 402743
  • Mr Pakzad: 01483 408368
  • Miss Partlett: 01483 408367
  • Miss Clayton: 01483 402743
  • Mr Horsnell: 01483 571122 ext 4877

Meet the team

Consultant Surgeons
Miss Polly Partlett
Miss Tracey Irvine
Mr Farrokh Pakzad
Miss Liz Clayton
​Mr Jonathan Horsnell
Mr Adam Blackburn*
*Consultant Plastic Surgeon based at Queen Victoria Hospital.

Speciality Doctors
Dr Lubna Khalid (Radiology)
Ms Pooja Padmanabhan (Surgery)