Patient Leaflets – Virtual Library
There are more than 900 patient information leaflets available to the public on our Virtual Library on the Trust’s website. These range across 38 different departments and areas, from Anaesthetics to Maternity, from Pharmacy Services to Ear, Nose & Throat, from Infection Prevention to Urology.
Please note that it is MKUH policy only leaflets that are up-to-date and approved by the Trust’s Governance team are published in our Virtual Library. If a leaflet has not been approved and is not up-to-date, then it will not appear on our website until it is approved and up-to-date.
Anaesthetics
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Lumbar Puncture information
- Keeping warm before, during and after an operation
Audiology
- Listening skills: Pre-school Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Listening skills: School Age Children - Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Hearing aid battery repair information
- Tinnitus
- Softening Ear Wax with Olive Oil
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (thin tubes)
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (Earmoulds)
- Hearing aids: Telephone Use
- Use of Water Barrier/ Swim Moulds
- Hearing aid maintenance information
- Getting used to your digital hearing aid
- Cleaning and retubing your earmould
- Children’s Hyperacusis
- Tactics for Good Hearing
- How to fit a new earmould
Blood Transfusion
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
Breast & General Surgery
- Common Conditions
- Outpatient Breast Clinic
- Breast Care wound advice sheet
- Breast Care - Diagnosis and Treatment Plan
- Advice following a core biopsy
- Admission and discharge - Breast Care Unit
- Fibroadenoma
- FEC-T chemotherapy
- Letrozole
- Breast pain leaflet
- Chemotherapy for breast cancer
- Gynaecomastia
- Tamoxifen
- Anastrozole
- Benign phyllodes tumours leaflet
- Breast pain information
- Breast cysts
- Fat necrosis
Cancer Services
- My Key To Care
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for people with chemotherapy/radiotherapy induced hair loss, including hair and scalp plans for cold cap treatment
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Safety at home after chemotherapy or when taking chemotherapy tablets home
- Patient handheld Systemic Anticancer Therapy (SACT) booklet
- Caring for the dying patient
- Extravasation What is it?
- Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment referral - What happens next?
- Patient Guidance Medication and driving
- Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression(MSCC)
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- What should I do if I have a chemotherapy spillage at home?
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for chemotherapy / radiotherapy patients
- Influenza and Pneumonia Vaccination for Adult patients undergoing treatment for Cancer
- A Guide to Supported Self-Management and Surveillance for Colorectal Cancer
- Awaiting Your Diagnosis and Colorectal Pathway
- Acute Oncology Service and Assessment Unit
Cardiology
- Cardiology Patient-Initiated Follow-up
- CT Coronary Angiogram with Ivabradine
- Pacemaker Follow Up Service
- Cardiac CT Angiography (CCTA)
- Echocardiogram
- Transesophageal Echocardiogram
- Pharmacological Stress - Echocardiogram
- Exercise Stress - Echocardiogram
- Cardiac Angiography Unit Pacemaker Implant Pre-Procedure leaflet
- Cardiology Outpatients 24 Hour Blood Pressure Monitor
- Ajmaline Challenge
- Cardiac Angiography Pre-Procedure Leaflet
- Discharge Information Following Pacemaker Insertion
- Discharge Advice Following Coronary Angiography
- Ongoing exercise programmes for Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Cardioversion
- Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise Programme Information for Participants
Chaplaincy
Colorectal
- CMR Surgical Registry: Patient information and informed consent
- Versius Patient Information
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Dietary advice for diverticular disease
- Diverticular Disease
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Haemorrhoids
- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
- Sigmoid Colectomy
Dermatology
Diabetes & Endocrinology
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- Insulin Pump Clinic
- Information for patients new to Insulin (for 16 years and above)
- Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Ketoacidosis
- Type 1 Diabetes - What to do when you're ill
- Alcohol, smoking and illicit drugs - What you need to know if you have diabetes
- Diabetes: Safe driving and the DVLA
- Keeping safe with insulin therapy
- Hypoglycaemia explained
- Managing Mealtime Insulin
Dietetics (adults)
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Foodbank support for Milton Keynes and surrounding areas
- Do you have diarrhoea?
- Glycaemic Index (GI)
- Eating when you have an Oesophageal Stent
- Snack Suggestions for a Puree Diet
- Coeliac Disease – What you need to know
- Tube feeding pack
- Chronic Pancreatitis Dietary Advice
- Gestational Diabetes Diet Sheet
- Instructions for taking Preload prior to surgery
- Wound Healing - Dietary advice
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Stroke and healthy eating
- Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux and Nutrition
- Food first as a treatment for under-nutrition
- Carbohydrate Counting
- Thickened Drinks
- Taking Pancreatic Enzymes
- Reducing your Salt Intake
- IDDSI Level 7: Easy to Chew (ETC)
- IDDSI Level 6: Soft and Bite-sized diet
- IDDSI Level 4: Puree Diet
- Eating when you have a duodenal stent
- Dietary advice for Gallbladder Disease
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Advice for family and friends helping somebody with cancer to eat and drink
- A Guide to Fluid Restriction
- Wheat Free Diet
- Low Lactose Diet
- Has your sense of taste changed?
- Following a milk-free diet while breastfeeding
- Do you have a dry or sore mouth?
- Are you too tired to cook meals?
- Are you feeling sick?
- Are you feeling full?
- Eating Well with Liver Disease
- A Guide to Food Labelling
- Tube feeding - The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- How to Take Oral Nutritional Supplements
- Homemade Nutritional Booster Recipes
- Omega 3 - Food fact sheet
- Dementia - Eating and drinking - Staying well
- Patient Information Healthy Eating with Diabetes
- Nourishing Milky Drinks
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Iron (good sources of)
- Diabetes Insulin and exercise
- Calcium information sheet
Dietetics (children)
- Gluten challenge for Coeliac Disease in children
- Constipation in Infants and Children
- Egg Free Diet
- Lowering your Cholesterol - Paediatrics
- Following a cow’s milk free diet whilst breastfeeding
- Cow’s Milk and Soya Free Diet for Children
- High Energy Dietary Information for Infants and Children on a Milk-Free Diet
- High Energy Diet Sheet for Infants and Children
- Cow’s milk-free diet for infants
- Cow’s milk-free diet for children
- Sources of Calcium for a cow’s milk free diet
- Paediatric Carbohydrate Free Meal Ideas
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Weaning a baby with a food allergy/intolerance
- Shopping guide for cow’s milk-free foods and drinks
- Lactose intolerance
- Eating out and travelling with an allergy resources
- Dietary Management of Toddler Diarrhoea
Ear, Nose and Throat
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Tinnitus
- Endoscopic Dacrocystorhinostomy (DCR) (Surgery for a watery eye)
- Epistaxis Advice Sheet
- Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy
- Thyroid Lobectomy
- Pain control advice following throat operations
- Otosclerosis
- Neck dissection information
- Nasal douching
- Myringoplasty
- Mastoidectomy
- Laryngoscopy, Bronchoscopy, Pharyngoscopy & Oesophagoscopy
- Grommets
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR)
- Exercises for Vertigo Sufferers
- Nose bleed advice
- ENT operations
- Surgery for a watery eye
- Correct use of nose drops
- Care of ears
- Allergy to house dust and dust mites
- Thyroid surgery
- Surgery of the submandibular gland
- Snoring & sleep apnoea
- Sore throats
- Sinusitis
- Septal surgery
- Rhinoplasty
- Parotid surgery
- Otosclerosis and stapedotomy
- Neck dissection leaflet
- Microlaryngoscopy and oesophagoscopy
- Mastoid surgery
- Hole in eardrum
- Hoarseness
- Hearing loss
- Grommets in childhood
- Glue ear
- Flexible nasal endoscopy
- Facial skin lesions
- Epistaxis or nosebleeds
- Children's tonsil surgery
- Catarrh
- Blocked nose
- Adenoid surgery
- Adult tonsil surgery
Emergency Department
- Abdominal Pain
- Rib or Chest Injury
- Care of Feet and Toenails for Adults
- After sedation
- Ankle injury
- Managing Panic Attacks and Anxiety
- Asthma
- Burn to Hands
- How To Wear Your Wrist Splint
- Adult head injury
- Wound care
- Welcome to the Emergency Department
- Walking with Crutches
- Thromboprophylaxis
- Tetanus/Polio/Diphtheria Immunisation
- Tenosynovitis
- Swallowed Foreign Bodies
- Soft Tissue Shoulder Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury Of The Neck
- Pulled Elbow in Children
- Pre-Tibial Laceration
- Plaster Casts
- Nose Injury Advice
- Mallet Finger Injury
- Lower back pain advice
- Knee Injury
- Fever in Children
- Paediatric Minor Head Injury Glue & Go Advice
Endoscopy
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Bronchoscopy & EBUS
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Gastroscopy
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Gastroscopy with Oesophageal Stent Inserted
- Discharge advice following endoscopy with sedation (incl. Propofol)
- Discharge after ERCP - patient information
- Discharge advice following an endoscopy with Entonox
- Advice following a gastroscopy
- Advice following a gastroscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a colonoscopy
- Bronchoscopy with sedation
- Cut and Push Removal of A Freka Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
- Having an Oesophageal Dilatation
Foot & Ankle - Conditions
- Bunion
- Big Toe Arthritis
- Ankle Sprain
- Ankle Arthritis
- Adult Acquired Flatfoot
- Achilles Tendinopathy
- Small Toe Deformity
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Morton’s neuroma
- Midfoot Arthritis
- Hindfoot Arthritis
Foot & Ankle - Treatments
- Haglund’s Syndrome Surgery
- Flat Foot Reconstruction
- Bunion surgery
- Big Toe Fusion
- Big Toe Cheilectomy
- Ankle Fusion
- Ankle Arthroscopy
- Achilles Tendon Repair Surgery
- Small Toe Surgery
- Shockwave Therapy
- Morton’s Neuroma Surgery
- Midfoot Fusion
- Lateral Ligament Reconstruction
- Hindfoot Fusion
Gastroenterology
- Radiologically Inserted gastrostomy (RIG) Patient Information leaflet
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) - Information and Care Guidelines for patients and carers
- Gastroenterology Patient-initiated follow-up appointments
- How to take Picolax (Double Procedure)
- How to take Moviprep (Double Procedure)
- How to take Picolax
- How to Take Moviprep
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)
- Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Ready Steady Go Transition Programme
- Ciclosporin information
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Diet: Food Fact Sheet
- Ileo-Caecal Resection
- Adalimumab information
- All about Crohn's & Colitis
- Azathioprine and Mercaptopurine
- Biologic medicines
- Bloating and wind
- Bones information
- Bowel Cancer and IBD
- Counselling for IBD
- Crohn's disease - Your guide
- Dehydration
- Diarrhoea and constipation
- Other Treatments - Information sheet
- First Line Dietary Advice for Crohn’s Disease
- Coeliac Disease: FAQs
- Employment & IBD: A guide for employees
- Ferinject patient information
- Fatigue & IBD
- Finances information
- Living with a fistula
- Food - Your guide
- Golimumab information
- Infliximab information
- Insurance & IBD
- Joints - Information if you have Crohn's or Colitis
- Living with a Stoma
- Living with Crohn's or Colitis
- Managing bowel incontinence and IBD
- Medical terms
- Methotrexate information
- Microscopic Colitis
- My Crohn's & Colitis Care
- Personal Independence Payment
- Pregnancy and IBD
- Ready Steady Go questionnaire
- Rectal treatment for IBD
- Reproductive health & IBD
- Sexual relationships & IBD
- Smoking and IBD
- Steroids (Corticosteroids) information
- Students with IBD: A guide for universities and colleges
- Supporting someone with IBD: A guide for friends and family
- Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis
- Surgery for Crohn's Disease
- Taking medicines
- Talking to my child about my IBD
- Tests & Investigations for IBD
- Tofacitinib information
- Transition: Moving to adult care
- Travel and IBD information
- Ulcerative Colitis - Your Guide
- Ustekinumab
- Vedolizumab
- Aminosalicylates (5-ASAs)
General
- Infectious Diseases Patient Initiated Follow Up (PIFU)
- Stroke Patient-Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Tell us about your care (Complaints leaflet)
- Formal complaint information leaflet
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Management and Treatment of Lower Leg Cellulitis
- Reducing the risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
- Pneumonia
- Funeral Directors in the Milton Keynes Area
- Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICCs)
- Bereavement Information
- What happens if my heart stops?
- Preventing Pressure Ulcers
- Dermatology Patient Information Sheet
- Pain management telephone appointments form
- Patient Information – Information about your outpatient consultation
- Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
General Surgery
- Surgical Directorate Booklet
- Revision Hip Surgery
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Local Anaesthetic/No Sedation Starving Instructions for Adult Patients
- Lateral Anal Sphincterotomy
- Laparoscopic Hernia Repair
- Discharge Advice following Bowel Surgery
- Bowel Surgery – The Enhanced Recovery Programme
- Information and Advice Regarding your Breast Surgery
- Gallstones
- Tests for Bowel Problems – A Guide to Help You
- Anal Fissure
- Excision of a Lump
- Delorme’s Procedure for a rectal prolapse
- SDAU (Same Day Admissions Unit) for surgery
- Right Hemicolectomy
- Reversal of Hartmann’s Procedure
- Pruritus Ani
- Pilonidal Sinus
- Formation of Loop Ileostomy
- Haemorrhoidectomy
- Anal warts
- A self–help Guide for People with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Good Bowel Habit and Preventing Constipation
- General Anaesthetic / Sedation Feeding Instructions - Adult Patients Morning and Afternoon Surgery
- Faecal Incontinence
- Varicose Veins – For Surgery
- Ano-Rectal Tests
- Anal Fistula Operations
Gynaecology
- Following Pregnancy Loss (up to 13 weeks and 6 days by scan)
- Gynaecology Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Colposcopy Treatment (Loop Excision) Your Aftercare
- Urodynamics Studies (UDS)
- Vaginal Hysterectomy for Uterine Prolapse and Vaginal Repair
- Urinary Incontinence
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage Under Local Anaesthetic (MVA)
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage (SMOM)
- Sacrocolpopexy for Vault Prolapse
- Intermittent Self Catheterisation (ISC) Uro Gynaecology
- Post-operative follow up for patients diagnosed with early stage endometrial cancer
- Medical Management of Miscarriage (Outpatient) at Less Than 9 weeks Gestation
- Hysteroscopy Under General Anaesthesia
- Hysterectomy
- Cryocautery to Cervical Ectropion
- Gynaecological Laparoscopy
- Gemeprost
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) for prolapse of the uterus (womb) or prolapse of the vaginal vault (top of vagina)
- Sacrohysteropexy for Uterine Prolapse (Womb Prolapse)
- Colposuspension for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Going Home After a Laparoscopy (Adult)
- Vaginal Pessary for Prolapse
- Botox Injections for the treatment of an Overactive Bladder
- Vulvoscopy, Vulval Biopsy: Your Aftercare
Haematology
- Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia
- Haematology PIFU – Bleeding Disorder
- Haematology PIFU - Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura
- Factor V Leiden Information
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- MGUS (Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance)
Hepatology
Imaging
- Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)
- Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy (RIG)
- Your X-ray
- Varicocele Embolisation
- Tunnelled Line Insertion
- Transfemoral Angiogram
- Your Water Soluble Enema
- Your Small Bowel Meal
- Your Barium Swallow
- Your Barium Meal
- Your CT Scan
- Nerve Root Block
- Going Home after your Fibroid Embolisation
- Angioplasty
- Small Bowel Aftercare Advice
- Explaining your CT Virtual Colonoscopy examination with Picolax® preparation
- Dietary instructions for patients requiring a barium enema taking Picolax®
- Your Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Biopsy under Ultrasound - Guidance
- Early pregnancy scan
- Abdominal CT Scan - Preparation
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Fibroid Embolisation
- Liver biopsy
- Biopsy
- CT Pneumocolon Aftercare Information
- Gastrostomy Insertion
- Picolax - Dietary instructions for patients requiring a small bowel enema taking Picolax®
Infection Prevention
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Caring for your Midline Catheter Caring for your Midline Catheter
- How to collect a urine sample
- Clostridioides difficile (C.diff or CDI)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Self-management programme
- Rectosigmoid and pancolitis
- Pregnancy and inflammatory bowel disease
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- Homecare Medicines Service
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
Maternity
- Having a small for gestational age (SGA) baby
- Preterm birth clinic
- Maternal request for caesarean section
- Expectant management following a miscarriage
- Feeling your baby move
- Being overweight in pregnancy and after birth
- Caring for your baby at night
- Cervical stitch
- Considering a caesarean birth
- Corticosteriods in pregnancy
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy -RCOG
- Birthing partners staying overnight
- Elective Caesarean Birth
- Gestational Diabetes mellitus
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Assisted vaginal birth (ventouse or forceps)
- Meet the Maternity Team
- Staying comfortable during labour
- Epidural – Your Choice
- TB, BCG and your baby
- Screening tests for you and your baby (STFYAYB)
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Breech Presentation – What are your choices?
- Reducing the risk of pre-eclampsia - Information for women taking aspirin in pregnancy
- Down’s, Edward’s & Patau’s syndromes screening
- Monitoring your Baby’s Heartbeat in Labour
- Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme Handbook
- The Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU)
- Illness in newborn babies
- Planning your birth
- Coronavirus: Parent information for newborn babies
- Use of water in labour and birth
- Postnatal Community Care
- HIV and Pregnancy – You and Your Baby
- GDm-Health
- Caring for your wound after having a caesarean section
- Outpatient Induction of Labour
- Induction of Labour
- Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Pregnancy
- Newborn Feeding Policy Summary
- Perineal Care
- Feeding your baby during a hospital admission
- Antenatal Day Assessment Unit (ADAU)
- NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Birth Reflections
- Understanding why your baby died
- Gestational diabetes using the GDmHealth App
- Pregnancy information for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Pethidine Injection for homebirths
- Loss of Your Baby - Neonatal - Guidance for parents
- Late Miscarriage or Termination of Pregnancy for Medical Reasons - Guidance for parents
- Stillbirth or Termination of Pregnancy (over 24 weeks) - Guidance for parents
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- How to take your blood pressure at home using an upper arm monitor
- Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnant Women
- Antenatal Colostrum Collection
- A guide to starting insulin for women with gestational diabetes
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Early pregnancy scan
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
- Home birth at MKUH
Neonatal Unit
- Car seat information
- Sucrose - pain relief for babies
- Cleaning and Storing the Single Patient Use Pump Kits
- The Neonatal Community Team: Going Home
- Neonatal Unit Parents’ Leaflet
- Intravenous Antibiotics (IVAB’s)
- Heart Murmurs in Newborn Babies
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Bronchiolitis + RSV
- Birth Reflections
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- Lumbar puncture for newborn
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Care of the Umbilical cord
- Jaundice in Newborn Babies
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Red Box Patient System
Neurology
- Neurology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Providing Disease-Modifying Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis Patients
- Managing Stress and Anxiety - For Patients with Epilepsy
- First fit and epilepsy information leaflet
- Parkinson's UK - First Steps
- Parkinson's UK - General Information
- Parkinson's Information Leaflet
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Bladder Diary
- Bladder training - A guide for women
- Female sterilisation
- Healthy Bladder information
- Heavy periods (adolescents)
- Outpatient Hysteroscopy – An Internal Examination of Your Womb
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) information
- Urethral Bulking for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Urodynamics information
- Vulvovaginitis information
Occupational Therapy
Ophthalmology
- Squint information sheet
- Registered Sight Impaired
- Registered Severely Sight Impaired
- Fluorescein Angiography
- Occlusion Treatment (Eye Patching)
- Cataract surgery For Patients who have had previous refractive Corneal Surgery
- Intravitreal Injection
- How to use your eye drops
- Dispensing Bifocals to Children
- AREDS 2 trial of vitamins and minerals for macular degeneration
- After Care: Intravitreal Injection
- Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG)
- Ocular hypertension
- Glaucoma and Your Relatives
- Driving with Glaucoma
- Glaucoma - A guide
- Glaucoma - Eye drops and dispensing aids
- Obtaining Children’s Glasses
- Macular Laser Treatment
- Glasses Information Sheet
- Laser Iridotomies
- Strabismus (Squint) Surgery
- Use of Cyclopentolate Eye Drops
- Vision Advice for Children
- Macular Hole
- Glaucoma and Trabeculectomy
- Discharge Information Sheet
- Children’s Eye Clinic appointments
- Vision checks at School for the rising 5’s
- You child's eyes - Vision Information for Pre-School Children
- Reading Medicines Information Leaflets
- Facial Nerve Paralysis
- Blepharitis
- Stand Magnifiers for Home Use
- Surgery for a watery eye (Lacrimal surgery)
- Intravitreal Injection
- Illuminated Magnifiers for Home Use
- Information For Hand-Magnifier Users
- Intravitreal Injection After Care
- Adult Age Related Ptosis
- High Power Spectacles for Home Use
- Floater, Flashes and Vitreous Separation
- Convergence Insufficiency Exercises
- Blepharoplasty (Lid Surgery)
- Botulinum toxin treatment for squint / double vision
- Trabeculectomy information
Oral and Maxillofacial
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery (Post operative wound care after Facial Surgery)
- Oral (Mouth) Biopsy
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Lichen Planus
- Exposure of Impacted Upper Canine
- Oral Maxillofacial Surgery (Jaw Joint Problems – Self help)
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery
Orthodontics
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Information prior to oral surgery under intravenous sedation
- Removal of impacted wisdom teeth
- Jaw joint problems
Orthopaedics
- Fractured Neck of Femur
- Orthopaedic Patient Initiated Follow up (PIFU)
- Lumbar decompression surgery
- Damage to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
- Ankle Sprains
- Acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) injury
- Buckle Fractures of the Radius in Children
- Cervical Disc Protrusion and Radiculopathy: Surgical Options
- Discharge advice: “Buckle” fractures
- Discharge advice following attendance with a radial head/neck fracture
- Discharge advice: Paediatric (Children’s) clavicle fracture
- Discharge advice mallet finger injury
- Discharge advice 5th metatarsal fracture
- Discharge advice following attendance with a hand (5th metacarpal) fracture
- Advice sheet for Patients fitted with a Polypropylene Cast
- Tennis / Golfer's Elbow
- Knee Arthroscopy
- Hip Spica
- Dupuytren’s Contracture
- Carpal Tunnel Decompression
- ACL Rehabilitation
- Total Knee Replacement
- Total Hip Replacement
Paediatric Diabetes
- Isolation Nursing
- How to treat your asthma / wheeze
- Oxygen Therapy and your child
- Sick Day Rules for Children with Diabetes
- Paediatric Diabetes Clinic Brochure
- Insulin Management for Long Distance Travel
- Children with Diabetes and becoming ill
- Use of Glucogel
- Management of a severe hypoglycaemia
- Treatment for mild hypoglycaemia
- What is your HbA1c?
- The Honeymoon Period
- Holiday Advice
- Disability Living Allowance
- Travel Checklist
- Blood Ketones testing
- Blood Glucose testing
- Administration of Insulin via pen device
Paediatrics
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Paediatric Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Paediatric Bereavement Booklet
- Home Leave Agreement
- Traction: principles and application
- Laparoscopy: Going Home After
- How to Administer Buccolam®
- Appendicitis and Your Child
- Urine Sample
- Your Child’s Outpatient Appointment
- Urinary Tract Infections (Complications and Tests)
- Fasting - All You Need to Know (A Guide for Parents/Carers)
- Skin Prick Testing
- Food Challenges
- Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
- Viral Induced Wheeze
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Treatment of Hypoglycaemia (Hypo’s) For Insulin Pump Users
- Treatment of High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) on Pump Therapy
- Preventing Diarrhoea and Vomiting in Children 0-5 years
- Rectal Paraldehyde For Stopping Seizures
- My Child is Having Sedation: Advice for Parents
- Home Intravenous (IV) Antibiotic Teaching Pack for Children / Parents / Carers of Children with Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
- High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) On Pump Therapy
- Head Injury – Discharge Information for Parents / Carers (Paediatrics)
- Head Injury Advice Sheet for Children
- Fever Advice Sheet for Children 0-5 years
- Egg allergy and Mumps, Measles and Rubella (MMR) Vaccination in Children
- Cystic Fibrosis Information for Families
- Children and young people with constipation - Advice sheet for parents and carers
- Children’s Community Nursing Service
- Bronchiolitis Advice Sheet
- Basal Rate Testing for Insulin Pump Users
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Pregnancy testing before an operation, investigation or treatment
- A Leaflet for Young People: Safeguarding (16-18 Years)
- Young People’s Guide
- Recurrent Abdominal Pain
- Pain Assessment (A Guide for Parents / Carers)
- Central Venous Catheters: A Guide for Parents and Carers
- Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) - A guide for Older Children (8-16yrs)
- Childhood obesity
- Paediatric Pre Assessment Booklet
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Nephrotic Syndrome
- Care of Your Mouth after Oral Surgery
- Incision and Curettage
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Central Line Training for Schools
- Care of a child with a chest infection / pneumonia
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Child Protection Medical
- Children’s Cancer Services
- Pica (Eating Inedible Objects) and Polydipsia (Drinking Excessively)
- Clobazam for preventing seizures
- Dairy Re-introduction plan – Milk Ladder
- Egg introduction - Egg ladder
- Ethosuximide for preventing seizures
- House dust mite allergy
- Lamotrigine for preventing seizures
- Levetiracetam for preventing seizures
- Midazolam for stopping seizures
- Oral carbamazepine for preventing seizures
- Red Box Patient System
- Paediatric Epilepsy Service
- Sodium valproate for preventing seizures
- SUDEP (Sudden death in epilepsy): What you need to know
- Topiramate for preventing seizures
- Mastoid surgery
Pain Management
- Epidural – Your Choice
- Pain relief after surgery
- Chronic Pain Service
- Pain injection treatment explained
- Facet injections
- Radiofrequency facet joint denervation
- Sacroiliac Injections
- Sacroiliac Joint Radiofrequency Denervation (SIJ RFD)
Pathology
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
- Instructions for patients collecting urine samples for Oxalate
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Information for Adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of Blood / Blood Products.
- A simple guide to the post-mortem examination procedure
Pharmacy Services
Physiotherapy
- Improving your pelvic health and fitness after pregnancy
- Advice and exercises following an OASI 3rd/4th degree tear
- Looking after your pelvic floor when you have had a baby
- Perineal Massage in Pregnancy – Advice and Information
- Exercises and advice following Gynae Surgery
- Diastasis Recti following pregnancy
- Getting back into shape after your delivery
- Advice and exercises following Caesarean Section
- Knee exercises
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for women
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
Respiratory/Chest Medicine
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Lung Function Unit – CPAP Service - Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointment
- Pleural Clinic - Information Sheet
- Pneumonia
- Looking After Your Chest Drain
Rheumatology
- Rheumatology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Ankylosing spondylitis information
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Etanercept information
- Cyclophosphamide information
- Certolizumab Pegol information booklet
- Ciclosporin information
- Baricitinib information
- Azathioprine information
- Apremilast information
- Amitriptyline information
- Allopurinol information
- Adalimumab information
- Abatacept information
- Zolendronic acid information
- Ustekinumab information
- Tofacitinib information
- Tocilizumab information
- Sulfasalazine information
- Steroid injections information
- Steroid information
- Secukinumab information
- Sarilumab information
- Alendronic acid and Osteoporosis fact sheet
- Rituximab information
- Painkillers and NSAIDS information
- Mycophenolate information
- Methotrexate information
- Leflunomide information
- Inflixmab information
- Iloprost information
- Hydroxychloroquine information
- Golimumab information
- Febuxostat information
Sexual Health
Stoma Care
- Abdominal Perineal Resection of the Rectum
- Subtotal Colectomy and formation of Ileostomy
- Panproctocolectomy and Ileostomy
- Loop Colostomy
- Hartmann’s Procedure
- Anterior Resection
Therapy Services
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for men
- Therapies - MSK Physiotherapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up
- Therapies - Hand Therapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Therapies - Amputee Physiotherapy Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Therapies - Orthotics Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Paediatric Physiotherapy CDC Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Paediatric Physiotherapy SSHC - Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Therapies Patient Initiated Follow-up - Women's & Men's Health
Urology
- Orchidectomy
- Urology Patient-Initiated Follow-up appointments
- Bladder tumours - Transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT)
- The nurse-led prostate surveillance telephone clinic
- Urology Team Macmillan CNS and MDT
- Intravesical BCG
- Going Home with a Catheter
- Varicocele
- Nephrostomy Tube Insertion and Care
- Adult Circumcision
- Kidney Stones
- Trans-Rectal Ultrasound Guided Biopsy of the Prostate Gland
- Trans Urethral Resection of Prostate (TURP)
- Circumcision A Parent / Carer's Guide
- One Stop Prostate Clinic
- What is a Urethrotomy?
- What is a Supra-Pubic Catheter?
- Urodynamics
- Extra Corporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL)
- Ureteric Stent - Going home
- What is a Flexible Cystoscopy?
- Intravesical Epirubicin chemotherapy: Procedure specific information
- Baus Kidney stones patient information
Patient Leaflets – Virtual Library
There are more than 900 patient information leaflets available to the public on our Virtual Library on the Trust’s website. These range across 38 different departments and areas, from Anaesthetics to Maternity, from Pharmacy Services to Ear, Nose & Throat, from Infection Prevention to Urology.
Please note that it is MKUH policy only leaflets that are up-to-date and approved by the Trust’s Governance team are published in our Virtual Library. If a leaflet has not been approved and is not up-to-date, then it will not appear on our website until it is approved and up-to-date.
Anaesthetics
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Lumbar Puncture information
- Keeping warm before, during and after an operation
Audiology
- Listening skills: Pre-school Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Listening skills: School Age Children - Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Hearing aid battery repair information
- Tinnitus
- Softening Ear Wax with Olive Oil
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (thin tubes)
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (Earmoulds)
- Hearing aids: Telephone Use
- Use of Water Barrier/ Swim Moulds
- Hearing aid maintenance information
- Getting used to your digital hearing aid
- Cleaning and retubing your earmould
- Children’s Hyperacusis
- Tactics for Good Hearing
- How to fit a new earmould
Blood Transfusion
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
Breast & General Surgery
- Common Conditions
- Outpatient Breast Clinic
- Breast Care wound advice sheet
- Breast Care - Diagnosis and Treatment Plan
- Advice following a core biopsy
- Admission and discharge - Breast Care Unit
- Fibroadenoma
- FEC-T chemotherapy
- Letrozole
- Breast pain leaflet
- Chemotherapy for breast cancer
- Gynaecomastia
- Tamoxifen
- Anastrozole
- Benign phyllodes tumours leaflet
- Breast pain information
- Breast cysts
- Fat necrosis
Cancer Services
- My Key To Care
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for people with chemotherapy/radiotherapy induced hair loss, including hair and scalp plans for cold cap treatment
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Safety at home after chemotherapy or when taking chemotherapy tablets home
- Patient handheld Systemic Anticancer Therapy (SACT) booklet
- Caring for the dying patient
- Extravasation What is it?
- Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment referral - What happens next?
- Patient Guidance Medication and driving
- Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression(MSCC)
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- What should I do if I have a chemotherapy spillage at home?
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for chemotherapy / radiotherapy patients
- Influenza and Pneumonia Vaccination for Adult patients undergoing treatment for Cancer
- A Guide to Supported Self-Management and Surveillance for Colorectal Cancer
- Awaiting Your Diagnosis and Colorectal Pathway
- Acute Oncology Service and Assessment Unit
Cardiology
- Cardiology Patient-Initiated Follow-up
- CT Coronary Angiogram with Ivabradine
- Pacemaker Follow Up Service
- Cardiac CT Angiography (CCTA)
- Echocardiogram
- Transesophageal Echocardiogram
- Pharmacological Stress - Echocardiogram
- Exercise Stress - Echocardiogram
- Cardiac Angiography Unit Pacemaker Implant Pre-Procedure leaflet
- Cardiology Outpatients 24 Hour Blood Pressure Monitor
- Ajmaline Challenge
- Cardiac Angiography Pre-Procedure Leaflet
- Discharge Information Following Pacemaker Insertion
- Discharge Advice Following Coronary Angiography
- Ongoing exercise programmes for Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Cardioversion
- Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise Programme Information for Participants
Chaplaincy
Colorectal
- CMR Surgical Registry: Patient information and informed consent
- Versius Patient Information
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Dietary advice for diverticular disease
- Diverticular Disease
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Haemorrhoids
- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
- Sigmoid Colectomy
Dermatology
Diabetes & Endocrinology
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- Insulin Pump Clinic
- Information for patients new to Insulin (for 16 years and above)
- Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Ketoacidosis
- Type 1 Diabetes - What to do when you're ill
- Alcohol, smoking and illicit drugs - What you need to know if you have diabetes
- Diabetes: Safe driving and the DVLA
- Keeping safe with insulin therapy
- Hypoglycaemia explained
- Managing Mealtime Insulin
Dietetics (adults)
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Foodbank support for Milton Keynes and surrounding areas
- Do you have diarrhoea?
- Glycaemic Index (GI)
- Eating when you have an Oesophageal Stent
- Snack Suggestions for a Puree Diet
- Coeliac Disease – What you need to know
- Tube feeding pack
- Chronic Pancreatitis Dietary Advice
- Gestational Diabetes Diet Sheet
- Instructions for taking Preload prior to surgery
- Wound Healing - Dietary advice
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Stroke and healthy eating
- Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux and Nutrition
- Food first as a treatment for under-nutrition
- Carbohydrate Counting
- Thickened Drinks
- Taking Pancreatic Enzymes
- Reducing your Salt Intake
- IDDSI Level 7: Easy to Chew (ETC)
- IDDSI Level 6: Soft and Bite-sized diet
- IDDSI Level 4: Puree Diet
- Eating when you have a duodenal stent
- Dietary advice for Gallbladder Disease
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Advice for family and friends helping somebody with cancer to eat and drink
- A Guide to Fluid Restriction
- Wheat Free Diet
- Low Lactose Diet
- Has your sense of taste changed?
