Snip Vasectomy Clinic Wellington is a vasectomy clinic at The Rutherford Clinic, 167 Thorndon Quay, Pipitea, part of a network of 21 clinics across New Zealand. It offers scalpel-free vasectomy, which the website says seals the tubes without cutting or stitching. The procedure is done after local anaesthesia in one visit, with one fee that the website says has no surprises. You book directly, with no GP referral, by calling 0800 DR SNIP or online. Before the visit there is a short video and a phone consultation with a nurse. No post-operative appointment is needed. Three months later a test is done through a local lab or a home testing kit, and other contraception is used until the all-clear.
Reviewers say the information before the procedure was clear, and that the nurse call and videos of the doctors helped them feel calmer. One says the procedure took about 15 minutes, with the only pain from the needle for the anaesthetic. Another says it was painful, the anaesthetic had not taken effect before the doctor began, and they still have problems months later. Nearby, Newtown Union Health Service, 0.4 km away, and Newtown Medical Centre, 0.6 km away, rate lower, and none of the nearby doctors with ten or more reviews rates higher than this clinic.