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If you’re a patient who smokes, our Tobacco Free Team are here to help as part of your stay in hospital.
It is essential that your bowel is empty for this investigation. In order for your bowel to be empty please follow the instructions below.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published two reports for the Trust’s Children’s Centre and Emergency Department. They have also issued an enforcement notice on Maternity Services.
We will keep this notice updated to show the things we do with your personal data. We will never sell your personal data, or share it with other organisations we work with.
Immunology
A Stroud family received a special surprise this year when their healthy baby boy was born on Christmas Day at Stroud Maternity Unit.
by Eirwen Rees & Sophie Ferguson
Here are some Frequently Asked Questions that might help if you have queries about the Patient Portal.
Carbapenamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) screen
The fingertip is basically a part of the body specialising in providing sensory feedback to the brain. The sensory input from the hand is so important that a disproportionately large part of the brain is devoted to interpreting the signals sent from the fingertips.
This page gives you hints and tips to help improve your bowel function and control. Also included is information about bowel routine, skin care and dietary advice.
The Gloucestershire Cancer Prehabilitation Service will be temporarily suspended from 1 August 2025 due to ongoing staffing challenges and wider service pressures.
No specific preparation required
For adults, blood taken into a 5mL gold top tube (or rust top for the Acute Unit)
4ml EDTA sample.
The orthoptic exercises described on this page have been advised and explained to you by your orthoptist. This page is provided as a reminder to keep at home of how to complete the exercises. Only do the exercises which you were advised to do.
If your question is not answered here, you have various options to get in touch with our team, depending on its urgency:
Thanks to your donations, the charity has funded a new role within the Oncology Outpatients - a frailty occupational therapist to provide patients living with frailty additional personalised support, treatment and care.
by Catrin Davies & Laura Cummings
