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While you are taking medication for your rheumatology condition, it is important that your blood tests are closely monitored. At Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we use a computer system which we call DAWN, (after the company who manage the system). This page aims to explain why we use this system and how it can help.

This page gives you information about having a steroid joint injection and explains what the procedure involves.

This page gives you information about Botox® treatment for an overactive bladder (OAB). OAB is where the bladder starts squeezing (contracting) inappropriately and without any warning during filling causing a sudden urge to pass urine. This need to pass urine can be so strong that it can lead to a urine leakage and may be caused by a problem with the nerves controlling the bladder. People with neurological disease are at risk of OAB but very often no cause can be identified.

This page gives you information about faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), including the benefits, risks and what to expect.

Building work for the new IGIS Hub at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital will cause some disruption around the hospital site at times.

This page provides information for patients being offered trabeculectomy for the treatment of glaucoma.

This page has been written for women who are about to start cancer treatment. You may not be thinking of children right now, but might do in the future. If your treatment is likely to affect your chances of having children, you might want to think about fertility preservation (maintaining your ability to conceive a child).

This page gives you information about endometrial ablation and aims to answer some of the questions you may have about the procedure.

The information on this page will help to answer some of the questions you may have about the removal of your fibroid. Your consultant has arranged for you to have your fibroid removed hysteroscopically (removed from the inside of the womb). You will need a general anaesthetic so that you are asleep for this procedure. You should only be in hospital for the day.

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”.

An ultrasound scan is a test that uses high frequency sound waves to build a picture of your baby in the womb. Ultrasound scans are very safe and can be carried out at any stage of pregnancy.

(First trimester screening) An ultrasound scan is a test that uses high frequency sound waves to build a picture of your baby in the womb. Ultrasound scans are very safe and can be carried out at any stage of pregnancy.

This page has been given to you to help answer some of the questions you may have about your polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) diagnosis.

This page aims to answer any questions you may have about taking rifampicin and clindamycin for the treatment of Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS). If you have any further questions or concerns, please speak to a doctor or nurse caring for you.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published two reports for the Trust’s Children’s Centre and Emergency Department. They have also issued an enforcement notice on Maternity Services.

This page will give you information about your recovery following the implant of a Permanent Pacemaker (PPM) and it should be read in addition to the information you have already received.

This page gives you information about your planned contrast echocardiogram.

GHNHSFT works in collaboration with Approved Education Institutes (AEIs) across the region to provide practice placements for Undergraduate Nursing Students. We hope that the information you find on these pages will be useful and give you an insight into your placement and the learning opportunities available. We are very much looking forward to having you on placement with us.

You have been recommended this page because your surgeon has decided that your gallbladder needs to be removed. The most common reason for this is because you have gallstones.

This page provides advice for when you go home after having gynaecological surgery