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BMA Resident Doctors’ Industrial action – 7 April to 13 April and temporary changes to Cheltenham A&E
Non-Gynae Cytopathology
The information on this page will help you to safely give yourself the denosumab treatment by subcutaneous injection (an injection under the skin).
For the diagnosis of autoimmune liver disease and pernicious anaemia. For investigation of SLE, arthralgia, arthritis please see ANA, Antinuclear Antibody.
Blood Transfusion
by Dr Astrid Stellingwerff
The number of cases of Measles in young people has risen, and measles outbreaks have been reported in adjoining counties. Measles is an infection that spreads very easily and can cause serious problems in some people.
When the clocks go back, we go in!
You have been advised to have a gastroscopy, which you may also have heard being called an endoscopy or OGD (meaning an oesophageal-gastro-duodenoscopy). A gastroscopy will help us to investigate the cause of your symptoms. It is important that you read this page before your appointment so that you understand what will happen during this procedure and the preparation involved.
An independent review into financial governance arrangements at our Trust has been published and shows that we are making good progress in returning the organisation to financial balance and ensuring that it is soundly governed.
by Paul Dunckley
New figures out today reveal that there were 9 patients who donated their organs after death at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHNHSFT) last year, helping save or improve the lives of 19 people desperately in need of a transplant in the UK.
by Dr Leonard Griffiths
We are working with GlosFire this week to promote home fire safety
by Rachel Walker-Morecroft & Amanda Woodridge
Fractures of the distal radius occur usually with a fall onto the outstretched hand. Often, the tip of the ulna will fracture at the same time.
Radiotherapy uses high energy X-rays to treat a wide variety of cancers. This treatment may be given alone or as well as other treatments.