Patient Information Leaflets

For easy read patient information please see the following websites:

• www.easyhealth.org.uk   
• www.friendlyresources.org.uk 
• NHS Choices   
• Patient Info 

Accident and Emergency (A&E) 

•  Advice to patients following burns and scalds 
•  Skin Glue 
•  Steristrips 
•  Referral to EPAU 

Anaesthetics and Theatres

•  Brachial plexus block for elbow, forearm, wrist and hand surgery 
•  Looking after your arm and hand after a block 
•  Interscalene brachial plexus block for shoulder surgery  
•  Parent information for children having adenoidectomy 
•  Parent information for children having dental extractions  
•  Parent information for children having myringotomy and grommet insertion 
•  Theatre Admissions Unit - Theatres and Anaesthetics 
•  A Visitors guide to Intensive Care and High Dependency Unit 
• You and your anaesthetic 
•  Your child's general anaesthetic 

Breast Care / Breast Screening

•  Breast Patient Log Book
•   Breast Screening and Assessment Clinic - Chatham Suite 
•  Sentinel Node Biopsy - advice for patients
•  Advice following a breast biopsy under local anaesthetic - Chatham Suite

Cancer Services

• Cervical Cancer Audi
• Why have I been referred urgently to hospital to be seen within 2 weeks?

Cardiology / Community Heart Failure Services

•  How to recognise fluid retention and what to do
•  Heart Failure Monitoring Record 
•  Life after a heart attack
•  Pacemakers 
•  Patients attending for a 24 hour ECG monitor from their GP

Care Home Services

• Support for residential and care homes

Chaplaincy

• Hospital funeral information for parents

Children

•  Enuresis Bedwetting - Children and Young People
•  How to use an Easi-breathe inhaler
•  How to use a large volume spacer- Tidal breathing method
•  How to use the Aerochamber with Face Mask
•  Instructions for giving Intramuscular injections of hydrocortisone 
•  Medicines for Children 
•  My School Asthma Plan for Children  
•  My Asthma Plan for Children
•  Welcome to the Neonatal Unit
•  What is a Lumbar puncture?
•  What you need to know about headaches 
•  Wheeze Associated Viral Episode - Children and Young People's Health Services
•  Your Child's Heart Scan (Echocardiogram)

Child Development Centre

Welcome to the Child Development Centre 

Clinical Biochemistry

•  24 hour urine collection - Clinical Biochemistry
• Overnight urine collection - Clinical Biochemistry
•  Collection of specimens for porphyrin analysis - Clinical Biochemistry

Clinical Radiology

•  Having an MRI scan during pregnancy
•  Having a barium enema 
•  Having a Computed Tomography Scan  
•  Having a Hysterosalpingogram
•  Having a micturating cystourethrogram (adult)  
•  Having an ultrasound guided liver biopsy  
•  Information following an injection of X-ray contrast media 

Community Continence Service

• Rotherham Continence Prescription Service

Complex Health Needs Team

• Counselling Service - Complex Health Needs Team 

Contraception and Sexual Health / GU Med 

Day Surgery Centre

• Day Surgery Centre - Your Day Case Operation
• Your varicose vein operation - Day Surgery Centre 

Dental

• Advice for dental swellings - Dearne Valley Dental Access Centre
• Advice for parents/carers after inhalation sedation - Dentistry
• Care after your extraction - Dearne Valley Dental Access Centre
• Information about your Community Dental Service - Rotherham Community Dental Service
• Dearne Valley Dental Emergency Service - Dearne Valley Dental Access Centre
• Fluoride Varnish - Dentistry
• Going to the dentist - an information guide - Barnsley Community Dental Service
• Oral health advice for gastrostomy-tube fed children - Barnsley, Doncaster & Rotherham Community Dental Service
• Preparing your child for their dental visit - Autism and Dentistry - Barnsley, Doncaster & Rotherham Community Dental Service
• Snack Right Smile Bright Award Scheme - Dentistry
• Tooth brushing programmes - Information for nurseries - Dentistry
• Under inhalation sedation information for parents - Dentistry