- Following a milk-free diet while breastfeeding
- Do you have a dry or sore mouth?
- Are you too tired to cook meals?
- Are you feeling sick?
- Are you feeling full?
- Eating Well with Liver Disease
- A Guide to Food Labelling
- Tube feeding - The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- How to Take Oral Nutritional Supplements
- Homemade Nutritional Booster Recipes
- Omega 3 - Food fact sheet
- Dementia - Eating and drinking - Staying well
- Patient Information Healthy Eating with Diabetes
- Nourishing Milky Drinks
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Iron (good sources of)
- Diabetes Insulin and exercise
- Calcium information sheet
Dietetics (children)
- Gluten challenge for Coeliac Disease in children
- Constipation in Infants and Children
- Egg Free Diet
- Lowering your Cholesterol - Paediatrics
- Following a cow’s milk free diet whilst breastfeeding
- Cow’s Milk and Soya Free Diet for Children
- High Energy Dietary Information for Infants and Children on a Milk-Free Diet
- High Energy Diet Sheet for Infants and Children
- Cow’s milk-free diet for infants
- Cow’s milk-free diet for children
- Sources of Calcium for a cow’s milk free diet
- Paediatric Carbohydrate Free Meal Ideas
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Weaning a baby with a food allergy/intolerance
- Shopping guide for cow’s milk-free foods and drinks
- Lactose intolerance
- Eating out and travelling with an allergy resources
- Dietary Management of Toddler Diarrhoea
Ear, Nose and Throat
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Tinnitus
- Endoscopic Dacrocystorhinostomy (DCR) (Surgery for a watery eye)
- Epistaxis Advice Sheet
- Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy
- Thyroid Lobectomy
- Pain control advice following throat operations
- Otosclerosis
- Neck dissection information
- Nasal douching
- Myringoplasty
- Mastoidectomy
- Laryngoscopy, Bronchoscopy, Pharyngoscopy & Oesophagoscopy
- Grommets
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR)
- Exercises for Vertigo Sufferers
- Nose bleed advice
- ENT operations
- Surgery for a watery eye
- Correct use of nose drops
- Care of ears
- Allergy to house dust and dust mites
- Thyroid surgery
- Surgery of the submandibular gland
- Snoring & sleep apnoea
- Sore throats
- Sinusitis
- Septal surgery
- Rhinoplasty
- Parotid surgery
- Otosclerosis and stapedotomy
- Neck dissection leaflet
- Microlaryngoscopy and oesophagoscopy
- Mastoid surgery
- Hole in eardrum
- Hoarseness
- Hearing loss
- Grommets in childhood
- Glue ear
- Flexible nasal endoscopy
- Facial skin lesions
- Epistaxis or nosebleeds
- Children's tonsil surgery
- Catarrh
- Blocked nose
- Adenoid surgery
- Adult tonsil surgery
Emergency Department
- Abdominal Pain
- Rib or Chest Injury
- Care of Feet and Toenails for Adults
- After sedation
- Ankle injury
- Managing Panic Attacks and Anxiety
- Asthma
- Burn to Hands
- How To Wear Your Wrist Splint
- Adult head injury
- Wound care
- Welcome to the Emergency Department
- Walking with Crutches
- Thromboprophylaxis
- Tetanus/Polio/Diphtheria Immunisation
- Tenosynovitis
- Swallowed Foreign Bodies
- Soft Tissue Shoulder Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury Of The Neck
- Pulled Elbow in Children
- Pre-Tibial Laceration
- Plaster Casts
- Nose Injury Advice
- Mallet Finger Injury
- Lower back pain advice
- Knee Injury
- Fever in Children
- Paediatric Minor Head Injury Glue & Go Advice
Endoscopy
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Bronchoscopy & EBUS
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Gastroscopy
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Gastroscopy with Oesophageal Stent Inserted
- Discharge advice following endoscopy with sedation (incl. Propofol)
- Discharge after ERCP - patient information
- Discharge advice following an endoscopy with Entonox
- Advice following a gastroscopy
- Advice following a gastroscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a colonoscopy
- Bronchoscopy with sedation
- Cut and Push Removal of A Freka Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
- Having an Oesophageal Dilatation
Foot & Ankle - Conditions
- Bunion
- Big Toe Arthritis
- Ankle Sprain
- Ankle Arthritis
- Adult Acquired Flatfoot
- Achilles Tendinopathy
- Small Toe Deformity
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Morton’s neuroma
- Midfoot Arthritis
- Hindfoot Arthritis
Foot & Ankle - Treatments
- Haglund’s Syndrome Surgery
- Flat Foot Reconstruction
- Bunion surgery
- Big Toe Fusion
- Big Toe Cheilectomy
- Ankle Fusion
- Ankle Arthroscopy
- Achilles Tendon Repair Surgery
- Small Toe Surgery
- Shockwave Therapy
- Morton’s Neuroma Surgery
- Midfoot Fusion
- Lateral Ligament Reconstruction
- Hindfoot Fusion
Gastroenterology
- Radiologically Inserted gastrostomy (RIG) Patient Information leaflet
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) - Information and Care Guidelines for patients and carers
- Gastroenterology Patient-initiated follow-up appointments
- How to take Picolax (Double Procedure)
- How to take Moviprep (Double Procedure)
- How to take Picolax
- How to Take Moviprep
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)
- Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Ready Steady Go Transition Programme
- Ciclosporin information
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Diet: Food Fact Sheet
- Ileo-Caecal Resection
- Adalimumab information
- All about Crohn's & Colitis
- Azathioprine and Mercaptopurine
- Biologic medicines
- Bloating and wind
- Bones information
- Bowel Cancer and IBD
- Counselling for IBD
- Crohn's disease - Your guide
- Dehydration
- Diarrhoea and constipation
- Other Treatments - Information sheet
- First Line Dietary Advice for Crohn’s Disease
- Coeliac Disease: FAQs
- Employment & IBD: A guide for employees
- Ferinject patient information
- Fatigue & IBD
- Finances information
- Living with a fistula
- Food - Your guide
- Golimumab information
- Infliximab information
- Insurance & IBD
- Joints - Information if you have Crohn's or Colitis
- Living with a Stoma
- Living with Crohn's or Colitis
- Managing bowel incontinence and IBD
- Medical terms
- Methotrexate information
- Microscopic Colitis
- My Crohn's & Colitis Care
- Personal Independence Payment
- Pregnancy and IBD
- Ready Steady Go questionnaire
- Rectal treatment for IBD
- Reproductive health & IBD
- Sexual relationships & IBD
- Smoking and IBD
- Steroids (Corticosteroids) information
- Students with IBD: A guide for universities and colleges
- Supporting someone with IBD: A guide for friends and family
- Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis
- Surgery for Crohn's Disease
- Taking medicines
- Talking to my child about my IBD
- Tests & Investigations for IBD
- Tofacitinib information
- Transition: Moving to adult care
- Travel and IBD information
- Ulcerative Colitis - Your Guide
- Ustekinumab
- Vedolizumab
- Aminosalicylates (5-ASAs)
General
- Infectious Diseases Patient Initiated Follow Up (PIFU)
- Stroke Patient-Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Tell us about your care (Complaints leaflet)
- Formal complaint information leaflet
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Management and Treatment of Lower Leg Cellulitis
- Reducing the risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
- Pneumonia
- Funeral Directors in the Milton Keynes Area
- Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICCs)
- Bereavement Information
- What happens if my heart stops?
- Preventing Pressure Ulcers
- Dermatology Patient Information Sheet
- Pain management telephone appointments form
- Patient Information – Information about your outpatient consultation
- Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
General Surgery
- Surgical Directorate Booklet
- Revision Hip Surgery
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Local Anaesthetic/No Sedation Starving Instructions for Adult Patients
- Lateral Anal Sphincterotomy
- Laparoscopic Hernia Repair
- Discharge Advice following Bowel Surgery
- Bowel Surgery – The Enhanced Recovery Programme
- Information and Advice Regarding your Breast Surgery
- Gallstones
- Tests for Bowel Problems – A Guide to Help You
- Anal Fissure
- Excision of a Lump
- Delorme’s Procedure for a rectal prolapse
- SDAU (Same Day Admissions Unit) for surgery
- Right Hemicolectomy
- Reversal of Hartmann’s Procedure
- Pruritus Ani
- Pilonidal Sinus
- Formation of Loop Ileostomy
- Haemorrhoidectomy
- Anal warts
- A self–help Guide for People with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Good Bowel Habit and Preventing Constipation
- General Anaesthetic / Sedation Feeding Instructions - Adult Patients Morning and Afternoon Surgery
- Faecal Incontinence
- Varicose Veins – For Surgery
- Ano-Rectal Tests
- Anal Fistula Operations
Gynaecology
- Following Pregnancy Loss (up to 13 weeks and 6 days by scan)
- Gynaecology Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Colposcopy Treatment (Loop Excision) Your Aftercare
- Urodynamics Studies (UDS)
- Vaginal Hysterectomy for Uterine Prolapse and Vaginal Repair
- Urinary Incontinence
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage Under Local Anaesthetic (MVA)
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage (SMOM)
- Sacrocolpopexy for Vault Prolapse
- Intermittent Self Catheterisation (ISC) Uro Gynaecology
- Post-operative follow up for patients diagnosed with early stage endometrial cancer
- Medical Management of Miscarriage (Outpatient) at Less Than 9 weeks Gestation
- Hysteroscopy Under General Anaesthesia
- Hysterectomy
- Cryocautery to Cervical Ectropion
- Gynaecological Laparoscopy
- Gemeprost
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) for prolapse of the uterus (womb) or prolapse of the vaginal vault (top of vagina)
- Sacrohysteropexy for Uterine Prolapse (Womb Prolapse)
- Colposuspension for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Going Home After a Laparoscopy (Adult)
- Vaginal Pessary for Prolapse
- Botox Injections for the treatment of an Overactive Bladder
- Vulvoscopy, Vulval Biopsy: Your Aftercare
Haematology
- Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia
- Haematology PIFU – Bleeding Disorder
- Haematology PIFU - Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura
- Factor V Leiden Information
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- MGUS (Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance)
Hepatology
Imaging
- Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)
- Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy (RIG)
- Your X-ray
- Varicocele Embolisation
- Tunnelled Line Insertion
- Transfemoral Angiogram
- Your Water Soluble Enema
- Your Small Bowel Meal
- Your Barium Swallow
- Your Barium Meal
- Your CT Scan
- Nerve Root Block
- Going Home after your Fibroid Embolisation
- Angioplasty
- Small Bowel Aftercare Advice
- Explaining your CT Virtual Colonoscopy examination with Picolax® preparation
- Dietary instructions for patients requiring a barium enema taking Picolax®
- Your Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Biopsy under Ultrasound - Guidance
- Early pregnancy scan
- Abdominal CT Scan - Preparation
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Fibroid Embolisation
- Liver biopsy
- Biopsy
- CT Pneumocolon Aftercare Information
- Gastrostomy Insertion
- Picolax - Dietary instructions for patients requiring a small bowel enema taking Picolax®
Infection Prevention
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Caring for your Midline Catheter Caring for your Midline Catheter
- How to collect a urine sample
- Clostridioides difficile (C.diff or CDI)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Self-management programme
- Rectosigmoid and pancolitis
- Pregnancy and inflammatory bowel disease
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- Homecare Medicines Service
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
Maternity
- Having a small for gestational age (SGA) baby
- Preterm birth clinic
- Maternal request for caesarean section
- Expectant management following a miscarriage
- Feeling your baby move
- Being overweight in pregnancy and after birth
- Caring for your baby at night
- Cervical stitch
- Considering a caesarean birth
- Corticosteriods in pregnancy
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy -RCOG
- Birthing partners staying overnight
- Elective Caesarean Birth
- Gestational Diabetes mellitus
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Assisted vaginal birth (ventouse or forceps)
- Meet the Maternity Team
- Staying comfortable during labour
- Epidural – Your Choice
- TB, BCG and your baby
- Screening tests for you and your baby (STFYAYB)
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Breech Presentation – What are your choices?
- Reducing the risk of pre-eclampsia - Information for women taking aspirin in pregnancy
- Down’s, Edward’s & Patau’s syndromes screening
- Monitoring your Baby’s Heartbeat in Labour
- Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme Handbook
- The Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU)
- Illness in newborn babies
- Planning your birth
- Coronavirus: Parent information for newborn babies
- Use of water in labour and birth
- Postnatal Community Care
- HIV and Pregnancy – You and Your Baby
- GDm-Health
- Caring for your wound after having a caesarean section
- Outpatient Induction of Labour
- Induction of Labour
- Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Pregnancy
- Newborn Feeding Policy Summary
- Perineal Care
- Feeding your baby during a hospital admission
- Antenatal Day Assessment Unit (ADAU)
- NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Birth Reflections
- Understanding why your baby died
- Gestational diabetes using the GDmHealth App
- Pregnancy information for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Pethidine Injection for homebirths
- Loss of Your Baby - Neonatal - Guidance for parents
- Late Miscarriage or Termination of Pregnancy for Medical Reasons - Guidance for parents
- Stillbirth or Termination of Pregnancy (over 24 weeks) - Guidance for parents
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- How to take your blood pressure at home using an upper arm monitor
- Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnant Women
- Antenatal Colostrum Collection
- A guide to starting insulin for women with gestational diabetes
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Early pregnancy scan
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
- Home birth at MKUH
Neonatal Unit
- Car seat information
- Sucrose - pain relief for babies
- Cleaning and Storing the Single Patient Use Pump Kits
- The Neonatal Community Team: Going Home
- Neonatal Unit Parents’ Leaflet
- Intravenous Antibiotics (IVAB’s)
- Heart Murmurs in Newborn Babies
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Bronchiolitis + RSV
- Birth Reflections
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- Lumbar puncture for newborn
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Care of the Umbilical cord
- Jaundice in Newborn Babies
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Red Box Patient System
Neurology
- Neurology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Providing Disease-Modifying Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis Patients
- Managing Stress and Anxiety - For Patients with Epilepsy
- First fit and epilepsy information leaflet
- Parkinson's UK - First Steps
- Parkinson's UK - General Information
- Parkinson's Information Leaflet
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Bladder Diary
- Bladder training - A guide for women
- Female sterilisation
- Healthy Bladder information
- Heavy periods (adolescents)
- Outpatient Hysteroscopy – An Internal Examination of Your Womb
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) information
- Urethral Bulking for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Urodynamics information
- Vulvovaginitis information
Occupational Therapy
Ophthalmology
- Squint information sheet
- Registered Sight Impaired
- Registered Severely Sight Impaired
- Fluorescein Angiography
- Occlusion Treatment (Eye Patching)
- Cataract surgery For Patients who have had previous refractive Corneal Surgery
- Intravitreal Injection
- How to use your eye drops
- Dispensing Bifocals to Children
- AREDS 2 trial of vitamins and minerals for macular degeneration
- After Care: Intravitreal Injection
- Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG)
- Ocular hypertension
- Glaucoma and Your Relatives
- Driving with Glaucoma
- Glaucoma - A guide
- Glaucoma - Eye drops and dispensing aids
- Obtaining Children’s Glasses
- Macular Laser Treatment
- Glasses Information Sheet
- Laser Iridotomies
- Strabismus (Squint) Surgery
- Use of Cyclopentolate Eye Drops
- Vision Advice for Children
- Macular Hole
- Glaucoma and Trabeculectomy
- Discharge Information Sheet
- Children’s Eye Clinic appointments
- Vision checks at School for the rising 5’s
- You child's eyes - Vision Information for Pre-School Children
- Reading Medicines Information Leaflets
- Facial Nerve Paralysis
- Blepharitis
- Stand Magnifiers for Home Use
- Surgery for a watery eye (Lacrimal surgery)
- Intravitreal Injection
- Illuminated Magnifiers for Home Use
- Information For Hand-Magnifier Users
- Intravitreal Injection After Care
- Adult Age Related Ptosis
- High Power Spectacles for Home Use
- Floater, Flashes and Vitreous Separation
- Convergence Insufficiency Exercises
- Blepharoplasty (Lid Surgery)
- Botulinum toxin treatment for squint / double vision
- Trabeculectomy information
Oral and Maxillofacial
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery (Post operative wound care after Facial Surgery)
- Oral (Mouth) Biopsy
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Lichen Planus
- Exposure of Impacted Upper Canine
- Oral Maxillofacial Surgery (Jaw Joint Problems – Self help)
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery
Orthodontics
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Information prior to oral surgery under intravenous sedation
- Removal of impacted wisdom teeth
- Jaw joint problems
Orthopaedics
- Fractured Neck of Femur
- Orthopaedic Patient Initiated Follow up (PIFU)
- Lumbar decompression surgery
- Damage to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
- Ankle Sprains
- Acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) injury
- Buckle Fractures of the Radius in Children
- Cervical Disc Protrusion and Radiculopathy: Surgical Options
- Discharge advice: “Buckle” fractures
- Discharge advice following attendance with a radial head/neck fracture
- Discharge advice: Paediatric (Children’s) clavicle fracture
- Discharge advice mallet finger injury
- Discharge advice 5th metatarsal fracture
- Discharge advice following attendance with a hand (5th metacarpal) fracture
- Advice sheet for Patients fitted with a Polypropylene Cast
- Tennis / Golfer's Elbow
- Knee Arthroscopy
- Hip Spica
- Dupuytren’s Contracture
- Carpal Tunnel Decompression
- ACL Rehabilitation
- Total Knee Replacement
- Total Hip Replacement
Paediatric Diabetes
- Isolation Nursing
- How to treat your asthma / wheeze
- Oxygen Therapy and your child
- Sick Day Rules for Children with Diabetes
- Paediatric Diabetes Clinic Brochure
- Insulin Management for Long Distance Travel
- Children with Diabetes and becoming ill
- Use of Glucogel
- Management of a severe hypoglycaemia
- Treatment for mild hypoglycaemia
- What is your HbA1c?
- The Honeymoon Period
- Holiday Advice
- Disability Living Allowance
- Travel Checklist
- Blood Ketones testing
- Blood Glucose testing
- Administration of Insulin via pen device
Paediatrics
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Paediatric Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Paediatric Bereavement Booklet
- Home Leave Agreement
- Traction: principles and application
- Laparoscopy: Going Home After
- How to Administer Buccolam®
- Appendicitis and Your Child
- Urine Sample
- Your Child’s Outpatient Appointment
- Urinary Tract Infections (Complications and Tests)
- Fasting - All You Need to Know (A Guide for Parents/Carers)
- Skin Prick Testing
- Food Challenges
- Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
- Viral Induced Wheeze
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Treatment of Hypoglycaemia (Hypo’s) For Insulin Pump Users
- Treatment of High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) on Pump Therapy
- Preventing Diarrhoea and Vomiting in Children 0-5 years
- Rectal Paraldehyde For Stopping Seizures
- My Child is Having Sedation: Advice for Parents
- Home Intravenous (IV) Antibiotic Teaching Pack for Children / Parents / Carers of Children with Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
- High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) On Pump Therapy
- Head Injury – Discharge Information for Parents / Carers (Paediatrics)
- Head Injury Advice Sheet for Children
- Fever Advice Sheet for Children 0-5 years
- Egg allergy and Mumps, Measles and Rubella (MMR) Vaccination in Children
- Cystic Fibrosis Information for Families
- Children and young people with constipation - Advice sheet for parents and carers
- Children’s Community Nursing Service
- Bronchiolitis Advice Sheet
- Basal Rate Testing for Insulin Pump Users
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Pregnancy testing before an operation, investigation or treatment
- A Leaflet for Young People: Safeguarding (16-18 Years)
- Young People’s Guide
- Recurrent Abdominal Pain
- Pain Assessment (A Guide for Parents / Carers)
- Central Venous Catheters: A Guide for Parents and Carers
- Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) - A guide for Older Children (8-16yrs)
- Childhood obesity
- Paediatric Pre Assessment Booklet
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Nephrotic Syndrome
- Care of Your Mouth after Oral Surgery
- Incision and Curettage
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Central Line Training for Schools
- Care of a child with a chest infection / pneumonia
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Child Protection Medical
- Children’s Cancer Services
- Pica (Eating Inedible Objects) and Polydipsia (Drinking Excessively)
- Clobazam for preventing seizures
- Dairy Re-introduction plan – Milk Ladder
- Egg introduction - Egg ladder
- Ethosuximide for preventing seizures
- House dust mite allergy
- Lamotrigine for preventing seizures
- Levetiracetam for preventing seizures
- Midazolam for stopping seizures
- Oral carbamazepine for preventing seizures
- Red Box Patient System
- Paediatric Epilepsy Service
- Sodium valproate for preventing seizures
- SUDEP (Sudden death in epilepsy): What you need to know
- Topiramate for preventing seizures
- Mastoid surgery
Pain Management
- Epidural – Your Choice
- Pain relief after surgery
- Chronic Pain Service
- Pain injection treatment explained
- Facet injections
- Radiofrequency facet joint denervation
- Sacroiliac Injections
- Sacroiliac Joint Radiofrequency Denervation (SIJ RFD)
Pathology
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
- Instructions for patients collecting urine samples for Oxalate
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Information for Adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of Blood / Blood Products.
- A simple guide to the post-mortem examination procedure
Pharmacy Services
Physiotherapy
- Improving your pelvic health and fitness after pregnancy
- Advice and exercises following an OASI 3rd/4th degree tear
- Looking after your pelvic floor when you have had a baby
- Perineal Massage in Pregnancy – Advice and Information
- Exercises and advice following Gynae Surgery
- Diastasis Recti following pregnancy
- Getting back into shape after your delivery
- Advice and exercises following Caesarean Section
- Knee exercises
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for women
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
Respiratory/Chest Medicine
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Lung Function Unit – CPAP Service - Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointment
- Pleural Clinic - Information Sheet
- Pneumonia
- Looking After Your Chest Drain
Rheumatology
- Rheumatology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Ankylosing spondylitis information
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Etanercept information
- Cyclophosphamide information
- Certolizumab Pegol information booklet
- Ciclosporin information
- Baricitinib information
- Azathioprine information
- Apremilast information
- Amitriptyline information
- Allopurinol information
- Adalimumab information
- Abatacept information
- Zolendronic acid information
- Ustekinumab information
- Tofacitinib information
- Tocilizumab information
- Sulfasalazine information
- Steroid injections information
- Steroid information
- Secukinumab information
- Sarilumab information
- Alendronic acid and Osteoporosis fact sheet
- Rituximab information
- Painkillers and NSAIDS information
- Mycophenolate information
- Methotrexate information
- Leflunomide information
- Inflixmab information
- Iloprost information
- Hydroxychloroquine information
- Golimumab information
- Febuxostat information
Sexual Health
Stoma Care
- Abdominal Perineal Resection of the Rectum
- Subtotal Colectomy and formation of Ileostomy
- Panproctocolectomy and Ileostomy
- Loop Colostomy
- Hartmann’s Procedure
- Anterior Resection
Therapy Services
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for men
- Therapies - MSK Physiotherapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up
- Therapies - Hand Therapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Therapies - Amputee Physiotherapy Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Therapies - Orthotics Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Paediatric Physiotherapy CDC Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Paediatric Physiotherapy SSHC - Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Therapies Patient Initiated Follow-up - Women's & Men's Health
Urology
- Orchidectomy
- Urology Patient-Initiated Follow-up appointments
- Bladder tumours - Transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT)
- The nurse-led prostate surveillance telephone clinic
- Urology Team Macmillan CNS and MDT
- Intravesical BCG
- Going Home with a Catheter
- Varicocele
- Nephrostomy Tube Insertion and Care
- Adult Circumcision
- Kidney Stones
- Trans-Rectal Ultrasound Guided Biopsy of the Prostate Gland
- Trans Urethral Resection of Prostate (TURP)
- Circumcision A Parent / Carer's Guide
- One Stop Prostate Clinic
- What is a Urethrotomy?
- What is a Supra-Pubic Catheter?
- Urodynamics
- Extra Corporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL)
- Ureteric Stent - Going home
- What is a Flexible Cystoscopy?
- Intravesical Epirubicin chemotherapy: Procedure specific information
- Baus Kidney stones patient information
Patient Leaflets – Virtual Library
There are more than 900 patient information leaflets available to the public on our Virtual Library on the Trust’s website. These range across 38 different departments and areas, from Anaesthetics to Maternity, from Pharmacy Services to Ear, Nose & Throat, from Infection Prevention to Urology.
Please note that it is MKUH policy only leaflets that are up-to-date and approved by the Trust’s Governance team are published in our Virtual Library. If a leaflet has not been approved and is not up-to-date, then it will not appear on our website until it is approved and up-to-date.
Anaesthetics
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Lumbar Puncture information
- Keeping warm before, during and after an operation
Audiology
- Listening skills: Pre-school Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Listening skills: School Age Children - Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Hearing aid battery repair information
- Tinnitus
- Softening Ear Wax with Olive Oil
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (thin tubes)
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (Earmoulds)
- Hearing aids: Telephone Use
- Use of Water Barrier/ Swim Moulds
- Hearing aid maintenance information
- Getting used to your digital hearing aid
- Cleaning and retubing your earmould
- Children’s Hyperacusis
- Tactics for Good Hearing
- How to fit a new earmould
Blood Transfusion
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
Breast & General Surgery
- Common Conditions
- Outpatient Breast Clinic
- Breast Care wound advice sheet
- Breast Care - Diagnosis and Treatment Plan
- Advice following a core biopsy
- Admission and discharge - Breast Care Unit
- Fibroadenoma
- FEC-T chemotherapy
- Letrozole
- Breast pain leaflet
- Chemotherapy for breast cancer
- Gynaecomastia
- Tamoxifen
- Anastrozole
- Benign phyllodes tumours leaflet
- Breast pain information
- Breast cysts
- Fat necrosis
Cancer Services
- My Key To Care
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for people with chemotherapy/radiotherapy induced hair loss, including hair and scalp plans for cold cap treatment
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Safety at home after chemotherapy or when taking chemotherapy tablets home
- Patient handheld Systemic Anticancer Therapy (SACT) booklet
- Caring for the dying patient
- Extravasation What is it?
- Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment referral - What happens next?
- Patient Guidance Medication and driving
- Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression(MSCC)
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- What should I do if I have a chemotherapy spillage at home?
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for chemotherapy / radiotherapy patients
- Influenza and Pneumonia Vaccination for Adult patients undergoing treatment for Cancer
- A Guide to Supported Self-Management and Surveillance for Colorectal Cancer
- Awaiting Your Diagnosis and Colorectal Pathway
- Acute Oncology Service and Assessment Unit
Cardiology
- Cardiology Patient-Initiated Follow-up
- CT Coronary Angiogram with Ivabradine
- Pacemaker Follow Up Service
- Cardiac CT Angiography (CCTA)
- Echocardiogram
- Transesophageal Echocardiogram
- Pharmacological Stress - Echocardiogram
- Exercise Stress - Echocardiogram
- Cardiac Angiography Unit Pacemaker Implant Pre-Procedure leaflet
- Cardiology Outpatients 24 Hour Blood Pressure Monitor
- Ajmaline Challenge
- Cardiac Angiography Pre-Procedure Leaflet
- Discharge Information Following Pacemaker Insertion
- Discharge Advice Following Coronary Angiography
- Ongoing exercise programmes for Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Cardioversion
- Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise Programme Information for Participants
Chaplaincy
Colorectal
- CMR Surgical Registry: Patient information and informed consent
- Versius Patient Information
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Dietary advice for diverticular disease
- Diverticular Disease
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Haemorrhoids
- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
- Sigmoid Colectomy
Dermatology
Diabetes & Endocrinology
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- Insulin Pump Clinic
- Information for patients new to Insulin (for 16 years and above)
- Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Ketoacidosis
- Type 1 Diabetes - What to do when you're ill
- Alcohol, smoking and illicit drugs - What you need to know if you have diabetes
- Diabetes: Safe driving and the DVLA
- Keeping safe with insulin therapy
- Hypoglycaemia explained
- Managing Mealtime Insulin
Dietetics (adults)
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Foodbank support for Milton Keynes and surrounding areas
- Do you have diarrhoea?
- Glycaemic Index (GI)
- Eating when you have an Oesophageal Stent
- Snack Suggestions for a Puree Diet
- Coeliac Disease – What you need to know
- Tube feeding pack
- Chronic Pancreatitis Dietary Advice
- Gestational Diabetes Diet Sheet
- Instructions for taking Preload prior to surgery
- Wound Healing - Dietary advice
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Stroke and healthy eating
- Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux and Nutrition
- Food first as a treatment for under-nutrition
- Carbohydrate Counting
- Thickened Drinks
- Taking Pancreatic Enzymes
- Reducing your Salt Intake
- IDDSI Level 7: Easy to Chew (ETC)
- IDDSI Level 6: Soft and Bite-sized diet
- IDDSI Level 4: Puree Diet
- Eating when you have a duodenal stent
- Dietary advice for Gallbladder Disease
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Advice for family and friends helping somebody with cancer to eat and drink
- A Guide to Fluid Restriction
- Wheat Free Diet
- Low Lactose Diet
- Has your sense of taste changed?
- Following a milk-free diet while breastfeeding
- Do you have a dry or sore mouth?
- Are you too tired to cook meals?
- Are you feeling sick?
- Are you feeling full?
- Eating Well with Liver Disease
- A Guide to Food Labelling
- Tube feeding - The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- How to Take Oral Nutritional Supplements
- Homemade Nutritional Booster Recipes
- Omega 3 - Food fact sheet
- Dementia - Eating and drinking - Staying well
- Patient Information Healthy Eating with Diabetes
- Nourishing Milky Drinks
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Iron (good sources of)
- Diabetes Insulin and exercise
- Calcium information sheet
Dietetics (children)
- Gluten challenge for Coeliac Disease in children
- Constipation in Infants and Children
- Egg Free Diet
- Lowering your Cholesterol - Paediatrics
- Following a cow’s milk free diet whilst breastfeeding
- Cow’s Milk and Soya Free Diet for Children
- High Energy Dietary Information for Infants and Children on a Milk-Free Diet
- High Energy Diet Sheet for Infants and Children
- Cow’s milk-free diet for infants
- Cow’s milk-free diet for children
- Sources of Calcium for a cow’s milk free diet
- Paediatric Carbohydrate Free Meal Ideas
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Weaning a baby with a food allergy/intolerance
- Shopping guide for cow’s milk-free foods and drinks
- Lactose intolerance
- Eating out and travelling with an allergy resources
- Dietary Management of Toddler Diarrhoea
Ear, Nose and Throat
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Tinnitus
- Endoscopic Dacrocystorhinostomy (DCR) (Surgery for a watery eye)
- Epistaxis Advice Sheet
- Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy
- Thyroid Lobectomy
- Pain control advice following throat operations
- Otosclerosis
- Neck dissection information
- Nasal douching
- Myringoplasty
- Mastoidectomy
- Laryngoscopy, Bronchoscopy, Pharyngoscopy & Oesophagoscopy
- Grommets
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR)
- Exercises for Vertigo Sufferers
- Nose bleed advice
- ENT operations
- Surgery for a watery eye
- Correct use of nose drops
- Care of ears
- Allergy to house dust and dust mites
- Thyroid surgery
- Surgery of the submandibular gland
- Snoring & sleep apnoea
- Sore throats
- Sinusitis
- Septal surgery
- Rhinoplasty
- Parotid surgery
- Otosclerosis and stapedotomy
- Neck dissection leaflet
- Microlaryngoscopy and oesophagoscopy
- Mastoid surgery
- Hole in eardrum
- Hoarseness
- Hearing loss
- Grommets in childhood
- Glue ear
- Flexible nasal endoscopy
- Facial skin lesions
- Epistaxis or nosebleeds
- Children's tonsil surgery
- Catarrh
- Blocked nose
- Adenoid surgery
- Adult tonsil surgery
Emergency Department
- Abdominal Pain
- Rib or Chest Injury
- Care of Feet and Toenails for Adults
- After sedation
- Ankle injury
- Managing Panic Attacks and Anxiety
- Asthma
- Burn to Hands
- How To Wear Your Wrist Splint
- Adult head injury
- Wound care
- Welcome to the Emergency Department
- Walking with Crutches
- Thromboprophylaxis
- Tetanus/Polio/Diphtheria Immunisation
- Tenosynovitis
- Swallowed Foreign Bodies
- Soft Tissue Shoulder Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury Of The Neck
- Pulled Elbow in Children
- Pre-Tibial Laceration
- Plaster Casts
- Nose Injury Advice
- Mallet Finger Injury
- Lower back pain advice
- Knee Injury
- Fever in Children
- Paediatric Minor Head Injury Glue & Go Advice
Endoscopy
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Bronchoscopy & EBUS
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Gastroscopy
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Gastroscopy with Oesophageal Stent Inserted
- Discharge advice following endoscopy with sedation (incl. Propofol)
- Discharge after ERCP - patient information
- Discharge advice following an endoscopy with Entonox
- Advice following a gastroscopy
- Advice following a gastroscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a colonoscopy
- Bronchoscopy with sedation
- Cut and Push Removal of A Freka Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
- Having an Oesophageal Dilatation
Foot & Ankle - Conditions
- Bunion
- Big Toe Arthritis
- Ankle Sprain
- Ankle Arthritis
- Adult Acquired Flatfoot
- Achilles Tendinopathy
- Small Toe Deformity
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Morton’s neuroma
- Midfoot Arthritis
- Hindfoot Arthritis
Foot & Ankle - Treatments
- Haglund’s Syndrome Surgery
- Flat Foot Reconstruction
- Bunion surgery
- Big Toe Fusion
- Big Toe Cheilectomy
- Ankle Fusion
- Ankle Arthroscopy
- Achilles Tendon Repair Surgery
- Small Toe Surgery
- Shockwave Therapy
- Morton’s Neuroma Surgery
- Midfoot Fusion
- Lateral Ligament Reconstruction
- Hindfoot Fusion
Gastroenterology
- Radiologically Inserted gastrostomy (RIG) Patient Information leaflet
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) - Information and Care Guidelines for patients and carers
- Gastroenterology Patient-initiated follow-up appointments
- How to take Picolax (Double Procedure)
- How to take Moviprep (Double Procedure)
- How to take Picolax
- How to Take Moviprep
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)
- Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Ready Steady Go Transition Programme
- Ciclosporin information
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Diet: Food Fact Sheet
- Ileo-Caecal Resection
- Adalimumab information
- All about Crohn's & Colitis
- Azathioprine and Mercaptopurine
- Biologic medicines
- Bloating and wind
- Bones information
- Bowel Cancer and IBD
- Counselling for IBD
- Crohn's disease - Your guide
- Dehydration
- Diarrhoea and constipation
- Other Treatments - Information sheet
- First Line Dietary Advice for Crohn’s Disease
- Coeliac Disease: FAQs
- Employment & IBD: A guide for employees
- Ferinject patient information
- Fatigue & IBD
- Finances information
- Living with a fistula
- Food - Your guide
- Golimumab information
- Infliximab information
- Insurance & IBD
- Joints - Information if you have Crohn's or Colitis
- Living with a Stoma
- Living with Crohn's or Colitis
- Managing bowel incontinence and IBD
- Medical terms
- Methotrexate information
- Microscopic Colitis
- My Crohn's & Colitis Care
- Personal Independence Payment
- Pregnancy and IBD
- Ready Steady Go questionnaire
- Rectal treatment for IBD
- Reproductive health & IBD
- Sexual relationships & IBD
- Smoking and IBD
- Steroids (Corticosteroids) information
- Students with IBD: A guide for universities and colleges
- Supporting someone with IBD: A guide for friends and family
- Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis
- Surgery for Crohn's Disease
- Taking medicines
- Talking to my child about my IBD
- Tests & Investigations for IBD
- Tofacitinib information
- Transition: Moving to adult care
- Travel and IBD information
- Ulcerative Colitis - Your Guide
- Ustekinumab
- Vedolizumab
- Aminosalicylates (5-ASAs)
General
- Infectious Diseases Patient Initiated Follow Up (PIFU)
- Stroke Patient-Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Tell us about your care (Complaints leaflet)
- Formal complaint information leaflet
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Management and Treatment of Lower Leg Cellulitis
- Reducing the risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
- Pneumonia
- Funeral Directors in the Milton Keynes Area
- Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICCs)
- Bereavement Information
- What happens if my heart stops?
