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This department has experienced and highly skilled Maxillofacial Prosthetists who treat patients who have an acquired facial visible difference.

This page covers some of the most important things that have been discussed with you during admission. The information on this page aims to help you through the first few weeks following diagnosis and also gives you advice and guidance to help you to make the safe transition from hospital to home.

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’.

The two most common anticoagulants Warfarin and Unfractionated Heparin are monitored via the INR and APTT Ratio respectively. A baseline coagulation screen should always be requested prior to starting a patient on anticoagulants.

This page gives you information on care following your therapeutic gastroscopy including banding of varices/endoscopic dilatation.

You have recently had an appointment with your consultant to discuss your upcoming surgery. This page aims to put into writing the information given to you at that appointment and to answer some of the commonly asked questions. If you have any other questions or concerns, please contact the Uro-oncology Nurse Specialist Team/keyworkers or speak to the doctors or nurses at the hospital when you see them. The contact details are at the end of this booklet.

We have made the difficult decision to extend the home birth service suspension for at least six months.

A mallet injury refers to a tear in the tendon that straightens the end joint of your finger. This can be a simple tear of the tendon from the bone (soft tissue mallet), or a piece of bone can come off with the tear (bony mallet).

This page gives you information about having a steroid joint injection and explains what the procedure involves.

Here are some Frequently Asked Questions that might help if you have queries about the Patient Portal.

Nursing Support Workers' Day is on 23rd of November, celebrating the important contribution nursing support workers make to patient care and health and social care services. This year some of our HCSWs are sharing their career stories.

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.

If it’s suitable for your care, you can now attend hospital appointments remotely with online video calling.

This page provides information for bereaved parents who have suffered the loss of a baby before 24 weeks of pregnancy. Please accept our sympathy at such a difficult time. We hope you find the following information helpful.

This page provides Fever advice for children and young people

GPs and community NHS teams in some areas of the county will start COVID-19 vaccination of priority groups, for example the over 80s, from mid-week (pending vaccine delivery) with other areas following very soon.

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.

Transforming our hospitals to make them fit for the future

Thanks to your support, a state-of-the-art ECG (electrocardiogram) machine is helping patients at our Trauma and Orthopaedics Department.

Testicular cancer is cancer that's found in the testicles.