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Patient information leaflets
Anaesthetics, surgery and theatres
- You and your anaesthetic - Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Your spinal anaesthetic - Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Enhanced recovery after bowel surgery
- Day surgery centre - Your day case operation
- Daycase arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction
- Looking after your arm and hand after a block
- Peripheral nerve blocks - Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Brachial plexus block for elbow, forearm, wrist and hand surgery
- Interscalene brachial plexus block for shoulder surgery
- Rees Bear has an anaesthetic - Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Royal College of Anaesthetists - Patient information
- Preparing for surgery - Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Theatre admissions unit
Bereavement
Bone Health
Caring for yourself or someone else
Continence Service
Community care
Counselling and psychotherapy service
Critical Care
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
- Toothbrushing tips for people with reduced dexterity
Gastroenterology
Gynaecology
- Advice for after a Novosure/Myosure procedure
- Cold coagulation
- Colposcopy
- Cryotherapy
- Cystoscopy aftercare
- Gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogue injections
- Having an hysterosalpingogram
- Heavy menstrual bleeding
- Laparoscopy – recovering well - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Lichen sclerosus
- LLETZ or loop diathermy
- Morcellation for myomectomy or hysterectomy - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS): what it means for your long-term health - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Punch biopsy
- Recurrent miscarriage - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Haematology
Inpatient pain team
Maternity
- Antenatal pelvic floor exercises
- Being overweight in pregnancy and after birth - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Bereavement Support
- Birth after previous caesarean - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Breech baby at the end of pregnancy - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Covid-19 vaccine and pregnancy - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Declining blood or blood products in pregnancy
- Dilapan induction
- Early pregnancy home management advice
- Expressing your milk before the birth of your baby
- Giving birth by caesarean section
- Induction of labour
- Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy and hyperemesis gravidarum
- OPTIONS aftercare
- Pelvic girdle pain and pregnancy - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Perineal tears during childbirth - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Postnatal information for patients
- Pregnancy loss support
- Referral to Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit
- Transferring to another hospital during pregnancy
- Treating ectopic pregnancy, pregnancy of unknown symptoms or trophoblastic symptoms with methotrexate
- Vitamin K
- Why shouldn't I use a home doppler? - Kicks Count
- Your referral to Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit
Nutrition support team
Radiology
- Fallopian tube recanalisation by selective salpingography
- Having a barium swallow or barium meal
- Having a micturating cystourethrogram
- 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 hysterosalpingogram
- Information following an injection of x-ray contrast
Sexual health
- Advice before the fitting on Intrauterine contraception (copper or hormone coil)
- Cervical screening: helping you decide - Gov.uk
- Choosing to have a vasectomy
- Contraception - Hormonal coil - Contraception Choices
- Copper coil
- Emergency contraception
- Explaining the vasectomy process (video)
- Genital warts treatment - FPA Women's Health
- Hep C - The Hepatitis C Trust
- Hormonal coil
- Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) - BASHH
- Molluscum contagiosum - BASHH
- Mycoplasma genitalium - BASHH
- Nexplanon implant insertion aftercare advice
- Nexplanon implant removal aftercare advice
- Post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV (PEP) - BASHH
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) - AidsMap
- Protecting your from mpox (monkeypox): information on the smallpox vaccine - UKHSA (Gov.uk)
- Scabies - British Association of Dermatologists
- Syphilis - Sexwise
- Thrush and bacterial vaginosis - Sexwise
- Trichomonas vaginalis - Sexwise
- Tricycling the contraceptive pill
- Vasectomy - post-operative instructions
- Vulval skincare - British Association of Dermatologists
Special Care Baby Unit
Video/virtual appointments
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