Expert skin advice in Ireland

This service is consultant led, Dr John Ashworth is a consultant Dermatologist. This type of remote service is called teledermatology. TeleDermatology is the ability to photograph skin problems and send the images securely to a Consultant Dermatologist to diagnose whether further treatment is necessary or not. Whilst GP’s are an essential service, most GP’s do not have an expertise in skin related problems and will often need to refer you to a skin specialist. We do expect that much of the advice we give you would be very similar to the advice our consultant would give you if you were actually sitting at his desk having a face to face consultation. That said, the report supplied during an online consultation, is advisory and is in no way a substitution for a genuine face to face discussion. One of the most important differences is that by the very nature of you submitting your own history to us perhaps with your own photograph, by definition our consultant is focusing entirely upon the single perspective which you have highlighted. That is to say, unlike in a genuine consultation, we do not have the opportunity of asking you to show us other areas of the body, other aspects of your problem, or checking areas of your skin which you yourself cannot see for example the centre of the back , or the scalp – areas where it is quite common for related skin changes to be hiding. Despite these sensible provisos, we do hope that you will find the online report extremely helpful.