Dermatology

•  5% Imiquimod cream - Dermatology
•  Advice for patients after Photodynamic Therapy  
•  Advice for patients using promedic shoes
•  Alopeica - Dermatology
•  Botox Excess localised sweating (Focal Hyperhydrosis) - Dermatology
•  Caring for your legs - Dermatology
•  Your next dermatology appointment at the Community Health Centre
•  Cryotherapy - Dermatology 
•  Curettage & Cautery - Dermatology
•  Discharge information for patients taking Roaccutane - Dermatology
•  Fasting blood test - Dermatology
•  General hand care - Dermatology  
•  Hypnotherapy Service - Dermatology
•  Iontophoresis - Dermatology 
•  Laser hair removal service - Dermatology 
•  Leg ulcer clinic - Dermatology
•  Malignant melanoma self examination - Dermatology 
•  Melanoma in situ - Dermatology 
•  Patch test - Dermatology 
•  Photo Patch Test - Dermatology
•  Photodynamic Therapy - Dermatology 
•  Pressure dressing - Dermatology
•  Pulsed Dye Laser - Dermatology 
•  Rotherham Joint Skin Oncology Clinic - Dermatology
•  Skin flap reconstruction - Dermatology
•  Skin surgery - Dermatology
•  Solar antinic keratoses - Dermatology
•  Solaraze gel - Dermatology   
•  Step by step guide to camouflage - Dermatology
•  Treatment Care Plan - Dermatology
•  Wound left open to heal by secondary intention - Dermatology
•  Advice to patients following dermatological surgery - Dermatology 
•  Bath PUVA treatment - Dermatology
•  Oral PUVA treatment - Dermatology 
•  The skin cancer Multi-Disciplinary Team - Dermatology
•  Ultraviolet A treatment (UVA) - Dermatology 
•  UVB treatment (TL01) - Dermatology 

Diabetes

• Guidelines for adjusting twice-daily insulin therapy - Diabetes Services 
• Guidelines for adjusting twice-daily insulin therapy (Low Vision Version) - Diabetes Services 

Discharge

•  Discharge Lounge 
•  Planning on leaving hospital 

Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT)

Your thyroid operation - Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Department 

Endoscopy

•  Following your bronchoscopy - Endoscopy 
•  Having a bronchoscopy - Endoscopy 
•  Having a colonoscopy - Endoscopy 
•  Having a cystoscopy - Endoscopy 
•  Having a gastroscopy - Endoscopy 
•  Having a sigmoidoscopy - Endoscopy 
•  Oral bowel cleansing solution - Guide for Patients - Endoscopy 
•  Patients with diabetes on insulin undergoing Colonoscopy on a morning list - Endoscopy Unit  
•  Patients with diabetes on tablets undergoing Colonoscopy on afternoon list - Endoscopy Unit  
•  Patients with diabetes on tablets undergoing Colonoscopy on a morning list - Endoscopy Unit  
•  Patients with diabetes undergoing Gastroscopy, ERCP or Bronchoscopy on a morning list - Endoscopy Unit  
•  Patients with diabetes undergoing Gastroscopy, ERCP or Bronchoscopy on an afternoon list - Endoscopy Unit  

Electronic Patient Record (EPR)

• Your Electronic Patient Record (EPR) 

Gastroenterology

• Treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease Methotrexate 

General

•  The forget me not scheme information for patients in hospital and their carers 
• Welcome to Rotherham Hospital Leaflet

General Surgery 

• Laparoscopic Nissen Fundoplication - General Surgery 
•  Oesophageal Stent - General Surgery 

Haematology

• Bone marrow biopsy - Haematology 
• Venesection - Haematology 
• Your key worker - Haematology 
• Managing extravasation - Haematology & Oncology 

Infection, Prevention and  Control

•  MRSA - Infection, Prevention and Control 
•  Norovirus Leaflet - Infection Prevention and Control 
• Norovirus flyer - Infection, Prevention and Control 

 Laboratory Medicine

• Post-mortem examination - Laboratory Medicine 

Medical Phyics

• Your Radioisotope or SPECT CT Scan

Medicines 

• Medicines derived from animal products 
• Medicines derived from animal products - Urdu 

Mental Health

•  Care about Suicide 
•  Helpful Contact Details 

Musculoskeletal Clinical Assessment & Treatment Service

• Acromio-clavicular joint - A guide to treatment & management 
• An unstable elbow - A guide to treatment & management  
• Frozen shoulder - A guide to treatment & management  
• Golfer’s elbow - A guide to treatment & management  
• Osteoarthritis of the elbow - A guide to treatment & management  
• Osteoarthritis of the shoulder - A guide to treatment & management  
• Radial nerve entrapment - A guide to treatment & management  
• Rotator cuff pathology - A guide to treatment & management  
• Shoulder instability - A guide to treatment & management 
• Sub-acromial impingement - A guide to treatment & management  
• Tennis elbow - A guide to treatment & management  
• Ulna nerve entrapment - A guide to treatment & management  

