Manchester
Specialist care for women, unhurried and centred on you, in a converted cotton mill in Ancoats.
Our aim is whole-person care for women and the people around them, so the team is not only gynaecologists and obstetricians. Under one roof you will find consultants in endocrinology, urogynaecology, paediatrics, dermatology and family medicine, a psychologist, a dietitian and a pelvic health physiotherapist.
Diagnosis and prevention matter to us. We carry out the full range of ultrasound scans in-house, including breast, thyroid, abdominal and pelvic scans, with the report the same day.
We know how much the months of pregnancy and birth matter, so we offer complete care from the first scan to the six-week check, for straightforward pregnancies and for those that need a closer eye.
Every scan in the schedule is available here, along with the screening blood tests and non-invasive genetic testing. Care follows national guidance, and scans follow the standards set by the fetal medicine bodies. During and after pregnancy you will also have our midwife, our pelvic health physiotherapist and a feeding specialist.
We look after women at every age, with the full range of gynaecological care: general gynaecology, colposcopy, urogynaecology, gynaecological endocrinology, sexual health and fertility. Prevention and early diagnosis come first: cervical screening with the newest cytology and HPV testing, colposcopy and treatment on site, and genetic testing where family history asks for it.
Every consulting room has its own ultrasound machine, so a consultation and a scan happen in the same appointment, not two.
Hot flushes, broken sleep, joint pain, anxiety, a memory that is not what it was. None of it is imaginary and most of it is treatable. Our menopause clinic is led by a consultant gynaecologist with a special interest in the field, and gives you a long first appointment, a plan you understand, and a follow-up that actually happens.
We prescribe and monitor hormone therapy where it is right for you, and we are honest when it is not.
For your health and your convenience we run a full laboratory on site. Every day you can have routine and extended blood and urine tests, preventive health panels and the tests recommended in pregnancy, most with results the same day.
We also offer specialist testing: inherited cancer risk, food allergy, and full assessments of the gut and vaginal microbiome.
“Alder is world-class, in what they know and in how they treat you. I have never been so listened to in a medical appointment, and I have had a lot of them.”— Claire Whitmore, patient
We bring together specialists of the highest calibre from across medicine and combine what they know with the newest diagnostic tools, so that each patient gets careful, professional care for whatever brings her here. The team teaches, publishes and trains, and the clinic is kitted out accordingly.
See the whole teamDr Imogen Alder on why she opened a clinic in a cotton mill, what a good appointment looks like, and the three numbers she thinks every woman should know by forty.
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Forty minutes with the fetal medicine team on how they talk to parents, why they never rush a scan, and what has changed in ten years.
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A reporter books in anonymously and writes about what she was asked, what she was told, and what she wishes she had known at forty-five.
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Most women who put off cervical screening are not lazy, they are anxious, and nobody has told them what the ten minutes involve. Dr Hannah Kowalczyk walks through it step by step, including the bits people are embarrassed to ask about.
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Medicine has tools that remove period pain and flooding for the great majority of women. Many never ask, or were told by their mothers that this is simply what it is like. It is not. Time to retire the myth.
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Sleep, mood, joints, memory and a cycle that has quietly changed. Dr Alder on the early signs, what to track, and when a blood test helps and when it does not.
Dr Imogen Alder, read the post