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You can access urgent care 24-hours-a-day, every day of the year at our hospitals.

Clinicians are welcoming the public back to Cheltenham General Hospital’s A&E department as part of a two-step plan to restore services as we emerge from the pandemic.

You have been asked to attend Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) at Cheltenham General Hospital or Gloucestershire Royal Hospital because it is suspected you may have a developing blockage in your lungs called a Pulmonary Embolism (PE). This page will give you information about what this means and how you will be looked after.

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This page gives you information about what to expect before and after a port-a-cath is inserted. It also lists the benefits and possible risks of having the device inserted.

We are delighted to announce the phased re-opening of Cheltenham General Hospital’s A&E department next month (June) in response to the continued reduction in community transmission of COVID-19 and low hospital admissions

Any member of the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust can nominate themselves for a governor vacancy in their constituency.

Cheltenham A&E has a consultant-led Emergency Department from 8am - 8pm and a nurse-led Minor Injuries and Illness Unit (MIIU) from 8pm - 8am

Thanks to donations, we have been able to fund a new ‘Rea Azalea’ wheelchair for patients on our Lilleybrook and Rendcomb wards.

Bowel cancer is also known as type of colorectal cancer.

Following media coverage today about the future of Cheltenham General Hospital’s A&E department, we are pleased to have had the support today of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in communicating our message that there are no proposals to close Cheltenham A&E.

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This page gives advice for patients with diabetes who are planning a family.

This new green space at Wooton Lawn will be a safe place for patients to relax and recover.

Steroid is a powerful anti-inflammatory drug, used to treat many conditions around the hand, such as arthritis, trigger finger, carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis.

Anaesthesia is a type of drug treatment used to prevent patients feeling pain when they have a medical procedure, such as an operation.

Find out how you can refer yourself or your child to see a physiotherapist.

This information is for patients who have had a nephrostomy tube inserted into one or both of their kidneys. This page answers the commonly asked questions, gives information about aftercare and provides contact information for when you need help and advice.

You have been advised to have a gastroscopy, which you may also have heard being called an endoscopy or OGD (meaning an oesophageal-gastro-duodenoscopy). A gastroscopy will help us to investigate the cause of your symptoms. It is important that you read this page before your appointment so that you understand what will happen during this procedure and the preparation involved.