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BMA Resident Doctors’ Industrial action – 7 April to 13 April and temporary changes to Cheltenham A&E
This September, NHS, local authorities, and healthcare organisations across the country are uniting to deliver crucial messages to parents through ICON Week 2024.
by Dr Karen Stone
This page has important information about Having a brother or sister in the Neonatal Unit (NNU).
This page is for people who have broken a bone in one of their toes but not the big toe. If you have broken your big toe, this page is not for you.
Infected Blood Inquiry report
Thanks to your donations, our latest mental health and wellbeing project has been making a real difference for our colleagues at Gloucestershire Hospitals.
Suspected measles, mumps and rubella cases can be confirmed using an oral fluid test kit
A minimum of 1 mL CSF taken into a 30 mL Universal (tap #4 preferred) (approximately 25 drops from the Luer connector on the needle)
Tivoli ward is a mixed ward, specialising mainly in Urology
The information on this page is about skin conditions which affect the vulval skin. These skin conditions are not cancer but in some women the cells over time can become cancerous. This is why they are called “pre-malignant conditions”.
Patients receiving Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) treatment for cancer are sometimes asked to attend the Mobile Cancer Care Unit (MCCU) instead of Avening Ward at Cheltenham General Hospital.
Women suffering from Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) can now be looked after as day cases following an innovative move by the Trust designed to improve patient experience.
by Dr Alexander Grant
AMU provides rapid assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with urgent medical conditions who require inpatient admission.
by Catrin Davies & Laura Cummings
By Dr H Iftikhar, Dr S Alaee, Dr J Bennett, Dr A Creamer, Dr R Kaminski, Dr D Windsor, Dr C Sharp
by Rebecca Offord & Nicky Cantrill
This page gives you information about uterine fibroids which may answer some of the questions you might have following the discussion with the specialist. Fibroids are common, benign (non-cancerous) growths of womb (uterine) muscle. They occur in around 25 in every 100 white women and 50 in every 100 black women. Fibroids do not always cause symptoms, but those that do, account for about one third of all hysterectomy operations.
This page gives you information about what to expect in the Dental Assessment Clinic before and after having your radiotherapy treatment to the head and neck area. It also explains why it is important to have a dental assessment and why you may need treatment in your mouth in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department.
This page gives you information about bladder urgency and how to improve bladder function with retraining and other treatment methods. Bladder urgency is having the sudden urge to hurry to pass urine, often with the fear of not getting to the toilet in time. People with bladder urgency can find that they frequently have to pass urine in the daytime and sometimes at night. Bladder control can be lost and an embarrassing leak of urine might happen. Studies have shown that bladder urgency is a common problem but, with the right assessment, treatment can work very well.