Nutrition and Dietetics

• A patients guide to enteral tube feeding - Nutrition & Dietetics

Nutrition Support Team

• Parenteral nutrition - Nutrition Support Team 

Obstetrics and gynaecology / Greenoaks

•  All about Colposcopy - Greenoaks Gynaecology Clinic 
•  Co-codamol 30/500 tablets and breastfeeding - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 
•  All about colposcopy - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 
•  Antenatal pelvic floor exercises - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 
•  Caring for your perineum during pregnancy and childbirth - Obsterics & Gynaecology 
•  Choices for birth after caesarean section - Obsterics & Gynaecology 
•  Clomid Information - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 
•  Counselling and Psychotherapy Services - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 
•  Fetal heart rate monitoring in labour - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 
•  Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) - A guide to antenatal and postnatal care - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 
•  Having a Caesarean Section birth - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 
•  Hysterectomy - Obsterics & Gynaecology 
•  Induction of labour - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 
•  Instructions for the collection of a specimen of semen - Greenoaks 
•  Irregular Fetal Heartbeat - Obsterics & Gynaecology 
•  Laparoscopic Ovarian Drilling for Infertility Treatment - Obstetrics and gynaecology 
•  Low molecular weight heparins - Obsterics & Gynaecology 
•  Methotrexate for your treatment - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 
•  Miscarriage information for patients - Obsterics & Gynaecology 
•  Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) - Obsterics & Gynaecology 
•  Perineal care following a 3rd or 4th degree tear - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 
•  Polycystic ovary syndrome - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 
•  Postnatal information for patients - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 
•  Pregnancy and pre-existing diabetes - A guide to preconception, antenatal and postnatal care - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 
•  Psychosexual Clinic - Obsterics & Gynaecology 
•  Raised BMI in Pregnancy - Obstetrics and Gynaecology  
•  Refusal of blood products during pregnancy - Obsterics & Gynaecology  
•  Treatment options for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 
•  Turning a breech baby in the womb (external cephalic version) - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 
•  Urodynamics - Obsterics & Gynaecology 
•  Vitamin K - Information for parents-to-be - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 
•  Your Gynaecological referral to the Jessop Wing Sheffield - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 
•  Your key worker - Obstetrics & Gynaecology 

Orthodontics

•  Instructions to patients wearing intra-oral elastics - Orthodontics 

Ophthalmology

•  Argon Laser Pan-Retinal Photocoagulation (PRP) treatment - Ophthalmology Outpatients Department 
•  Eye medication Ward B6 
•  Eyelid care instructions 
•  Ozurdex intravitreal injections 
•  Triamcinolone intravitreal injections 
•  Advice following cataract or glaucoma surgery 
•  Advice for patients going home after intravitreal injections 
•  Information about your cataract surgery - Ophthalmology Outpatients Department   
•  Medication - Ophthalmology 
• Yag Laser Capsulotomy - Ophthalmology Outpatients Department  

Orthopaedics

• Carpal tunnel decompression 
• Daycase Arthroscopic Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Reconstruction - Orthopaedic Surgery 
• Dupuytens Disease 
• Fractured neck of femur 
• Knee Arthroscopy - Orthopaedic Surgery 
• Post total hip replacement - Commonly asked questions by patients 
• Total hip replacement 
• Total knee replacement 
• Trigger finger and trigger thumb 

Orthoptics

• Eye tests at your child’s school - Answering your questions - Community Orthoptics 

Patient Confidentiality

•  Patient Confidentiality - A guide for patients coming into hospital and their relatives and carers  

Patient Safety

•  Blood Clots Reducing your risk in hospital and at home 
• Giving an injection - Patient Safety  

Pharmacy

• Unlicensed Medicines (‘Specials’) 
•  Controlling your pain on discharge from hospital - Acute Pain Team and Pharmacy  
•  Medicines Derived From Animal Products 

Physiotherapy

• Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise Group - Patient held record & advice sheet 

Podiatry

• Essential pre-operative information for patients - Podiatric Surgery 
• Information for patients about podiatry - Podiatry 
• Information for patients undergoing nail surgery - Podiatry 
•  Plantar fasciitis - Podiatry 

Pre-operative assessment

• Pre-operative Assessment - Pre-admission Centre 

Respiratory Services

• Leaving hospital with a nebuliser compressor 
• Using nebuliser compressors - Nebuliser information for patients 

Rotherham Equipment and Wheelchair Service (REWS)

• Welcome to Rotherham Equipment and Wheelchair Service (REWS) 

Rheumatology

• Rheumatology helpine service 

School Nursing Service

• Rotherham School Nursing Service for children and young people 

Specialist Medicine

• Intrathecal Chemotherapy 

Speech and Language Therapy Service

• Information for people with voice problems 

Urology

• Bladder botox injections 
• Bladder Catheterisation 
• Having a Transrectal Ultrasound and Biopsy of the Prostate Gland 
• Holmium Laser Enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) 
• Information for an overactive bladder 
• Intermittent Self Catheterisation (ISC) 
• Intravesical Chemotherapy Immunotherapy 
• Male stress incontinence 
• Transurethral Prostatectomy (TURP)  

Vascular Access

•   Intravenous Therapy in the Outpatient or Community Setting 
•  24hr Fluid Balance ADULT Chart 
•  Advice for patients with a peripheral IV catheter 
•  Midline passport and patient information 
•  Peripheral IV Care Bundle 
•  PICC passport and patient information 

Volunteers

•  Communication Partners and Community Buddies Leaflet for patient, family and carers 
•  Communication Partners and Community Buddies Leaflet for professionals 
•  Communication Partners and Community Buddies Leaflet for Volunteers 

Ward B6