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BMA Resident Doctors’ Industrial action – 7 April to 13 April and temporary changes to Cheltenham A&E
Our maternity notes went paperless in summer 2023. Badger Notes allows you to stay up-to-date with your health information, upcoming appointments and important details about your pregnancy.
Whether you’re coming to hospital for the first time, or are already a patient, we have all the information you need about being treated at our Children’s Centre.
About our Adult diabetes and endocrinology team, your appointment and how to contact us
As part of healthcare science week, Gloucestershire Hospitals is running a virtual Q&A, to showcase and celebrate the vital work of healthcare science and allied health professionals in our Trust.
Register for our free event!
You have been told you are likely to have uric acid stones, these are the only stones which may be dissolved by changing the pH of urine.
It is essential that your bowel is empty for this investigation. In order for your bowel to be empty please follow the instructions below.
This page gives you information about your Woodcast® splint, how to care for it and what to do if you have any problems.
This page provides information for patients, relatives and carers about the support offered by the Gloucestershire Home Enteral Feeding Team (HEFT) when you have an enteral feeding tube. It answers some of the commonly asked questions.
by Jenny Boobyer
This page provides information for patients having coronary angioplasty at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. This procedure is also known as PCI (Percutaneous Coronary Intervention).
This page has been written to provide answers to some of the questions you may have about keeping your leg ulcer healed. If you have any further questions about your condition or treatment, please feel free to ask at your next clinic appointment.
This page is for patients about to have a rigid or flexible ureteroscopic operation. Ureteroscopy is used for treatment and investigation of stones, tumours or obstruction such as narrowing of the ureter. It is also useful for investigating symptoms such as blood in the urine, pain or abnormal cells found in urine.
Asplenic patients are at a greater risk of developing fulminant, life-threatening sepsis and must be appropriately vaccinated and receive antibiotic prophylaxis. The main causative organisms are: Streptococus pneumoniae; Haemophilus influenzae and Neisseria meningitidis.
This page provides you with advice about caring for your injured elbow. The most common type of bony injury to an elbow is known as a radial fracture. The radius is one of the long bones in your forearm. It is usually broken when you fall on an outstretched arm.
This page gives you information about the condition you are being assessed for and the processes carried out during the assessment.
Multidrug resistant Acinetobacter species are defined as strains showing resistance to quinolones, cephalosporins, gentamicin, co-amoxiclav and piperacillin/tazobactam. They may also be resistant to carbapenems and colistin.
Mr Sanjay Kumar is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, who specialises in adult foot and ankle surgery, and adolescent and children orthopaedics. He is also the clinical governance lead for trauma and orthopaedics.
Miss Hazlerigg is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Gloucestershire and she was appointed in 2021. She has an exclusive interest in hand and wrist and performs both elective and emergency surgery to these areas as well as performing general Orthopaedic trauma work whilst on call. She qualified from Imperial College, London in 2007 and completed basic surgical training in London before securing a postgraduate training position at the distinguished Oxford Deanery Trauma and Orthopaedics Training Programme. She was awarded Distinction in postgraduate Diploma in Orthopaedic Trauma Science from the University of London. Having passed the FRCS (Trauma and Orthopaedics) in 2016 she completed her fellowship in Hand Trauma and Plastics at the Major Trauma Centre in Oxford John Radcliffe Hospital. She is a specialist in all aspects for hand and peripheral nerve surgery (including microsurgery), arthroscopy and arthroplasty.
