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BMA Resident Doctors’ Industrial action – 7 April to 13 April and temporary changes to Cheltenham A&E
This page gives you information about having a nerve root injection and the risks involved.
Join #TeamNHSGlos with a charity place at Run Cheltenham!
As well as red blood cells and white blood cells, the blood also contains platelets. Platelets prevent bleeding.
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After training in Southampton, Dr Reed worked as a junior doctor in Winchester, Portsmouth and Cheltenham (where he first decided on a career in Oncology). Further experience in medicine was gained working in Belize and New Zealand.
This page gives you information about the exposure of an impacted upper canine tooth and answers many of the commonly asked questions. If you have any other questions that this page does not answer or would like a further explanation, please contact the Oral and Maxillofacial department. The details are at the end of this page.
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An upper limb cast is a hard covering that stabilises and immobilises either your wrist or elbow and sometimes both at the same time.
This page has been designed to be used alongside the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) booklet that you have been given. If you have not received a copy, please let us know. On the following pages we have provided details of who to contact locally for more information and support. We have also explained the next steps for you and your baby within the Audiology department.
You have recently had an appointment with your consultant to discuss your upcoming surgery. This page aims to put into writing the information given to you at that appointment and to answer some of the commonly asked questions. If you have any other questions or concerns, please contact the Uro-oncology Nurse Specialist Team/keyworkers or speak to the doctors or nurses at the hospital when you see them. The contact details are at the end of this booklet.
Cubital tunnel release surgery is a procedure to relieve pressure on the ulnar nerve, which runs behind the elbow
We're holding an information day on 26 September, in partnership with the Gloucestershire Kidney Patient Association
Dr. Gentles is a Consultant Physician specialising in the care of older patients. Dr. Gentles works half in the hospital and half in the community, in a joint appointment between GHNHSFT and GHC. Her hospital time is spent mainly seeing older patients who have presented to the Emergency Dept at GRH or who are on the short-stay unit for older patients with frailty. Her community work is carried out across Gloucester city. She has an interest in patient and carer involvement and believes co-production and equal partnership of clinicians and patients is the way forward in improving services. She recently worked at the Royal College of Physicians as their Patient Involvement Officer. She is a voluntary board adviser to Healthwatch Gloucestershire.
by Richard Sidebottom
This page gives you information about bimatoprost eye drops used to stimulate eyelash growth and the possible side effects.