Dr Susan Winspear is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist bringing a calming and reassuring approach to ensure you feel safe and supported throughout your medical treatment and pregnancy.
Dr Winspear is a specialist who is able to provide care and advice in the areas of Fertility, Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Ultrasound.
DR SUSAN WINSPEAR
Dr Susan Winspear is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist who is dedicated to providing exceptional patient care. She brings a calm and reassuring approach to ensure you feel safe and supported throughout your medical treatment and pregnancy. Based in Newcastle she has rooms at the Newcastle Private Specialist Centre.
Dr Susan Winspear was born in Sydney, and grew up on the south coast of New South Wales. She attended university in Sydney. She attained her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of New South Wales with first-class honours.
She undertook her specialist training in Newcastle at John Hunter Hospital also spending time working in the Northern Territory and with indigenous communities. She completed a Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound in 1999.
She established a private and public practice in Launceston Tasmania in 2000, working for 12 years in this area. During this time, she managed a large and busy specialist obstetric and gynaecology, ultrasound and prenatal diagnosis practice that serviced all of northern Tasmania. She also worked in fertility and IVF and was Director of her IVF unit in Launceston for many years.
On her return to Newcastle in 2012, Dr Winspear established a comprehensive obstetric and gynaecology practice with a large fertility and IVF component. She continues to perform specialist referral ultrasound in obstetrics and gynaecology, and prenatal diagnosis including a College Accredited nuchal translucency screening program, amniocentesis and CVS. She enjoys all aspects of practice and can perform fertility treatments and surgery including IVF, and then go on to perform the obstetric care, ultrasound and prenatal diagnosis requirements of these pregnancies. Thus, all aspects of care can be obtained with the same doctor at the same practice.
Dr Winspear particularly enjoys the relationship that develops between doctor and patient that will often span over many years as she works to achieve the goals of a safe and happy family. She will support you to achieve your birth goals with as little or as much as intervention as you want and is required for a positive outcome in a safe, patient focused environment.
Dr Winspear looks forward to meeting you and beginning to work together with you to achieve your goals.
At the front desk and behind the scenes full time is Amanda (practice manager). Ultrasound services are supported by our select group of qualified inhouse sonographers. Amanda will help you with general enquiries, fees and payments and can answer many of your concerns. Whenever necessary, they will pass a message to Dr Winspear, who will phone or email you back.
Dr Winspear has a comprehensive practice in fertility management, from simple outpatient treatments up to IVF with advanced fertility treatments as needed. She is a clinician at Hunter IVF, part of IVF Australia, offering IVF services both with comprehensive high-quality advanced techniques, and Hunterlite which offers IVF at low cost with simple techniques.
Dr Winspear has extensive experience in low risk and high-risk obstetrics and performs all ultrasound and prenatal diagnosis procedures for her patients as part of her practice without outside referral being required.
She particularly enjoys the relationship that develops between doctor and patient that will often span over many years as she works to achieve the goals of a safe and happy family.
She is calm and reassuring and will ensure you feel safe and supported through your medical treatment and pregnancy.
She will support you to achieve your birth goals with as little or as much as intervention as you want and is required for a positive outcome in a safe, patient focused environment.
She delivers her obstetric patients at Newcastle Private Hospital and also at John Hunter Hospital if required due to high risk. Her private rooms are adjacent to the Birth suite at Newcastle Private Hospital.
Dr Winspear has a gynaecological practice and will perform any procedure related to your fertility needs. She often will incorporate her Ultrasound experience into your care, and performs many ultrasound guided procedures such as insertion of Mirena.
Dr Winspear is a VMO at Newcastle Private Hospital and John Hunter Hospital. She operates regularly at Newcastle Private Hospital.
Her practice is calm and patient focused so that you can obtain the information, support and advice you need to decide what kind of care suits you best, and she will work with you to achieve these goals.
Dr Winspear has extensive experience in obstetrics and gynaecological ultrasound. She performs all ultrasound and prenatal diagnosis procedures for her patients as part of her practice without outside referral being required. She also performs referral ultrasound in obstetrics and gynaecology for other obstetricians and gynaecologists.
She runs a RANZCOG accredited nuchal translucency screening program, amniocentesis and CVS.
We understand that informed financial and cost information is vital to your treatment. We will be able to give you cost advice at the time of your consultation. Costs will vary depending on the type of treatment needed, the level of coverage with health insurance, and contributions to the Medicare safety net. We make sure that your treatment is cost-effective so that testing is done appropriately and with attention to minimising unnecessary expense.
Yes. Private health insurance only contributes to in-hospital treatment so outpatient services are unaffected by insurance status. If admission is required, options for care and costs will be discussed and planned to suit your needs. Dr Winspear does not provide care for obstetric patients who are not insured for private care in a private hospital.
Call the office during business hours. The timing of your appointment will be triaged appropriately. Referral ultrasound appointments will be booked to suit the appropriate timing in pregnancy and gynaecology scans to suit appropriate timing in the cycle. Urgent appointments are often possible.
Yes. Dr Winspear enjoys meeting new patients to her practice who have not had gynaecology or fertility care with her before. Naturally conceived pregnancies are welcome. She also enjoys the continuity of continuing obstetric care her for her current fertility and gynaecology patients.
Please bring your current referral from your GP, including referral for ultrasound if your referring doctor thinks this is appropriate. You will also need your Medicare card for you and your partner, private health insurance details, any test results and ultrasound images that you may have, and details of any previous treatment. Support people are welcome both during consultations and during procedures if this is your choice.
No. Bring all your previous test results with you and tests will only need to be repeated if they are out of date or more information is required. In particular, please bring any ultrasound images that you have from previous scans.
Dr Susan Winspear
Newcastle Private Specialist Centre
For urgent after hour enquiries for obstetrics please call either Newcastle Private Hospital Birthing Suite on 4941 9267 or John Hunter Hospital Birthing Suite on 4921 4350 or in case of an emergency 000.
If you are experiencing problems from recent surgery please call the hospital where your surgery was performed.
For fertility patients with urgent concerns please call the after hours nurse on 0431 618004
