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This page provides information about how to help care for your child following a burn.
Going through a cancer diagnosis and treatment can be a very difficult time. The condition itself, treatments and the stress from the experience may affect your vulval and vaginal health. This page explains the possible effects you may experience and ways these can be managed.
The allocated appointment length is between 20 and 40 minutes; please allow the whole morning or afternoon in case you need tests.
This page provides information for patients who may need to have an indwelling pleural catheter.
The majority of routine operations are successful. It is important to be aware of some of the problems that can happen following surgery. This page outlines some of the complications of surgery and how to minimise their effects.
This page gives you information about extravasation and how to care for your skin should this happen.
COVID-19 is an illness that can affect your lungs and airways. It’s caused by a virus called coronavirus.
Falls are not an inevitable part of ageing. Simple changes to your lifestyle and living environment can significantly reduce the risk of you falling.
This page provides information for parents whose baby has been found to have a tongue-tie which may be causing feeding issues and could benefit from having a minor procedure called ‘frenulotomy’.
This page gives you information on care following your colonoscopy/flexible sigmoidoscopy.
Please help us to protect our patients and staff from highly contagious illnesses like Norovirus (diarrhoea and vomiting), COVID-19, Flu and other respiratory infections that are easily spread
This page provides advice for people who have injured their big toe. Injury to the big toe is common and is usually caused by dropping something heavy onto your toe. It can also happen when the toe is stubbed against something hard.
This page gives you information about phlebitis, its causes and how to try to prevent it.
Information on how to take the best photographs of your skin lesion or rash.
‘Changing Places’ are specialist facilities for disabled people requiring assistance from 1 or more carers, or who need the larger manoeuvring space provided
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 provides information for patients due to have a urodynamic investigation. We want you to understand the risks and benefits, how to prepare for the investigation and what to expect both during and after the test.
This page gives you information on care following your therapeutic gastroscopy including banding of varices/endoscopic dilatation.
This page gives you information about what to expect when a child comes into hospital to have an operation or an investigation under general anaesthesia.