- Preventing Pressure Ulcers
- Dermatology Patient Information Sheet
- Pain management telephone appointments form
- Patient Information – Information about your outpatient consultation
- Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
General Surgery
- Surgical Directorate Booklet
- Revision Hip Surgery
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Local Anaesthetic/No Sedation Starving Instructions for Adult Patients
- Lateral Anal Sphincterotomy
- Laparoscopic Hernia Repair
- Discharge Advice following Bowel Surgery
- Bowel Surgery – The Enhanced Recovery Programme
- Information and Advice Regarding your Breast Surgery
- Gallstones
- Tests for Bowel Problems – A Guide to Help You
- Anal Fissure
- Excision of a Lump
- Delorme’s Procedure for a rectal prolapse
- SDAU (Same Day Admissions Unit) for surgery
- Right Hemicolectomy
- Reversal of Hartmann’s Procedure
- Pruritus Ani
- Pilonidal Sinus
- Formation of Loop Ileostomy
- Haemorrhoidectomy
- Anal warts
- A self–help Guide for People with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Good Bowel Habit and Preventing Constipation
- General Anaesthetic / Sedation Feeding Instructions - Adult Patients Morning and Afternoon Surgery
- Faecal Incontinence
- Varicose Veins – For Surgery
- Ano-Rectal Tests
- Anal Fistula Operations
Gynaecology
- Following Pregnancy Loss (up to 13 weeks and 6 days by scan)
- Gynaecology Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Colposcopy Treatment (Loop Excision) Your Aftercare
- Urodynamics Studies (UDS)
- Vaginal Hysterectomy for Uterine Prolapse and Vaginal Repair
- Urinary Incontinence
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage Under Local Anaesthetic (MVA)
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage (SMOM)
- Sacrocolpopexy for Vault Prolapse
- Intermittent Self Catheterisation (ISC) Uro Gynaecology
- Post-operative follow up for patients diagnosed with early stage endometrial cancer
- Medical Management of Miscarriage (Outpatient) at Less Than 9 weeks Gestation
- Hysteroscopy Under General Anaesthesia
- Hysterectomy
- Cryocautery to Cervical Ectropion
- Gynaecological Laparoscopy
- Gemeprost
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) for prolapse of the uterus (womb) or prolapse of the vaginal vault (top of vagina)
- Sacrohysteropexy for Uterine Prolapse (Womb Prolapse)
- Colposuspension for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Going Home After a Laparoscopy (Adult)
- Vaginal Pessary for Prolapse
- Botox Injections for the treatment of an Overactive Bladder
- Vulvoscopy, Vulval Biopsy: Your Aftercare
Haematology
- Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia
- Haematology PIFU – Bleeding Disorder
- Haematology PIFU - Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura
- Factor V Leiden Information
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- MGUS (Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance)
Hepatology
Imaging
- Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)
- Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy (RIG)
- Your X-ray
- Varicocele Embolisation
- Tunnelled Line Insertion
- Transfemoral Angiogram
- Your Water Soluble Enema
- Your Small Bowel Meal
- Your Barium Swallow
- Your Barium Meal
- Your CT Scan
- Nerve Root Block
- Going Home after your Fibroid Embolisation
- Angioplasty
- Small Bowel Aftercare Advice
- Explaining your CT Virtual Colonoscopy examination with Picolax® preparation
- Dietary instructions for patients requiring a barium enema taking Picolax®
- Your Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Biopsy under Ultrasound - Guidance
- Early pregnancy scan
- Abdominal CT Scan - Preparation
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Fibroid Embolisation
- Liver biopsy
- Biopsy
- CT Pneumocolon Aftercare Information
- Gastrostomy Insertion
- Picolax - Dietary instructions for patients requiring a small bowel enema taking Picolax®
Infection Prevention
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Caring for your Midline Catheter Caring for your Midline Catheter
- How to collect a urine sample
- Clostridioides difficile (C.diff or CDI)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Self-management programme
- Rectosigmoid and pancolitis
- Pregnancy and inflammatory bowel disease
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- Homecare Medicines Service
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
Maternity
- Having a small for gestational age (SGA) baby
- Preterm birth clinic
- Maternal request for caesarean section
- Expectant management following a miscarriage
- Feeling your baby move
- Being overweight in pregnancy and after birth
- Caring for your baby at night
- Cervical stitch
- Considering a caesarean birth
- Corticosteriods in pregnancy
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy -RCOG
- Birthing partners staying overnight
- Elective Caesarean Birth
- Gestational Diabetes mellitus
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Assisted vaginal birth (ventouse or forceps)
- Meet the Maternity Team
- Staying comfortable during labour
- Epidural – Your Choice
- TB, BCG and your baby
- Screening tests for you and your baby (STFYAYB)
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Breech Presentation – What are your choices?
- Reducing the risk of pre-eclampsia - Information for women taking aspirin in pregnancy
- Down’s, Edward’s & Patau’s syndromes screening
- Monitoring your Baby’s Heartbeat in Labour
- Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme Handbook
- The Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU)
- Illness in newborn babies
- Planning your birth
- Coronavirus: Parent information for newborn babies
- Use of water in labour and birth
- Postnatal Community Care
- HIV and Pregnancy – You and Your Baby
- GDm-Health
- Caring for your wound after having a caesarean section
- Outpatient Induction of Labour
- Induction of Labour
- Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Pregnancy
- Newborn Feeding Policy Summary
- Perineal Care
- Feeding your baby during a hospital admission
- Antenatal Day Assessment Unit (ADAU)
- NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Birth Reflections
- Understanding why your baby died
- Gestational diabetes using the GDmHealth App
- Pregnancy information for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Pethidine Injection for homebirths
- Loss of Your Baby - Neonatal - Guidance for parents
- Late Miscarriage or Termination of Pregnancy for Medical Reasons - Guidance for parents
- Stillbirth or Termination of Pregnancy (over 24 weeks) - Guidance for parents
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- How to take your blood pressure at home using an upper arm monitor
- Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnant Women
- Antenatal Colostrum Collection
- A guide to starting insulin for women with gestational diabetes
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Early pregnancy scan
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
- Home birth at MKUH
Neonatal Unit
- Car seat information
- Sucrose - pain relief for babies
- Cleaning and Storing the Single Patient Use Pump Kits
- The Neonatal Community Team: Going Home
- Neonatal Unit Parents’ Leaflet
- Intravenous Antibiotics (IVAB’s)
- Heart Murmurs in Newborn Babies
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Bronchiolitis + RSV
- Birth Reflections
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- Lumbar puncture for newborn
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Care of the Umbilical cord
- Jaundice in Newborn Babies
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Red Box Patient System
Neurology
- Neurology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Providing Disease-Modifying Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis Patients
- Managing Stress and Anxiety - For Patients with Epilepsy
- First fit and epilepsy information leaflet
- Parkinson's UK - First Steps
- Parkinson's UK - General Information
- Parkinson's Information Leaflet
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Bladder Diary
- Bladder training - A guide for women
- Female sterilisation
- Healthy Bladder information
- Heavy periods (adolescents)
- Outpatient Hysteroscopy – An Internal Examination of Your Womb
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) information
- Urethral Bulking for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Urodynamics information
- Vulvovaginitis information
Occupational Therapy
Ophthalmology
- Squint information sheet
- Registered Sight Impaired
- Registered Severely Sight Impaired
- Fluorescein Angiography
- Occlusion Treatment (Eye Patching)
- Cataract surgery For Patients who have had previous refractive Corneal Surgery
- Intravitreal Injection
- How to use your eye drops
- Dispensing Bifocals to Children
- AREDS 2 trial of vitamins and minerals for macular degeneration
- After Care: Intravitreal Injection
- Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG)
- Ocular hypertension
- Glaucoma and Your Relatives
- Driving with Glaucoma
- Glaucoma - A guide
- Glaucoma - Eye drops and dispensing aids
- Obtaining Children’s Glasses
- Macular Laser Treatment
- Glasses Information Sheet
- Laser Iridotomies
- Strabismus (Squint) Surgery
- Use of Cyclopentolate Eye Drops
- Vision Advice for Children
- Macular Hole
- Glaucoma and Trabeculectomy
- Discharge Information Sheet
- Children’s Eye Clinic appointments
- Vision checks at School for the rising 5’s
- You child's eyes - Vision Information for Pre-School Children
- Reading Medicines Information Leaflets
- Facial Nerve Paralysis
- Blepharitis
- Stand Magnifiers for Home Use
- Surgery for a watery eye (Lacrimal surgery)
- Intravitreal Injection
- Illuminated Magnifiers for Home Use
- Information For Hand-Magnifier Users
- Intravitreal Injection After Care
- Adult Age Related Ptosis
- High Power Spectacles for Home Use
- Floater, Flashes and Vitreous Separation
- Convergence Insufficiency Exercises
- Blepharoplasty (Lid Surgery)
- Botulinum toxin treatment for squint / double vision
- Trabeculectomy information
Oral and Maxillofacial
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery (Post operative wound care after Facial Surgery)
- Oral (Mouth) Biopsy
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Lichen Planus
- Exposure of Impacted Upper Canine
- Oral Maxillofacial Surgery (Jaw Joint Problems – Self help)
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery
Orthodontics
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Information prior to oral surgery under intravenous sedation
- Removal of impacted wisdom teeth
- Jaw joint problems
Orthopaedics
- Fractured Neck of Femur
- Orthopaedic Patient Initiated Follow up (PIFU)
- Lumbar decompression surgery
- Damage to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
- Ankle Sprains
- Acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) injury
- Buckle Fractures of the Radius in Children
- Cervical Disc Protrusion and Radiculopathy: Surgical Options
- Discharge advice: “Buckle” fractures
- Discharge advice following attendance with a radial head/neck fracture
- Discharge advice: Paediatric (Children’s) clavicle fracture
- Discharge advice mallet finger injury
- Discharge advice 5th metatarsal fracture
- Discharge advice following attendance with a hand (5th metacarpal) fracture
- Advice sheet for Patients fitted with a Polypropylene Cast
- Tennis / Golfer's Elbow
- Knee Arthroscopy
- Hip Spica
- Dupuytren’s Contracture
- Carpal Tunnel Decompression
- ACL Rehabilitation
- Total Knee Replacement
- Total Hip Replacement
Paediatric Diabetes
- Isolation Nursing
- How to treat your asthma / wheeze
- Oxygen Therapy and your child
- Sick Day Rules for Children with Diabetes
- Paediatric Diabetes Clinic Brochure
- Insulin Management for Long Distance Travel
- Children with Diabetes and becoming ill
- Use of Glucogel
- Management of a severe hypoglycaemia
- Treatment for mild hypoglycaemia
- What is your HbA1c?
- The Honeymoon Period
- Holiday Advice
- Disability Living Allowance
- Travel Checklist
- Blood Ketones testing
- Blood Glucose testing
- Administration of Insulin via pen device
Paediatrics
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Paediatric Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Paediatric Bereavement Booklet
- Home Leave Agreement
- Traction: principles and application
- Laparoscopy: Going Home After
- How to Administer Buccolam®
- Appendicitis and Your Child
- Urine Sample
- Your Child’s Outpatient Appointment
- Urinary Tract Infections (Complications and Tests)
- Fasting - All You Need to Know (A Guide for Parents/Carers)
- Skin Prick Testing
- Food Challenges
- Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
- Viral Induced Wheeze
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Treatment of Hypoglycaemia (Hypo’s) For Insulin Pump Users
- Treatment of High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) on Pump Therapy
- Preventing Diarrhoea and Vomiting in Children 0-5 years
- Rectal Paraldehyde For Stopping Seizures
- My Child is Having Sedation: Advice for Parents
- Home Intravenous (IV) Antibiotic Teaching Pack for Children / Parents / Carers of Children with Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
- High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) On Pump Therapy
- Head Injury – Discharge Information for Parents / Carers (Paediatrics)
- Head Injury Advice Sheet for Children
- Fever Advice Sheet for Children 0-5 years
- Egg allergy and Mumps, Measles and Rubella (MMR) Vaccination in Children
- Cystic Fibrosis Information for Families
- Children and young people with constipation - Advice sheet for parents and carers
- Children’s Community Nursing Service
- Bronchiolitis Advice Sheet
- Basal Rate Testing for Insulin Pump Users
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Pregnancy testing before an operation, investigation or treatment
- A Leaflet for Young People: Safeguarding (16-18 Years)
- Young People’s Guide
- Recurrent Abdominal Pain
- Pain Assessment (A Guide for Parents / Carers)
- Central Venous Catheters: A Guide for Parents and Carers
- Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) - A guide for Older Children (8-16yrs)
- Childhood obesity
- Paediatric Pre Assessment Booklet
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Nephrotic Syndrome
- Care of Your Mouth after Oral Surgery
- Incision and Curettage
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Central Line Training for Schools
- Care of a child with a chest infection / pneumonia
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Child Protection Medical
- Children’s Cancer Services
- Pica (Eating Inedible Objects) and Polydipsia (Drinking Excessively)
- Clobazam for preventing seizures
- Dairy Re-introduction plan – Milk Ladder
- Egg introduction - Egg ladder
- Ethosuximide for preventing seizures
- House dust mite allergy
- Lamotrigine for preventing seizures
- Levetiracetam for preventing seizures
- Midazolam for stopping seizures
- Oral carbamazepine for preventing seizures
- Red Box Patient System
- Paediatric Epilepsy Service
- Sodium valproate for preventing seizures
- SUDEP (Sudden death in epilepsy): What you need to know
- Topiramate for preventing seizures
- Mastoid surgery
Pain Management
- Epidural – Your Choice
- Pain relief after surgery
- Chronic Pain Service
- Pain injection treatment explained
- Facet injections
- Radiofrequency facet joint denervation
- Sacroiliac Injections
- Sacroiliac Joint Radiofrequency Denervation (SIJ RFD)
Pathology
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
- Instructions for patients collecting urine samples for Oxalate
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Information for Adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of Blood / Blood Products.
- A simple guide to the post-mortem examination procedure
Pharmacy Services
Physiotherapy
- Improving your pelvic health and fitness after pregnancy
- Advice and exercises following an OASI 3rd/4th degree tear
- Looking after your pelvic floor when you have had a baby
- Perineal Massage in Pregnancy – Advice and Information
- Exercises and advice following Gynae Surgery
- Diastasis Recti following pregnancy
- Getting back into shape after your delivery
- Advice and exercises following Caesarean Section
- Knee exercises
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for women
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
Respiratory/Chest Medicine
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Lung Function Unit – CPAP Service - Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointment
- Pleural Clinic - Information Sheet
- Pneumonia
- Looking After Your Chest Drain
Rheumatology
- Rheumatology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Ankylosing spondylitis information
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Etanercept information
- Cyclophosphamide information
- Certolizumab Pegol information booklet
- Ciclosporin information
- Baricitinib information
- Azathioprine information
- Apremilast information
- Amitriptyline information
- Allopurinol information
- Adalimumab information
- Abatacept information
- Zolendronic acid information
- Ustekinumab information
- Tofacitinib information
- Tocilizumab information
- Sulfasalazine information
- Steroid injections information
- Steroid information
- Secukinumab information
- Sarilumab information
- Alendronic acid and Osteoporosis fact sheet
- Rituximab information
- Painkillers and NSAIDS information
- Mycophenolate information
- Methotrexate information
- Leflunomide information
- Inflixmab information
- Iloprost information
- Hydroxychloroquine information
- Golimumab information
- Febuxostat information
Sexual Health
Stoma Care
- Abdominal Perineal Resection of the Rectum
- Subtotal Colectomy and formation of Ileostomy
- Panproctocolectomy and Ileostomy
- Loop Colostomy
- Hartmann’s Procedure
- Anterior Resection
Therapy Services
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for men
- Therapies - MSK Physiotherapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up
- Therapies - Hand Therapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Therapies - Amputee Physiotherapy Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Therapies - Orthotics Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Paediatric Physiotherapy CDC Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Paediatric Physiotherapy SSHC - Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Therapies Patient Initiated Follow-up - Women's & Men's Health
Urology
- Orchidectomy
- Urology Patient-Initiated Follow-up appointments
- Bladder tumours - Transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT)
- The nurse-led prostate surveillance telephone clinic
- Urology Team Macmillan CNS and MDT
- Intravesical BCG
- Going Home with a Catheter
- Varicocele
- Nephrostomy Tube Insertion and Care
- Adult Circumcision
- Kidney Stones
- Trans-Rectal Ultrasound Guided Biopsy of the Prostate Gland
- Trans Urethral Resection of Prostate (TURP)
- Circumcision A Parent / Carer's Guide
- One Stop Prostate Clinic
- What is a Urethrotomy?
- What is a Supra-Pubic Catheter?
- Urodynamics
- Extra Corporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL)
- Ureteric Stent - Going home
- What is a Flexible Cystoscopy?
- Intravesical Epirubicin chemotherapy: Procedure specific information
- Baus Kidney stones patient information
Patient Leaflets – Virtual Library
There are more than 900 patient information leaflets available to the public on our Virtual Library on the Trust’s website. These range across 38 different departments and areas, from Anaesthetics to Maternity, from Pharmacy Services to Ear, Nose & Throat, from Infection Prevention to Urology.
Please note that it is MKUH policy only leaflets that are up-to-date and approved by the Trust’s Governance team are published in our Virtual Library. If a leaflet has not been approved and is not up-to-date, then it will not appear on our website until it is approved and up-to-date.
Anaesthetics
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Lumbar Puncture information
- Keeping warm before, during and after an operation
Audiology
- Listening skills: Pre-school Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Listening skills: School Age Children - Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Hearing aid battery repair information
- Tinnitus
- Softening Ear Wax with Olive Oil
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (thin tubes)
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (Earmoulds)
- Hearing aids: Telephone Use
- Use of Water Barrier/ Swim Moulds
- Hearing aid maintenance information
- Getting used to your digital hearing aid
- Cleaning and retubing your earmould
- Children’s Hyperacusis
- Tactics for Good Hearing
- How to fit a new earmould
Blood Transfusion
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
Breast & General Surgery
- Common Conditions
- Outpatient Breast Clinic
- Breast Care wound advice sheet
- Breast Care - Diagnosis and Treatment Plan
- Advice following a core biopsy
- Admission and discharge - Breast Care Unit
- Fibroadenoma
- FEC-T chemotherapy
- Letrozole
- Breast pain leaflet
- Chemotherapy for breast cancer
- Gynaecomastia
- Tamoxifen
- Anastrozole
- Benign phyllodes tumours leaflet
- Breast pain information
- Breast cysts
- Fat necrosis
Cancer Services
- My Key To Care
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for people with chemotherapy/radiotherapy induced hair loss, including hair and scalp plans for cold cap treatment
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Safety at home after chemotherapy or when taking chemotherapy tablets home
- Patient handheld Systemic Anticancer Therapy (SACT) booklet
- Caring for the dying patient
- Extravasation What is it?
- Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment referral - What happens next?
- Patient Guidance Medication and driving
- Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression(MSCC)
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- What should I do if I have a chemotherapy spillage at home?
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for chemotherapy / radiotherapy patients
- Influenza and Pneumonia Vaccination for Adult patients undergoing treatment for Cancer
- A Guide to Supported Self-Management and Surveillance for Colorectal Cancer
- Awaiting Your Diagnosis and Colorectal Pathway
- Acute Oncology Service and Assessment Unit
Cardiology
- Cardiology Patient-Initiated Follow-up
- CT Coronary Angiogram with Ivabradine
- Pacemaker Follow Up Service
- Cardiac CT Angiography (CCTA)
- Echocardiogram
- Transesophageal Echocardiogram
- Pharmacological Stress - Echocardiogram
- Exercise Stress - Echocardiogram
- Cardiac Angiography Unit Pacemaker Implant Pre-Procedure leaflet
- Cardiology Outpatients 24 Hour Blood Pressure Monitor
- Ajmaline Challenge
- Cardiac Angiography Pre-Procedure Leaflet
- Discharge Information Following Pacemaker Insertion
- Discharge Advice Following Coronary Angiography
- Ongoing exercise programmes for Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Cardioversion
- Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise Programme Information for Participants
Chaplaincy
Colorectal
- CMR Surgical Registry: Patient information and informed consent
- Versius Patient Information
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Dietary advice for diverticular disease
- Diverticular Disease
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Haemorrhoids
- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
- Sigmoid Colectomy
Dermatology
Diabetes & Endocrinology
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- Insulin Pump Clinic
- Information for patients new to Insulin (for 16 years and above)
- Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Ketoacidosis
- Type 1 Diabetes - What to do when you're ill
- Alcohol, smoking and illicit drugs - What you need to know if you have diabetes
- Diabetes: Safe driving and the DVLA
- Keeping safe with insulin therapy
- Hypoglycaemia explained
- Managing Mealtime Insulin
Dietetics (adults)
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Foodbank support for Milton Keynes and surrounding areas
- Do you have diarrhoea?
- Glycaemic Index (GI)
- Eating when you have an Oesophageal Stent
- Snack Suggestions for a Puree Diet
- Coeliac Disease – What you need to know
- Tube feeding pack
- Chronic Pancreatitis Dietary Advice
- Gestational Diabetes Diet Sheet
- Instructions for taking Preload prior to surgery
- Wound Healing - Dietary advice
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Stroke and healthy eating
- Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux and Nutrition
- Food first as a treatment for under-nutrition
- Carbohydrate Counting
- Thickened Drinks
- Taking Pancreatic Enzymes
- Reducing your Salt Intake
- IDDSI Level 7: Easy to Chew (ETC)
- IDDSI Level 6: Soft and Bite-sized diet
- IDDSI Level 4: Puree Diet
- Eating when you have a duodenal stent
- Dietary advice for Gallbladder Disease
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Advice for family and friends helping somebody with cancer to eat and drink
- A Guide to Fluid Restriction
- Wheat Free Diet
- Low Lactose Diet
- Has your sense of taste changed?
- Following a milk-free diet while breastfeeding
- Do you have a dry or sore mouth?
- Are you too tired to cook meals?
- Are you feeling sick?
- Are you feeling full?
- Eating Well with Liver Disease
- A Guide to Food Labelling
- Tube feeding - The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- How to Take Oral Nutritional Supplements
- Homemade Nutritional Booster Recipes
- Omega 3 - Food fact sheet
- Dementia - Eating and drinking - Staying well
- Patient Information Healthy Eating with Diabetes
- Nourishing Milky Drinks
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Iron (good sources of)
- Diabetes Insulin and exercise
- Calcium information sheet
Dietetics (children)
- Gluten challenge for Coeliac Disease in children
- Constipation in Infants and Children
- Egg Free Diet
- Lowering your Cholesterol - Paediatrics
- Following a cow’s milk free diet whilst breastfeeding
- Cow’s Milk and Soya Free Diet for Children
- High Energy Dietary Information for Infants and Children on a Milk-Free Diet
- High Energy Diet Sheet for Infants and Children
- Cow’s milk-free diet for infants
- Cow’s milk-free diet for children
- Sources of Calcium for a cow’s milk free diet
- Paediatric Carbohydrate Free Meal Ideas
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Weaning a baby with a food allergy/intolerance
- Shopping guide for cow’s milk-free foods and drinks
- Lactose intolerance
- Eating out and travelling with an allergy resources
- Dietary Management of Toddler Diarrhoea
Ear, Nose and Throat
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Tinnitus
- Endoscopic Dacrocystorhinostomy (DCR) (Surgery for a watery eye)
- Epistaxis Advice Sheet
- Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy
- Thyroid Lobectomy
- Pain control advice following throat operations
- Otosclerosis
- Neck dissection information
- Nasal douching
- Myringoplasty
- Mastoidectomy
- Laryngoscopy, Bronchoscopy, Pharyngoscopy & Oesophagoscopy
- Grommets
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR)
- Exercises for Vertigo Sufferers
- Nose bleed advice
- ENT operations
- Surgery for a watery eye
- Correct use of nose drops
- Care of ears
- Allergy to house dust and dust mites
- Thyroid surgery
- Surgery of the submandibular gland
- Snoring & sleep apnoea
- Sore throats
- Sinusitis
- Septal surgery
- Rhinoplasty
- Parotid surgery
- Otosclerosis and stapedotomy
- Neck dissection leaflet
- Microlaryngoscopy and oesophagoscopy
- Mastoid surgery
- Hole in eardrum
- Hoarseness
- Hearing loss
- Grommets in childhood
- Glue ear
- Flexible nasal endoscopy
- Facial skin lesions
- Epistaxis or nosebleeds
- Children's tonsil surgery
- Catarrh
- Blocked nose
- Adenoid surgery
- Adult tonsil surgery
Emergency Department
- Abdominal Pain
- Rib or Chest Injury
- Care of Feet and Toenails for Adults
- After sedation
- Ankle injury
- Managing Panic Attacks and Anxiety
- Asthma
- Burn to Hands
- How To Wear Your Wrist Splint
- Adult head injury
- Wound care
- Welcome to the Emergency Department
- Walking with Crutches
- Thromboprophylaxis
- Tetanus/Polio/Diphtheria Immunisation
- Tenosynovitis
- Swallowed Foreign Bodies
- Soft Tissue Shoulder Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury Of The Neck
- Pulled Elbow in Children
- Pre-Tibial Laceration
- Plaster Casts
- Nose Injury Advice
- Mallet Finger Injury
- Lower back pain advice
- Knee Injury
- Fever in Children
- Paediatric Minor Head Injury Glue & Go Advice
Endoscopy
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Bronchoscopy & EBUS
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Gastroscopy
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Gastroscopy with Oesophageal Stent Inserted
- Discharge advice following endoscopy with sedation (incl. Propofol)
- Discharge after ERCP - patient information
- Discharge advice following an endoscopy with Entonox
- Advice following a gastroscopy
- Advice following a gastroscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a colonoscopy
- Bronchoscopy with sedation
- Cut and Push Removal of A Freka Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
- Having an Oesophageal Dilatation
Foot & Ankle - Conditions
- Bunion
- Big Toe Arthritis
- Ankle Sprain
- Ankle Arthritis
- Adult Acquired Flatfoot
- Achilles Tendinopathy
- Small Toe Deformity
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Morton’s neuroma
- Midfoot Arthritis
- Hindfoot Arthritis
Foot & Ankle - Treatments
- Haglund’s Syndrome Surgery
- Flat Foot Reconstruction
- Bunion surgery
- Big Toe Fusion
- Big Toe Cheilectomy
- Ankle Fusion
- Ankle Arthroscopy
- Achilles Tendon Repair Surgery
- Small Toe Surgery
- Shockwave Therapy
- Morton’s Neuroma Surgery
- Midfoot Fusion
- Lateral Ligament Reconstruction
- Hindfoot Fusion
Gastroenterology
- Radiologically Inserted gastrostomy (RIG) Patient Information leaflet
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) - Information and Care Guidelines for patients and carers
- Gastroenterology Patient-initiated follow-up appointments
- How to take Picolax (Double Procedure)
- How to take Moviprep (Double Procedure)
- How to take Picolax
- How to Take Moviprep
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)
- Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Ready Steady Go Transition Programme
- Ciclosporin information
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Diet: Food Fact Sheet
- Ileo-Caecal Resection
- Adalimumab information
- All about Crohn's & Colitis
- Azathioprine and Mercaptopurine
- Biologic medicines
- Bloating and wind
- Bones information
- Bowel Cancer and IBD
- Counselling for IBD
- Crohn's disease - Your guide
- Dehydration
- Diarrhoea and constipation
- Other Treatments - Information sheet
- First Line Dietary Advice for Crohn’s Disease
- Coeliac Disease: FAQs
- Employment & IBD: A guide for employees
- Ferinject patient information
- Fatigue & IBD
- Finances information
- Living with a fistula
- Food - Your guide
- Golimumab information
- Infliximab information
- Insurance & IBD
- Joints - Information if you have Crohn's or Colitis
- Living with a Stoma
- Living with Crohn's or Colitis
- Managing bowel incontinence and IBD
- Medical terms
- Methotrexate information
- Microscopic Colitis
- My Crohn's & Colitis Care
- Personal Independence Payment
- Pregnancy and IBD
- Ready Steady Go questionnaire
- Rectal treatment for IBD
- Reproductive health & IBD
- Sexual relationships & IBD
- Smoking and IBD
- Steroids (Corticosteroids) information
- Students with IBD: A guide for universities and colleges
- Supporting someone with IBD: A guide for friends and family
- Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis
- Surgery for Crohn's Disease
- Taking medicines
- Talking to my child about my IBD
- Tests & Investigations for IBD
- Tofacitinib information
- Transition: Moving to adult care
- Travel and IBD information
- Ulcerative Colitis - Your Guide
- Ustekinumab
- Vedolizumab
- Aminosalicylates (5-ASAs)
General
- Infectious Diseases Patient Initiated Follow Up (PIFU)
- Stroke Patient-Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Tell us about your care (Complaints leaflet)
- Formal complaint information leaflet
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Management and Treatment of Lower Leg Cellulitis
- Reducing the risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
- Pneumonia
- Funeral Directors in the Milton Keynes Area
- Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICCs)
- Bereavement Information
- What happens if my heart stops?
