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Gloucestershire Managed Services have announced the appointment of a new Chair, Kaye Law-Fox.

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Dr Twigg is a general anaesthetist with an interest in critical care medicine and anaesthesia for major spinal and orthoapedic cases utilising regional anaesthetic techniques. He has been a consultant in Gloucestershire since 2005.

The Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme has appointed a leading orthopaedic surgeon from the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, to work as a clinical ambassador in its London hub.

Patients should be antibiotic-free for at least 7 days before a biopsy is performed

For adults, blood taken into a 5mL gold top tube (or rust top for the Acute Unit)

Serum - paired samples not required

The Delivery Suite at the Women's Centre at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital is a state of the art facility, designed to give you the best possible service if you need medical assistance during labour.

By Dr H Iftikhar, Dr S Alaee, Dr J Bennett, Dr A Creamer, Dr R Kaminski, Dr D Windsor, Dr C Sharp

This page gives you helpful guidance to make sure that any item of patient information you are working on is evidence based, and written in keeping with Plain English standards and those of the Trust.

Dr Simon James Gunn is a consultant radiologist, with a special interest in musculoskeletal imaging.

The Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) is a service all community pharmacies provide to patients who would benefit from extra support related to their medicines.

This page provides you with information following the broken bone in your hand. This is known as a 5th Metacarpal fracture (MCP) and is below your little finger. See Figure 1 below.

by Isolde Newberry

You have been prescribed, or are being considered for, pentoxifylline and tocopherol (vitamin E). These medications are prescribed to manage osteoradionecrosis (ORN) of the jaw. This is a condition caused by reduced blood supply to the bone which leads to bone tissue damage or poor healing. The medications can be used to treat active ORN or to reduce the risk of developing ORN in patients who have previously had radiotherapy and now need dental extractions. This page will outline further information about these medications, how to take them and the possible side effects.

Plans to create our new cancer care centre in Cheltenham have been given a major boost with a £2million donation from a charitable trust.

HbA1c can be used as a diagnostic test for diabetes