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This page has been produced to answer some of the commonly asked questions about your planned visit to the Colposcopy Clinic. You have been asked to attend the clinic for a colposcopy examination. This may be for a number of reasons. Your appointment letter will tell you exactly why you have been referred to us.

You have been diagnosed with endometriosis. This page gives you information about endometriosis and its treatment.

This information has been written to answer some of the questions you may have about skin care during your radiotherapy treatment. We hope you will find this helpful. If you have any questions please talk to your treatment team.

This page will help you to understand more about your surgery. It will also give you tips on how you can help your recovery after your back operation. Irritation or pressure (compression) of one or more of the nerves in your back causes pain in your back or legs. You may need to have surgery if the pain is not easing. Before the decision is made to have surgery, you may have several tests such as an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scan, a CT (Computerised Tomography) scan or X-rays. This is for your doctor to be sure of the diagnosis and to see at which level in the back the nerve is being compressed.

COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus strain that first emerged in China in December 2019. In humans, coronaviruses are known to cause respiratory infections ranging from the common cold to more severe disease.

Hair loss and/or hair thinning can be a side effect of chemotherapy, it will depend on the drug you are given.

Suspected case or potential exposure to Rabies

This page gives you information about the medication nortriptyline which you have been prescribed to reduce the pain of vulvodynia. Vulvodynia is pain in the vulva (area around the outside of the vagina) that lasts at least 3 months but does not have a specific cause.

This page gives you information about having a CT (Computed Tomography) scan of the heart.

It has been recommended that the child in your care attends an appointment for an allergen challenge. This page gives you information about what will happen during the appointment. A few days before the child’s admission please try to discuss with them what is going to happen on the day.

The information on this page will help you to safely give yourself the denosumab treatment by subcutaneous injection (an injection under the skin).

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.

The information on this page aims to answer some of the commonly asked questions about having a loop diathermy treatment. The page also contains information which will help explain the benefits and risks as well as what to expect when having the treatment. Your doctor, or nurse specialist have recommended loop diathermy because they believe this is the best way to get an accurate diagnosis and completely remove the abnormality. If you have any further questions or concerns after reading this page, please contact the advice line. The telephone number is at the end of this page.

This page gives you information about transperineal biopsy of the prostate, including the nature of the procedure, risks, benefits, alternatives and what to expect.

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

Putting you in control of your follow-up care This page provides you with information about Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointments or PIFU for short, at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It explains what PIFU appointments are and how they work.

You have been referred this page because your child has had a suspected seizure while their temperature was normal. Sometimes young children can experience convulsions (seizures) as a result of an uncontrolled high temperature, these are called febrile convulsions.

This page gives you information about having a bone densitometry scan, the risks involved and what you need to do to prepare for the scan.

Paronychia is an infection of the nail and its nail bed, which typically occurs as a result of trauma to the nail or finger tip.