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We know that hearing from people who’ve experienced care can be both comforting and inspiring. Every story helps us understand what we’re doing well and where we can do better. By sharing your experiences - the positives as well as the challenges - you help us learn, improve and provide the best possible care for everyone, every day.

Wound infection after surgery can happen but it is not common. This page gives you information about what can cause a wound infection after surgery and offers advice on how you can help to reduce the risk.

Please read this page if the young person you care for has reached an age when we need to start talking about preparing, planning and moving their care from children’s to adult services.

Patients, carers, families, friends and members of the public are invited to nominate a member of staff or a team who has gone the extra mile to provide outstanding care at Gloucestershire Hospitals

Thanks to your support, a new charity-funded portable ultrasound is helping to provide faster diagnosis and treatment for local patients.

Your time is one of the biggest gifts you can give and there are a number ways you can get involved

Biopsy of palpable or impalpable lesions may be performed, the latter requiring stereotactic location.

It's Dementia Action Week and we're proud to announce a collaboration with Gloucestershire charity Mindsong to launch “Sounds of the Soul,” a music playlist designed to support the wellbeing of Muslim patients living with dementia.

by Victoria Gaunt

Documents and links detailing palliative care guidelines for health professionals

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Our Quality Account for 2018–2019

Our Quality Account for 2015 – 2016

You have been referred to the Nuclear Medicine Department for radium-223 therapy. This is a type of intravenous radiotherapy treatment for prostate cancer that has spread to your bones. Radium-223 is an effective treatment for the relief of bone pain. Studies have shown that there might also be an increase in life expectancy. The information on this page describes the treatment, possible side-effects and the radiation protection advice that you will need to follow throughout the course of your treatment. If you have any questions, please contact the Nuclear Medicine Department. The contact details are at the end of this page.

This page gives you information about spiking, how it can affect you and what you should do if you think you have been spiked.

Although pressures have eased slightly in the last two days, our hospitals remain extremely busy

The medical day unit provides IV drip (intravenous infusion) treatments for patients with stomach, kidney, neurology, rheumatology, breathing or skin conditions.

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has introduced child-friendly imaging technology to ease anxiety and improve the experience of young patients undergoing scans.

Kidney cancer, also called renal cancer, is a type of cancer that starts in the kidneys.