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A lower limb cast is a hard covering that stabilises and immobilises either your ankle or knee and sometimes both at the same time.

Gloucestershire Hospitals welcomes the publication of a number of Care Quality Commission (CQC) reports, including a Well-Led Assessment that has seen the Trust's Well-Led rating improve to Good, resulting in an overall Trust rating of Good.

This page is designed to provide carers/family and friends with information if the person they are caring for discharges themselves from hospital against medical advice. This is known as self-discharge.

This page gives you and your birthing partner information about the benefits and safe use of essential oils and massage during your labour. The service is offered to you by Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Many of our midwives are trained to be able to advise and administer essential oils to you during labour.

This page gives you information about having a Mannitol Challenge Test (Osmohale®), including the preparation needed.

Prostate cancer affects the prostate gland under the bladder and usually happens to men over 50 years old. There are different treatments and it can often be cured if diagnosed early.

It has been 60 years since Rosie Crooks, 78, started her training to become a nurse in Gloucester.

Purpose

As part of our ongoing commemorations marking the anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, we remembered the lives lost and reflected on the many changes it brought to all our lives.

Wrist trauma includes injuries to the bones, ligaments or soft tissues of the wrist, often due to falls or impact, leading to pain, swelling and limited motion

The Gloucestershire health system undertook public consultation in 2020 and further engagement between 2022 and 2023 on shaping the future of our hospital services.

Image Guided Interventional Surgery (IGIS) means procedures where the surgeon uses instruments with live images to guide the procedure.

by Faye Norman

This page is a guide to Endovascular Aneurysm Repair surgery and should help to answer some of the questions you may have.

The information on this page is for patients having a bladder tumour removed by a Trans Urethral Resection of Bladder Tumour (TURBT) operation.

Children visiting the Children’s Outpatients Department at Cheltenham General Hospital are now welcomed by a burst of colour and creativity, thanks to new charity-funded artwork designed to make hospital visits a little brighter!

This information is for the benefit of our primary care colleagues, both dental and medical, and details the process for referring patients for Oral Surgery

We are based at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and see patients who have either been referred to our service from the community (e.g. their GP) or those who have attended the Emergency Department following an acute illness or event such as a fall.

by Emily O’ Sullivan, Nick Simmonds and Nicole Roper