Having a Colonoscopy
During a Colonoscopy your endoscopist passes a long flexible tube containing a camera and a light through your rectum and around the whole of your large bowel (colon). This allows…
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How to care for your Supra Pubic Catheter site
Your supra pubic catheter site is a potential entrance for infection and must be cared for daily. Always wash your hands with soap and water before and after catheter care….
Hip fractures – information for patients and carers
This information booklet is intended to give you a better understanding of your injury, the operation, rehabilitation and the discharge process.
Healthy Lifestyle Post-Gestational Diabetes
Congratulations on your new baby! This information sheet aims to provide you with further information on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle to reduce or delay your risk of developing…
Having an Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography (ERCP)
Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography is a test that combines the use of endoscopy and x-ray guidance, to examine and/or treat problems with the bile ducts, gallbladder, liver and pancreas. During an…
Having a Gastroscopy
During a Gastroscopy your endoscopist passes a long flexible tube containing a camera and a light through your mouth, over the back of your tongue, down your oesophagus (gullet), into…
Having a Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
During a flexible sigmoidoscopy your endoscopist passes a long flexible tube containing a camera and a light through your rectum and the lower (sigmoid) colon. This allows your endoscopist to…
Having a fibroscan
A Fibroscan is a type of scan that can measure the ‘stiffness’ of your liver, which in turn reflects the degree of scarring in your liver (fibrosis). It is a…
Having a Bronchoscopy
During bronchoscopy a doctor is able to view the airways inside your lungs. A small flexible camera is carefully passed through your nose or mouth into your lung. It gives…
Hand Soft Tissue Injury
You have sustained a soft tissue injury to your hand. This means there is no bony injury but you may have hurt the structures around them.