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Based in the Gloucestershire Oncology Centre, the Focus Support Centre offers information, help and advice for local cancer patients and their loved ones.

Gloucestershire Hospitals has recorded its best-ever results in the recent Cancer Experience survey, with 49 out of 60 questions scoring equal to or greater than the national average response.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has downgraded the Trust’s overall rating from 'Good' to 'Requires Improvement' following a recent inspection.

The enhance programme recognises the need for healthcare professionals to develop a range of generalist skills, in order to better meet patient need and improve the health of local populations.

We look after children from birth to 18 with skin conditions or problems. We usually see them in the Children's Outpatients Department at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital's Children's Centre. Children are also seen as inpatients in the children's ward, the maternity and neonatal units. Our Paediatric Dermatology Specialist Nurse will also visit patients in home or at school if necessary.

In the UK, most medicines are ‘licensed’ but some are not. This page explains why medicines are licensed and why some useful medicines do not have licences. You have been referred this page by your doctor or pharmacist because the medicine prescribed for you is not ‘licensed’ or is being used for a reason not covered by the licence. We want to reassure you that we have thought very carefully about the best medicine for you. This page answers some of the commonly asked questions.

Find out more about learning disability needs of patients an acute setting

You can help more patients get diagnosed and treated faster by supporting the latest CT Scanner Appeal in Gloucestershire - patients such as seriously ill children and people with cancer.

This page gives advice about having a brother or sister in the Neonatal Unit (NNU)

Staff across Gloucestershire Hospitals can now benefit from a brand-new Workplace Health Check Service. The specialist wellbeing nurse role, funded thanks to your donations, has been designed to help support physical wellbeing.

by Rachel Lennox

When Ian Henderson asked his dentist to look at two painless marks in his mouth, little did he know it would lead to the words no one wants to hear, ‘you have cancer’.

This page describes the changes you may notice in your mouth when you start radiotherapy treatment for your cancer. The symptoms you may have been described and advice is given on how best deal with them. You will also find advice on how to keep your mouth as healthy as possible during and after radiotherapy treatment.

We have launched a Prehabilitation service that offers pre-treatment support for patients with cancer.

The Bronze level course provides an overview of quality improvement tools and methodologies.

The Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis team are based at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, where we focus on a multidisciplinary approach for the best possible outcomes for our children and young people.

Contact lenses are fitted to patients in the hospital when there is a medical need or when vision can only be improved to an adequate level with contact lens correction.

This page provides you with information about the condition Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP). It is designed for parents/carers of babies on the Neonatal Unit who are examined and found to have this condition.

We are committed to providing full and open information about our organisation, in full accordance with freedom of information and related legislation. This includes transparency on our governance, finances and performance.

This page gives you information about how to care for your wound following a caesarean section operation to deliver your baby.