This is the page for people already in Hamilton, which means the travel question does not apply and the useful content is simply what happens here and what does not.
An examination, a grade, and a plan with a number attached. That is the deliverable of a first appointment here, and a visit that produces fewer than those three has not finished its job. Most of the half hour is conversation; the anoscopy itself is a couple of minutes.
The procedures done in this building are the office ones: banding, infrared coagulation and sclerotherapy, in a clinic room, without a general anaesthetic. Surgical routes are arranged rather than performed here, which is the practical dividing line between the two.
What is not done here is treating bleeding nobody has looked at. The first visit page lists the four answers you leave with, and red flags lists the findings that get a referral instead of a procedure, and the treatments hub covers everything that is offered once a grade is established.
Hamilton clinic
A visit here
Your appointment in Hamilton, start to finish
Booked with symptoms
A sentence about bleeding, lumps or itching, plus your plan details so coverage is settled beforehand.
History and examination
Ten minutes of questions including the family history ones, then a brief anoscopy to establish the grade.
The options, out loud
Which procedures your grade allows, how many sessions a course would run to, and what it will cost.
Booked or not
Nothing is booked on the spot unless you want it. Taking the figures away to think about is normal.
What we decline
What this clinic sends elsewhere
A clinic that treats absolutely everything presenting in this area is not being careful about it. Blood mixed through the stool rather than sitting on its surface, bleeding beyond a week or returning after it had stopped, a change in stool habit, unexplained weight loss: all of those get an assessment rather than a band.
So do age over forty-five and a family history of colorectal cancer, both of which reorder the plan rather than ruling treatment out altogether. Being on blood thinners changes both how bleeding is read and what can safely be done about it, so that is worth saying early rather than late.
All of that is published rather than left to judgement on the day. Red flags is the list in full, referrals covers both directions, and bleeding covers what the examination looks for.
Office proceduresDone here
SurgeryArranged, not done
NothingTreated unexamined
Nearby
Travelling into Hamilton from nearby
The pages for people coming in from the surrounding areas, each covering a different part of the trip.
What people living in the city ask before booking a first appointment here.
History, an external look and an anoscopy, then the grade and the options stated plainly. You leave with the grade, which procedures it allows, a likely session count and a cost.
The office ones: banding, infrared coagulation and sclerotherapy, in a clinic room without a general anaesthetic. Surgical routes are arranged rather than carried out in this building.
Sometimes, but not as a rule, because screening comes first and an endoscopic test is expected within a reasonable interval beforehand. Do not plan around a same-day procedure.
Bleeding nobody has examined, and anything on the red flags list. Those get an assessment or a referral rather than a band, and the list is published rather than applied case by case.
That depends on your own plan rather than on us, and we check yours before the appointment instead of telling you what is usually the case. Usually is not the same thing as yours.
Yes, and quite a lot of people do exactly that. Nothing is booked on the spot unless you want it booked, and deciding on conservative measures instead is a legitimate outcome.
Tell us the symptoms and roughly how long they have gone on, and send your plan details so coverage is settled before you arrive rather than at the desk.