- Preventing Pressure Ulcers
- Dermatology Patient Information Sheet
- Pain management telephone appointments form
- Patient Information – Information about your outpatient consultation
- Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
General Surgery
- Surgical Directorate Booklet
- Revision Hip Surgery
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Local Anaesthetic/No Sedation Starving Instructions for Adult Patients
- Lateral Anal Sphincterotomy
- Laparoscopic Hernia Repair
- Discharge Advice following Bowel Surgery
- Bowel Surgery – The Enhanced Recovery Programme
- Information and Advice Regarding your Breast Surgery
- Gallstones
- Tests for Bowel Problems – A Guide to Help You
- Anal Fissure
- Excision of a Lump
- Delorme’s Procedure for a rectal prolapse
- SDAU (Same Day Admissions Unit) for surgery
- Right Hemicolectomy
- Reversal of Hartmann’s Procedure
- Pruritus Ani
- Pilonidal Sinus
- Formation of Loop Ileostomy
- Haemorrhoidectomy
- Anal warts
- A self–help Guide for People with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Good Bowel Habit and Preventing Constipation
- General Anaesthetic / Sedation Feeding Instructions - Adult Patients Morning and Afternoon Surgery
- Faecal Incontinence
- Varicose Veins – For Surgery
- Ano-Rectal Tests
- Anal Fistula Operations
Gynaecology
- Following Pregnancy Loss (up to 13 weeks and 6 days by scan)
- Gynaecology Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Colposcopy Treatment (Loop Excision) Your Aftercare
- Urodynamics Studies (UDS)
- Vaginal Hysterectomy for Uterine Prolapse and Vaginal Repair
- Urinary Incontinence
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage Under Local Anaesthetic (MVA)
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage (SMOM)
- Sacrocolpopexy for Vault Prolapse
- Intermittent Self Catheterisation (ISC) Uro Gynaecology
- Post-operative follow up for patients diagnosed with early stage endometrial cancer
- Medical Management of Miscarriage (Outpatient) at Less Than 9 weeks Gestation
- Hysteroscopy Under General Anaesthesia
- Hysterectomy
- Cryocautery to Cervical Ectropion
- Gynaecological Laparoscopy
- Gemeprost
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) for prolapse of the uterus (womb) or prolapse of the vaginal vault (top of vagina)
- Sacrohysteropexy for Uterine Prolapse (Womb Prolapse)
- Colposuspension for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Going Home After a Laparoscopy (Adult)
- Vaginal Pessary for Prolapse
- Botox Injections for the treatment of an Overactive Bladder
- Vulvoscopy, Vulval Biopsy: Your Aftercare
Haematology
- Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia
- Haematology PIFU – Bleeding Disorder
- Haematology PIFU - Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura
- Factor V Leiden Information
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- MGUS (Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance)
Hepatology
Imaging
- Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)
- Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy (RIG)
- Your X-ray
- Varicocele Embolisation
- Tunnelled Line Insertion
- Transfemoral Angiogram
- Your Water Soluble Enema
- Your Small Bowel Meal
- Your Barium Swallow
- Your Barium Meal
- Your CT Scan
- Nerve Root Block
- Going Home after your Fibroid Embolisation
- Angioplasty
- Small Bowel Aftercare Advice
- Explaining your CT Virtual Colonoscopy examination with Picolax® preparation
- Dietary instructions for patients requiring a barium enema taking Picolax®
- Your Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Biopsy under Ultrasound - Guidance
- Early pregnancy scan
- Abdominal CT Scan - Preparation
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Fibroid Embolisation
- Liver biopsy
- Biopsy
- CT Pneumocolon Aftercare Information
- Gastrostomy Insertion
- Picolax - Dietary instructions for patients requiring a small bowel enema taking Picolax®
Infection Prevention
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Caring for your Midline Catheter Caring for your Midline Catheter
- How to collect a urine sample
- Clostridioides difficile (C.diff or CDI)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Self-management programme
- Rectosigmoid and pancolitis
- Pregnancy and inflammatory bowel disease
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- Homecare Medicines Service
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
Maternity
- Having a small for gestational age (SGA) baby
- Preterm birth clinic
- Maternal request for caesarean section
- Expectant management following a miscarriage
- Feeling your baby move
- Being overweight in pregnancy and after birth
- Caring for your baby at night
- Cervical stitch
- Considering a caesarean birth
- Corticosteriods in pregnancy
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy -RCOG
- Birthing partners staying overnight
- Elective Caesarean Birth
- Gestational Diabetes mellitus
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Assisted vaginal birth (ventouse or forceps)
- Meet the Maternity Team
- Staying comfortable during labour
- Epidural – Your Choice
- TB, BCG and your baby
- Screening tests for you and your baby (STFYAYB)
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Breech Presentation – What are your choices?
- Reducing the risk of pre-eclampsia - Information for women taking aspirin in pregnancy
- Down’s, Edward’s & Patau’s syndromes screening
- Monitoring your Baby’s Heartbeat in Labour
- Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme Handbook
- The Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU)
- Illness in newborn babies
- Planning your birth
- Coronavirus: Parent information for newborn babies
- Use of water in labour and birth
- Postnatal Community Care
- HIV and Pregnancy – You and Your Baby
- GDm-Health
- Caring for your wound after having a caesarean section
- Outpatient Induction of Labour
- Induction of Labour
- Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Pregnancy
- Newborn Feeding Policy Summary
- Perineal Care
- Feeding your baby during a hospital admission
- Antenatal Day Assessment Unit (ADAU)
- NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Birth Reflections
- Understanding why your baby died
- Gestational diabetes using the GDmHealth App
- Pregnancy information for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Pethidine Injection for homebirths
- Loss of Your Baby - Neonatal - Guidance for parents
- Late Miscarriage or Termination of Pregnancy for Medical Reasons - Guidance for parents
- Stillbirth or Termination of Pregnancy (over 24 weeks) - Guidance for parents
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- How to take your blood pressure at home using an upper arm monitor
- Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnant Women
- Antenatal Colostrum Collection
- A guide to starting insulin for women with gestational diabetes
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Early pregnancy scan
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
- Home birth at MKUH
Neonatal Unit
- Car seat information
- Sucrose - pain relief for babies
- Cleaning and Storing the Single Patient Use Pump Kits
- The Neonatal Community Team: Going Home
- Neonatal Unit Parents’ Leaflet
- Intravenous Antibiotics (IVAB’s)
- Heart Murmurs in Newborn Babies
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Bronchiolitis + RSV
- Birth Reflections
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- Lumbar puncture for newborn
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Care of the Umbilical cord
- Jaundice in Newborn Babies
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Red Box Patient System
Neurology
- Neurology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Providing Disease-Modifying Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis Patients
- Managing Stress and Anxiety - For Patients with Epilepsy
- First fit and epilepsy information leaflet
- Parkinson's UK - First Steps
- Parkinson's UK - General Information
- Parkinson's Information Leaflet
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Bladder Diary
- Bladder training - A guide for women
- Female sterilisation
- Healthy Bladder information
- Heavy periods (adolescents)
- Outpatient Hysteroscopy – An Internal Examination of Your Womb
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) information
- Urethral Bulking for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Urodynamics information
- Vulvovaginitis information
Occupational Therapy
Ophthalmology
- Squint information sheet
- Registered Sight Impaired
- Registered Severely Sight Impaired
- Fluorescein Angiography
- Occlusion Treatment (Eye Patching)
- Cataract surgery For Patients who have had previous refractive Corneal Surgery
- Intravitreal Injection
- How to use your eye drops
- Dispensing Bifocals to Children
- AREDS 2 trial of vitamins and minerals for macular degeneration
- After Care: Intravitreal Injection
- Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG)
- Ocular hypertension
- Glaucoma and Your Relatives
- Driving with Glaucoma
- Glaucoma - A guide
- Glaucoma - Eye drops and dispensing aids
- Obtaining Children’s Glasses
- Macular Laser Treatment
- Glasses Information Sheet
- Laser Iridotomies
- Strabismus (Squint) Surgery
- Use of Cyclopentolate Eye Drops
- Vision Advice for Children
- Macular Hole
- Glaucoma and Trabeculectomy
- Discharge Information Sheet
- Children’s Eye Clinic appointments
- Vision checks at School for the rising 5’s
- You child's eyes - Vision Information for Pre-School Children
- Reading Medicines Information Leaflets
- Facial Nerve Paralysis
- Blepharitis
- Stand Magnifiers for Home Use
- Surgery for a watery eye (Lacrimal surgery)
- Intravitreal Injection
- Illuminated Magnifiers for Home Use
- Information For Hand-Magnifier Users
- Intravitreal Injection After Care
- Adult Age Related Ptosis
- High Power Spectacles for Home Use
- Floater, Flashes and Vitreous Separation
- Convergence Insufficiency Exercises
- Blepharoplasty (Lid Surgery)
- Botulinum toxin treatment for squint / double vision
- Trabeculectomy information
Oral and Maxillofacial
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery (Post operative wound care after Facial Surgery)
- Oral (Mouth) Biopsy
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Lichen Planus
- Exposure of Impacted Upper Canine
- Oral Maxillofacial Surgery (Jaw Joint Problems – Self help)
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery
Orthodontics
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Information prior to oral surgery under intravenous sedation
- Removal of impacted wisdom teeth
- Jaw joint problems
Orthopaedics
- Fractured Neck of Femur
- Orthopaedic Patient Initiated Follow up (PIFU)
- Lumbar decompression surgery
- Damage to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
- Ankle Sprains
- Acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) injury
- Buckle Fractures of the Radius in Children
- Cervical Disc Protrusion and Radiculopathy: Surgical Options
- Discharge advice: “Buckle” fractures
- Discharge advice following attendance with a radial head/neck fracture
- Discharge advice: Paediatric (Children’s) clavicle fracture
- Discharge advice mallet finger injury
- Discharge advice 5th metatarsal fracture
- Discharge advice following attendance with a hand (5th metacarpal) fracture
- Advice sheet for Patients fitted with a Polypropylene Cast
- Tennis / Golfer's Elbow
- Knee Arthroscopy
- Hip Spica
- Dupuytren’s Contracture
- Carpal Tunnel Decompression
- ACL Rehabilitation
- Total Knee Replacement
- Total Hip Replacement
Paediatric Diabetes
- Isolation Nursing
- How to treat your asthma / wheeze
- Oxygen Therapy and your child
- Sick Day Rules for Children with Diabetes
- Paediatric Diabetes Clinic Brochure
- Insulin Management for Long Distance Travel
- Children with Diabetes and becoming ill
- Use of Glucogel
- Management of a severe hypoglycaemia
- Treatment for mild hypoglycaemia
- What is your HbA1c?
- The Honeymoon Period
- Holiday Advice
- Disability Living Allowance
- Travel Checklist
- Blood Ketones testing
- Blood Glucose testing
- Administration of Insulin via pen device
Paediatrics
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Paediatric Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Paediatric Bereavement Booklet
- Home Leave Agreement
- Traction: principles and application
- Laparoscopy: Going Home After
- How to Administer Buccolam®
- Appendicitis and Your Child
- Urine Sample
- Your Child’s Outpatient Appointment
- Urinary Tract Infections (Complications and Tests)
- Fasting - All You Need to Know (A Guide for Parents/Carers)
- Skin Prick Testing
- Food Challenges
- Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
- Viral Induced Wheeze
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Treatment of Hypoglycaemia (Hypo’s) For Insulin Pump Users
- Treatment of High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) on Pump Therapy
- Preventing Diarrhoea and Vomiting in Children 0-5 years
- Rectal Paraldehyde For Stopping Seizures
- My Child is Having Sedation: Advice for Parents
- Home Intravenous (IV) Antibiotic Teaching Pack for Children / Parents / Carers of Children with Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
- High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) On Pump Therapy
- Head Injury – Discharge Information for Parents / Carers (Paediatrics)
- Head Injury Advice Sheet for Children
- Fever Advice Sheet for Children 0-5 years
- Egg allergy and Mumps, Measles and Rubella (MMR) Vaccination in Children
- Cystic Fibrosis Information for Families
- Children and young people with constipation - Advice sheet for parents and carers
- Children’s Community Nursing Service
- Bronchiolitis Advice Sheet
- Basal Rate Testing for Insulin Pump Users
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Pregnancy testing before an operation, investigation or treatment
- A Leaflet for Young People: Safeguarding (16-18 Years)
- Young People’s Guide
- Recurrent Abdominal Pain
- Pain Assessment (A Guide for Parents / Carers)
- Central Venous Catheters: A Guide for Parents and Carers
- Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) - A guide for Older Children (8-16yrs)
- Childhood obesity
- Paediatric Pre Assessment Booklet
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Nephrotic Syndrome
- Care of Your Mouth after Oral Surgery
- Incision and Curettage
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Central Line Training for Schools
- Care of a child with a chest infection / pneumonia
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Child Protection Medical
- Children’s Cancer Services
- Pica (Eating Inedible Objects) and Polydipsia (Drinking Excessively)
- Clobazam for preventing seizures
- Dairy Re-introduction plan – Milk Ladder
- Egg introduction - Egg ladder
- Ethosuximide for preventing seizures
- House dust mite allergy
- Lamotrigine for preventing seizures
- Levetiracetam for preventing seizures
- Midazolam for stopping seizures
- Oral carbamazepine for preventing seizures
- Red Box Patient System
- Paediatric Epilepsy Service
- Sodium valproate for preventing seizures
- SUDEP (Sudden death in epilepsy): What you need to know
- Topiramate for preventing seizures
- Mastoid surgery
Pain Management
- Epidural – Your Choice
- Pain relief after surgery
- Chronic Pain Service
- Pain injection treatment explained
- Facet injections
- Radiofrequency facet joint denervation
- Sacroiliac Injections
- Sacroiliac Joint Radiofrequency Denervation (SIJ RFD)
Pathology
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
- Instructions for patients collecting urine samples for Oxalate
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Information for Adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of Blood / Blood Products.
- A simple guide to the post-mortem examination procedure
Pharmacy Services
Physiotherapy
- Improving your pelvic health and fitness after pregnancy
- Advice and exercises following an OASI 3rd/4th degree tear
- Looking after your pelvic floor when you have had a baby
- Perineal Massage in Pregnancy – Advice and Information
- Exercises and advice following Gynae Surgery
- Diastasis Recti following pregnancy
- Getting back into shape after your delivery
- Advice and exercises following Caesarean Section
- Knee exercises
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for women
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
Respiratory/Chest Medicine
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Lung Function Unit – CPAP Service - Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointment
- Pleural Clinic - Information Sheet
- Pneumonia
- Looking After Your Chest Drain
Rheumatology
- Rheumatology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Ankylosing spondylitis information
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Etanercept information
- Cyclophosphamide information
- Certolizumab Pegol information booklet
- Ciclosporin information
- Baricitinib information
- Azathioprine information
- Apremilast information
- Amitriptyline information
- Allopurinol information
- Adalimumab information
- Abatacept information
- Zolendronic acid information
- Ustekinumab information
- Tofacitinib information
- Tocilizumab information
- Sulfasalazine information
- Steroid injections information
- Steroid information
- Secukinumab information
- Sarilumab information
- Alendronic acid and Osteoporosis fact sheet
- Rituximab information
- Painkillers and NSAIDS information
- Mycophenolate information
- Methotrexate information
- Leflunomide information
- Inflixmab information
- Iloprost information
- Hydroxychloroquine information
- Golimumab information
- Febuxostat information
Sexual Health
Stoma Care
- Abdominal Perineal Resection of the Rectum
- Subtotal Colectomy and formation of Ileostomy
- Panproctocolectomy and Ileostomy
- Loop Colostomy
- Hartmann’s Procedure
- Anterior Resection
Therapy Services
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for men
- Therapies - MSK Physiotherapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up
- Therapies - Hand Therapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Therapies - Amputee Physiotherapy Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Therapies - Orthotics Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Paediatric Physiotherapy CDC Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Paediatric Physiotherapy SSHC - Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Therapies Patient Initiated Follow-up - Women's & Men's Health
Urology
- Orchidectomy
- Urology Patient-Initiated Follow-up appointments
- Bladder tumours - Transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT)
- The nurse-led prostate surveillance telephone clinic
- Urology Team Macmillan CNS and MDT
- Intravesical BCG
- Going Home with a Catheter
- Varicocele
- Nephrostomy Tube Insertion and Care
- Adult Circumcision
- Kidney Stones
- Trans-Rectal Ultrasound Guided Biopsy of the Prostate Gland
- Trans Urethral Resection of Prostate (TURP)
- Circumcision A Parent / Carer's Guide
- One Stop Prostate Clinic
- What is a Urethrotomy?
- What is a Supra-Pubic Catheter?
- Urodynamics
- Extra Corporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL)
- Ureteric Stent - Going home
- What is a Flexible Cystoscopy?
- Intravesical Epirubicin chemotherapy: Procedure specific information
- Baus Kidney stones patient information
Patient Leaflets – Virtual Library
There are more than 900 patient information leaflets available to the public on our Virtual Library on the Trust’s website. These range across 38 different departments and areas, from Anaesthetics to Maternity, from Pharmacy Services to Ear, Nose & Throat, from Infection Prevention to Urology.
Please note that it is MKUH policy only leaflets that are up-to-date and approved by the Trust’s Governance team are published in our Virtual Library. If a leaflet has not been approved and is not up-to-date, then it will not appear on our website until it is approved and up-to-date.
Anaesthetics
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Lumbar Puncture information
- Keeping warm before, during and after an operation
Audiology
- Listening skills: Pre-school Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Listening skills: School Age Children - Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Hearing aid battery repair information
- Tinnitus
- Softening Ear Wax with Olive Oil
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (thin tubes)
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (Earmoulds)
- Hearing aids: Telephone Use
- Use of Water Barrier/ Swim Moulds
- Hearing aid maintenance information
- Getting used to your digital hearing aid
- Cleaning and retubing your earmould
- Children’s Hyperacusis
- Tactics for Good Hearing
- How to fit a new earmould
Blood Transfusion
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
Breast & General Surgery
- Common Conditions
- Outpatient Breast Clinic
- Breast Care wound advice sheet
- Breast Care - Diagnosis and Treatment Plan
- Advice following a core biopsy
- Admission and discharge - Breast Care Unit
- Fibroadenoma
- FEC-T chemotherapy
- Letrozole
- Breast pain leaflet
- Chemotherapy for breast cancer
- Gynaecomastia
- Tamoxifen
- Anastrozole
- Benign phyllodes tumours leaflet
- Breast pain information
- Breast cysts
- Fat necrosis
Cancer Services
- My Key To Care
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for people with chemotherapy/radiotherapy induced hair loss, including hair and scalp plans for cold cap treatment
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Safety at home after chemotherapy or when taking chemotherapy tablets home
- Patient handheld Systemic Anticancer Therapy (SACT) booklet
- Caring for the dying patient
- Extravasation What is it?
- Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment referral - What happens next?
- Patient Guidance Medication and driving
- Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression(MSCC)
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- What should I do if I have a chemotherapy spillage at home?
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for chemotherapy / radiotherapy patients
- Influenza and Pneumonia Vaccination for Adult patients undergoing treatment for Cancer
- A Guide to Supported Self-Management and Surveillance for Colorectal Cancer
- Awaiting Your Diagnosis and Colorectal Pathway
- Acute Oncology Service and Assessment Unit
Cardiology
- Cardiology Patient-Initiated Follow-up
- CT Coronary Angiogram with Ivabradine
- Pacemaker Follow Up Service
- Cardiac CT Angiography (CCTA)
- Echocardiogram
- Transesophageal Echocardiogram
- Pharmacological Stress - Echocardiogram
- Exercise Stress - Echocardiogram
- Cardiac Angiography Unit Pacemaker Implant Pre-Procedure leaflet
- Cardiology Outpatients 24 Hour Blood Pressure Monitor
- Ajmaline Challenge
- Cardiac Angiography Pre-Procedure Leaflet
- Discharge Information Following Pacemaker Insertion
- Discharge Advice Following Coronary Angiography
- Ongoing exercise programmes for Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Cardioversion
- Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise Programme Information for Participants
Chaplaincy
Colorectal
- CMR Surgical Registry: Patient information and informed consent
- Versius Patient Information
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Dietary advice for diverticular disease
- Diverticular Disease
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Haemorrhoids
- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
- Sigmoid Colectomy
Dermatology
Diabetes & Endocrinology
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- Insulin Pump Clinic
- Information for patients new to Insulin (for 16 years and above)
- Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Ketoacidosis
- Type 1 Diabetes - What to do when you're ill
- Alcohol, smoking and illicit drugs - What you need to know if you have diabetes
- Diabetes: Safe driving and the DVLA
- Keeping safe with insulin therapy
- Hypoglycaemia explained
- Managing Mealtime Insulin
Dietetics (adults)
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Foodbank support for Milton Keynes and surrounding areas
- Do you have diarrhoea?
- Glycaemic Index (GI)
- Eating when you have an Oesophageal Stent
- Snack Suggestions for a Puree Diet
- Coeliac Disease – What you need to know
- Tube feeding pack
- Chronic Pancreatitis Dietary Advice
- Gestational Diabetes Diet Sheet
- Instructions for taking Preload prior to surgery
- Wound Healing - Dietary advice
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Stroke and healthy eating
- Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux and Nutrition
- Food first as a treatment for under-nutrition
- Carbohydrate Counting
- Thickened Drinks
- Taking Pancreatic Enzymes
- Reducing your Salt Intake
- IDDSI Level 7: Easy to Chew (ETC)
- IDDSI Level 6: Soft and Bite-sized diet
- IDDSI Level 4: Puree Diet
- Eating when you have a duodenal stent
- Dietary advice for Gallbladder Disease
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Advice for family and friends helping somebody with cancer to eat and drink
- A Guide to Fluid Restriction
- Wheat Free Diet
- Low Lactose Diet
- Has your sense of taste changed?
- Following a milk-free diet while breastfeeding
- Do you have a dry or sore mouth?
- Are you too tired to cook meals?
- Are you feeling sick?
- Are you feeling full?
- Eating Well with Liver Disease
- A Guide to Food Labelling
- Tube feeding - The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- How to Take Oral Nutritional Supplements
- Homemade Nutritional Booster Recipes
- Omega 3 - Food fact sheet
- Dementia - Eating and drinking - Staying well
- Patient Information Healthy Eating with Diabetes
- Nourishing Milky Drinks
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Iron (good sources of)
- Diabetes Insulin and exercise
- Calcium information sheet
Dietetics (children)
- Gluten challenge for Coeliac Disease in children
- Constipation in Infants and Children
- Egg Free Diet
- Lowering your Cholesterol - Paediatrics
- Following a cow’s milk free diet whilst breastfeeding
- Cow’s Milk and Soya Free Diet for Children
- High Energy Dietary Information for Infants and Children on a Milk-Free Diet
- High Energy Diet Sheet for Infants and Children
- Cow’s milk-free diet for infants
- Cow’s milk-free diet for children
- Sources of Calcium for a cow’s milk free diet
- Paediatric Carbohydrate Free Meal Ideas
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Weaning a baby with a food allergy/intolerance
- Shopping guide for cow’s milk-free foods and drinks
- Lactose intolerance
- Eating out and travelling with an allergy resources
- Dietary Management of Toddler Diarrhoea
Ear, Nose and Throat
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Tinnitus
- Endoscopic Dacrocystorhinostomy (DCR) (Surgery for a watery eye)
- Epistaxis Advice Sheet
- Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy
- Thyroid Lobectomy
- Pain control advice following throat operations
- Otosclerosis
- Neck dissection information
- Nasal douching
- Myringoplasty
- Mastoidectomy
- Laryngoscopy, Bronchoscopy, Pharyngoscopy & Oesophagoscopy
- Grommets
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR)
- Exercises for Vertigo Sufferers
- Nose bleed advice
- ENT operations
- Surgery for a watery eye
- Correct use of nose drops
- Care of ears
- Allergy to house dust and dust mites
- Thyroid surgery
- Surgery of the submandibular gland
- Snoring & sleep apnoea
- Sore throats
- Sinusitis
- Septal surgery
- Rhinoplasty
- Parotid surgery
- Otosclerosis and stapedotomy
- Neck dissection leaflet
- Microlaryngoscopy and oesophagoscopy
- Mastoid surgery
- Hole in eardrum
- Hoarseness
- Hearing loss
- Grommets in childhood
- Glue ear
- Flexible nasal endoscopy
- Facial skin lesions
- Epistaxis or nosebleeds
- Children's tonsil surgery
- Catarrh
- Blocked nose
- Adenoid surgery
- Adult tonsil surgery
Emergency Department
- Abdominal Pain
- Rib or Chest Injury
- Care of Feet and Toenails for Adults
- After sedation
- Ankle injury
- Managing Panic Attacks and Anxiety
- Asthma
- Burn to Hands
- How To Wear Your Wrist Splint
- Adult head injury
- Wound care
- Welcome to the Emergency Department
- Walking with Crutches
- Thromboprophylaxis
- Tetanus/Polio/Diphtheria Immunisation
- Tenosynovitis
- Swallowed Foreign Bodies
- Soft Tissue Shoulder Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury Of The Neck
- Pulled Elbow in Children
- Pre-Tibial Laceration
- Plaster Casts
- Nose Injury Advice
- Mallet Finger Injury
- Lower back pain advice
- Knee Injury
- Fever in Children
- Paediatric Minor Head Injury Glue & Go Advice
Endoscopy
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Bronchoscopy & EBUS
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Gastroscopy
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Gastroscopy with Oesophageal Stent Inserted
- Discharge advice following endoscopy with sedation (incl. Propofol)
- Discharge after ERCP - patient information
- Discharge advice following an endoscopy with Entonox
- Advice following a gastroscopy
- Advice following a gastroscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a colonoscopy
- Bronchoscopy with sedation
- Cut and Push Removal of A Freka Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
- Having an Oesophageal Dilatation
Foot & Ankle - Conditions
- Bunion
- Big Toe Arthritis
- Ankle Sprain
- Ankle Arthritis
- Adult Acquired Flatfoot
- Achilles Tendinopathy
- Small Toe Deformity
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Morton’s neuroma
- Midfoot Arthritis
- Hindfoot Arthritis
Foot & Ankle - Treatments
- Haglund’s Syndrome Surgery
- Flat Foot Reconstruction
- Bunion surgery
- Big Toe Fusion
- Big Toe Cheilectomy
- Ankle Fusion
- Ankle Arthroscopy
- Achilles Tendon Repair Surgery
- Small Toe Surgery
- Shockwave Therapy
- Morton’s Neuroma Surgery
- Midfoot Fusion
- Lateral Ligament Reconstruction
- Hindfoot Fusion
Gastroenterology
- Radiologically Inserted gastrostomy (RIG) Patient Information leaflet
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) - Information and Care Guidelines for patients and carers
- Gastroenterology Patient-initiated follow-up appointments
- How to take Picolax (Double Procedure)
- How to take Moviprep (Double Procedure)
- How to take Picolax
- How to Take Moviprep
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)
- Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Ready Steady Go Transition Programme
- Ciclosporin information
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Diet: Food Fact Sheet
- Ileo-Caecal Resection
- Adalimumab information
- All about Crohn's & Colitis
- Azathioprine and Mercaptopurine
- Biologic medicines
- Bloating and wind
- Bones information
- Bowel Cancer and IBD
- Counselling for IBD
- Crohn's disease - Your guide
- Dehydration
- Diarrhoea and constipation
- Other Treatments - Information sheet
- First Line Dietary Advice for Crohn’s Disease
- Coeliac Disease: FAQs
- Employment & IBD: A guide for employees
- Ferinject patient information
- Fatigue & IBD
- Finances information
- Living with a fistula
- Food - Your guide
- Golimumab information
- Infliximab information
- Insurance & IBD
- Joints - Information if you have Crohn's or Colitis
- Living with a Stoma
- Living with Crohn's or Colitis
- Managing bowel incontinence and IBD
- Medical terms
- Methotrexate information
- Microscopic Colitis
- My Crohn's & Colitis Care
- Personal Independence Payment
- Pregnancy and IBD
- Ready Steady Go questionnaire
- Rectal treatment for IBD
- Reproductive health & IBD
- Sexual relationships & IBD
- Smoking and IBD
- Steroids (Corticosteroids) information
- Students with IBD: A guide for universities and colleges
- Supporting someone with IBD: A guide for friends and family
- Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis
- Surgery for Crohn's Disease
- Taking medicines
- Talking to my child about my IBD
- Tests & Investigations for IBD
- Tofacitinib information
- Transition: Moving to adult care
- Travel and IBD information
- Ulcerative Colitis - Your Guide
- Ustekinumab
- Vedolizumab
- Aminosalicylates (5-ASAs)
General
- Infectious Diseases Patient Initiated Follow Up (PIFU)
- Stroke Patient-Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Tell us about your care (Complaints leaflet)
- Formal complaint information leaflet
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Management and Treatment of Lower Leg Cellulitis
- Reducing the risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
- Pneumonia
- Funeral Directors in the Milton Keynes Area
- Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICCs)
- Bereavement Information
- What happens if my heart stops?
- Preventing Pressure Ulcers
- Dermatology Patient Information Sheet
- Pain management telephone appointments form
- Patient Information – Information about your outpatient consultation
- Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
General Surgery
- Surgical Directorate Booklet
- Revision Hip Surgery
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Local Anaesthetic/No Sedation Starving Instructions for Adult Patients
- Lateral Anal Sphincterotomy
- Laparoscopic Hernia Repair
- Discharge Advice following Bowel Surgery
- Bowel Surgery – The Enhanced Recovery Programme
- Information and Advice Regarding your Breast Surgery
- Gallstones
- Tests for Bowel Problems – A Guide to Help You
- Anal Fissure
- Excision of a Lump
- Delorme’s Procedure for a rectal prolapse
- SDAU (Same Day Admissions Unit) for surgery
- Right Hemicolectomy
- Reversal of Hartmann’s Procedure
- Pruritus Ani
- Pilonidal Sinus
- Formation of Loop Ileostomy
- Haemorrhoidectomy
- Anal warts
- A self–help Guide for People with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Good Bowel Habit and Preventing Constipation
- General Anaesthetic / Sedation Feeding Instructions - Adult Patients Morning and Afternoon Surgery
- Faecal Incontinence
- Varicose Veins – For Surgery
- Ano-Rectal Tests
- Anal Fistula Operations
Gynaecology
- Following Pregnancy Loss (up to 13 weeks and 6 days by scan)
- Gynaecology Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Colposcopy Treatment (Loop Excision) Your Aftercare
- Urodynamics Studies (UDS)
- Vaginal Hysterectomy for Uterine Prolapse and Vaginal Repair
- Urinary Incontinence
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage Under Local Anaesthetic (MVA)
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage (SMOM)
- Sacrocolpopexy for Vault Prolapse
- Intermittent Self Catheterisation (ISC) Uro Gynaecology
- Post-operative follow up for patients diagnosed with early stage endometrial cancer
- Medical Management of Miscarriage (Outpatient) at Less Than 9 weeks Gestation
- Hysteroscopy Under General Anaesthesia
- Hysterectomy
- Cryocautery to Cervical Ectropion
- Gynaecological Laparoscopy
- Gemeprost
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) for prolapse of the uterus (womb) or prolapse of the vaginal vault (top of vagina)
- Sacrohysteropexy for Uterine Prolapse (Womb Prolapse)
- Colposuspension for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Going Home After a Laparoscopy (Adult)
- Vaginal Pessary for Prolapse
- Botox Injections for the treatment of an Overactive Bladder
- Vulvoscopy, Vulval Biopsy: Your Aftercare
Haematology
- Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia
- Haematology PIFU – Bleeding Disorder
- Haematology PIFU - Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura
- Factor V Leiden Information
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- MGUS (Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance)
Hepatology
Imaging
- Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)
- Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy (RIG)
- Your X-ray
- Varicocele Embolisation
- Tunnelled Line Insertion
- Transfemoral Angiogram
- Your Water Soluble Enema
- Your Small Bowel Meal
- Your Barium Swallow
- Your Barium Meal
- Your CT Scan
- Nerve Root Block
- Going Home after your Fibroid Embolisation
- Angioplasty
- Small Bowel Aftercare Advice
- Explaining your CT Virtual Colonoscopy examination with Picolax® preparation
- Dietary instructions for patients requiring a barium enema taking Picolax®
- Your Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Biopsy under Ultrasound - Guidance
- Early pregnancy scan
- Abdominal CT Scan - Preparation
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Fibroid Embolisation
- Liver biopsy
- Biopsy
- CT Pneumocolon Aftercare Information
- Gastrostomy Insertion
- Picolax - Dietary instructions for patients requiring a small bowel enema taking Picolax®
Infection Prevention
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Caring for your Midline Catheter Caring for your Midline Catheter
- How to collect a urine sample
- Clostridioides difficile (C.diff or CDI)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Self-management programme
- Rectosigmoid and pancolitis
- Pregnancy and inflammatory bowel disease
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- Homecare Medicines Service
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
Maternity
- Having a small for gestational age (SGA) baby
- Preterm birth clinic
- Maternal request for caesarean section
- Expectant management following a miscarriage
- Feeling your baby move
- Being overweight in pregnancy and after birth
- Caring for your baby at night
- Cervical stitch
- Considering a caesarean birth
- Corticosteriods in pregnancy
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy -RCOG
- Birthing partners staying overnight
- Elective Caesarean Birth
- Gestational Diabetes mellitus
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Assisted vaginal birth (ventouse or forceps)
- Meet the Maternity Team
- Staying comfortable during labour
- Epidural – Your Choice
- TB, BCG and your baby
- Screening tests for you and your baby (STFYAYB)
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Breech Presentation – What are your choices?
