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…
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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 an Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography (ERCP)
Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography is a procedure 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…
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…
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.
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….
How to look after your wound after Oculoplastic surgery
Oculoplastic surgery refers to a branch of ophthalmology that deals with problems with the eyelids, tear duct and surrounding structures.
Hysterosalpingogram
Normally eggs produced by the ovaries pass down fine, narrow tubes called ovarian or fallopian tubes to reach the womb or uterus. If either or both of these tubes are…
Information explaining the urgent two week wait referral system
Your General Practitioner (GP) or dentist has asked for you to have an urgent hospital appointment within two weeks.
Information for Patients Living with Haematological Malignancies
The team consists of Haematologists and their team, Radiologists, Histo-pathologists, Clinical Oncologists, Specialist Nurses and other Health care professionals who all have specialist training and experience in the diagnosis, care…