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This is an injury to the metacarpal-phalangeal joint or to the proximal inter-phalangeal joint as a result of direct puncture of the joint by a tooth.

Two services designed to support patients with cancer in Gloucestershire won their categories in the prestigious Macmillan Professionals Excellence Awards

Joint statement from One Gloucestershire NHS partners – NHS Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust and South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

We want our staff, patients, and communities to be proud of the Trust, and for our hospitals to be recognised as places where people can receive consistently high-quality care.

We are an NHS trust of around 9,000 people, providing care for the population of Gloucestershire and beyond.

Rendcomb Ward specialises in treating oncology (cancer) and haematology patients and delivers a variety of care including chemotherapy, radiotherapy and stem cell transplantation. The ward is located on the first floor of the Oncology Centre at Cheltenham General Hospital.

Chemical Pathology

There are lots of reasons to be physically active before, during and after cancer treatment. This page provides you with advice and support on:

You have been referred to the Rapid Access Skin Assessment Clinic by your GP. Your GP may have attached photographs to the referral which will have been reviewed by a consultant dermatologist at the hospital. At the Rapid Access Skin Assessment Clinic, we will look at or treat a skin lesion. A skin lesion is a part of the skin that has an abnormal growth or appearance compared to the skin around it. Our priority is to confirm or rule out a diagnosis of skin cancer. This page gives you information about the clinic and how it runs.

Our Maternity Spotlight shows a visual overview of birth statistics for each month in Gloucestershire

You may experience taste changes and/or a loss of appetite. This may be caused by your treatment, nausea and vomiting or by a sore mouth.

Viral eye swab

Please help us to protect our patients and staff from highly contagious illnesses like Norovirus (diarrhoea and vomiting), COVID-19, Flu and other respiratory infections that are easily spread

You have been asked to attend Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) at Cheltenham General Hospital or Gloucestershire Royal Hospital because it is suspected you may have a developing blockage in your lungs called a Pulmonary Embolism (PE). This page will give you information about what this means and how you will be looked after.

Enquiring about Bespoke Gastrostomy Training provided by the Enteral Nutrition Nurses

We have research radiographers in our team and take part in local, national and international radiotherapy trials. We contribute to the development of new treatments and techniques meaning that our patients have the opportunity to benefit from the most recent developments.

by Clemency Nye, Sophie Boyd and Suzanna Lake

If patient on high dose biotin therapy (>5mg/day) collect sample at least 8 hours after the last dose.

The enzyme pancreatic elastase-1 (E1) is secreted by the acinar cells of the pancreas and acts to break down collagen. This enzyme is not degraded on transit through the gut so acts as a good marker of pancreatic exocrine function when measured in faecal samples.

For adults, blood taken into a 5mL gold top tube (or rust top for the Acute Unit)