- Reducing the risk of pre-eclampsia - Information for women taking aspirin in pregnancy
- Down’s, Edward’s & Patau’s syndromes screening
- Monitoring your Baby’s Heartbeat in Labour
- Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme Handbook
- The Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU)
- Illness in newborn babies
- Planning your birth
- Coronavirus: Parent information for newborn babies
- Use of water in labour and birth
- Postnatal Community Care
- HIV and Pregnancy – You and Your Baby
- GDm-Health
- Caring for your wound after having a caesarean section
- Outpatient Induction of Labour
- Induction of Labour
- Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Pregnancy
- Newborn Feeding Policy Summary
- Perineal Care
- Feeding your baby during a hospital admission
- Antenatal Day Assessment Unit (ADAU)
- NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Birth Reflections
- Understanding why your baby died
- Gestational diabetes using the GDmHealth App
- Pregnancy information for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Pethidine Injection for homebirths
- Loss of Your Baby - Neonatal - Guidance for parents
- Late Miscarriage or Termination of Pregnancy for Medical Reasons - Guidance for parents
- Stillbirth or Termination of Pregnancy (over 24 weeks) - Guidance for parents
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- How to take your blood pressure at home using an upper arm monitor
- Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnant Women
- Antenatal Colostrum Collection
- A guide to starting insulin for women with gestational diabetes
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Early pregnancy scan
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
- Home birth at MKUH
Neonatal Unit
- Car seat information
- Sucrose - pain relief for babies
- Cleaning and Storing the Single Patient Use Pump Kits
- The Neonatal Community Team: Going Home
- Neonatal Unit Parents’ Leaflet
- Intravenous Antibiotics (IVAB’s)
- Heart Murmurs in Newborn Babies
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Bronchiolitis + RSV
- Birth Reflections
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- Lumbar puncture for newborn
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Care of the Umbilical cord
- Jaundice in Newborn Babies
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Red Box Patient System
Neurology
- Neurology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Providing Disease-Modifying Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis Patients
- Managing Stress and Anxiety - For Patients with Epilepsy
- First fit and epilepsy information leaflet
- Parkinson's UK - First Steps
- Parkinson's UK - General Information
- Parkinson's Information Leaflet
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Bladder Diary
- Bladder training - A guide for women
- Female sterilisation
- Healthy Bladder information
- Heavy periods (adolescents)
- Outpatient Hysteroscopy – An Internal Examination of Your Womb
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) information
- Urethral Bulking for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Urodynamics information
- Vulvovaginitis information
Occupational Therapy
Ophthalmology
- Squint information sheet
- Registered Sight Impaired
- Registered Severely Sight Impaired
- Fluorescein Angiography
- Occlusion Treatment (Eye Patching)
- Cataract surgery For Patients who have had previous refractive Corneal Surgery
- Intravitreal Injection
- How to use your eye drops
- Dispensing Bifocals to Children
- AREDS 2 trial of vitamins and minerals for macular degeneration
- After Care: Intravitreal Injection
- Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG)
- Ocular hypertension
- Glaucoma and Your Relatives
- Driving with Glaucoma
- Glaucoma - A guide
- Glaucoma - Eye drops and dispensing aids
- Obtaining Children’s Glasses
- Macular Laser Treatment
- Glasses Information Sheet
- Laser Iridotomies
- Strabismus (Squint) Surgery
- Use of Cyclopentolate Eye Drops
- Vision Advice for Children
- Macular Hole
- Glaucoma and Trabeculectomy
- Discharge Information Sheet
- Children’s Eye Clinic appointments
- Vision checks at School for the rising 5’s
- You child's eyes - Vision Information for Pre-School Children
- Reading Medicines Information Leaflets
- Facial Nerve Paralysis
- Blepharitis
- Stand Magnifiers for Home Use
- Surgery for a watery eye (Lacrimal surgery)
- Intravitreal Injection
- Illuminated Magnifiers for Home Use
- Information For Hand-Magnifier Users
- Intravitreal Injection After Care
- Adult Age Related Ptosis
- High Power Spectacles for Home Use
- Floater, Flashes and Vitreous Separation
- Convergence Insufficiency Exercises
- Blepharoplasty (Lid Surgery)
- Botulinum toxin treatment for squint / double vision
- Trabeculectomy information
Oral and Maxillofacial
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery (Post operative wound care after Facial Surgery)
- Oral (Mouth) Biopsy
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Lichen Planus
- Exposure of Impacted Upper Canine
- Oral Maxillofacial Surgery (Jaw Joint Problems – Self help)
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery
Orthodontics
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Information prior to oral surgery under intravenous sedation
- Removal of impacted wisdom teeth
- Jaw joint problems
Orthopaedics
- Fractured Neck of Femur
- Orthopaedic Patient Initiated Follow up (PIFU)
- Lumbar decompression surgery
- Damage to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
- Ankle Sprains
- Acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) injury
- Buckle Fractures of the Radius in Children
- Cervical Disc Protrusion and Radiculopathy: Surgical Options
- Discharge advice: “Buckle” fractures
- Discharge advice following attendance with a radial head/neck fracture
- Discharge advice: Paediatric (Children’s) clavicle fracture
- Discharge advice mallet finger injury
- Discharge advice 5th metatarsal fracture
- Discharge advice following attendance with a hand (5th metacarpal) fracture
- Advice sheet for Patients fitted with a Polypropylene Cast
- Tennis / Golfer's Elbow
- Knee Arthroscopy
- Hip Spica
- Dupuytren’s Contracture
- Carpal Tunnel Decompression
- ACL Rehabilitation
- Total Knee Replacement
- Total Hip Replacement
Paediatric Diabetes
- Isolation Nursing
- How to treat your asthma / wheeze
- Oxygen Therapy and your child
- Sick Day Rules for Children with Diabetes
- Paediatric Diabetes Clinic Brochure
- Insulin Management for Long Distance Travel
- Children with Diabetes and becoming ill
- Use of Glucogel
- Management of a severe hypoglycaemia
- Treatment for mild hypoglycaemia
- What is your HbA1c?
- The Honeymoon Period
- Holiday Advice
- Disability Living Allowance
- Travel Checklist
- Blood Ketones testing
- Blood Glucose testing
- Administration of Insulin via pen device
Paediatrics
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Paediatric Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Paediatric Bereavement Booklet
- Home Leave Agreement
- Traction: principles and application
- Laparoscopy: Going Home After
- How to Administer Buccolam®
- Appendicitis and Your Child
- Urine Sample
- Your Child’s Outpatient Appointment
- Urinary Tract Infections (Complications and Tests)
- Fasting - All You Need to Know (A Guide for Parents/Carers)
- Skin Prick Testing
- Food Challenges
- Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
- Viral Induced Wheeze
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Treatment of Hypoglycaemia (Hypo’s) For Insulin Pump Users
- Treatment of High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) on Pump Therapy
- Preventing Diarrhoea and Vomiting in Children 0-5 years
- Rectal Paraldehyde For Stopping Seizures
- My Child is Having Sedation: Advice for Parents
- Home Intravenous (IV) Antibiotic Teaching Pack for Children / Parents / Carers of Children with Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
- High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) On Pump Therapy
- Head Injury – Discharge Information for Parents / Carers (Paediatrics)
- Head Injury Advice Sheet for Children
- Fever Advice Sheet for Children 0-5 years
- Egg allergy and Mumps, Measles and Rubella (MMR) Vaccination in Children
- Cystic Fibrosis Information for Families
- Children and young people with constipation - Advice sheet for parents and carers
- Children’s Community Nursing Service
- Bronchiolitis Advice Sheet
- Basal Rate Testing for Insulin Pump Users
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Pregnancy testing before an operation, investigation or treatment
- A Leaflet for Young People: Safeguarding (16-18 Years)
- Young People’s Guide
- Recurrent Abdominal Pain
- Pain Assessment (A Guide for Parents / Carers)
- Central Venous Catheters: A Guide for Parents and Carers
- Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) - A guide for Older Children (8-16yrs)
- Childhood obesity
- Paediatric Pre Assessment Booklet
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Nephrotic Syndrome
- Care of Your Mouth after Oral Surgery
- Incision and Curettage
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Central Line Training for Schools
- Care of a child with a chest infection / pneumonia
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Child Protection Medical
- Children’s Cancer Services
- Pica (Eating Inedible Objects) and Polydipsia (Drinking Excessively)
- Clobazam for preventing seizures
- Dairy Re-introduction plan – Milk Ladder
- Egg introduction - Egg ladder
- Ethosuximide for preventing seizures
- House dust mite allergy
- Lamotrigine for preventing seizures
- Levetiracetam for preventing seizures
- Midazolam for stopping seizures
- Oral carbamazepine for preventing seizures
- Red Box Patient System
- Paediatric Epilepsy Service
- Sodium valproate for preventing seizures
- SUDEP (Sudden death in epilepsy): What you need to know
- Topiramate for preventing seizures
- Mastoid surgery
Pain Management
- Epidural – Your Choice
- Pain relief after surgery
- Chronic Pain Service
- Pain injection treatment explained
- Facet injections
- Radiofrequency facet joint denervation
- Sacroiliac Injections
- Sacroiliac Joint Radiofrequency Denervation (SIJ RFD)
Pathology
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
- Instructions for patients collecting urine samples for Oxalate
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Information for Adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of Blood / Blood Products.
- A simple guide to the post-mortem examination procedure
Pharmacy Services
Physiotherapy
- Improving your pelvic health and fitness after pregnancy
- Advice and exercises following an OASI 3rd/4th degree tear
- Looking after your pelvic floor when you have had a baby
- Perineal Massage in Pregnancy – Advice and Information
- Exercises and advice following Gynae Surgery
- Diastasis Recti following pregnancy
- Getting back into shape after your delivery
- Advice and exercises following Caesarean Section
- Knee exercises
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for women
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
Respiratory/Chest Medicine
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Lung Function Unit – CPAP Service - Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointment
- Pleural Clinic - Information Sheet
- Pneumonia
- Looking After Your Chest Drain
Rheumatology
- Rheumatology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Ankylosing spondylitis information
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Etanercept information
- Cyclophosphamide information
- Certolizumab Pegol information booklet
- Ciclosporin information
- Baricitinib information
- Azathioprine information
- Apremilast information
- Amitriptyline information
- Allopurinol information
- Adalimumab information
- Abatacept information
- Zolendronic acid information
- Ustekinumab information
- Tofacitinib information
- Tocilizumab information
- Sulfasalazine information
- Steroid injections information
- Steroid information
- Secukinumab information
- Sarilumab information
- Alendronic acid and Osteoporosis fact sheet
- Rituximab information
- Painkillers and NSAIDS information
- Mycophenolate information
- Methotrexate information
- Leflunomide information
- Inflixmab information
- Iloprost information
- Hydroxychloroquine information
- Golimumab information
- Febuxostat information
Sexual Health
Stoma Care
- Abdominal Perineal Resection of the Rectum
- Subtotal Colectomy and formation of Ileostomy
- Panproctocolectomy and Ileostomy
- Loop Colostomy
- Hartmann’s Procedure
- Anterior Resection
Therapy Services
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for men
- Therapies - MSK Physiotherapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up
- Therapies - Hand Therapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Therapies - Amputee Physiotherapy Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Therapies - Orthotics Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Paediatric Physiotherapy CDC Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Paediatric Physiotherapy SSHC - Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Therapies Patient Initiated Follow-up - Women's & Men's Health
Urology
- Orchidectomy
- Urology Patient-Initiated Follow-up appointments
- Bladder tumours - Transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT)
- The nurse-led prostate surveillance telephone clinic
- Urology Team Macmillan CNS and MDT
- Intravesical BCG
- Going Home with a Catheter
- Varicocele
- Nephrostomy Tube Insertion and Care
- Adult Circumcision
- Kidney Stones
- Trans-Rectal Ultrasound Guided Biopsy of the Prostate Gland
- Trans Urethral Resection of Prostate (TURP)
- Circumcision A Parent / Carer's Guide
- One Stop Prostate Clinic
- What is a Urethrotomy?
- What is a Supra-Pubic Catheter?
- Urodynamics
- Extra Corporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL)
- Ureteric Stent - Going home
- What is a Flexible Cystoscopy?
- Intravesical Epirubicin chemotherapy: Procedure specific information
- Baus Kidney stones patient information
Patient Leaflets – Virtual Library
There are more than 900 patient information leaflets available to the public on our Virtual Library on the Trust’s website. These range across 38 different departments and areas, from Anaesthetics to Maternity, from Pharmacy Services to Ear, Nose & Throat, from Infection Prevention to Urology.
Please note that it is MKUH policy only leaflets that are up-to-date and approved by the Trust’s Governance team are published in our Virtual Library. If a leaflet has not been approved and is not up-to-date, then it will not appear on our website until it is approved and up-to-date.
Anaesthetics
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Lumbar Puncture information
- Keeping warm before, during and after an operation
Audiology
- Listening skills: Pre-school Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Listening skills: School Age Children - Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Hearing aid battery repair information
- Tinnitus
- Softening Ear Wax with Olive Oil
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (thin tubes)
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (Earmoulds)
- Hearing aids: Telephone Use
- Use of Water Barrier/ Swim Moulds
- Hearing aid maintenance information
- Getting used to your digital hearing aid
- Cleaning and retubing your earmould
- Children’s Hyperacusis
- Tactics for Good Hearing
- How to fit a new earmould
Blood Transfusion
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
Breast & General Surgery
- Common Conditions
- Outpatient Breast Clinic
- Breast Care wound advice sheet
- Breast Care - Diagnosis and Treatment Plan
- Advice following a core biopsy
- Admission and discharge - Breast Care Unit
- Fibroadenoma
- FEC-T chemotherapy
- Letrozole
- Breast pain leaflet
- Chemotherapy for breast cancer
- Gynaecomastia
- Tamoxifen
- Anastrozole
- Benign phyllodes tumours leaflet
- Breast pain information
- Breast cysts
- Fat necrosis
Cancer Services
- My Key To Care
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for people with chemotherapy/radiotherapy induced hair loss, including hair and scalp plans for cold cap treatment
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Safety at home after chemotherapy or when taking chemotherapy tablets home
- Patient handheld Systemic Anticancer Therapy (SACT) booklet
- Caring for the dying patient
- Extravasation What is it?
- Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment referral - What happens next?
- Patient Guidance Medication and driving
- Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression(MSCC)
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- What should I do if I have a chemotherapy spillage at home?
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for chemotherapy / radiotherapy patients
- Influenza and Pneumonia Vaccination for Adult patients undergoing treatment for Cancer
- A Guide to Supported Self-Management and Surveillance for Colorectal Cancer
- Awaiting Your Diagnosis and Colorectal Pathway
- Acute Oncology Service and Assessment Unit
Cardiology
- Cardiology Patient-Initiated Follow-up
- CT Coronary Angiogram with Ivabradine
- Pacemaker Follow Up Service
- Cardiac CT Angiography (CCTA)
- Echocardiogram
- Transesophageal Echocardiogram
- Pharmacological Stress - Echocardiogram
- Exercise Stress - Echocardiogram
- Cardiac Angiography Unit Pacemaker Implant Pre-Procedure leaflet
- Cardiology Outpatients 24 Hour Blood Pressure Monitor
- Ajmaline Challenge
- Cardiac Angiography Pre-Procedure Leaflet
- Discharge Information Following Pacemaker Insertion
- Discharge Advice Following Coronary Angiography
- Ongoing exercise programmes for Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Cardioversion
- Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise Programme Information for Participants
Chaplaincy
Colorectal
- CMR Surgical Registry: Patient information and informed consent
- Versius Patient Information
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Dietary advice for diverticular disease
- Diverticular Disease
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Haemorrhoids
- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
- Sigmoid Colectomy
Dermatology
Diabetes & Endocrinology
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- Insulin Pump Clinic
- Information for patients new to Insulin (for 16 years and above)
- Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Ketoacidosis
- Type 1 Diabetes - What to do when you're ill
- Alcohol, smoking and illicit drugs - What you need to know if you have diabetes
- Diabetes: Safe driving and the DVLA
- Keeping safe with insulin therapy
- Hypoglycaemia explained
- Managing Mealtime Insulin
Dietetics (adults)
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Foodbank support for Milton Keynes and surrounding areas
- Do you have diarrhoea?
- Glycaemic Index (GI)
- Eating when you have an Oesophageal Stent
- Snack Suggestions for a Puree Diet
- Coeliac Disease – What you need to know
- Tube feeding pack
- Chronic Pancreatitis Dietary Advice
- Gestational Diabetes Diet Sheet
- Instructions for taking Preload prior to surgery
- Wound Healing - Dietary advice
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Stroke and healthy eating
- Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux and Nutrition
- Food first as a treatment for under-nutrition
- Carbohydrate Counting
- Thickened Drinks
- Taking Pancreatic Enzymes
- Reducing your Salt Intake
- IDDSI Level 7: Easy to Chew (ETC)
- IDDSI Level 6: Soft and Bite-sized diet
- IDDSI Level 4: Puree Diet
- Eating when you have a duodenal stent
- Dietary advice for Gallbladder Disease
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Advice for family and friends helping somebody with cancer to eat and drink
- A Guide to Fluid Restriction
- Wheat Free Diet
- Low Lactose Diet
- Has your sense of taste changed?
- Following a milk-free diet while breastfeeding
- Do you have a dry or sore mouth?
- Are you too tired to cook meals?
- Are you feeling sick?
- Are you feeling full?
- Eating Well with Liver Disease
- A Guide to Food Labelling
- Tube feeding - The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- How to Take Oral Nutritional Supplements
- Homemade Nutritional Booster Recipes
- Omega 3 - Food fact sheet
- Dementia - Eating and drinking - Staying well
- Patient Information Healthy Eating with Diabetes
- Nourishing Milky Drinks
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Iron (good sources of)
- Diabetes Insulin and exercise
- Calcium information sheet
Dietetics (children)
- Gluten challenge for Coeliac Disease in children
- Constipation in Infants and Children
- Egg Free Diet
- Lowering your Cholesterol - Paediatrics
- Following a cow’s milk free diet whilst breastfeeding
- Cow’s Milk and Soya Free Diet for Children
- High Energy Dietary Information for Infants and Children on a Milk-Free Diet
- High Energy Diet Sheet for Infants and Children
- Cow’s milk-free diet for infants
- Cow’s milk-free diet for children
- Sources of Calcium for a cow’s milk free diet
- Paediatric Carbohydrate Free Meal Ideas
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Weaning a baby with a food allergy/intolerance
- Shopping guide for cow’s milk-free foods and drinks
- Lactose intolerance
- Eating out and travelling with an allergy resources
- Dietary Management of Toddler Diarrhoea
Ear, Nose and Throat
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Tinnitus
- Endoscopic Dacrocystorhinostomy (DCR) (Surgery for a watery eye)
- Epistaxis Advice Sheet
- Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy
- Thyroid Lobectomy
- Pain control advice following throat operations
- Otosclerosis
- Neck dissection information
- Nasal douching
- Myringoplasty
- Mastoidectomy
- Laryngoscopy, Bronchoscopy, Pharyngoscopy & Oesophagoscopy
- Grommets
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR)
- Exercises for Vertigo Sufferers
- Nose bleed advice
- ENT operations
- Surgery for a watery eye
- Correct use of nose drops
- Care of ears
- Allergy to house dust and dust mites
- Thyroid surgery
- Surgery of the submandibular gland
- Snoring & sleep apnoea
- Sore throats
- Sinusitis
- Septal surgery
- Rhinoplasty
- Parotid surgery
- Otosclerosis and stapedotomy
- Neck dissection leaflet
- Microlaryngoscopy and oesophagoscopy
- Mastoid surgery
- Hole in eardrum
- Hoarseness
- Hearing loss
- Grommets in childhood
- Glue ear
- Flexible nasal endoscopy
- Facial skin lesions
- Epistaxis or nosebleeds
- Children's tonsil surgery
- Catarrh
- Blocked nose
- Adenoid surgery
- Adult tonsil surgery
Emergency Department
- Abdominal Pain
- Rib or Chest Injury
- Care of Feet and Toenails for Adults
- After sedation
- Ankle injury
- Managing Panic Attacks and Anxiety
- Asthma
- Burn to Hands
- How To Wear Your Wrist Splint
- Adult head injury
- Wound care
- Welcome to the Emergency Department
- Walking with Crutches
- Thromboprophylaxis
- Tetanus/Polio/Diphtheria Immunisation
- Tenosynovitis
- Swallowed Foreign Bodies
- Soft Tissue Shoulder Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury Of The Neck
- Pulled Elbow in Children
- Pre-Tibial Laceration
- Plaster Casts
- Nose Injury Advice
- Mallet Finger Injury
- Lower back pain advice
- Knee Injury
- Fever in Children
- Paediatric Minor Head Injury Glue & Go Advice
Endoscopy
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Bronchoscopy & EBUS
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Gastroscopy
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Gastroscopy with Oesophageal Stent Inserted
- Discharge advice following endoscopy with sedation (incl. Propofol)
- Discharge after ERCP - patient information
- Discharge advice following an endoscopy with Entonox
- Advice following a gastroscopy
- Advice following a gastroscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a colonoscopy
- Bronchoscopy with sedation
- Cut and Push Removal of A Freka Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
- Having an Oesophageal Dilatation
Foot & Ankle - Conditions
- Bunion
- Big Toe Arthritis
- Ankle Sprain
- Ankle Arthritis
- Adult Acquired Flatfoot
- Achilles Tendinopathy
- Small Toe Deformity
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Morton’s neuroma
- Midfoot Arthritis
- Hindfoot Arthritis
Foot & Ankle - Treatments
- Haglund’s Syndrome Surgery
- Flat Foot Reconstruction
- Bunion surgery
- Big Toe Fusion
- Big Toe Cheilectomy
- Ankle Fusion
- Ankle Arthroscopy
- Achilles Tendon Repair Surgery
- Small Toe Surgery
- Shockwave Therapy
- Morton’s Neuroma Surgery
- Midfoot Fusion
- Lateral Ligament Reconstruction
- Hindfoot Fusion
Gastroenterology
- Radiologically Inserted gastrostomy (RIG) Patient Information leaflet
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) - Information and Care Guidelines for patients and carers
- Gastroenterology Patient-initiated follow-up appointments
- How to take Picolax (Double Procedure)
- How to take Moviprep (Double Procedure)
- How to take Picolax
- How to Take Moviprep
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)
- Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Ready Steady Go Transition Programme
- Ciclosporin information
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Diet: Food Fact Sheet
- Ileo-Caecal Resection
- Adalimumab information
- All about Crohn's & Colitis
- Azathioprine and Mercaptopurine
- Biologic medicines
- Bloating and wind
- Bones information
- Bowel Cancer and IBD
- Counselling for IBD
- Crohn's disease - Your guide
- Dehydration
- Diarrhoea and constipation
- Other Treatments - Information sheet
- First Line Dietary Advice for Crohn’s Disease
- Coeliac Disease: FAQs
- Employment & IBD: A guide for employees
- Ferinject patient information
- Fatigue & IBD
- Finances information
- Living with a fistula
- Food - Your guide
- Golimumab information
- Infliximab information
- Insurance & IBD
- Joints - Information if you have Crohn's or Colitis
- Living with a Stoma
- Living with Crohn's or Colitis
- Managing bowel incontinence and IBD
- Medical terms
- Methotrexate information
- Microscopic Colitis
- My Crohn's & Colitis Care
- Personal Independence Payment
- Pregnancy and IBD
- Ready Steady Go questionnaire
- Rectal treatment for IBD
- Reproductive health & IBD
- Sexual relationships & IBD
- Smoking and IBD
- Steroids (Corticosteroids) information
- Students with IBD: A guide for universities and colleges
- Supporting someone with IBD: A guide for friends and family
- Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis
- Surgery for Crohn's Disease
- Taking medicines
- Talking to my child about my IBD
- Tests & Investigations for IBD
- Tofacitinib information
- Transition: Moving to adult care
- Travel and IBD information
- Ulcerative Colitis - Your Guide
- Ustekinumab
- Vedolizumab
- Aminosalicylates (5-ASAs)
General
- Infectious Diseases Patient Initiated Follow Up (PIFU)
- Stroke Patient-Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Tell us about your care (Complaints leaflet)
- Formal complaint information leaflet
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Management and Treatment of Lower Leg Cellulitis
- Reducing the risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
- Pneumonia
- Funeral Directors in the Milton Keynes Area
- Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICCs)
- Bereavement Information
- What happens if my heart stops?
- Preventing Pressure Ulcers
- Dermatology Patient Information Sheet
- Pain management telephone appointments form
- Patient Information – Information about your outpatient consultation
- Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
General Surgery
- Surgical Directorate Booklet
- Revision Hip Surgery
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Local Anaesthetic/No Sedation Starving Instructions for Adult Patients
- Lateral Anal Sphincterotomy
- Laparoscopic Hernia Repair
- Discharge Advice following Bowel Surgery
- Bowel Surgery – The Enhanced Recovery Programme
- Information and Advice Regarding your Breast Surgery
- Gallstones
- Tests for Bowel Problems – A Guide to Help You
- Anal Fissure
- Excision of a Lump
- Delorme’s Procedure for a rectal prolapse
- SDAU (Same Day Admissions Unit) for surgery
- Right Hemicolectomy
- Reversal of Hartmann’s Procedure
- Pruritus Ani
- Pilonidal Sinus
- Formation of Loop Ileostomy
- Haemorrhoidectomy
- Anal warts
- A self–help Guide for People with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Good Bowel Habit and Preventing Constipation
- General Anaesthetic / Sedation Feeding Instructions - Adult Patients Morning and Afternoon Surgery
- Faecal Incontinence
- Varicose Veins – For Surgery
- Ano-Rectal Tests
- Anal Fistula Operations
Gynaecology
- Following Pregnancy Loss (up to 13 weeks and 6 days by scan)
- Gynaecology Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Colposcopy Treatment (Loop Excision) Your Aftercare
- Urodynamics Studies (UDS)
- Vaginal Hysterectomy for Uterine Prolapse and Vaginal Repair
- Urinary Incontinence
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage Under Local Anaesthetic (MVA)
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage (SMOM)
- Sacrocolpopexy for Vault Prolapse
- Intermittent Self Catheterisation (ISC) Uro Gynaecology
- Post-operative follow up for patients diagnosed with early stage endometrial cancer
- Medical Management of Miscarriage (Outpatient) at Less Than 9 weeks Gestation
- Hysteroscopy Under General Anaesthesia
- Hysterectomy
- Cryocautery to Cervical Ectropion
- Gynaecological Laparoscopy
- Gemeprost
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) for prolapse of the uterus (womb) or prolapse of the vaginal vault (top of vagina)
- Sacrohysteropexy for Uterine Prolapse (Womb Prolapse)
- Colposuspension for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Going Home After a Laparoscopy (Adult)
- Vaginal Pessary for Prolapse
- Botox Injections for the treatment of an Overactive Bladder
- Vulvoscopy, Vulval Biopsy: Your Aftercare
Haematology
- Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia
- Haematology PIFU – Bleeding Disorder
- Haematology PIFU - Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura
- Factor V Leiden Information
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- MGUS (Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance)
Hepatology
Imaging
- Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)
- Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy (RIG)
- Your X-ray
- Varicocele Embolisation
- Tunnelled Line Insertion
- Transfemoral Angiogram
- Your Water Soluble Enema
- Your Small Bowel Meal
- Your Barium Swallow
- Your Barium Meal
- Your CT Scan
- Nerve Root Block
- Going Home after your Fibroid Embolisation
- Angioplasty
- Small Bowel Aftercare Advice
- Explaining your CT Virtual Colonoscopy examination with Picolax® preparation
- Dietary instructions for patients requiring a barium enema taking Picolax®
- Your Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Biopsy under Ultrasound - Guidance
- Early pregnancy scan
- Abdominal CT Scan - Preparation
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Fibroid Embolisation
- Liver biopsy
- Biopsy
- CT Pneumocolon Aftercare Information
- Gastrostomy Insertion
- Picolax - Dietary instructions for patients requiring a small bowel enema taking Picolax®
Infection Prevention
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Caring for your Midline Catheter Caring for your Midline Catheter
- How to collect a urine sample
- Clostridioides difficile (C.diff or CDI)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Self-management programme
- Rectosigmoid and pancolitis
- Pregnancy and inflammatory bowel disease
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- Homecare Medicines Service
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
Maternity
- Having a small for gestational age (SGA) baby
- Preterm birth clinic
- Maternal request for caesarean section
- Expectant management following a miscarriage
- Feeling your baby move
- Being overweight in pregnancy and after birth
- Caring for your baby at night
- Cervical stitch
- Considering a caesarean birth
- Corticosteriods in pregnancy
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy -RCOG
- Birthing partners staying overnight
- Elective Caesarean Birth
- Gestational Diabetes mellitus
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Assisted vaginal birth (ventouse or forceps)
- Meet the Maternity Team
- Staying comfortable during labour
- Epidural – Your Choice
- TB, BCG and your baby
- Screening tests for you and your baby (STFYAYB)
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Breech Presentation – What are your choices?
- Reducing the risk of pre-eclampsia - Information for women taking aspirin in pregnancy
- Down’s, Edward’s & Patau’s syndromes screening
- Monitoring your Baby’s Heartbeat in Labour
- Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme Handbook
- The Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU)
- Illness in newborn babies
- Planning your birth
- Coronavirus: Parent information for newborn babies
- Use of water in labour and birth
- Postnatal Community Care
- HIV and Pregnancy – You and Your Baby
- GDm-Health
- Caring for your wound after having a caesarean section
- Outpatient Induction of Labour
- Induction of Labour
- Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Pregnancy
- Newborn Feeding Policy Summary
- Perineal Care
- Feeding your baby during a hospital admission
- Antenatal Day Assessment Unit (ADAU)
- NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Birth Reflections
- Understanding why your baby died
- Gestational diabetes using the GDmHealth App
- Pregnancy information for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Pethidine Injection for homebirths
- Loss of Your Baby - Neonatal - Guidance for parents
- Late Miscarriage or Termination of Pregnancy for Medical Reasons - Guidance for parents
- Stillbirth or Termination of Pregnancy (over 24 weeks) - Guidance for parents
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- How to take your blood pressure at home using an upper arm monitor
- Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnant Women
- Antenatal Colostrum Collection
- A guide to starting insulin for women with gestational diabetes
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Early pregnancy scan
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
- Home birth at MKUH
Neonatal Unit
- Car seat information
- Sucrose - pain relief for babies
- Cleaning and Storing the Single Patient Use Pump Kits
- The Neonatal Community Team: Going Home
- Neonatal Unit Parents’ Leaflet
- Intravenous Antibiotics (IVAB’s)
- Heart Murmurs in Newborn Babies
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Bronchiolitis + RSV
- Birth Reflections
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- Lumbar puncture for newborn
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Care of the Umbilical cord
- Jaundice in Newborn Babies
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Red Box Patient System
Neurology
- Neurology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Providing Disease-Modifying Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis Patients
- Managing Stress and Anxiety - For Patients with Epilepsy
- First fit and epilepsy information leaflet
- Parkinson's UK - First Steps
- Parkinson's UK - General Information
- Parkinson's Information Leaflet
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Bladder Diary
- Bladder training - A guide for women
- Female sterilisation
- Healthy Bladder information
- Heavy periods (adolescents)
- Outpatient Hysteroscopy – An Internal Examination of Your Womb
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) information
- Urethral Bulking for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Urodynamics information
- Vulvovaginitis information
Occupational Therapy
Ophthalmology
- Squint information sheet
- Registered Sight Impaired
- Registered Severely Sight Impaired
- Fluorescein Angiography
- Occlusion Treatment (Eye Patching)
- Cataract surgery For Patients who have had previous refractive Corneal Surgery
- Intravitreal Injection
- How to use your eye drops
- Dispensing Bifocals to Children
- AREDS 2 trial of vitamins and minerals for macular degeneration
- After Care: Intravitreal Injection
- Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG)
- Ocular hypertension
- Glaucoma and Your Relatives
- Driving with Glaucoma
- Glaucoma - A guide
- Glaucoma - Eye drops and dispensing aids
- Obtaining Children’s Glasses
- Macular Laser Treatment
- Glasses Information Sheet
- Laser Iridotomies
- Strabismus (Squint) Surgery
- Use of Cyclopentolate Eye Drops
- Vision Advice for Children
- Macular Hole
- Glaucoma and Trabeculectomy
- Discharge Information Sheet
- Children’s Eye Clinic appointments
- Vision checks at School for the rising 5’s
- You child's eyes - Vision Information for Pre-School Children
- Reading Medicines Information Leaflets
- Facial Nerve Paralysis
- Blepharitis
- Stand Magnifiers for Home Use
- Surgery for a watery eye (Lacrimal surgery)
- Intravitreal Injection
- Illuminated Magnifiers for Home Use
- Information For Hand-Magnifier Users
- Intravitreal Injection After Care
- Adult Age Related Ptosis
- High Power Spectacles for Home Use
- Floater, Flashes and Vitreous Separation
- Convergence Insufficiency Exercises
- Blepharoplasty (Lid Surgery)
- Botulinum toxin treatment for squint / double vision
- Trabeculectomy information
Oral and Maxillofacial
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery (Post operative wound care after Facial Surgery)
- Oral (Mouth) Biopsy
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Lichen Planus
- Exposure of Impacted Upper Canine
- Oral Maxillofacial Surgery (Jaw Joint Problems – Self help)
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery
Orthodontics
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Information prior to oral surgery under intravenous sedation
- Removal of impacted wisdom teeth
- Jaw joint problems
Orthopaedics
- Fractured Neck of Femur
- Orthopaedic Patient Initiated Follow up (PIFU)
- Lumbar decompression surgery
- Damage to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
- Ankle Sprains
- Acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) injury
- Buckle Fractures of the Radius in Children
- Cervical Disc Protrusion and Radiculopathy: Surgical Options
- Discharge advice: “Buckle” fractures
- Discharge advice following attendance with a radial head/neck fracture
- Discharge advice: Paediatric (Children’s) clavicle fracture
- Discharge advice mallet finger injury
- Discharge advice 5th metatarsal fracture
- Discharge advice following attendance with a hand (5th metacarpal) fracture
- Advice sheet for Patients fitted with a Polypropylene Cast
- Tennis / Golfer's Elbow
- Knee Arthroscopy
- Hip Spica
- Dupuytren’s Contracture
- Carpal Tunnel Decompression
- ACL Rehabilitation
- Total Knee Replacement
- Total Hip Replacement
Paediatric Diabetes
- Isolation Nursing
- How to treat your asthma / wheeze
- Oxygen Therapy and your child
- Sick Day Rules for Children with Diabetes
- Paediatric Diabetes Clinic Brochure
- Insulin Management for Long Distance Travel
- Children with Diabetes and becoming ill
- Use of Glucogel
- Management of a severe hypoglycaemia
- Treatment for mild hypoglycaemia
- What is your HbA1c?
