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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.

by Catherine Harker, Kate Gatling.

by Margaret Collins

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

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.

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

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 page is to inform you about your planned Direct Current (DC) electrical cardioversion. A cardioversion is an electrical treatment which aims to treat abnormal heart rhythms. It involves connecting you to a defibrillator machine and giving you a controlled electric shock. The procedure will involve you being admitted to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital as a day case. You will need to be collected from the hospital after the procedure and have someone at home with you overnight.

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.

by Lowri Bowen

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.

Thanks to your support, we have been able to fund two new portable sensory trollies; the Rhino Sensory Voyager, for patients on our wards.

Gloucestershire Hospitals and Gloucestershire Managed Services have completed a Trust‑wide roll‑out of Fantex IPC antimicrobial disposable privacy curtains, helping to reduce infection risk, support safer working for staff and create cleaner, more efficient clinical spaces.