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We provide care for patients with a broad range of rheumatic diseases, offering patients diagnosis, treatment, and, when appropriate, long-term management of their condition.

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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.

Wide awake, local anaesthesia, no tourniquet (WALANT) surgery is a technique used to treat many hand and wrist conditions.

by Abigail Harper

Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT) is a condition where a mother's immune system produces antibodies against specific proteins (human platelet antigens, or HPAs) on the surface of her baby's platelets. These antibodies cross the placenta, leading to the destruction of the baby's platelets, which can result in low platelet counts (thrombocytopenia). This condition may cause symptoms ranging from mild skin bruising to severe complications like intracranial hemorrhage.

This page provides information about thyroid cancer and the services available through Gloucestershire NHS Hospitals.

Welcome to Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In the best interests of the patient, carers are welcomed and supported to stay with the person they care for while they are in hospital. This page gives you information about the support available for you in your role as a relative/carer. It also provides you with details about the support services available for carers in Gloucestershire.

by Donna Little

The pelvic floor muscles can help with bladder and bowel control. This page tells you how to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles.

The learning technology team at Gloucestershire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (GHNHSFT) has been named Learning and Development Team of the Year, at the fifth Our Health Heroes Awards, for their rapid delivery of an eLearning package that helped ensure more staff had the skills to care for people with respiratory problems, within days of the COVID-19 outbreak.

GHNHSFT works in collaboration with Approved Education Institutes (AEIs) across the region to provide practice placements for Undergraduate Nursing Students. We hope that the information you find on these pages will be useful and give you an insight into your placement and the learning opportunities available. We are very much looking forward to having you on placement with us.

You are on the waiting list to have a diagnostic laparoscopy. This page gives you information about the laparoscopy and what to expect during and after the procedure.

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

The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) has published their report following Inspection in December 2023 of the Trust’s Stroud Maternity Unit (SMU), which resulted in a rating of ‘Requires Improvement.’

This page gives you information about tests used to help identify problems at the back of the eye.

by Khoboso Hargura

Highly sensitive and specific test for coeliac disease or dermatitis herpetiformis.

This page gives you information about having a robotically assisted Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy (TLH) and answers some of the questions that you may have.

This page gives you information about the specialist team for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), the services available and the IBD Advice line.