Genito-urinary Medicine (GUM)

Genito-urinary Medicine (GUM) Clinics

Genito-urinary medicine (GUM) clinics, also known as Sexual health clinics, provide tests for sexually transmitted infections such as: -

• Chlamydia,
• Genital Warts
• Gonorrhoea
• Syphilis
• Herpes
• HIV

Confidentiality is a fundamental component of working in the clinics. The staff are professionally trained in dealing with all sexual health problems and providing advice, education and information to patients, their family/friends and outside agencies.

Young people are very welcome to attend the clinic, it is not necessary to bring a parent or adult with you, but it can be helpful if you are under 16 yrs. old. Your visit is not routinely disclosed to a parent or your GP.

How to access this service

What to do before you come to the clinic.

It would be helpful if you did not pass urine for 2 hours (male) and 1 hour (female) before coming to the clinic.

Royal Victoria Hospital
West Belfast Royal Group of Hospitals
GUM Clinic – Sexual Health Clinic
Level 3 Wing B, Outpatients Centre
Grosvenor Road
Belfast
Northern Ireland
BT12 6BA

Phone: 02890 634 050
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Clinic Times

Clinics are held on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Doors open at 7.30am for registration with morning clinics commencing at 9am. Patients may be offered an afternoon slot on Wednesday and Friday afternoon clinics, if morning clinics are full. There is also a drop in clinic for Gay men on Thursday evenings from 5.00 pm to 7.00 pm.

When planning to attend the clinic please allow up to 3 hours for your appointment as this is a walk-in service that can be very busy.

If no appointment is available on the day you attend the walk-in service, we will aim to see patients with urgent problems within 48 hours.

If you have been exposed to HIV please read the section on PEP.

For more information please contact us on 028 9063 4050

Please note the clinic is closed on weekends and bank holidays.

If you need advice when the clinic is closed, please call the NHS sexual health helpline on 0800567123

Clinic Location and contact details

The clinic is situated on Level 3 of the Outpatients Centre on the Royal Hospitals site Falls Road.

Access is also available via the main hospital following the directions for level 3 Outpatients Department.

Contact Numbers:
Male clinic 028 9063 6477
Female Clinic 028 9063 6483
General Information: 028 9063 4050

Regional Centre for HIV care – Royal Hospital Belfast

The Genito-urinary Medicine Clinic is the Regional Centre for HIV care and management providing services to people from throughout Northern Ireland.

The multidisciplinary team offers a range of specialist support and advice for people living with HIV in Northern Ireland; this also includes working with voluntary agencies.

Newly diagnosed HIV patients wishing to register for care or HIV positive patients already receiving care elsewhere, and wishing to transfer their care to the clinic, need to arrange an appointment. No GP referral is necessary.

To arrange an appointment: Tel 90 634050

Other GUM Clinics

If you cannot come to a clinic in Belfast, there are a number of other clinics throughout Northern Ireland. Please telephone these clinics prior to attending:

Altnagelvin Hospital
Anderson House
Glenshane Road
Londonderry
BT47 1SB
Londonderry 028 7161 1257

Causeway Area Hospital
Outpatients 2 Department
4 Newbridge Road
Coleraine
BT52 1HS
Coleraine 028 7034 6029

Daisy Hill Hospital
5 Hospital Road
Newry
BT35 8DR
Newry 028 3083 5050 Extension 2243

Downe Hospital
2 Struell Wells Road
Downpatrick
BT20 6RL Downpatrick 028 4483 8133

For full details of all GUM services throughout Northern Ireland click here

The Rainbow Project also run a number of community based outreach testing clinics. Please click this link for future dates, times and locations.

Please click here to read the HSCNI Leaflet ‘Don’t Gamble With Your Sexual Health’. http://www.publichealth.hscni.net/sites/default/files/dontgamble.pdf