General Practitioner
Dr Ranjitha Ananda Kumar
FRACGP · Women's health, contraception and family planning, pregnancy, and menopause care.
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Women's Health in Rockingham
Contraception, cervical screening, pregnancy, menopause and everything either side — with a female GP whose clinical interest this is.
Female GP
Yes
Dr Ranjitha Ananda Kumar
Cervical screening
Available
Including self-collection
Appointment
Long
Ask for extra time when you book
Referral needed
No
Book directly with any of our doctors
What we cover
What Womens Health Covers
These are the things people most often book us for.
Contraception
The full range, including implants and intrauterine devices — what suits you, honestly compared, without being steered.
Cervical screening
Cervical Screening Tests every five years, with self-collection available if that is what you would prefer.
Pregnancy care
Confirming a pregnancy, early bloods and scans, shared antenatal care, and referral to the hospital or midwifery service you choose.
Family planning
Pre-conception advice, fertility questions, and support through whatever the answer turns out to be.
Menopause
Perimenopause and menopause — symptoms, treatment options including hormone therapy, and bone and heart health.
Periods and pelvic pain
Heavy, painful or irregular periods, PCOS, endometriosis symptoms, and referral where a specialist is the right step.
Breast health
Checks, screening advice, and prompt imaging referral for anything that needs a closer look.
Sexual health
Screening, treatment and advice, handled matter-of-factly and in confidence.
In detail
Seeing the Same GP Through Every Stage
Women's health covers forty years of very different needs, and the thread running through all of it is continuity. Contraception at 22, a pregnancy at 31 and menopause at 49 are far easier conversations with someone who already knows your history.
Dr Ranjitha Ananda Kumar consults here and her clinical interests are women's health, contraception and family planning, pregnancy and menopause care. You can request her by name when you book.
In detail
Perimenopause and Menopause Care
Perimenopause often starts years before anyone names it, and the symptoms — sleep, mood, joints, brain fog — are easy to attribute to everything else. It is worth a dedicated appointment rather than a footnote to another one.
What happens
What happens at your appointment
Book with the doctor you want
Request Dr Ananda Kumar by name if you would prefer a female GP.
Ask for enough time
Most women's health appointments need a long slot. Tell reception roughly what it is about.
The appointment
A proper conversation about options, with the trade-offs explained rather than glossed over.
You leave with a plan
A prescription, a procedure booking, a referral or a review — decided with you.
Who you will see
Our doctors
Their qualifications, and what each of them focuses on.
Common questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Clear answers to the practical details patients need before booking or visiting the practice.
Yes, and it is an entirely ordinary request. Dr Ranjitha Ananda Kumar consults at Thorpe Street Health and women's health is among her clinical interests. Ask for her by name when you book and nobody will ask you why.
More common questionsEvery five years for most people between 25 and 74, provided results are normal. The Cervical Screening Test replaced the two-yearly Pap smear and is a more accurate test, which is why the interval is longer.
More common questionsYou take the sample yourself, privately, in the practice. It is available to everyone eligible for cervical screening and is just as accurate as a clinician-collected sample. Say when you book that it is what you would prefer.
More common questionsTalk to your doctor at a long appointment about which method suits you. They will explain what is available at this practice and arrange the procedure or referral, including removal and replacement of an existing device.
More common questionsBook a long appointment and bring a note of your symptoms and cycle changes. Perimenopause is diagnosed largely on the history rather than a single blood test, so the conversation matters more than the pathology.
More common questionsYour GP can provide pregnancy care alongside the hospital or midwifery service you choose, including early bloods, scans and ongoing checks. Book as soon as you know, so the early tests happen in their window.
More common questionsYes. Everything discussed with your doctor is confidential and held in your medical record, and that includes contraception, sexual health and pregnancy — regardless of your age or who booked the appointment.
More common questionsBook an Appointment
Book online with a GP, or call reception for exercise physiology.
If we are closed
In an emergency call 000 or go to Rockingham General Hospital — the emergency department, open 24 hours. If you need a GP outside our hours, Get Better Doctors is our after-hours service.