- The Honeymoon Period
- Holiday Advice
- Disability Living Allowance
- Travel Checklist
- Blood Ketones testing
- Blood Glucose testing
- Administration of Insulin via pen device
Paediatrics
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Paediatric Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Paediatric Bereavement Booklet
- Home Leave Agreement
- Traction: principles and application
- Laparoscopy: Going Home After
- How to Administer Buccolam®
- Appendicitis and Your Child
- Urine Sample
- Your Child’s Outpatient Appointment
- Urinary Tract Infections (Complications and Tests)
- Fasting - All You Need to Know (A Guide for Parents/Carers)
- Skin Prick Testing
- Food Challenges
- Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
- Viral Induced Wheeze
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Treatment of Hypoglycaemia (Hypo’s) For Insulin Pump Users
- Treatment of High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) on Pump Therapy
- Preventing Diarrhoea and Vomiting in Children 0-5 years
- Rectal Paraldehyde For Stopping Seizures
- My Child is Having Sedation: Advice for Parents
- Home Intravenous (IV) Antibiotic Teaching Pack for Children / Parents / Carers of Children with Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
- High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) On Pump Therapy
- Head Injury – Discharge Information for Parents / Carers (Paediatrics)
- Head Injury Advice Sheet for Children
- Fever Advice Sheet for Children 0-5 years
- Egg allergy and Mumps, Measles and Rubella (MMR) Vaccination in Children
- Cystic Fibrosis Information for Families
- Children and young people with constipation - Advice sheet for parents and carers
- Children’s Community Nursing Service
- Bronchiolitis Advice Sheet
- Basal Rate Testing for Insulin Pump Users
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Pregnancy testing before an operation, investigation or treatment
- A Leaflet for Young People: Safeguarding (16-18 Years)
- Young People’s Guide
- Recurrent Abdominal Pain
- Pain Assessment (A Guide for Parents / Carers)
- Central Venous Catheters: A Guide for Parents and Carers
- Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) - A guide for Older Children (8-16yrs)
- Childhood obesity
- Paediatric Pre Assessment Booklet
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Nephrotic Syndrome
- Care of Your Mouth after Oral Surgery
- Incision and Curettage
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Central Line Training for Schools
- Care of a child with a chest infection / pneumonia
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Child Protection Medical
- Children’s Cancer Services
- Pica (Eating Inedible Objects) and Polydipsia (Drinking Excessively)
- Clobazam for preventing seizures
- Dairy Re-introduction plan – Milk Ladder
- Egg introduction - Egg ladder
- Ethosuximide for preventing seizures
- House dust mite allergy
- Lamotrigine for preventing seizures
- Levetiracetam for preventing seizures
- Midazolam for stopping seizures
- Oral carbamazepine for preventing seizures
- Red Box Patient System
- Paediatric Epilepsy Service
- Sodium valproate for preventing seizures
- SUDEP (Sudden death in epilepsy): What you need to know
- Topiramate for preventing seizures
- Mastoid surgery
Pain Management
- Epidural – Your Choice
- Pain relief after surgery
- Chronic Pain Service
- Pain injection treatment explained
- Facet injections
- Radiofrequency facet joint denervation
- Sacroiliac Injections
- Sacroiliac Joint Radiofrequency Denervation (SIJ RFD)
Pathology
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
- Instructions for patients collecting urine samples for Oxalate
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Information for Adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of Blood / Blood Products.
- A simple guide to the post-mortem examination procedure
Pharmacy Services
Physiotherapy
- Improving your pelvic health and fitness after pregnancy
- Advice and exercises following an OASI 3rd/4th degree tear
- Looking after your pelvic floor when you have had a baby
- Perineal Massage in Pregnancy – Advice and Information
- Exercises and advice following Gynae Surgery
- Diastasis Recti following pregnancy
- Getting back into shape after your delivery
- Advice and exercises following Caesarean Section
- Knee exercises
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for women
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
Respiratory/Chest Medicine
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Lung Function Unit – CPAP Service - Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointment
- Pleural Clinic - Information Sheet
- Pneumonia
- Looking After Your Chest Drain
Rheumatology
- Rheumatology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Ankylosing spondylitis information
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Etanercept information
- Cyclophosphamide information
- Certolizumab Pegol information booklet
- Ciclosporin information
- Baricitinib information
- Azathioprine information
- Apremilast information
- Amitriptyline information
- Allopurinol information
- Adalimumab information
- Abatacept information
- Zolendronic acid information
- Ustekinumab information
- Tofacitinib information
- Tocilizumab information
- Sulfasalazine information
- Steroid injections information
- Steroid information
- Secukinumab information
- Sarilumab information
- Alendronic acid and Osteoporosis fact sheet
- Rituximab information
- Painkillers and NSAIDS information
- Mycophenolate information
- Methotrexate information
- Leflunomide information
- Inflixmab information
- Iloprost information
- Hydroxychloroquine information
- Golimumab information
- Febuxostat information
Sexual Health
Stoma Care
- Abdominal Perineal Resection of the Rectum
- Subtotal Colectomy and formation of Ileostomy
- Panproctocolectomy and Ileostomy
- Loop Colostomy
- Hartmann’s Procedure
- Anterior Resection
Therapy Services
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for men
- Therapies - MSK Physiotherapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up
- Therapies - Hand Therapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Therapies - Amputee Physiotherapy Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Therapies - Orthotics Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Paediatric Physiotherapy CDC Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Paediatric Physiotherapy SSHC - Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Therapies Patient Initiated Follow-up - Women's & Men's Health
Urology
- Orchidectomy
- Urology Patient-Initiated Follow-up appointments
- Bladder tumours - Transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT)
- The nurse-led prostate surveillance telephone clinic
- Urology Team Macmillan CNS and MDT
- Intravesical BCG
- Going Home with a Catheter
- Varicocele
- Nephrostomy Tube Insertion and Care
- Adult Circumcision
- Kidney Stones
- Trans-Rectal Ultrasound Guided Biopsy of the Prostate Gland
- Trans Urethral Resection of Prostate (TURP)
- Circumcision A Parent / Carer's Guide
- One Stop Prostate Clinic
- What is a Urethrotomy?
- What is a Supra-Pubic Catheter?
- Urodynamics
- Extra Corporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL)
- Ureteric Stent - Going home
- What is a Flexible Cystoscopy?
- Intravesical Epirubicin chemotherapy: Procedure specific information
- Baus Kidney stones patient information
Patient Leaflets – Virtual Library
There are more than 900 patient information leaflets available to the public on our Virtual Library on the Trust’s website. These range across 38 different departments and areas, from Anaesthetics to Maternity, from Pharmacy Services to Ear, Nose & Throat, from Infection Prevention to Urology.
Please note that it is MKUH policy only leaflets that are up-to-date and approved by the Trust’s Governance team are published in our Virtual Library. If a leaflet has not been approved and is not up-to-date, then it will not appear on our website until it is approved and up-to-date.
Anaesthetics
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Lumbar Puncture information
- Keeping warm before, during and after an operation
Audiology
- Listening skills: Pre-school Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Listening skills: School Age Children - Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Hearing aid battery repair information
- Tinnitus
- Softening Ear Wax with Olive Oil
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (thin tubes)
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (Earmoulds)
- Hearing aids: Telephone Use
- Use of Water Barrier/ Swim Moulds
- Hearing aid maintenance information
- Getting used to your digital hearing aid
- Cleaning and retubing your earmould
- Children’s Hyperacusis
- Tactics for Good Hearing
- How to fit a new earmould
Blood Transfusion
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
Breast & General Surgery
- Common Conditions
- Outpatient Breast Clinic
- Breast Care wound advice sheet
- Breast Care - Diagnosis and Treatment Plan
- Advice following a core biopsy
- Admission and discharge - Breast Care Unit
- Fibroadenoma
- FEC-T chemotherapy
- Letrozole
- Breast pain leaflet
- Chemotherapy for breast cancer
- Gynaecomastia
- Tamoxifen
- Anastrozole
- Benign phyllodes tumours leaflet
- Breast pain information
- Breast cysts
- Fat necrosis
Cancer Services
- My Key To Care
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for people with chemotherapy/radiotherapy induced hair loss, including hair and scalp plans for cold cap treatment
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Safety at home after chemotherapy or when taking chemotherapy tablets home
- Patient handheld Systemic Anticancer Therapy (SACT) booklet
- Caring for the dying patient
- Extravasation What is it?
- Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment referral - What happens next?
- Patient Guidance Medication and driving
- Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression(MSCC)
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- What should I do if I have a chemotherapy spillage at home?
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for chemotherapy / radiotherapy patients
- Influenza and Pneumonia Vaccination for Adult patients undergoing treatment for Cancer
- A Guide to Supported Self-Management and Surveillance for Colorectal Cancer
- Awaiting Your Diagnosis and Colorectal Pathway
- Acute Oncology Service and Assessment Unit
Cardiology
- Cardiology Patient-Initiated Follow-up
- CT Coronary Angiogram with Ivabradine
- Pacemaker Follow Up Service
- Cardiac CT Angiography (CCTA)
- Echocardiogram
- Transesophageal Echocardiogram
- Pharmacological Stress - Echocardiogram
- Exercise Stress - Echocardiogram
- Cardiac Angiography Unit Pacemaker Implant Pre-Procedure leaflet
- Cardiology Outpatients 24 Hour Blood Pressure Monitor
- Ajmaline Challenge
- Cardiac Angiography Pre-Procedure Leaflet
- Discharge Information Following Pacemaker Insertion
- Discharge Advice Following Coronary Angiography
- Ongoing exercise programmes for Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Cardioversion
- Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise Programme Information for Participants
Chaplaincy
Colorectal
- CMR Surgical Registry: Patient information and informed consent
- Versius Patient Information
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Dietary advice for diverticular disease
- Diverticular Disease
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Haemorrhoids
- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
- Sigmoid Colectomy
Dermatology
Diabetes & Endocrinology
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- Insulin Pump Clinic
- Information for patients new to Insulin (for 16 years and above)
- Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Ketoacidosis
- Type 1 Diabetes - What to do when you're ill
- Alcohol, smoking and illicit drugs - What you need to know if you have diabetes
- Diabetes: Safe driving and the DVLA
- Keeping safe with insulin therapy
- Hypoglycaemia explained
- Managing Mealtime Insulin
Dietetics (adults)
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Foodbank support for Milton Keynes and surrounding areas
- Do you have diarrhoea?
- Glycaemic Index (GI)
- Eating when you have an Oesophageal Stent
- Snack Suggestions for a Puree Diet
- Coeliac Disease – What you need to know
- Tube feeding pack
- Chronic Pancreatitis Dietary Advice
- Gestational Diabetes Diet Sheet
- Instructions for taking Preload prior to surgery
- Wound Healing - Dietary advice
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Stroke and healthy eating
- Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux and Nutrition
- Food first as a treatment for under-nutrition
- Carbohydrate Counting
- Thickened Drinks
- Taking Pancreatic Enzymes
- Reducing your Salt Intake
- IDDSI Level 7: Easy to Chew (ETC)
- IDDSI Level 6: Soft and Bite-sized diet
- IDDSI Level 4: Puree Diet
- Eating when you have a duodenal stent
- Dietary advice for Gallbladder Disease
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Advice for family and friends helping somebody with cancer to eat and drink
- A Guide to Fluid Restriction
- Wheat Free Diet
- Low Lactose Diet
- Has your sense of taste changed?
- Following a milk-free diet while breastfeeding
- Do you have a dry or sore mouth?
- Are you too tired to cook meals?
- Are you feeling sick?
- Are you feeling full?
- Eating Well with Liver Disease
- A Guide to Food Labelling
- Tube feeding - The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- How to Take Oral Nutritional Supplements
- Homemade Nutritional Booster Recipes
- Omega 3 - Food fact sheet
- Dementia - Eating and drinking - Staying well
- Patient Information Healthy Eating with Diabetes
- Nourishing Milky Drinks
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Iron (good sources of)
- Diabetes Insulin and exercise
- Calcium information sheet
Dietetics (children)
- Gluten challenge for Coeliac Disease in children
- Constipation in Infants and Children
- Egg Free Diet
- Lowering your Cholesterol - Paediatrics
- Following a cow’s milk free diet whilst breastfeeding
- Cow’s Milk and Soya Free Diet for Children
- High Energy Dietary Information for Infants and Children on a Milk-Free Diet
- High Energy Diet Sheet for Infants and Children
- Cow’s milk-free diet for infants
- Cow’s milk-free diet for children
- Sources of Calcium for a cow’s milk free diet
- Paediatric Carbohydrate Free Meal Ideas
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Weaning a baby with a food allergy/intolerance
- Shopping guide for cow’s milk-free foods and drinks
- Lactose intolerance
- Eating out and travelling with an allergy resources
- Dietary Management of Toddler Diarrhoea
Ear, Nose and Throat
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Tinnitus
- Endoscopic Dacrocystorhinostomy (DCR) (Surgery for a watery eye)
- Epistaxis Advice Sheet
- Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy
- Thyroid Lobectomy
- Pain control advice following throat operations
- Otosclerosis
- Neck dissection information
- Nasal douching
- Myringoplasty
- Mastoidectomy
- Laryngoscopy, Bronchoscopy, Pharyngoscopy & Oesophagoscopy
- Grommets
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR)
- Exercises for Vertigo Sufferers
- Nose bleed advice
- ENT operations
- Surgery for a watery eye
- Correct use of nose drops
- Care of ears
- Allergy to house dust and dust mites
- Thyroid surgery
- Surgery of the submandibular gland
- Snoring & sleep apnoea
- Sore throats
- Sinusitis
- Septal surgery
- Rhinoplasty
- Parotid surgery
- Otosclerosis and stapedotomy
- Neck dissection leaflet
- Microlaryngoscopy and oesophagoscopy
- Mastoid surgery
- Hole in eardrum
- Hoarseness
- Hearing loss
- Grommets in childhood
- Glue ear
- Flexible nasal endoscopy
- Facial skin lesions
- Epistaxis or nosebleeds
- Children's tonsil surgery
- Catarrh
- Blocked nose
- Adenoid surgery
- Adult tonsil surgery
Emergency Department
- Abdominal Pain
- Rib or Chest Injury
- Care of Feet and Toenails for Adults
- After sedation
- Ankle injury
- Managing Panic Attacks and Anxiety
- Asthma
- Burn to Hands
- How To Wear Your Wrist Splint
- Adult head injury
- Wound care
- Welcome to the Emergency Department
- Walking with Crutches
- Thromboprophylaxis
- Tetanus/Polio/Diphtheria Immunisation
- Tenosynovitis
- Swallowed Foreign Bodies
- Soft Tissue Shoulder Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury Of The Neck
- Pulled Elbow in Children
- Pre-Tibial Laceration
- Plaster Casts
- Nose Injury Advice
- Mallet Finger Injury
- Lower back pain advice
- Knee Injury
- Fever in Children
- Paediatric Minor Head Injury Glue & Go Advice
Endoscopy
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Bronchoscopy & EBUS
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Gastroscopy
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Gastroscopy with Oesophageal Stent Inserted
- Discharge advice following endoscopy with sedation (incl. Propofol)
- Discharge after ERCP - patient information
- Discharge advice following an endoscopy with Entonox
- Advice following a gastroscopy
- Advice following a gastroscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a colonoscopy
- Bronchoscopy with sedation
- Cut and Push Removal of A Freka Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
- Having an Oesophageal Dilatation
Foot & Ankle - Conditions
- Bunion
- Big Toe Arthritis
- Ankle Sprain
- Ankle Arthritis
- Adult Acquired Flatfoot
- Achilles Tendinopathy
- Small Toe Deformity
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Morton’s neuroma
- Midfoot Arthritis
- Hindfoot Arthritis
Foot & Ankle - Treatments
- Haglund’s Syndrome Surgery
- Flat Foot Reconstruction
- Bunion surgery
- Big Toe Fusion
- Big Toe Cheilectomy
- Ankle Fusion
- Ankle Arthroscopy
- Achilles Tendon Repair Surgery
- Small Toe Surgery
- Shockwave Therapy
- Morton’s Neuroma Surgery
- Midfoot Fusion
- Lateral Ligament Reconstruction
- Hindfoot Fusion
Gastroenterology
- Radiologically Inserted gastrostomy (RIG) Patient Information leaflet
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) - Information and Care Guidelines for patients and carers
- Gastroenterology Patient-initiated follow-up appointments
- How to take Picolax (Double Procedure)
- How to take Moviprep (Double Procedure)
- How to take Picolax
- How to Take Moviprep
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)
- Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Ready Steady Go Transition Programme
- Ciclosporin information
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Diet: Food Fact Sheet
- Ileo-Caecal Resection
- Adalimumab information
- All about Crohn's & Colitis
- Azathioprine and Mercaptopurine
- Biologic medicines
- Bloating and wind
- Bones information
- Bowel Cancer and IBD
- Counselling for IBD
- Crohn's disease - Your guide
- Dehydration
- Diarrhoea and constipation
- Other Treatments - Information sheet
- First Line Dietary Advice for Crohn’s Disease
- Coeliac Disease: FAQs
- Employment & IBD: A guide for employees
- Ferinject patient information
- Fatigue & IBD
- Finances information
- Living with a fistula
- Food - Your guide
- Golimumab information
- Infliximab information
- Insurance & IBD
- Joints - Information if you have Crohn's or Colitis
- Living with a Stoma
- Living with Crohn's or Colitis
- Managing bowel incontinence and IBD
- Medical terms
- Methotrexate information
- Microscopic Colitis
- My Crohn's & Colitis Care
- Personal Independence Payment
- Pregnancy and IBD
- Ready Steady Go questionnaire
- Rectal treatment for IBD
- Reproductive health & IBD
- Sexual relationships & IBD
- Smoking and IBD
- Steroids (Corticosteroids) information
- Students with IBD: A guide for universities and colleges
- Supporting someone with IBD: A guide for friends and family
- Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis
- Surgery for Crohn's Disease
- Taking medicines
- Talking to my child about my IBD
- Tests & Investigations for IBD
- Tofacitinib information
- Transition: Moving to adult care
- Travel and IBD information
- Ulcerative Colitis - Your Guide
- Ustekinumab
- Vedolizumab
- Aminosalicylates (5-ASAs)
General
- Infectious Diseases Patient Initiated Follow Up (PIFU)
- Stroke Patient-Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Tell us about your care (Complaints leaflet)
- Formal complaint information leaflet
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Management and Treatment of Lower Leg Cellulitis
- Reducing the risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
- Pneumonia
- Funeral Directors in the Milton Keynes Area
- Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICCs)
- Bereavement Information
- What happens if my heart stops?
- Preventing Pressure Ulcers
- Dermatology Patient Information Sheet
- Pain management telephone appointments form
- Patient Information – Information about your outpatient consultation
- Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
General Surgery
- Surgical Directorate Booklet
- Revision Hip Surgery
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Local Anaesthetic/No Sedation Starving Instructions for Adult Patients
- Lateral Anal Sphincterotomy
- Laparoscopic Hernia Repair
- Discharge Advice following Bowel Surgery
- Bowel Surgery – The Enhanced Recovery Programme
- Information and Advice Regarding your Breast Surgery
- Gallstones
- Tests for Bowel Problems – A Guide to Help You
- Anal Fissure
- Excision of a Lump
- Delorme’s Procedure for a rectal prolapse
- SDAU (Same Day Admissions Unit) for surgery
- Right Hemicolectomy
- Reversal of Hartmann’s Procedure
- Pruritus Ani
- Pilonidal Sinus
- Formation of Loop Ileostomy
- Haemorrhoidectomy
- Anal warts
- A self–help Guide for People with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Good Bowel Habit and Preventing Constipation
- General Anaesthetic / Sedation Feeding Instructions - Adult Patients Morning and Afternoon Surgery
- Faecal Incontinence
- Varicose Veins – For Surgery
- Ano-Rectal Tests
- Anal Fistula Operations
Gynaecology
- Following Pregnancy Loss (up to 13 weeks and 6 days by scan)
- Gynaecology Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Colposcopy Treatment (Loop Excision) Your Aftercare
- Urodynamics Studies (UDS)
- Vaginal Hysterectomy for Uterine Prolapse and Vaginal Repair
- Urinary Incontinence
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage Under Local Anaesthetic (MVA)
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage (SMOM)
- Sacrocolpopexy for Vault Prolapse
- Intermittent Self Catheterisation (ISC) Uro Gynaecology
- Post-operative follow up for patients diagnosed with early stage endometrial cancer
- Medical Management of Miscarriage (Outpatient) at Less Than 9 weeks Gestation
- Hysteroscopy Under General Anaesthesia
- Hysterectomy
- Cryocautery to Cervical Ectropion
- Gynaecological Laparoscopy
- Gemeprost
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) for prolapse of the uterus (womb) or prolapse of the vaginal vault (top of vagina)
- Sacrohysteropexy for Uterine Prolapse (Womb Prolapse)
- Colposuspension for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Going Home After a Laparoscopy (Adult)
- Vaginal Pessary for Prolapse
- Botox Injections for the treatment of an Overactive Bladder
- Vulvoscopy, Vulval Biopsy: Your Aftercare
Haematology
- Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia
- Haematology PIFU – Bleeding Disorder
- Haematology PIFU - Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura
- Factor V Leiden Information
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- MGUS (Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance)
Hepatology
Imaging
- Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)
- Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy (RIG)
- Your X-ray
- Varicocele Embolisation
- Tunnelled Line Insertion
- Transfemoral Angiogram
- Your Water Soluble Enema
- Your Small Bowel Meal
- Your Barium Swallow
- Your Barium Meal
- Your CT Scan
- Nerve Root Block
- Going Home after your Fibroid Embolisation
- Angioplasty
- Small Bowel Aftercare Advice
- Explaining your CT Virtual Colonoscopy examination with Picolax® preparation
- Dietary instructions for patients requiring a barium enema taking Picolax®
- Your Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Biopsy under Ultrasound - Guidance
- Early pregnancy scan
- Abdominal CT Scan - Preparation
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Fibroid Embolisation
- Liver biopsy
- Biopsy
- CT Pneumocolon Aftercare Information
- Gastrostomy Insertion
- Picolax - Dietary instructions for patients requiring a small bowel enema taking Picolax®
Infection Prevention
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Caring for your Midline Catheter Caring for your Midline Catheter
- How to collect a urine sample
- Clostridioides difficile (C.diff or CDI)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Self-management programme
- Rectosigmoid and pancolitis
- Pregnancy and inflammatory bowel disease
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- Homecare Medicines Service
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
Maternity
- Having a small for gestational age (SGA) baby
- Preterm birth clinic
- Maternal request for caesarean section
- Expectant management following a miscarriage
- Feeling your baby move
- Being overweight in pregnancy and after birth
- Caring for your baby at night
- Cervical stitch
- Considering a caesarean birth
- Corticosteriods in pregnancy
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy -RCOG
- Birthing partners staying overnight
- Elective Caesarean Birth
- Gestational Diabetes mellitus
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Assisted vaginal birth (ventouse or forceps)
- Meet the Maternity Team
- Staying comfortable during labour
- Epidural – Your Choice
- TB, BCG and your baby
- Screening tests for you and your baby (STFYAYB)
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Breech Presentation – What are your choices?
- Reducing the risk of pre-eclampsia - Information for women taking aspirin in pregnancy
- Down’s, Edward’s & Patau’s syndromes screening
- Monitoring your Baby’s Heartbeat in Labour
- Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme Handbook
- The Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU)
- Illness in newborn babies
- Planning your birth
- Coronavirus: Parent information for newborn babies
- Use of water in labour and birth
- Postnatal Community Care
- HIV and Pregnancy – You and Your Baby
- GDm-Health
- Caring for your wound after having a caesarean section
- Outpatient Induction of Labour
- Induction of Labour
- Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Pregnancy
- Newborn Feeding Policy Summary
- Perineal Care
- Feeding your baby during a hospital admission
- Antenatal Day Assessment Unit (ADAU)
- NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Birth Reflections
- Understanding why your baby died
- Gestational diabetes using the GDmHealth App
- Pregnancy information for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Pethidine Injection for homebirths
- Loss of Your Baby - Neonatal - Guidance for parents
- Late Miscarriage or Termination of Pregnancy for Medical Reasons - Guidance for parents
- Stillbirth or Termination of Pregnancy (over 24 weeks) - Guidance for parents
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- How to take your blood pressure at home using an upper arm monitor
- Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnant Women
- Antenatal Colostrum Collection
- A guide to starting insulin for women with gestational diabetes
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Early pregnancy scan
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
- Home birth at MKUH
Neonatal Unit
- Car seat information
- Sucrose - pain relief for babies
- Cleaning and Storing the Single Patient Use Pump Kits
- The Neonatal Community Team: Going Home
- Neonatal Unit Parents’ Leaflet
- Intravenous Antibiotics (IVAB’s)
- Heart Murmurs in Newborn Babies
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Bronchiolitis + RSV
- Birth Reflections
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- Lumbar puncture for newborn
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Care of the Umbilical cord
- Jaundice in Newborn Babies
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Red Box Patient System
Neurology
- Neurology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Providing Disease-Modifying Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis Patients
- Managing Stress and Anxiety - For Patients with Epilepsy
- First fit and epilepsy information leaflet
- Parkinson's UK - First Steps
- Parkinson's UK - General Information
- Parkinson's Information Leaflet
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Bladder Diary
- Bladder training - A guide for women
- Female sterilisation
- Healthy Bladder information
- Heavy periods (adolescents)
- Outpatient Hysteroscopy – An Internal Examination of Your Womb
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) information
- Urethral Bulking for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Urodynamics information
- Vulvovaginitis information
Occupational Therapy
Ophthalmology
- Squint information sheet
- Registered Sight Impaired
- Registered Severely Sight Impaired
- Fluorescein Angiography
- Occlusion Treatment (Eye Patching)
- Cataract surgery For Patients who have had previous refractive Corneal Surgery
- Intravitreal Injection
- How to use your eye drops
- Dispensing Bifocals to Children
- AREDS 2 trial of vitamins and minerals for macular degeneration
- After Care: Intravitreal Injection
- Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG)
- Ocular hypertension
- Glaucoma and Your Relatives
- Driving with Glaucoma
- Glaucoma - A guide
- Glaucoma - Eye drops and dispensing aids
- Obtaining Children’s Glasses
- Macular Laser Treatment
- Glasses Information Sheet
- Laser Iridotomies
- Strabismus (Squint) Surgery
- Use of Cyclopentolate Eye Drops
- Vision Advice for Children
- Macular Hole
- Glaucoma and Trabeculectomy
- Discharge Information Sheet
- Children’s Eye Clinic appointments
- Vision checks at School for the rising 5’s
- You child's eyes - Vision Information for Pre-School Children
- Reading Medicines Information Leaflets
- Facial Nerve Paralysis
- Blepharitis
- Stand Magnifiers for Home Use
- Surgery for a watery eye (Lacrimal surgery)
- Intravitreal Injection
- Illuminated Magnifiers for Home Use
- Information For Hand-Magnifier Users
- Intravitreal Injection After Care
- Adult Age Related Ptosis
- High Power Spectacles for Home Use
- Floater, Flashes and Vitreous Separation
- Convergence Insufficiency Exercises
- Blepharoplasty (Lid Surgery)
- Botulinum toxin treatment for squint / double vision
- Trabeculectomy information
Oral and Maxillofacial
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery (Post operative wound care after Facial Surgery)
- Oral (Mouth) Biopsy
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Lichen Planus
- Exposure of Impacted Upper Canine
- Oral Maxillofacial Surgery (Jaw Joint Problems – Self help)
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery
Orthodontics
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Information prior to oral surgery under intravenous sedation
- Removal of impacted wisdom teeth
- Jaw joint problems
Orthopaedics
- Fractured Neck of Femur
- Orthopaedic Patient Initiated Follow up (PIFU)
- Lumbar decompression surgery
- Damage to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
- Ankle Sprains
- Acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) injury
- Buckle Fractures of the Radius in Children
- Cervical Disc Protrusion and Radiculopathy: Surgical Options
- Discharge advice: “Buckle” fractures
- Discharge advice following attendance with a radial head/neck fracture
- Discharge advice: Paediatric (Children’s) clavicle fracture
- Discharge advice mallet finger injury
- Discharge advice 5th metatarsal fracture
- Discharge advice following attendance with a hand (5th metacarpal) fracture
- Advice sheet for Patients fitted with a Polypropylene Cast
- Tennis / Golfer's Elbow
- Knee Arthroscopy
- Hip Spica
- Dupuytren’s Contracture
- Carpal Tunnel Decompression
- ACL Rehabilitation
- Total Knee Replacement
- Total Hip Replacement
Paediatric Diabetes
- Isolation Nursing
- How to treat your asthma / wheeze
- Oxygen Therapy and your child
- Sick Day Rules for Children with Diabetes
- Paediatric Diabetes Clinic Brochure
- Insulin Management for Long Distance Travel
- Children with Diabetes and becoming ill
- Use of Glucogel
- Management of a severe hypoglycaemia
- Treatment for mild hypoglycaemia
- What is your HbA1c?
- The Honeymoon Period
- Holiday Advice
- Disability Living Allowance
- Travel Checklist
- Blood Ketones testing
- Blood Glucose testing
- Administration of Insulin via pen device
Paediatrics
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Paediatric Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Paediatric Bereavement Booklet
- Home Leave Agreement
- Traction: principles and application
- Laparoscopy: Going Home After
- How to Administer Buccolam®
- Appendicitis and Your Child
- Urine Sample
- Your Child’s Outpatient Appointment
- Urinary Tract Infections (Complications and Tests)
- Fasting - All You Need to Know (A Guide for Parents/Carers)
- Skin Prick Testing
- Food Challenges
- Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
- Viral Induced Wheeze
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Treatment of Hypoglycaemia (Hypo’s) For Insulin Pump Users
- Treatment of High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) on Pump Therapy
- Preventing Diarrhoea and Vomiting in Children 0-5 years
- Rectal Paraldehyde For Stopping Seizures
- My Child is Having Sedation: Advice for Parents
- Home Intravenous (IV) Antibiotic Teaching Pack for Children / Parents / Carers of Children with Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
- High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) On Pump Therapy
- Head Injury – Discharge Information for Parents / Carers (Paediatrics)
- Head Injury Advice Sheet for Children
- Fever Advice Sheet for Children 0-5 years
- Egg allergy and Mumps, Measles and Rubella (MMR) Vaccination in Children
- Cystic Fibrosis Information for Families
- Children and young people with constipation - Advice sheet for parents and carers
- Children’s Community Nursing Service
- Bronchiolitis Advice Sheet
- Basal Rate Testing for Insulin Pump Users
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Pregnancy testing before an operation, investigation or treatment
- A Leaflet for Young People: Safeguarding (16-18 Years)
- Young People’s Guide
- Recurrent Abdominal Pain
- Pain Assessment (A Guide for Parents / Carers)
- Central Venous Catheters: A Guide for Parents and Carers
- Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) - A guide for Older Children (8-16yrs)
- Childhood obesity
- Paediatric Pre Assessment Booklet
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Nephrotic Syndrome
- Care of Your Mouth after Oral Surgery
- Incision and Curettage
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Central Line Training for Schools
- Care of a child with a chest infection / pneumonia
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Child Protection Medical
- Children’s Cancer Services
- Pica (Eating Inedible Objects) and Polydipsia (Drinking Excessively)
- Clobazam for preventing seizures
- Dairy Re-introduction plan – Milk Ladder
- Egg introduction - Egg ladder
- Ethosuximide for preventing seizures
- House dust mite allergy
- Lamotrigine for preventing seizures
- Levetiracetam for preventing seizures
- Midazolam for stopping seizures
- Oral carbamazepine for preventing seizures
- Red Box Patient System
- Paediatric Epilepsy Service
- Sodium valproate for preventing seizures
- SUDEP (Sudden death in epilepsy): What you need to know
- Topiramate for preventing seizures
- Mastoid surgery
Pain Management
- Epidural – Your Choice
- Pain relief after surgery
- Chronic Pain Service
- Pain injection treatment explained
- Facet injections
- Radiofrequency facet joint denervation
- Sacroiliac Injections
- Sacroiliac Joint Radiofrequency Denervation (SIJ RFD)
Pathology
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
- Instructions for patients collecting urine samples for Oxalate
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Information for Adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of Blood / Blood Products.
- A simple guide to the post-mortem examination procedure
Pharmacy Services
Physiotherapy
- Improving your pelvic health and fitness after pregnancy
- Advice and exercises following an OASI 3rd/4th degree tear
- Looking after your pelvic floor when you have had a baby
- Perineal Massage in Pregnancy – Advice and Information
- Exercises and advice following Gynae Surgery
- Diastasis Recti following pregnancy
- Getting back into shape after your delivery
- Advice and exercises following Caesarean Section
- Knee exercises
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for women
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
Respiratory/Chest Medicine
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Lung Function Unit – CPAP Service - Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointment
- Pleural Clinic - Information Sheet
- Pneumonia
- Looking After Your Chest Drain
Rheumatology
- Rheumatology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Ankylosing spondylitis information
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Etanercept information
- Cyclophosphamide information
- Certolizumab Pegol information booklet
- Ciclosporin information
- Baricitinib information
- Azathioprine information
- Apremilast information
- Amitriptyline information
- Allopurinol information
- Adalimumab information
- Abatacept information
- Zolendronic acid information
- Ustekinumab information
- Tofacitinib information
- Tocilizumab information
- Sulfasalazine information
- Steroid injections information
- Steroid information
- Secukinumab information
- Sarilumab information
- Alendronic acid and Osteoporosis fact sheet
- Rituximab information
- Painkillers and NSAIDS information
- Mycophenolate information
- Methotrexate information
- Leflunomide information
- Inflixmab information
- Iloprost information
- Hydroxychloroquine information
- Golimumab information
- Febuxostat information
Sexual Health
Stoma Care
- Abdominal Perineal Resection of the Rectum
- Subtotal Colectomy and formation of Ileostomy
- Panproctocolectomy and Ileostomy
- Loop Colostomy
- Hartmann’s Procedure
- Anterior Resection
Therapy Services
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for men
- Therapies - MSK Physiotherapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up
- Therapies - Hand Therapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Therapies - Amputee Physiotherapy Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Therapies - Orthotics Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Paediatric Physiotherapy CDC Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Paediatric Physiotherapy SSHC - Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Therapies Patient Initiated Follow-up - Women's & Men's Health
Urology
- Orchidectomy
- Urology Patient-Initiated Follow-up appointments
- Bladder tumours - Transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT)
- The nurse-led prostate surveillance telephone clinic
- Urology Team Macmillan CNS and MDT
- Intravesical BCG
- Going Home with a Catheter
- Varicocele
- Nephrostomy Tube Insertion and Care
- Adult Circumcision
- Kidney Stones
- Trans-Rectal Ultrasound Guided Biopsy of the Prostate Gland
- Trans Urethral Resection of Prostate (TURP)
- Circumcision A Parent / Carer's Guide
- One Stop Prostate Clinic
- What is a Urethrotomy?
