Miss Rachel O’Donnell is a consultant gynaecologist at Newcastle’s Royal Victory Infirmary with a special interest in diagnosis and treatment of gynaecological cancers. Rachel is MDT lead and leads the Gynaecology Oncology services, which are based within the dedicated Women’s Health Unit. She works alongside the consultant and advanced nursing practitioner teams, offering specialist outpatient diagnostics and therapeutics, incorporating advanced technologies for scanning, hysteroscopy, colposcopy and minor outpatient operative procedures.  

Surgically Rachel undertakes advanced open, laparoscopic and robotic surgery and coordinates multidisciplinary surgery with colorectal, upper GI, sarcoma, urology and plastics surgery teams.

She runs the regional Specialist Vulval Clinic providing specialist multidisciplinary care for women with complex benign, premalignant and cancerous vulval conditions and is also a core member of the regional sarcoma MDT.