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Camouflage Clinic
Contact: (0191) 282 9199 - Sister Anne Pitkeathley
We run a weekly special skin camouflage clinic for those people who find their skin condition distressing. Led by a Specialist Clinical Nurse, advice is given on cosmetic skin camouflage for patients with:
- skin discolouration
- severe skin blemishes such as ‘port wine’ marks
- vitiligo (a pigmentation condition)
- lesions or facial scarring.
How to find us
Directions to Camouflage Clinic from Victoria Wing OutpatientsShow [+] Hide [-]
The Camouflage Clinic is based in the Blue Zone of Dermatology outpatients in the basement of the Royal Victoria Infirmary. To find us:
- Come through the main entrance to the RVI on
- Walk through main outpatients onto the basement corridor, turn left and the Camouflage clinic is in the Blue Zone.
- Please report to the nurse’s station at the end of the corridor.
Things you need to know
- Please bring any make up you would normally wear to the clinic.
- Further prescriptions for prescribed creams will be obtained from your GP.
- A 24 hour contact number (0191) 282 5599 is available if you need any advice or change of treatment after being seen. (Please leave a message if no-one is available).