- What is a Supra-Pubic Catheter?
- Urodynamics
- Extra Corporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL)
- Ureteric Stent - Going home
- What is a Flexible Cystoscopy?
- Intravesical Epirubicin chemotherapy: Procedure specific information
- Baus Kidney stones patient information
Patient Leaflets – Virtual Library
There are more than 900 patient information leaflets available to the public on our Virtual Library on the Trust’s website. These range across 38 different departments and areas, from Anaesthetics to Maternity, from Pharmacy Services to Ear, Nose & Throat, from Infection Prevention to Urology.
Please note that it is MKUH policy only leaflets that are up-to-date and approved by the Trust’s Governance team are published in our Virtual Library. If a leaflet has not been approved and is not up-to-date, then it will not appear on our website until it is approved and up-to-date.
Anaesthetics
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Lumbar Puncture information
- Keeping warm before, during and after an operation
Audiology
- Listening skills: Pre-school Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Listening skills: School Age Children - Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Hearing aid battery repair information
- Tinnitus
- Softening Ear Wax with Olive Oil
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (thin tubes)
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (Earmoulds)
- Hearing aids: Telephone Use
- Use of Water Barrier/ Swim Moulds
- Hearing aid maintenance information
- Getting used to your digital hearing aid
- Cleaning and retubing your earmould
- Children’s Hyperacusis
- Tactics for Good Hearing
- How to fit a new earmould
Blood Transfusion
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
Breast & General Surgery
- Common Conditions
- Outpatient Breast Clinic
- Breast Care wound advice sheet
- Breast Care - Diagnosis and Treatment Plan
- Advice following a core biopsy
- Admission and discharge - Breast Care Unit
- Fibroadenoma
- FEC-T chemotherapy
- Letrozole
- Breast pain leaflet
- Chemotherapy for breast cancer
- Gynaecomastia
- Tamoxifen
- Anastrozole
- Benign phyllodes tumours leaflet
- Breast pain information
- Breast cysts
- Fat necrosis
Cancer Services
- My Key To Care
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for people with chemotherapy/radiotherapy induced hair loss, including hair and scalp plans for cold cap treatment
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Safety at home after chemotherapy or when taking chemotherapy tablets home
- Patient handheld Systemic Anticancer Therapy (SACT) booklet
- Caring for the dying patient
- Extravasation What is it?
- Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment referral - What happens next?
- Patient Guidance Medication and driving
- Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression(MSCC)
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- What should I do if I have a chemotherapy spillage at home?
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for chemotherapy / radiotherapy patients
- Influenza and Pneumonia Vaccination for Adult patients undergoing treatment for Cancer
- A Guide to Supported Self-Management and Surveillance for Colorectal Cancer
- Awaiting Your Diagnosis and Colorectal Pathway
- Acute Oncology Service and Assessment Unit
Cardiology
- Cardiology Patient-Initiated Follow-up
- CT Coronary Angiogram with Ivabradine
- Pacemaker Follow Up Service
- Cardiac CT Angiography (CCTA)
- Echocardiogram
- Transesophageal Echocardiogram
- Pharmacological Stress - Echocardiogram
- Exercise Stress - Echocardiogram
- Cardiac Angiography Unit Pacemaker Implant Pre-Procedure leaflet
- Cardiology Outpatients 24 Hour Blood Pressure Monitor
- Ajmaline Challenge
- Cardiac Angiography Pre-Procedure Leaflet
- Discharge Information Following Pacemaker Insertion
- Discharge Advice Following Coronary Angiography
- Ongoing exercise programmes for Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Cardioversion
- Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise Programme Information for Participants
Chaplaincy
Colorectal
- CMR Surgical Registry: Patient information and informed consent
- Versius Patient Information
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Dietary advice for diverticular disease
- Diverticular Disease
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Haemorrhoids
- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
- Sigmoid Colectomy
Dermatology
Diabetes & Endocrinology
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- Insulin Pump Clinic
- Information for patients new to Insulin (for 16 years and above)
- Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Ketoacidosis
- Type 1 Diabetes - What to do when you're ill
- Alcohol, smoking and illicit drugs - What you need to know if you have diabetes
- Diabetes: Safe driving and the DVLA
- Keeping safe with insulin therapy
- Hypoglycaemia explained
- Managing Mealtime Insulin
Dietetics (adults)
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Foodbank support for Milton Keynes and surrounding areas
- Do you have diarrhoea?
- Glycaemic Index (GI)
- Eating when you have an Oesophageal Stent
- Snack Suggestions for a Puree Diet
- Coeliac Disease – What you need to know
- Tube feeding pack
- Chronic Pancreatitis Dietary Advice
- Gestational Diabetes Diet Sheet
- Instructions for taking Preload prior to surgery
- Wound Healing - Dietary advice
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Stroke and healthy eating
- Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux and Nutrition
- Food first as a treatment for under-nutrition
- Carbohydrate Counting
- Thickened Drinks
- Taking Pancreatic Enzymes
- Reducing your Salt Intake
- IDDSI Level 7: Easy to Chew (ETC)
- IDDSI Level 6: Soft and Bite-sized diet
- IDDSI Level 4: Puree Diet
- Eating when you have a duodenal stent
- Dietary advice for Gallbladder Disease
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Advice for family and friends helping somebody with cancer to eat and drink
- A Guide to Fluid Restriction
- Wheat Free Diet
- Low Lactose Diet
- Has your sense of taste changed?
- Following a milk-free diet while breastfeeding
- Do you have a dry or sore mouth?
- Are you too tired to cook meals?
- Are you feeling sick?
- Are you feeling full?
- Eating Well with Liver Disease
- A Guide to Food Labelling
- Tube feeding - The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- How to Take Oral Nutritional Supplements
- Homemade Nutritional Booster Recipes
- Omega 3 - Food fact sheet
- Dementia - Eating and drinking - Staying well
- Patient Information Healthy Eating with Diabetes
- Nourishing Milky Drinks
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Iron (good sources of)
- Diabetes Insulin and exercise
- Calcium information sheet
Dietetics (children)
- Gluten challenge for Coeliac Disease in children
- Constipation in Infants and Children
- Egg Free Diet
- Lowering your Cholesterol - Paediatrics
- Following a cow’s milk free diet whilst breastfeeding
- Cow’s Milk and Soya Free Diet for Children
- High Energy Dietary Information for Infants and Children on a Milk-Free Diet
- High Energy Diet Sheet for Infants and Children
- Cow’s milk-free diet for infants
- Cow’s milk-free diet for children
- Sources of Calcium for a cow’s milk free diet
- Paediatric Carbohydrate Free Meal Ideas
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Weaning a baby with a food allergy/intolerance
- Shopping guide for cow’s milk-free foods and drinks
- Lactose intolerance
- Eating out and travelling with an allergy resources
- Dietary Management of Toddler Diarrhoea
Ear, Nose and Throat
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Tinnitus
- Endoscopic Dacrocystorhinostomy (DCR) (Surgery for a watery eye)
- Epistaxis Advice Sheet
- Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy
- Thyroid Lobectomy
- Pain control advice following throat operations
- Otosclerosis
- Neck dissection information
- Nasal douching
- Myringoplasty
- Mastoidectomy
- Laryngoscopy, Bronchoscopy, Pharyngoscopy & Oesophagoscopy
- Grommets
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR)
- Exercises for Vertigo Sufferers
- Nose bleed advice
- ENT operations
- Surgery for a watery eye
- Correct use of nose drops
- Care of ears
- Allergy to house dust and dust mites
- Thyroid surgery
- Surgery of the submandibular gland
- Snoring & sleep apnoea
- Sore throats
- Sinusitis
- Septal surgery
- Rhinoplasty
- Parotid surgery
- Otosclerosis and stapedotomy
- Neck dissection leaflet
- Microlaryngoscopy and oesophagoscopy
- Mastoid surgery
- Hole in eardrum
- Hoarseness
- Hearing loss
- Grommets in childhood
- Glue ear
- Flexible nasal endoscopy
- Facial skin lesions
- Epistaxis or nosebleeds
- Children's tonsil surgery
- Catarrh
- Blocked nose
- Adenoid surgery
- Adult tonsil surgery
Emergency Department
- Abdominal Pain
- Rib or Chest Injury
- Care of Feet and Toenails for Adults
- After sedation
- Ankle injury
- Managing Panic Attacks and Anxiety
- Asthma
- Burn to Hands
- How To Wear Your Wrist Splint
- Adult head injury
- Wound care
- Welcome to the Emergency Department
- Walking with Crutches
- Thromboprophylaxis
- Tetanus/Polio/Diphtheria Immunisation
- Tenosynovitis
- Swallowed Foreign Bodies
- Soft Tissue Shoulder Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury Of The Neck
- Pulled Elbow in Children
- Pre-Tibial Laceration
- Plaster Casts
- Nose Injury Advice
- Mallet Finger Injury
- Lower back pain advice
- Knee Injury
- Fever in Children
- Paediatric Minor Head Injury Glue & Go Advice
Endoscopy
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Bronchoscopy & EBUS
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Gastroscopy
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Gastroscopy with Oesophageal Stent Inserted
- Discharge advice following endoscopy with sedation (incl. Propofol)
- Discharge after ERCP - patient information
- Discharge advice following an endoscopy with Entonox
- Advice following a gastroscopy
- Advice following a gastroscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a colonoscopy
- Bronchoscopy with sedation
- Cut and Push Removal of A Freka Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
- Having an Oesophageal Dilatation
Foot & Ankle - Conditions
- Bunion
- Big Toe Arthritis
- Ankle Sprain
- Ankle Arthritis
- Adult Acquired Flatfoot
- Achilles Tendinopathy
- Small Toe Deformity
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Morton’s neuroma
- Midfoot Arthritis
- Hindfoot Arthritis
Foot & Ankle - Treatments
- Haglund’s Syndrome Surgery
- Flat Foot Reconstruction
- Bunion surgery
- Big Toe Fusion
- Big Toe Cheilectomy
- Ankle Fusion
- Ankle Arthroscopy
- Achilles Tendon Repair Surgery
- Small Toe Surgery
- Shockwave Therapy
- Morton’s Neuroma Surgery
- Midfoot Fusion
- Lateral Ligament Reconstruction
- Hindfoot Fusion
Gastroenterology
- Radiologically Inserted gastrostomy (RIG) Patient Information leaflet
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) - Information and Care Guidelines for patients and carers
- Gastroenterology Patient-initiated follow-up appointments
- How to take Picolax (Double Procedure)
- How to take Moviprep (Double Procedure)
- How to take Picolax
- How to Take Moviprep
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)
- Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Ready Steady Go Transition Programme
- Ciclosporin information
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Diet: Food Fact Sheet
- Ileo-Caecal Resection
- Adalimumab information
- All about Crohn's & Colitis
- Azathioprine and Mercaptopurine
- Biologic medicines
- Bloating and wind
- Bones information
- Bowel Cancer and IBD
- Counselling for IBD
- Crohn's disease - Your guide
- Dehydration
- Diarrhoea and constipation
- Other Treatments - Information sheet
- First Line Dietary Advice for Crohn’s Disease
- Coeliac Disease: FAQs
- Employment & IBD: A guide for employees
- Ferinject patient information
- Fatigue & IBD
- Finances information
- Living with a fistula
- Food - Your guide
- Golimumab information
- Infliximab information
- Insurance & IBD
- Joints - Information if you have Crohn's or Colitis
- Living with a Stoma
- Living with Crohn's or Colitis
- Managing bowel incontinence and IBD
- Medical terms
- Methotrexate information
- Microscopic Colitis
- My Crohn's & Colitis Care
- Personal Independence Payment
- Pregnancy and IBD
- Ready Steady Go questionnaire
- Rectal treatment for IBD
- Reproductive health & IBD
- Sexual relationships & IBD
- Smoking and IBD
- Steroids (Corticosteroids) information
- Students with IBD: A guide for universities and colleges
- Supporting someone with IBD: A guide for friends and family
- Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis
- Surgery for Crohn's Disease
- Taking medicines
- Talking to my child about my IBD
- Tests & Investigations for IBD
- Tofacitinib information
- Transition: Moving to adult care
- Travel and IBD information
- Ulcerative Colitis - Your Guide
- Ustekinumab
- Vedolizumab
- Aminosalicylates (5-ASAs)
General
- Infectious Diseases Patient Initiated Follow Up (PIFU)
- Stroke Patient-Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Tell us about your care (Complaints leaflet)
- Formal complaint information leaflet
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Management and Treatment of Lower Leg Cellulitis
- Reducing the risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
- Pneumonia
- Funeral Directors in the Milton Keynes Area
- Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICCs)
- Bereavement Information
- What happens if my heart stops?
- Preventing Pressure Ulcers
- Dermatology Patient Information Sheet
- Pain management telephone appointments form
- Patient Information – Information about your outpatient consultation
- Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
General Surgery
- Surgical Directorate Booklet
- Revision Hip Surgery
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Local Anaesthetic/No Sedation Starving Instructions for Adult Patients
- Lateral Anal Sphincterotomy
- Laparoscopic Hernia Repair
- Discharge Advice following Bowel Surgery
- Bowel Surgery – The Enhanced Recovery Programme
- Information and Advice Regarding your Breast Surgery
- Gallstones
- Tests for Bowel Problems – A Guide to Help You
- Anal Fissure
- Excision of a Lump
- Delorme’s Procedure for a rectal prolapse
- SDAU (Same Day Admissions Unit) for surgery
- Right Hemicolectomy
- Reversal of Hartmann’s Procedure
- Pruritus Ani
- Pilonidal Sinus
- Formation of Loop Ileostomy
- Haemorrhoidectomy
- Anal warts
- A self–help Guide for People with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Good Bowel Habit and Preventing Constipation
- General Anaesthetic / Sedation Feeding Instructions - Adult Patients Morning and Afternoon Surgery
- Faecal Incontinence
- Varicose Veins – For Surgery
- Ano-Rectal Tests
- Anal Fistula Operations
Gynaecology
- Following Pregnancy Loss (up to 13 weeks and 6 days by scan)
- Gynaecology Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Colposcopy Treatment (Loop Excision) Your Aftercare
- Urodynamics Studies (UDS)
- Vaginal Hysterectomy for Uterine Prolapse and Vaginal Repair
- Urinary Incontinence
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage Under Local Anaesthetic (MVA)
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage (SMOM)
- Sacrocolpopexy for Vault Prolapse
- Intermittent Self Catheterisation (ISC) Uro Gynaecology
- Post-operative follow up for patients diagnosed with early stage endometrial cancer
- Medical Management of Miscarriage (Outpatient) at Less Than 9 weeks Gestation
- Hysteroscopy Under General Anaesthesia
- Hysterectomy
- Cryocautery to Cervical Ectropion
- Gynaecological Laparoscopy
- Gemeprost
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) for prolapse of the uterus (womb) or prolapse of the vaginal vault (top of vagina)
- Sacrohysteropexy for Uterine Prolapse (Womb Prolapse)
- Colposuspension for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Going Home After a Laparoscopy (Adult)
- Vaginal Pessary for Prolapse
- Botox Injections for the treatment of an Overactive Bladder
- Vulvoscopy, Vulval Biopsy: Your Aftercare
Haematology
- Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia
- Haematology PIFU – Bleeding Disorder
- Haematology PIFU - Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura
- Factor V Leiden Information
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- MGUS (Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance)
Hepatology
Imaging
- Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)
- Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy (RIG)
- Your X-ray
- Varicocele Embolisation
- Tunnelled Line Insertion
- Transfemoral Angiogram
- Your Water Soluble Enema
- Your Small Bowel Meal
- Your Barium Swallow
- Your Barium Meal
- Your CT Scan
- Nerve Root Block
- Going Home after your Fibroid Embolisation
- Angioplasty
- Small Bowel Aftercare Advice
- Explaining your CT Virtual Colonoscopy examination with Picolax® preparation
- Dietary instructions for patients requiring a barium enema taking Picolax®
- Your Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Biopsy under Ultrasound - Guidance
- Early pregnancy scan
- Abdominal CT Scan - Preparation
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Fibroid Embolisation
- Liver biopsy
- Biopsy
- CT Pneumocolon Aftercare Information
- Gastrostomy Insertion
- Picolax - Dietary instructions for patients requiring a small bowel enema taking Picolax®
Infection Prevention
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Caring for your Midline Catheter Caring for your Midline Catheter
- How to collect a urine sample
- Clostridioides difficile (C.diff or CDI)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Self-management programme
- Rectosigmoid and pancolitis
- Pregnancy and inflammatory bowel disease
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- Homecare Medicines Service
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
Maternity
- Having a small for gestational age (SGA) baby
- Preterm birth clinic
- Maternal request for caesarean section
- Expectant management following a miscarriage
- Feeling your baby move
- Being overweight in pregnancy and after birth
- Caring for your baby at night
- Cervical stitch
- Considering a caesarean birth
- Corticosteriods in pregnancy
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy -RCOG
- Birthing partners staying overnight
- Elective Caesarean Birth
- Gestational Diabetes mellitus
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Assisted vaginal birth (ventouse or forceps)
- Meet the Maternity Team
- Staying comfortable during labour
- Epidural – Your Choice
- TB, BCG and your baby
- Screening tests for you and your baby (STFYAYB)
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Breech Presentation – What are your choices?
- Reducing the risk of pre-eclampsia - Information for women taking aspirin in pregnancy
- Down’s, Edward’s & Patau’s syndromes screening
- Monitoring your Baby’s Heartbeat in Labour
- Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme Handbook
- The Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU)
- Illness in newborn babies
- Planning your birth
- Coronavirus: Parent information for newborn babies
- Use of water in labour and birth
- Postnatal Community Care
- HIV and Pregnancy – You and Your Baby
- GDm-Health
- Caring for your wound after having a caesarean section
- Outpatient Induction of Labour
- Induction of Labour
- Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Pregnancy
- Newborn Feeding Policy Summary
- Perineal Care
- Feeding your baby during a hospital admission
- Antenatal Day Assessment Unit (ADAU)
- NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Birth Reflections
- Understanding why your baby died
- Gestational diabetes using the GDmHealth App
- Pregnancy information for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Pethidine Injection for homebirths
- Loss of Your Baby - Neonatal - Guidance for parents
- Late Miscarriage or Termination of Pregnancy for Medical Reasons - Guidance for parents
- Stillbirth or Termination of Pregnancy (over 24 weeks) - Guidance for parents
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- How to take your blood pressure at home using an upper arm monitor
- Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnant Women
- Antenatal Colostrum Collection
- A guide to starting insulin for women with gestational diabetes
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Early pregnancy scan
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
- Home birth at MKUH
Neonatal Unit
- Car seat information
- Sucrose - pain relief for babies
- Cleaning and Storing the Single Patient Use Pump Kits
- The Neonatal Community Team: Going Home
- Neonatal Unit Parents’ Leaflet
- Intravenous Antibiotics (IVAB’s)
- Heart Murmurs in Newborn Babies
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Bronchiolitis + RSV
- Birth Reflections
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- Lumbar puncture for newborn
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Care of the Umbilical cord
- Jaundice in Newborn Babies
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Red Box Patient System
Neurology
- Neurology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Providing Disease-Modifying Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis Patients
- Managing Stress and Anxiety - For Patients with Epilepsy
- First fit and epilepsy information leaflet
- Parkinson's UK - First Steps
- Parkinson's UK - General Information
- Parkinson's Information Leaflet
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Bladder Diary
- Bladder training - A guide for women
- Female sterilisation
- Healthy Bladder information
- Heavy periods (adolescents)
- Outpatient Hysteroscopy – An Internal Examination of Your Womb
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) information
- Urethral Bulking for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Urodynamics information
- Vulvovaginitis information
Occupational Therapy
Ophthalmology
- Squint information sheet
- Registered Sight Impaired
- Registered Severely Sight Impaired
- Fluorescein Angiography
- Occlusion Treatment (Eye Patching)
- Cataract surgery For Patients who have had previous refractive Corneal Surgery
- Intravitreal Injection
- How to use your eye drops
- Dispensing Bifocals to Children
- AREDS 2 trial of vitamins and minerals for macular degeneration
- After Care: Intravitreal Injection
- Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG)
- Ocular hypertension
- Glaucoma and Your Relatives
- Driving with Glaucoma
- Glaucoma - A guide
- Glaucoma - Eye drops and dispensing aids
- Obtaining Children’s Glasses
- Macular Laser Treatment
- Glasses Information Sheet
- Laser Iridotomies
- Strabismus (Squint) Surgery
- Use of Cyclopentolate Eye Drops
- Vision Advice for Children
- Macular Hole
- Glaucoma and Trabeculectomy
- Discharge Information Sheet
- Children’s Eye Clinic appointments
- Vision checks at School for the rising 5’s
- You child's eyes - Vision Information for Pre-School Children
- Reading Medicines Information Leaflets
- Facial Nerve Paralysis
- Blepharitis
- Stand Magnifiers for Home Use
- Surgery for a watery eye (Lacrimal surgery)
- Intravitreal Injection
- Illuminated Magnifiers for Home Use
- Information For Hand-Magnifier Users
- Intravitreal Injection After Care
- Adult Age Related Ptosis
- High Power Spectacles for Home Use
- Floater, Flashes and Vitreous Separation
- Convergence Insufficiency Exercises
- Blepharoplasty (Lid Surgery)
- Botulinum toxin treatment for squint / double vision
- Trabeculectomy information
Oral and Maxillofacial
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery (Post operative wound care after Facial Surgery)
- Oral (Mouth) Biopsy
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Lichen Planus
- Exposure of Impacted Upper Canine
- Oral Maxillofacial Surgery (Jaw Joint Problems – Self help)
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery
Orthodontics
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Information prior to oral surgery under intravenous sedation
- Removal of impacted wisdom teeth
- Jaw joint problems
Orthopaedics
- Fractured Neck of Femur
- Orthopaedic Patient Initiated Follow up (PIFU)
- Lumbar decompression surgery
- Damage to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
- Ankle Sprains
- Acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) injury
- Buckle Fractures of the Radius in Children
- Cervical Disc Protrusion and Radiculopathy: Surgical Options
- Discharge advice: “Buckle” fractures
- Discharge advice following attendance with a radial head/neck fracture
- Discharge advice: Paediatric (Children’s) clavicle fracture
- Discharge advice mallet finger injury
- Discharge advice 5th metatarsal fracture
- Discharge advice following attendance with a hand (5th metacarpal) fracture
- Advice sheet for Patients fitted with a Polypropylene Cast
- Tennis / Golfer's Elbow
- Knee Arthroscopy
- Hip Spica
- Dupuytren’s Contracture
- Carpal Tunnel Decompression
- ACL Rehabilitation
- Total Knee Replacement
- Total Hip Replacement
Paediatric Diabetes
- Isolation Nursing
- How to treat your asthma / wheeze
- Oxygen Therapy and your child
- Sick Day Rules for Children with Diabetes
- Paediatric Diabetes Clinic Brochure
- Insulin Management for Long Distance Travel
- Children with Diabetes and becoming ill
- Use of Glucogel
- Management of a severe hypoglycaemia
- Treatment for mild hypoglycaemia
- What is your HbA1c?
- The Honeymoon Period
- Holiday Advice
- Disability Living Allowance
- Travel Checklist
- Blood Ketones testing
- Blood Glucose testing
- Administration of Insulin via pen device
Paediatrics
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Paediatric Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Paediatric Bereavement Booklet
- Home Leave Agreement
- Traction: principles and application
- Laparoscopy: Going Home After
- How to Administer Buccolam®
- Appendicitis and Your Child
- Urine Sample
- Your Child’s Outpatient Appointment
- Urinary Tract Infections (Complications and Tests)
- Fasting - All You Need to Know (A Guide for Parents/Carers)
- Skin Prick Testing
- Food Challenges
- Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
- Viral Induced Wheeze
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Treatment of Hypoglycaemia (Hypo’s) For Insulin Pump Users
- Treatment of High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) on Pump Therapy
- Preventing Diarrhoea and Vomiting in Children 0-5 years
- Rectal Paraldehyde For Stopping Seizures
- My Child is Having Sedation: Advice for Parents
- Home Intravenous (IV) Antibiotic Teaching Pack for Children / Parents / Carers of Children with Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
- High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) On Pump Therapy
- Head Injury – Discharge Information for Parents / Carers (Paediatrics)
- Head Injury Advice Sheet for Children
- Fever Advice Sheet for Children 0-5 years
- Egg allergy and Mumps, Measles and Rubella (MMR) Vaccination in Children
- Cystic Fibrosis Information for Families
- Children and young people with constipation - Advice sheet for parents and carers
- Children’s Community Nursing Service
- Bronchiolitis Advice Sheet
- Basal Rate Testing for Insulin Pump Users
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Pregnancy testing before an operation, investigation or treatment
- A Leaflet for Young People: Safeguarding (16-18 Years)
- Young People’s Guide
- Recurrent Abdominal Pain
- Pain Assessment (A Guide for Parents / Carers)
- Central Venous Catheters: A Guide for Parents and Carers
- Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) - A guide for Older Children (8-16yrs)
- Childhood obesity
- Paediatric Pre Assessment Booklet
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Nephrotic Syndrome
- Care of Your Mouth after Oral Surgery
- Incision and Curettage
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Central Line Training for Schools
- Care of a child with a chest infection / pneumonia
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Child Protection Medical
- Children’s Cancer Services
- Pica (Eating Inedible Objects) and Polydipsia (Drinking Excessively)
- Clobazam for preventing seizures
- Dairy Re-introduction plan – Milk Ladder
- Egg introduction - Egg ladder
- Ethosuximide for preventing seizures
- House dust mite allergy
- Lamotrigine for preventing seizures
- Levetiracetam for preventing seizures
- Midazolam for stopping seizures
- Oral carbamazepine for preventing seizures
- Red Box Patient System
- Paediatric Epilepsy Service
- Sodium valproate for preventing seizures
- SUDEP (Sudden death in epilepsy): What you need to know
- Topiramate for preventing seizures
- Mastoid surgery
Pain Management
- Epidural – Your Choice
- Pain relief after surgery
- Chronic Pain Service
- Pain injection treatment explained
- Facet injections
- Radiofrequency facet joint denervation
- Sacroiliac Injections
- Sacroiliac Joint Radiofrequency Denervation (SIJ RFD)
Pathology
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
- Instructions for patients collecting urine samples for Oxalate
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Information for Adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of Blood / Blood Products.
- A simple guide to the post-mortem examination procedure
Pharmacy Services
Physiotherapy
- Improving your pelvic health and fitness after pregnancy
- Advice and exercises following an OASI 3rd/4th degree tear
- Looking after your pelvic floor when you have had a baby
- Perineal Massage in Pregnancy – Advice and Information
- Exercises and advice following Gynae Surgery
- Diastasis Recti following pregnancy
- Getting back into shape after your delivery
- Advice and exercises following Caesarean Section
- Knee exercises
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for women
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
Respiratory/Chest Medicine
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Lung Function Unit – CPAP Service - Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointment
- Pleural Clinic - Information Sheet
- Pneumonia
- Looking After Your Chest Drain
Rheumatology
- Rheumatology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Ankylosing spondylitis information
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Etanercept information
- Cyclophosphamide information
- Certolizumab Pegol information booklet
- Ciclosporin information
- Baricitinib information
- Azathioprine information
- Apremilast information
- Amitriptyline information
- Allopurinol information
- Adalimumab information
- Abatacept information
- Zolendronic acid information
- Ustekinumab information
- Tofacitinib information
- Tocilizumab information
- Sulfasalazine information
- Steroid injections information
- Steroid information
- Secukinumab information
- Sarilumab information
- Alendronic acid and Osteoporosis fact sheet
- Rituximab information
- Painkillers and NSAIDS information
- Mycophenolate information
- Methotrexate information
- Leflunomide information
- Inflixmab information
- Iloprost information
- Hydroxychloroquine information
- Golimumab information
- Febuxostat information
Sexual Health
Stoma Care
- Abdominal Perineal Resection of the Rectum
- Subtotal Colectomy and formation of Ileostomy
- Panproctocolectomy and Ileostomy
- Loop Colostomy
- Hartmann’s Procedure
- Anterior Resection
Therapy Services
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for men
- Therapies - MSK Physiotherapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up
- Therapies - Hand Therapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Therapies - Amputee Physiotherapy Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Therapies - Orthotics Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Paediatric Physiotherapy CDC Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Paediatric Physiotherapy SSHC - Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Therapies Patient Initiated Follow-up - Women's & Men's Health
Urology
- Orchidectomy
- Urology Patient-Initiated Follow-up appointments
- Bladder tumours - Transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT)
- The nurse-led prostate surveillance telephone clinic
- Urology Team Macmillan CNS and MDT
- Intravesical BCG
- Going Home with a Catheter
- Varicocele
- Nephrostomy Tube Insertion and Care
- Adult Circumcision
- Kidney Stones
- Trans-Rectal Ultrasound Guided Biopsy of the Prostate Gland
- Trans Urethral Resection of Prostate (TURP)
- Circumcision A Parent / Carer's Guide
- One Stop Prostate Clinic
- What is a Urethrotomy?
- What is a Supra-Pubic Catheter?
- Urodynamics
- Extra Corporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL)
- Ureteric Stent - Going home
- What is a Flexible Cystoscopy?
- Intravesical Epirubicin chemotherapy: Procedure specific information
- Baus Kidney stones patient information
Patient Leaflets – Virtual Library
There are more than 900 patient information leaflets available to the public on our Virtual Library on the Trust’s website. These range across 38 different departments and areas, from Anaesthetics to Maternity, from Pharmacy Services to Ear, Nose & Throat, from Infection Prevention to Urology.
Please note that it is MKUH policy only leaflets that are up-to-date and approved by the Trust’s Governance team are published in our Virtual Library. If a leaflet has not been approved and is not up-to-date, then it will not appear on our website until it is approved and up-to-date.
Anaesthetics
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Lumbar Puncture information
- Keeping warm before, during and after an operation
Audiology
- Listening skills: Pre-school Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Listening skills: School Age Children - Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Hearing aid battery repair information
- Tinnitus
- Softening Ear Wax with Olive Oil
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (thin tubes)
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (Earmoulds)
- Hearing aids: Telephone Use
- Use of Water Barrier/ Swim Moulds
- Hearing aid maintenance information
- Getting used to your digital hearing aid
- Cleaning and retubing your earmould
- Children’s Hyperacusis
- Tactics for Good Hearing
- How to fit a new earmould
Blood Transfusion
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
Breast & General Surgery
- Common Conditions
- Outpatient Breast Clinic
- Breast Care wound advice sheet
- Breast Care - Diagnosis and Treatment Plan
- Advice following a core biopsy
- Admission and discharge - Breast Care Unit
- Fibroadenoma
- FEC-T chemotherapy
- Letrozole
- Breast pain leaflet
- Chemotherapy for breast cancer
- Gynaecomastia
- Tamoxifen
- Anastrozole
- Benign phyllodes tumours leaflet
- Breast pain information
- Breast cysts
- Fat necrosis
Cancer Services
- My Key To Care
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for people with chemotherapy/radiotherapy induced hair loss, including hair and scalp plans for cold cap treatment
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Safety at home after chemotherapy or when taking chemotherapy tablets home
- Patient handheld Systemic Anticancer Therapy (SACT) booklet
- Caring for the dying patient
- Extravasation What is it?
- Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment referral - What happens next?
- Patient Guidance Medication and driving
- Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression(MSCC)
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- What should I do if I have a chemotherapy spillage at home?
