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Your child has had an injury to the arm which has been diagnosed as a buckle fracture. This injury is treated like a sprain and will not cause any long-term problems. The following information aims to explain what a buckle fracture is and how to support a child while it heals.

A new initiative to improve the experience of patients experiencing a mental health crisis launches this week in our Emergency Departments at Cheltenham and Gloucester

Our midwives can help you decide if a home birth is right for you, and help you deliver your baby in your own home. They can provide all the equipment you need.

We've developed a new set of Plaster Room web pages for patients, about plasters, splints, crutches and frames.

Anaesthesia is a type of drug treatment used to prevent patients feeling pain when they have a medical procedure, such as an operation.

Find out how you can refer yourself or your child to see a physiotherapist.

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

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Chemical Pathology

This page includes important information for you to read before your admission

The Gloucestershire health system undertook public consultation in 2020 and further engagement between 2022 and 2023 on shaping the future of our hospital services.

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.

The NHS in Gloucestershire is urging local people to continue to seek urgent medical help if they have symptoms of a potentially serious illness or health condition.

This page is to help you and your family and friends to understand the difficulties in managing persistent pain. This is also sometimes referred to as chronic or long-term pain.

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.

The reconfiguration of A&E services in Cheltenham was part of a public consultation run by the former Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust in 2012, which also included proposals for other services at the two main hospitals.

The following policies are only available on the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust IT network.

This page gives you information about penicillin and how a test is taken to find out if you are allergic to this medication.