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Wide awake, local anaesthesia, no tourniquet (WALANT) surgery is a technique used to treat many hand and wrist conditions.

The purpose of the Primary Care Liaison service is to provide a single point of contact to identify and resolve issues at the interface between the GHFT services and primary care teams, allowing a two-way dialogue to raise concerns and to identify and address themes.

During your stay on the ward, you may be moved from the monitored bays to one of our side rooms to enable safe and effective nursing care or into the bays However, on the very rare occasion when the hospital is full to capacity there is a chance that we will make a clinical decision to move a patient into the corridor. We try to avoid this if we can and it will only happen when needed to facilitate care for patients. This is called the boarding policy.

Kerb replacement and resurfacing works are taking place during week commencing 24/10/22 for 2 weeks, which affects patient vehicle access to the Atrium entrance and Emergency Department at GRH.

Plasma calcitonin is indicated in the investigation and monitoring of medullary carcinoma of the thyroid (MTC).

Gloucestershire Hospitals is thrilled to announce the grand opening of the Alstone Urology Clinic, a state-of-the-art facility designed to enhance patient care and improve overall experience.

ESR tube (Trisodium Citrate)

Deficiency of the enzyme alpha-galactosidase, results in Fabry's disease, an X-linked, recessive, lysosomal storage disease, also known as Anderson-Fabry disease.

This page is intended for all pregnant women who have been asked to attend for an oral Glucose Tolerance Test (GTT).

The metacarpal bones are the bones of the hand. They articulate or join up with the wrist joint on one side, and the bones of the fingers on the other side.

This page gives you information about the banding of your piles, what to expect after the procedure and the possible complications. It also gives you information about how to stop the piles returning.

Chief and Principal Investigators, all other research personnel who have been delegated roles and responsibilities and the staff of the R&D Department who have the function of research governance for our hospitals must adhere to this set of procedures when undertaking research.

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

This page has been written to help you have a better understanding of the treatment you require because your hip bone has broken. In hospital we describe a broken bone as a fracture.

When you find out you’re pregnant, you will need to book your first appointment with one of our midwives. This is called your booking appointment.

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

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Cancer antigen 15.3 (CA 15-3) should only be used to determine response to therapy in patients with metastatic breast cancer or for the early detection of recurrence in patients with previously treated stage II and stage III breast cancer. Requests should therefore only be made as advised by the specialist secondary care team.