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for chemotherapy / radiotherapy patients
- Influenza and Pneumonia Vaccination for Adult patients undergoing treatment for Cancer
- A Guide to Supported Self-Management and Surveillance for Colorectal Cancer
- Awaiting Your Diagnosis and Colorectal Pathway
- Acute Oncology Service and Assessment Unit
Cardiology
- Cardiology Patient-Initiated Follow-up
- CT Coronary Angiogram with Ivabradine
- Pacemaker Follow Up Service
- Cardiac CT Angiography (CCTA)
- Echocardiogram
- Transesophageal Echocardiogram
- Pharmacological Stress - Echocardiogram
- Exercise Stress - Echocardiogram
- Cardiac Angiography Unit Pacemaker Implant Pre-Procedure leaflet
- Cardiology Outpatients 24 Hour Blood Pressure Monitor
- Ajmaline Challenge
- Cardiac Angiography Pre-Procedure Leaflet
- Discharge Information Following Pacemaker Insertion
- Discharge Advice Following Coronary Angiography
- Ongoing exercise programmes for Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Cardioversion
- Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise Programme Information for Participants
Chaplaincy
Colorectal
- CMR Surgical Registry: Patient information and informed consent
- Versius Patient Information
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Dietary advice for diverticular disease
- Diverticular Disease
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Haemorrhoids
- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
- Sigmoid Colectomy
Dermatology
Diabetes & Endocrinology
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- Insulin Pump Clinic
- Information for patients new to Insulin (for 16 years and above)
- Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Ketoacidosis
- Type 1 Diabetes - What to do when you're ill
- Alcohol, smoking and illicit drugs - What you need to know if you have diabetes
- Diabetes: Safe driving and the DVLA
- Keeping safe with insulin therapy
- Hypoglycaemia explained
- Managing Mealtime Insulin
Dietetics (adults)
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Foodbank support for Milton Keynes and surrounding areas
- Do you have diarrhoea?
- Glycaemic Index (GI)
- Eating when you have an Oesophageal Stent
- Snack Suggestions for a Puree Diet
- Coeliac Disease – What you need to know
- Tube feeding pack
- Chronic Pancreatitis Dietary Advice
- Gestational Diabetes Diet Sheet
- Instructions for taking Preload prior to surgery
- Wound Healing - Dietary advice
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Stroke and healthy eating
- Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux and Nutrition
- Food first as a treatment for under-nutrition
- Carbohydrate Counting
- Thickened Drinks
- Taking Pancreatic Enzymes
- Reducing your Salt Intake
- IDDSI Level 7: Easy to Chew (ETC)
- IDDSI Level 6: Soft and Bite-sized diet
- IDDSI Level 4: Puree Diet
- Eating when you have a duodenal stent
- Dietary advice for Gallbladder Disease
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Advice for family and friends helping somebody with cancer to eat and drink
- A Guide to Fluid Restriction
- Wheat Free Diet
- Low Lactose Diet
- Has your sense of taste changed?
- Following a milk-free diet while breastfeeding
- Do you have a dry or sore mouth?
- Are you too tired to cook meals?
- Are you feeling sick?
- Are you feeling full?
- Eating Well with Liver Disease
- A Guide to Food Labelling
- Tube feeding - The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- How to Take Oral Nutritional Supplements
- Homemade Nutritional Booster Recipes
- Omega 3 - Food fact sheet
- Dementia - Eating and drinking - Staying well
- Patient Information Healthy Eating with Diabetes
- Nourishing Milky Drinks
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Iron (good sources of)
- Diabetes Insulin and exercise
- Calcium information sheet
Dietetics (children)
- Gluten challenge for Coeliac Disease in children
- Constipation in Infants and Children
- Egg Free Diet
- Lowering your Cholesterol - Paediatrics
- Following a cow’s milk free diet whilst breastfeeding
- Cow’s Milk and Soya Free Diet for Children
- High Energy Dietary Information for Infants and Children on a Milk-Free Diet
- High Energy Diet Sheet for Infants and Children
- Cow’s milk-free diet for infants
- Cow’s milk-free diet for children
- Sources of Calcium for a cow’s milk free diet
- Paediatric Carbohydrate Free Meal Ideas
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Weaning a baby with a food allergy/intolerance
- Shopping guide for cow’s milk-free foods and drinks
- Lactose intolerance
- Eating out and travelling with an allergy resources
- Dietary Management of Toddler Diarrhoea
Ear, Nose and Throat
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Tinnitus
- Endoscopic Dacrocystorhinostomy (DCR) (Surgery for a watery eye)
- Epistaxis Advice Sheet
- Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy
- Thyroid Lobectomy
- Pain control advice following throat operations
- Otosclerosis
- Neck dissection information
- Nasal douching
- Myringoplasty
- Mastoidectomy
- Laryngoscopy, Bronchoscopy, Pharyngoscopy & Oesophagoscopy
- Grommets
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR)
- Exercises for Vertigo Sufferers
- Nose bleed advice
- ENT operations
- Surgery for a watery eye
- Correct use of nose drops
- Care of ears
- Allergy to house dust and dust mites
- Thyroid surgery
- Surgery of the submandibular gland
- Snoring & sleep apnoea
- Sore throats
- Sinusitis
- Septal surgery
- Rhinoplasty
- Parotid surgery
- Otosclerosis and stapedotomy
- Neck dissection leaflet
- Microlaryngoscopy and oesophagoscopy
- Mastoid surgery
- Hole in eardrum
- Hoarseness
- Hearing loss
- Grommets in childhood
- Glue ear
- Flexible nasal endoscopy
- Facial skin lesions
- Epistaxis or nosebleeds
- Children's tonsil surgery
- Catarrh
- Blocked nose
- Adenoid surgery
- Adult tonsil surgery
Emergency Department
- Abdominal Pain
- Rib or Chest Injury
- Care of Feet and Toenails for Adults
- After sedation
- Ankle injury
- Managing Panic Attacks and Anxiety
- Asthma
- Burn to Hands
- How To Wear Your Wrist Splint
- Adult head injury
- Wound care
- Welcome to the Emergency Department
- Walking with Crutches
- Thromboprophylaxis
- Tetanus/Polio/Diphtheria Immunisation
- Tenosynovitis
- Swallowed Foreign Bodies
- Soft Tissue Shoulder Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury Of The Neck
- Pulled Elbow in Children
- Pre-Tibial Laceration
- Plaster Casts
- Nose Injury Advice
- Mallet Finger Injury
- Lower back pain advice
- Knee Injury
- Fever in Children
- Paediatric Minor Head Injury Glue & Go Advice
Endoscopy
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Bronchoscopy & EBUS
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Gastroscopy
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Gastroscopy with Oesophageal Stent Inserted
- Discharge advice following endoscopy with sedation (incl. Propofol)
- Discharge after ERCP - patient information
- Discharge advice following an endoscopy with Entonox
- Advice following a gastroscopy
- Advice following a gastroscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a colonoscopy
- Bronchoscopy with sedation
- Cut and Push Removal of A Freka Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
- Having an Oesophageal Dilatation
Foot & Ankle - Conditions
- Bunion
- Big Toe Arthritis
- Ankle Sprain
- Ankle Arthritis
- Adult Acquired Flatfoot
- Achilles Tendinopathy
- Small Toe Deformity
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Morton’s neuroma
- Midfoot Arthritis
- Hindfoot Arthritis
Foot & Ankle - Treatments
- Haglund’s Syndrome Surgery
- Flat Foot Reconstruction
- Bunion surgery
- Big Toe Fusion
- Big Toe Cheilectomy
- Ankle Fusion
- Ankle Arthroscopy
- Achilles Tendon Repair Surgery
- Small Toe Surgery
- Shockwave Therapy
- Morton’s Neuroma Surgery
- Midfoot Fusion
- Lateral Ligament Reconstruction
- Hindfoot Fusion
Gastroenterology
- Radiologically Inserted gastrostomy (RIG) Patient Information leaflet
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) - Information and Care Guidelines for patients and carers
- Gastroenterology Patient-initiated follow-up appointments
- How to take Picolax (Double Procedure)
- How to take Moviprep (Double Procedure)
- How to take Picolax
- How to Take Moviprep
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)
- Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Ready Steady Go Transition Programme
- Ciclosporin information
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Diet: Food Fact Sheet
- Ileo-Caecal Resection
- Adalimumab information
- All about Crohn's & Colitis
- Azathioprine and Mercaptopurine
- Biologic medicines
- Bloating and wind
- Bones information
- Bowel Cancer and IBD
- Counselling for IBD
- Crohn's disease - Your guide
- Dehydration
- Diarrhoea and constipation
- Other Treatments - Information sheet
- First Line Dietary Advice for Crohn’s Disease
- Coeliac Disease: FAQs
- Employment & IBD: A guide for employees
- Ferinject patient information
- Fatigue & IBD
- Finances information
- Living with a fistula
- Food - Your guide
- Golimumab information
- Infliximab information
- Insurance & IBD
- Joints - Information if you have Crohn's or Colitis
- Living with a Stoma
- Living with Crohn's or Colitis
- Managing bowel incontinence and IBD
- Medical terms
- Methotrexate information
- Microscopic Colitis
- My Crohn's & Colitis Care
- Personal Independence Payment
- Pregnancy and IBD
- Ready Steady Go questionnaire
- Rectal treatment for IBD
- Reproductive health & IBD
- Sexual relationships & IBD
- Smoking and IBD
- Steroids (Corticosteroids) information
- Students with IBD: A guide for universities and colleges
- Supporting someone with IBD: A guide for friends and family
- Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis
- Surgery for Crohn's Disease
- Taking medicines
- Talking to my child about my IBD
- Tests & Investigations for IBD
- Tofacitinib information
- Transition: Moving to adult care
- Travel and IBD information
- Ulcerative Colitis - Your Guide
- Ustekinumab
- Vedolizumab
- Aminosalicylates (5-ASAs)
General
- Infectious Diseases Patient Initiated Follow Up (PIFU)
- Stroke Patient-Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Tell us about your care (Complaints leaflet)
- Formal complaint information leaflet
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Management and Treatment of Lower Leg Cellulitis
- Reducing the risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
- Pneumonia
- Funeral Directors in the Milton Keynes Area
- Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICCs)
- Bereavement Information
- What happens if my heart stops?
- Preventing Pressure Ulcers
- Dermatology Patient Information Sheet
- Pain management telephone appointments form
- Patient Information – Information about your outpatient consultation
- Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
General Surgery
- Surgical Directorate Booklet
- Revision Hip Surgery
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Local Anaesthetic/No Sedation Starving Instructions for Adult Patients
- Lateral Anal Sphincterotomy
- Laparoscopic Hernia Repair
- Discharge Advice following Bowel Surgery
- Bowel Surgery – The Enhanced Recovery Programme
- Information and Advice Regarding your Breast Surgery
- Gallstones
- Tests for Bowel Problems – A Guide to Help You
- Anal Fissure
- Excision of a Lump
- Delorme’s Procedure for a rectal prolapse
- SDAU (Same Day Admissions Unit) for surgery
- Right Hemicolectomy
- Reversal of Hartmann’s Procedure
- Pruritus Ani
- Pilonidal Sinus
- Formation of Loop Ileostomy
- Haemorrhoidectomy
- Anal warts
- A self–help Guide for People with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Good Bowel Habit and Preventing Constipation
- General Anaesthetic / Sedation Feeding Instructions - Adult Patients Morning and Afternoon Surgery
- Faecal Incontinence
- Varicose Veins – For Surgery
- Ano-Rectal Tests
- Anal Fistula Operations
Gynaecology
- Following Pregnancy Loss (up to 13 weeks and 6 days by scan)
- Gynaecology Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Colposcopy Treatment (Loop Excision) Your Aftercare
- Urodynamics Studies (UDS)
- Vaginal Hysterectomy for Uterine Prolapse and Vaginal Repair
- Urinary Incontinence
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage Under Local Anaesthetic (MVA)
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage (SMOM)
- Sacrocolpopexy for Vault Prolapse
- Intermittent Self Catheterisation (ISC) Uro Gynaecology
- Post-operative follow up for patients diagnosed with early stage endometrial cancer
- Medical Management of Miscarriage (Outpatient) at Less Than 9 weeks Gestation
- Hysteroscopy Under General Anaesthesia
- Hysterectomy
- Cryocautery to Cervical Ectropion
- Gynaecological Laparoscopy
- Gemeprost
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) for prolapse of the uterus (womb) or prolapse of the vaginal vault (top of vagina)
- Sacrohysteropexy for Uterine Prolapse (Womb Prolapse)
- Colposuspension for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Going Home After a Laparoscopy (Adult)
- Vaginal Pessary for Prolapse
- Botox Injections for the treatment of an Overactive Bladder
- Vulvoscopy, Vulval Biopsy: Your Aftercare
Haematology
- Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia
- Haematology PIFU – Bleeding Disorder
- Haematology PIFU - Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura
- Factor V Leiden Information
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- MGUS (Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance)
Hepatology
Imaging
- Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)
- Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy (RIG)
- Your X-ray
- Varicocele Embolisation
- Tunnelled Line Insertion
- Transfemoral Angiogram
- Your Water Soluble Enema
- Your Small Bowel Meal
- Your Barium Swallow
- Your Barium Meal
- Your CT Scan
- Nerve Root Block
- Going Home after your Fibroid Embolisation
- Angioplasty
- Small Bowel Aftercare Advice
- Explaining your CT Virtual Colonoscopy examination with Picolax® preparation
- Dietary instructions for patients requiring a barium enema taking Picolax®
- Your Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Biopsy under Ultrasound - Guidance
- Early pregnancy scan
- Abdominal CT Scan - Preparation
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Fibroid Embolisation
- Liver biopsy
- Biopsy
- CT Pneumocolon Aftercare Information
- Gastrostomy Insertion
- Picolax - Dietary instructions for patients requiring a small bowel enema taking Picolax®
Infection Prevention
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Caring for your Midline Catheter Caring for your Midline Catheter
- How to collect a urine sample
- Clostridioides difficile (C.diff or CDI)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Self-management programme
- Rectosigmoid and pancolitis
- Pregnancy and inflammatory bowel disease
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- Homecare Medicines Service
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
Maternity
- Having a small for gestational age (SGA) baby
- Preterm birth clinic
- Maternal request for caesarean section
- Expectant management following a miscarriage
- Feeling your baby move
- Being overweight in pregnancy and after birth
- Caring for your baby at night
- Cervical stitch
- Considering a caesarean birth
- Corticosteriods in pregnancy
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy -RCOG
- Birthing partners staying overnight
- Elective Caesarean Birth
- Gestational Diabetes mellitus
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Assisted vaginal birth (ventouse or forceps)
- Meet the Maternity Team
- Staying comfortable during labour
- Epidural – Your Choice
- TB, BCG and your baby
- Screening tests for you and your baby (STFYAYB)
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Breech Presentation – What are your choices?
- Reducing the risk of pre-eclampsia - Information for women taking aspirin in pregnancy
- Down’s, Edward’s & Patau’s syndromes screening
- Monitoring your Baby’s Heartbeat in Labour
- Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme Handbook
- The Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU)
- Illness in newborn babies
- Planning your birth
- Coronavirus: Parent information for newborn babies
- Use of water in labour and birth
- Postnatal Community Care
- HIV and Pregnancy – You and Your Baby
- GDm-Health
- Caring for your wound after having a caesarean section
- Outpatient Induction of Labour
- Induction of Labour
- Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Pregnancy
- Newborn Feeding Policy Summary
- Perineal Care
- Feeding your baby during a hospital admission
- Antenatal Day Assessment Unit (ADAU)
- NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Birth Reflections
- Understanding why your baby died
- Gestational diabetes using the GDmHealth App
- Pregnancy information for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Pethidine Injection for homebirths
- Loss of Your Baby - Neonatal - Guidance for parents
- Late Miscarriage or Termination of Pregnancy for Medical Reasons - Guidance for parents
- Stillbirth or Termination of Pregnancy (over 24 weeks) - Guidance for parents
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- How to take your blood pressure at home using an upper arm monitor
- Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnant Women
- Antenatal Colostrum Collection
- A guide to starting insulin for women with gestational diabetes
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Early pregnancy scan
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
- Home birth at MKUH
Neonatal Unit
- Car seat information
- Sucrose - pain relief for babies
- Cleaning and Storing the Single Patient Use Pump Kits
- The Neonatal Community Team: Going Home
- Neonatal Unit Parents’ Leaflet
- Intravenous Antibiotics (IVAB’s)
- Heart Murmurs in Newborn Babies
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Bronchiolitis + RSV
- Birth Reflections
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- Lumbar puncture for newborn
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Care of the Umbilical cord
- Jaundice in Newborn Babies
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Red Box Patient System
Neurology
- Neurology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Providing Disease-Modifying Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis Patients
- Managing Stress and Anxiety - For Patients with Epilepsy
- First fit and epilepsy information leaflet
- Parkinson's UK - First Steps
- Parkinson's UK - General Information
- Parkinson's Information Leaflet
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Bladder Diary
- Bladder training - A guide for women
- Female sterilisation
- Healthy Bladder information
- Heavy periods (adolescents)
- Outpatient Hysteroscopy – An Internal Examination of Your Womb
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) information
- Urethral Bulking for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Urodynamics information
- Vulvovaginitis information
Occupational Therapy
Ophthalmology
- Squint information sheet
- Registered Sight Impaired
- Registered Severely Sight Impaired
- Fluorescein Angiography
- Occlusion Treatment (Eye Patching)
- Cataract surgery For Patients who have had previous refractive Corneal Surgery
- Intravitreal Injection
- How to use your eye drops
- Dispensing Bifocals to Children
- AREDS 2 trial of vitamins and minerals for macular degeneration
- After Care: Intravitreal Injection
- Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG)
- Ocular hypertension
- Glaucoma and Your Relatives
- Driving with Glaucoma
- Glaucoma - A guide
- Glaucoma - Eye drops and dispensing aids
- Obtaining Children’s Glasses
- Macular Laser Treatment
- Glasses Information Sheet
- Laser Iridotomies
- Strabismus (Squint) Surgery
- Use of Cyclopentolate Eye Drops
- Vision Advice for Children
- Macular Hole
- Glaucoma and Trabeculectomy
- Discharge Information Sheet
- Children’s Eye Clinic appointments
- Vision checks at School for the rising 5’s
- You child's eyes - Vision Information for Pre-School Children
- Reading Medicines Information Leaflets
- Facial Nerve Paralysis
- Blepharitis
- Stand Magnifiers for Home Use
- Surgery for a watery eye (Lacrimal surgery)
- Intravitreal Injection
- Illuminated Magnifiers for Home Use
- Information For Hand-Magnifier Users
- Intravitreal Injection After Care
- Adult Age Related Ptosis
- High Power Spectacles for Home Use
- Floater, Flashes and Vitreous Separation
- Convergence Insufficiency Exercises
- Blepharoplasty (Lid Surgery)
- Botulinum toxin treatment for squint / double vision
- Trabeculectomy information
Oral and Maxillofacial
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery (Post operative wound care after Facial Surgery)
- Oral (Mouth) Biopsy
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Lichen Planus
- Exposure of Impacted Upper Canine
- Oral Maxillofacial Surgery (Jaw Joint Problems – Self help)
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery
Orthodontics
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Information prior to oral surgery under intravenous sedation
- Removal of impacted wisdom teeth
- Jaw joint problems
Orthopaedics
- Fractured Neck of Femur
- Orthopaedic Patient Initiated Follow up (PIFU)
- Lumbar decompression surgery
- Damage to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
- Ankle Sprains
- Acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) injury
- Buckle Fractures of the Radius in Children
- Cervical Disc Protrusion and Radiculopathy: Surgical Options
- Discharge advice: “Buckle” fractures
- Discharge advice following attendance with a radial head/neck fracture
- Discharge advice: Paediatric (Children’s) clavicle fracture
- Discharge advice mallet finger injury
- Discharge advice 5th metatarsal fracture
- Discharge advice following attendance with a hand (5th metacarpal) fracture
- Advice sheet for Patients fitted with a Polypropylene Cast
- Tennis / Golfer's Elbow
- Knee Arthroscopy
- Hip Spica
- Dupuytren’s Contracture
- Carpal Tunnel Decompression
- ACL Rehabilitation
- Total Knee Replacement
- Total Hip Replacement
Paediatric Diabetes
- Isolation Nursing
- How to treat your asthma / wheeze
- Oxygen Therapy and your child
- Sick Day Rules for Children with Diabetes
- Paediatric Diabetes Clinic Brochure
- Insulin Management for Long Distance Travel
- Children with Diabetes and becoming ill
- Use of Glucogel
- Management of a severe hypoglycaemia
- Treatment for mild hypoglycaemia
- What is your HbA1c?
- The Honeymoon Period
- Holiday Advice
- Disability Living Allowance
- Travel Checklist
- Blood Ketones testing
- Blood Glucose testing
- Administration of Insulin via pen device
Paediatrics
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Paediatric Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Paediatric Bereavement Booklet
- Home Leave Agreement
- Traction: principles and application
- Laparoscopy: Going Home After
- How to Administer Buccolam®
- Appendicitis and Your Child
- Urine Sample
- Your Child’s Outpatient Appointment
- Urinary Tract Infections (Complications and Tests)
- Fasting - All You Need to Know (A Guide for Parents/Carers)
- Skin Prick Testing
- Food Challenges
- Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
- Viral Induced Wheeze
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Treatment of Hypoglycaemia (Hypo’s) For Insulin Pump Users
- Treatment of High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) on Pump Therapy
- Preventing Diarrhoea and Vomiting in Children 0-5 years
- Rectal Paraldehyde For Stopping Seizures
- My Child is Having Sedation: Advice for Parents
- Home Intravenous (IV) Antibiotic Teaching Pack for Children / Parents / Carers of Children with Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
- High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) On Pump Therapy
- Head Injury – Discharge Information for Parents / Carers (Paediatrics)
- Head Injury Advice Sheet for Children
- Fever Advice Sheet for Children 0-5 years
- Egg allergy and Mumps, Measles and Rubella (MMR) Vaccination in Children
- Cystic Fibrosis Information for Families
- Children and young people with constipation - Advice sheet for parents and carers
- Children’s Community Nursing Service
- Bronchiolitis Advice Sheet
- Basal Rate Testing for Insulin Pump Users
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Pregnancy testing before an operation, investigation or treatment
- A Leaflet for Young People: Safeguarding (16-18 Years)
- Young People’s Guide
- Recurrent Abdominal Pain
- Pain Assessment (A Guide for Parents / Carers)
- Central Venous Catheters: A Guide for Parents and Carers
- Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) - A guide for Older Children (8-16yrs)
- Childhood obesity
- Paediatric Pre Assessment Booklet
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Nephrotic Syndrome
- Care of Your Mouth after Oral Surgery
- Incision and Curettage
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Central Line Training for Schools
- Care of a child with a chest infection / pneumonia
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Child Protection Medical
- Children’s Cancer Services
- Pica (Eating Inedible Objects) and Polydipsia (Drinking Excessively)
- Clobazam for preventing seizures
- Dairy Re-introduction plan – Milk Ladder
- Egg introduction - Egg ladder
- Ethosuximide for preventing seizures
- House dust mite allergy
- Lamotrigine for preventing seizures
- Levetiracetam for preventing seizures
- Midazolam for stopping seizures
- Oral carbamazepine for preventing seizures
- Red Box Patient System
- Paediatric Epilepsy Service
- Sodium valproate for preventing seizures
- SUDEP (Sudden death in epilepsy): What you need to know
- Topiramate for preventing seizures
- Mastoid surgery
Pain Management
- Epidural – Your Choice
- Pain relief after surgery
- Chronic Pain Service
- Pain injection treatment explained
- Facet injections
- Radiofrequency facet joint denervation
- Sacroiliac Injections
- Sacroiliac Joint Radiofrequency Denervation (SIJ RFD)
Pathology
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
- Instructions for patients collecting urine samples for Oxalate
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Information for Adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of Blood / Blood Products.
- A simple guide to the post-mortem examination procedure
Pharmacy Services
Physiotherapy
- Improving your pelvic health and fitness after pregnancy
- Advice and exercises following an OASI 3rd/4th degree tear
- Looking after your pelvic floor when you have had a baby
- Perineal Massage in Pregnancy – Advice and Information
- Exercises and advice following Gynae Surgery
- Diastasis Recti following pregnancy
- Getting back into shape after your delivery
- Advice and exercises following Caesarean Section
- Knee exercises
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for women
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
Respiratory/Chest Medicine
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Lung Function Unit – CPAP Service - Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointment
- Pleural Clinic - Information Sheet
- Pneumonia
- Looking After Your Chest Drain
Rheumatology
- Rheumatology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Ankylosing spondylitis information
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Etanercept information
- Cyclophosphamide information
- Certolizumab Pegol information booklet
- Ciclosporin information
- Baricitinib information
- Azathioprine information
- Apremilast information
- Amitriptyline information
- Allopurinol information
- Adalimumab information
- Abatacept information
- Zolendronic acid information
- Ustekinumab information
- Tofacitinib information
- Tocilizumab information
- Sulfasalazine information
- Steroid injections information
- Steroid information
- Secukinumab information
- Sarilumab information
- Alendronic acid and Osteoporosis fact sheet
- Rituximab information
- Painkillers and NSAIDS information
- Mycophenolate information
- Methotrexate information
- Leflunomide information
- Inflixmab information
- Iloprost information
- Hydroxychloroquine information
- Golimumab information
- Febuxostat information
Sexual Health
Stoma Care
- Abdominal Perineal Resection of the Rectum
- Subtotal Colectomy and formation of Ileostomy
- Panproctocolectomy and Ileostomy
- Loop Colostomy
- Hartmann’s Procedure
- Anterior Resection
Therapy Services
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for men
- Therapies - MSK Physiotherapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up
- Therapies - Hand Therapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Therapies - Amputee Physiotherapy Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Therapies - Orthotics Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Paediatric Physiotherapy CDC Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Paediatric Physiotherapy SSHC - Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Therapies Patient Initiated Follow-up - Women's & Men's Health
Urology
- Orchidectomy
- Urology Patient-Initiated Follow-up appointments
- Bladder tumours - Transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT)
- The nurse-led prostate surveillance telephone clinic
- Urology Team Macmillan CNS and MDT
- Intravesical BCG
- Going Home with a Catheter
- Varicocele
- Nephrostomy Tube Insertion and Care
- Adult Circumcision
- Kidney Stones
- Trans-Rectal Ultrasound Guided Biopsy of the Prostate Gland
- Trans Urethral Resection of Prostate (TURP)
- Circumcision A Parent / Carer's Guide
- One Stop Prostate Clinic
- What is a Urethrotomy?
- What is a Supra-Pubic Catheter?
- Urodynamics
- Extra Corporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL)
- Ureteric Stent - Going home
- What is a Flexible Cystoscopy?
- Intravesical Epirubicin chemotherapy: Procedure specific information
- Baus Kidney stones patient information
Patient Leaflets – Virtual Library
There are more than 900 patient information leaflets available to the public on our Virtual Library on the Trust’s website. These range across 38 different departments and areas, from Anaesthetics to Maternity, from Pharmacy Services to Ear, Nose & Throat, from Infection Prevention to Urology.
Please note that it is MKUH policy only leaflets that are up-to-date and approved by the Trust’s Governance team are published in our Virtual Library. If a leaflet has not been approved and is not up-to-date, then it will not appear on our website until it is approved and up-to-date.
Anaesthetics
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Lumbar Puncture information
- Keeping warm before, during and after an operation
Audiology
- Listening skills: Pre-school Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Listening skills: School Age Children - Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Hearing aid battery repair information
- Tinnitus
- Softening Ear Wax with Olive Oil
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (thin tubes)
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (Earmoulds)
- Hearing aids: Telephone Use
- Use of Water Barrier/ Swim Moulds
- Hearing aid maintenance information
- Getting used to your digital hearing aid
- Cleaning and retubing your earmould
- Children’s Hyperacusis
- Tactics for Good Hearing
- How to fit a new earmould
Blood Transfusion
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
Breast & General Surgery
- Common Conditions
- Outpatient Breast Clinic
- Breast Care wound advice sheet
- Breast Care - Diagnosis and Treatment Plan
- Advice following a core biopsy
- Admission and discharge - Breast Care Unit
- Fibroadenoma
- FEC-T chemotherapy
- Letrozole
- Breast pain leaflet
- Chemotherapy for breast cancer
- Gynaecomastia
- Tamoxifen
- Anastrozole
- Benign phyllodes tumours leaflet
- Breast pain information
- Breast cysts
- Fat necrosis
Cancer Services
- My Key To Care
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for people with chemotherapy/radiotherapy induced hair loss, including hair and scalp plans for cold cap treatment
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Safety at home after chemotherapy or when taking chemotherapy tablets home
- Patient handheld Systemic Anticancer Therapy (SACT) booklet
- Caring for the dying patient
- Extravasation What is it?
- Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment referral - What happens next?
- Patient Guidance Medication and driving
- Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression(MSCC)
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- What should I do if I have a chemotherapy spillage at home?
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for chemotherapy / radiotherapy patients
- Influenza and Pneumonia Vaccination for Adult patients undergoing treatment for Cancer
- A Guide to Supported Self-Management and Surveillance for Colorectal Cancer
- Awaiting Your Diagnosis and Colorectal Pathway
- Acute Oncology Service and Assessment Unit
Cardiology
- Cardiology Patient-Initiated Follow-up
- CT Coronary Angiogram with Ivabradine
- Pacemaker Follow Up Service
- Cardiac CT Angiography (CCTA)
- Echocardiogram
- Transesophageal Echocardiogram
- Pharmacological Stress - Echocardiogram
- Exercise Stress - Echocardiogram
- Cardiac Angiography Unit Pacemaker Implant Pre-Procedure leaflet
- Cardiology Outpatients 24 Hour Blood Pressure Monitor
- Ajmaline Challenge
- Cardiac Angiography Pre-Procedure Leaflet
- Discharge Information Following Pacemaker Insertion
- Discharge Advice Following Coronary Angiography
- Ongoing exercise programmes for Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Cardioversion
- Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise Programme Information for Participants
Chaplaincy
Colorectal
- CMR Surgical Registry: Patient information and informed consent
- Versius Patient Information
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Dietary advice for diverticular disease
- Diverticular Disease
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Haemorrhoids
- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
- Sigmoid Colectomy
Dermatology
Diabetes & Endocrinology
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- Insulin Pump Clinic
- Information for patients new to Insulin (for 16 years and above)
- Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Ketoacidosis
- Type 1 Diabetes - What to do when you're ill
- Alcohol, smoking and illicit drugs - What you need to know if you have diabetes
- Diabetes: Safe driving and the DVLA
- Keeping safe with insulin therapy
- Hypoglycaemia explained
- Managing Mealtime Insulin
Dietetics (adults)
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Foodbank support for Milton Keynes and surrounding areas
- Do you have diarrhoea?
- Glycaemic Index (GI)
- Eating when you have an Oesophageal Stent
- Snack Suggestions for a Puree Diet
- Coeliac Disease – What you need to know
- Tube feeding pack
- Chronic Pancreatitis Dietary Advice
- Gestational Diabetes Diet Sheet
- Instructions for taking Preload prior to surgery
- Wound Healing - Dietary advice
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Stroke and healthy eating
- Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux and Nutrition
- Food first as a treatment for under-nutrition
- Carbohydrate Counting
- Thickened Drinks
- Taking Pancreatic Enzymes
- Reducing your Salt Intake
- IDDSI Level 7: Easy to Chew (ETC)
- IDDSI Level 6: Soft and Bite-sized diet
- IDDSI Level 4: Puree Diet
- Eating when you have a duodenal stent
- Dietary advice for Gallbladder Disease
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Advice for family and friends helping somebody with cancer to eat and drink
- A Guide to Fluid Restriction
- Wheat Free Diet
- Low Lactose Diet
- Has your sense of taste changed?
- Following a milk-free diet while breastfeeding
- Do you have a dry or sore mouth?
- Are you too tired to cook meals?
- Are you feeling sick?
- Are you feeling full?
- Eating Well with Liver Disease
- A Guide to Food Labelling
- Tube feeding - The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- How to Take Oral Nutritional Supplements
- Homemade Nutritional Booster Recipes
- Omega 3 - Food fact sheet
- Dementia - Eating and drinking - Staying well
- Patient Information Healthy Eating with Diabetes
- Nourishing Milky Drinks
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Iron (good sources of)
- Diabetes Insulin and exercise
- Calcium information sheet
Dietetics (children)
- Gluten challenge for Coeliac Disease in children
- Constipation in Infants and Children
- Egg Free Diet
- Lowering your Cholesterol - Paediatrics
- Following a cow’s milk free diet whilst breastfeeding
- Cow’s Milk and Soya Free Diet for Children
- High Energy Dietary Information for Infants and Children on a Milk-Free Diet
- High Energy Diet Sheet for Infants and Children
- Cow’s milk-free diet for infants
- Cow’s milk-free diet for children
- Sources of Calcium for a cow’s milk free diet
- Paediatric Carbohydrate Free Meal Ideas
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Weaning a baby with a food allergy/intolerance
- Shopping guide for cow’s milk-free foods and drinks
- Lactose intolerance
- Eating out and travelling with an allergy resources
- Dietary Management of Toddler Diarrhoea
Ear, Nose and Throat
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Tinnitus
- Endoscopic Dacrocystorhinostomy (DCR) (Surgery for a watery eye)
- Epistaxis Advice Sheet
- Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy
- Thyroid Lobectomy
- Pain control advice following throat operations
- Otosclerosis
- Neck dissection information
- Nasal douching
- Myringoplasty
- Mastoidectomy
- Laryngoscopy, Bronchoscopy, Pharyngoscopy & Oesophagoscopy
- Grommets
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR)
- Exercises for Vertigo Sufferers
- Nose bleed advice
- ENT operations
- Surgery for a watery eye
- Correct use of nose drops
- Care of ears
- Allergy to house dust and dust mites
- Thyroid surgery
- Surgery of the submandibular gland
- Snoring & sleep apnoea
- Sore throats
- Sinusitis
- Septal surgery
- Rhinoplasty
- Parotid surgery
- Otosclerosis and stapedotomy
- Neck dissection leaflet
- Microlaryngoscopy and oesophagoscopy
- Mastoid surgery
- Hole in eardrum
- Hoarseness
- Hearing loss
- Grommets in childhood
- Glue ear
- Flexible nasal endoscopy
- Facial skin lesions
- