Patient information
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Alcohol liaison service
B
Blood Transfusion
- Anaemia - NHS Blood and Transplant
- Blood groups and red cell antibodies in pregnancy - NHS Blood and Transplant
- Information for patients needing irradiated blood - NHS Blood and Transplant
- Information for patients with sickle cell disease who may need a blood transfusion - NHS Blood and Transplant
- Iron in your diet - NHS Blood and Transplant
- Platelet antigens and antibodies in pregnancy - NHS Blood and Transplant
- Receiving a blood transfusion - NHS Blood and Transplant
- Red cell antibodies
- The Amazing You - Let's learn about blood with Billy and Sally - NHS Blood and Transplant
- Unexpected blood transfusion - NHS Blood and Transplant
- Voyages on the Microsub Discovery - Receiving a blood transfusion (children) - NHS Blood and Transplant
Bone Health
C
Cardiology
- Cardiac catheterisation
- External cardioversion
- Having a pacemaker fitted
- How to increase your potassium for heart failure patients
- How to lower your potassium for heart failure patients
- Inserting an internal cardioverter defibrillator
- Inserting a pacemaker
- Percutaneous coronary intervention
- Remote monitoring
- Trans-oesophageal echocardiogram (TOE)
Carers
- Information for carers - Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
- Support if you care for someone with dementia - Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
Children and young people's services
- Children staying with us for more than 12 weeks
- Children's virtual ward
- Children's wards 48-hour open access card
- Community Paediatric Service
- Embrace ambulance transfers - Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Fever / High temperature - Healthier Together
- Helping children and young people in Rotherham get healthy
- How to prepare an antibiotic powder into liquid medication
- Innocent heart murmur
- Screening for retinopathy of prematurity - Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
- Your patient initiated follow up (PIFU)
Counselling and psychotherapy service
Critical Care
D
Dementia, delirium and memory problems
- Dementia - Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
Dental
- Dental intravenous (IV) sedation: Instructions for a patient/parent/carer after sedation
- Dental intravenous (IV) sedation: Patient escort information
- Dental treatment under general anaesthetic for children
- Information about dental care using intravenous (IV) sedation for adult patients
- Molar incisor hypomineralisation
- Your child's general anaesthetic for dental treatment - information for parents and guardians
- Oral health advice for tube-fed children and adults
- Removing deciduous teeth (child and adolescent)
- Removing impacted upper canine teeth (child and adolescent)
- Removing permanent teeth (child)
- Removing teeth
- Removing wisdom teeth
- Toothbrushing tips for people with reduced dexterity
E
Ear care and audiology
Children
Ear care
- Advice and treatment for Eustachian tube dysfunction
- Eardrum perforation
- Ears and flying - Patient.info
- Having excess (too much) ear wax
- How to use ear drops
- How to use olive oil drops
- Otitis externa (outer ear infection)
- Otitis media (middle ear infection)
Hearing aids and accessories
- Digital hearing aids - mould fit
- Digital hearing aids - open fit
- How to care for my Oticon hearing aid (open fit)
- How to care for my Phonak hearing aid (open fit)
- How to change a tube on a hearing aid with an ear mould
- Using your hearing aid
Hearing diagnoses and their management
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Gastroenterology
Gynaecology
General gynaecology
- Advice for after a Novosure/Myosure procedure
- Endometrial ablation
- Gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogue injections
- Having a hysteroscopy as an outpatient
- Having Entonox during a medical procedure
- Heavy menstrual bleeding
- Laparoscopy – recovering well - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Morcellation for myomectomy or hysterectomy - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS): what it means for your long-term health - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Colposcopy
- Cervical screening - Reviewing your cervical screening history - GOV.UK
- Cold coagulation
- Colposcopy
- Cryotherapy
- Having a punch biopsy on your vagina or cervix
- LLETZ or loop diathermy
Fertility
- Having an hysterosalpingogram
- Information about your infertility investigations
- In vitro fertilisation (IVF) - NHS.UK
- Laparoscopic ovarian drilling for infertility treatment
- Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Recurrent miscarriage - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Urological gynaecology
- Bladder retraining
- Cystoscopy aftercare
- Cystoscopy and botulinum toxin injection aftercare
- Having a cystoscopy - NHS.UK
- Interstitial cystitis (bladder pain syndrome) - NHS.UK
- Pelvic floor repair operation - recovering well - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Self-catheterisation in women - British Association of Urological Surgeons
Vulval clinic
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Haematology
Healthcare passports and communication cards
- Communication card (How I like to communicate and get information) - Change
- Create a personalised digital communication care - for people who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus - RNID
- Hospital passport for autistic people - National Autistic Society
- Hospital passport for people with learning disabilities
- Hospital passport for people with learning disabilities - Mencap
- Veteran passport
- Wellbeing passport - A guide to my emotional wellbeing - Mind
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Local information
- Functional Fitness
- NHS Talking Therapies (provided by RDaSH - Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust)
- Places Leisure (Rotherham Leisure Complex)
- Rotherham Gismo
- Rotherham Healthwave
- Rotherham Parkrun
- Rotherham United Community Trust (RUCT)
- RotherHive
- Working Win
M
Maternity
Early pregnancy
Pregnancy
- Antenatal pelvic floor exercises
- Being overweight in pregnancy and after birth - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Breech baby at the end of pregnancy - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Cervical stitch - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Covid-19 vaccine and pregnancy - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Declining blood or blood products in pregnancy
- Early pregnancy home management advice
- Gestational diabetes - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Iron deficiency anaemia in pregnancy
- How to protect your baby from RSV - UK Health Security Agency
- Managing your diabetes during pregnancy - Diabetes UK
- Multiple pregnancy: having more than one baby - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy and hyperemesis gravidarum
- Pelvic girdle pain and pregnancy - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Protecting you and your baby with anti-D immunoglobulin
- Transferring to another hospital during pregnancy
- Vaginal progesterone - reducing your chance of preterm birth
- When your baby has an ectopic or irregular heartbeat
- Whooping cough vaccination in pregnancy - NHS.uk
- Why shouldn't I use a home doppler? - Kicks Count
- Your visit to the preterm birth prevention clinic – what to expect
Labour and giving birth
- Birth after previous caesarean - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Dilapan induction
- Early labour
- Epidural anaesthetic
- Giving birth by caesarean section
- Inducing labour - Tommy's
- Labour and birthing positions
- Pain relief in labour
- Perineal tears during childbirth - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Ruptured membranes - after your waters have broken at term
After giving birth
- After you have had your baby
- Caring for your perineum after giving birth
- Expressing and storing breastmilk - Breastfeeding Network
- Expressing milk for your baby on the neonatal unit - Unicef
- Neonatal jaundice - Bliss
- Vitamin K in newborn babies
Bereavement
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Orthotics
- Ankle foot orthosis (AFO)
- Aspen neck brace
- Callipers and footwear adaptions
- Compression hosiery
- Elastic band truss
- Epicondylitis brace
- Footwear adaptations
- Knee Ankle Foot Orthosis (KAFO)
- Supporting your scrotal hernia with a bag truss
- Using a helmet
- Using a leg or arm gaiter
- Using a neck brace
- Using a range of motion (ROM) knee brace
- Using a soft skull protector helmet
- Using a spinal brace
- Using a wrist brace
- Using fabric supports
- Using offloading shoes 'Procare'
- Using orthotic insoles
- Using prescription footwear
P
Pain management
- Breathworks - free guided meditation and mindfulness
- Controlling your pain after chest trauma while you are staying in hospital
- Controlling your pain
- Flippin' Pain
- Pain and Me - Video from Royal Holloway Psychology
- Tame the Beast
- Using Acupuncture to treat nausea and vomiting
Palliative and end of life care
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Radiology
- After your Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with contrast media
- Ascites - Guts Charity
- Extravasation of contrast following an X-ray or scan
- Fallopian tube recanalisation by selective salpingography
- Having a barium swallow or barium meal
- Having a micturating cystourethrogram
- Having an hysterosalpingogram
- Having an MRI scan
- Having an MRI scan (easy read) - Macmillan
- Having an ultrasound guided ascitic drain
- Having an ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration
- Having an X-ray evacuation proctogram
- Hydrocortisone for skin - NHS.UK
- Information following an injection of x-ray contrast
- Liver biopsy
- Nephrostomy
- Screening if you have a moderately increased risk of breast cancer
- Thyroid biopsy (fine needle aspiration) - RadiologyInfo
Respiratory
- All about asthma (easy read) - Asthma and Lung UK
- Asthma attack recovery plan - Asthma and Lung UK
- Breathlessness - Asthma and Lung UK
- Bronchiectasis patient passport - Asthma and Lung UK
- COPD patient passport - Asthma and Lung UK
