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Changes to Cheltenham A&E during BMA Industrial Action 17 - 22 December
4ml of blood taken into an EDTA Tube
by Jim Moriarty
by Deborah Durrant & Gabby Prideaux
The Thirlestaine Breast Centre in Cheltenham provides compassionate care to patients who have been referred for breast screening, tests or surgery.
We’re constantly working to make the gloshospitals.nhs.uk website as accessible as possible for every user.
Pathology Stores at both sites hold a wide range of disposable goods and chemicals used by each of the departments within the building. It also supplies the appropriate specimen containers, bags, forms and equipment needed for sample testing.
As with most tumour markers there is a high incidence of false positive and false negative results; HCG is most appropriately used in monitoring disease progression or effectiveness of treatment once diagnosis of the tumour has been made and serum concentrations have been shown to be high prior to treatment.
by Kerrie Lotsu and Sam Rea
This page gives you information about under-breast soreness (intertrigo) including how the condition can be treated and managed.
Cheltenham’s General Hospital’s East Block Out Patients Department has recently benefitted from a £256,000 refurbishment.
You have been asked to look at this page because because it has been suggested that Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) may assist in the healing of your wound.
Your kidney mass has been surgically removed and analysed by our pathology department. It has been confirmed as a renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer).
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has introduced child-friendly imaging technology to ease anxiety and improve the experience of young patients undergoing scans.
The Haematology and Blood Transfusion department provides a comprehensive high-quality screening and advisory service to Cheltenham General Hospital, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and GP surgeries in Gloucestershire and parts of Worcestershire.
Cirencester Treatment Centre at Cirencester Hospital cares for day case surgical patients.
You need to have a further colonoscopy to attempt to remove the polyp(s) found at the time of your last procedure. It is important that you read this information before your appointment so that you understand this procedure and the preparation involved.
by Dr Astrid Stellingwerff
At Cheltenham General, we invested up to £14.5m on improving surgical facilities by building a new Day Surgery Unit and two additional theatres
DadPad is an information pack in digital form developed by dads, for dads to help fathers of all ages in Gloucestershire prepare for family life.
This test is only performed following discussion with the Consultant Haematologist.