- First steps to living with COPD - Asthma and Lung UK
- Guide to asthma self-management (video playlist by Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust), including:
- Home oxygen therapy - Asthma and Lung UK
- How to stop smoking - Asthma and Lung UK
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) - Asthma and Lung UK
- Living with bronchiectasis - Asthma and Lung UK
- Living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) - Asthma and Lung UK
- Living with pulmonary fibrosis - Asthma and Lung UK
- Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) - Asthma and Lung UK
- Pulmonary fibrosis patient passport - Asthma and Lung UK
- Your exercise handbook - Asthma and Lung UK
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Sexual health
- Advice before the fitting on Intrauterine contraception (copper or hormone coil)
- Bacterial vaginosis - NHS.uk
- Cervical screening: helping you decide - Gov.uk
- Choosing to have a vasectomy
- Copper coil
- Emergency contraception - NHS.uk
- Epididymitis - NHS.uk
- Explaining the vasectomy process (video)
- Genital herpes - NHS.uk
- Genital warts - NHS.uk
- Hep C - The Hepatitis C Trust
- Herpes - Terrance Higgins Trust
- Hormonal coil
- Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) - Terrence Higgins Trust
- Molluscum contagiosum - British Association of Dermatologists
- Mycoplasma genitalium (Mgen) - Terrence Higgins Trust
- Nexplanon implant insertion aftercare advice
- Nexplanon implant removal aftercare advice
- Non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) - NHS.uk
- Post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV (PEP) - Terrence Higgins Trust
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) - AidsMap
- Protecting your from mpox (monkeypox): information on the smallpox vaccine - UKHSA (Gov.uk)
- Scabies - British Association of Dermatologists
- Syphilis - NHS.uk
- Thrush in men and women - NHS.uk
- Trichomoniasis - NHS.uk
- Tricycling the contraceptive pill
- Vasectomy - your care after surgery
- Vulval skincare - British Association of Dermatologists
Surgery
Anaesthetics
- Anaesthetics overview
- Contraceptive advice for patients who have had Sugammadex
- Facet joint medial branch block
- General anaesthetic
- Local anaesthetic
- Royal College of Anaesthetists - Patient information
- Anaesthesia in breastfeeding mothers - Labour Pains
- Peripheral new block (lower limb)
- Peripheral nerve block (upper limb)
- Peripheral nerve blocks - Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Spinal anaesthetic
- You and your anaesthetic - Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Your spinal anaesthetic - Royal College of Anaesthetists
Children
- Adenoidectomy (child)
- Adeno-tonsillectomy (child)
- Circumcision (child)
- Correcting a squint (child)
- Dennis has an anaesthetic - Royal College of Anaesthetists
- General anaesthesia: a brief guide for young people - Royal College of Anaesthetists
- General anaesthetic (child)
- Grommet insertion (child)
- Hydrocele repair (child)
- Myringoplasty
- Orchidopexy for a palpable testicle (child)
- Otoplasty (child)
- Ptosis surgery (child)
- Rees Bear has an anaesthetic - Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Rhinoplasty
- Septoplasty
- Tongue-tie division (child and adolescent)
- Tonsillectomy (child)
- Your child's general anaesthetic - Royal College of Anaesthetists
Surgery
- Abdominal surgery for Chron's disease
- Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction
- Aortic valve replacement
- Arthroscopy of the elbow
- Arthroscopy of the knee
- Axillary node clearance
- Brachial plexus block for elbow, forearm, wrist and hand surgery
- Breast augmentation
- Breast reconstruction with abdominal tissue flap
- Breast reconstruction with an implant or tissue expander
- Breast reconstruction with latissimus dorsi flap
- Breast reduction for breast cancer (therapeutic mommoplasty)
- Breast uplift
- Cataract surgery with monofocal intraocular lens implant
- Chest wall perforator flap breast reconstruction
- Closure of loop colostomy
- Closure of loop ileostomy
- Colon resection for colon cancer
- Coronary artery bypass graft
- Day surgery centre - Your day case operation
- Day case arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction
- Endoscopic sinus surgery
- Enhanced recovery after bowel surgery
- Excision of a ganglion
- Getting ready for surgery
- Haemorrhoidectomy
- Interscalene brachial plexus block for shoulder surgery
- Lateral internal sphincterotomy
- Looking after your arm and hand after a block
- Male mastectomy
- Mastectomy
- Mitral valve surgery
- Removing metalwork
- Reversal of Hartmann's procedure
- Shoulder stabilisation surgery
- Surgery for anal fistula
- Surgery for diverticular disease
- Surgery for rectal cancer
- Theatre admissions unit
U
Urgent and emergency care
Advice about care for children and young people (paediatrics)
Information about the following health conditions is available on the Healthier Together South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw website:
Urology
V
Video/virtual appointments
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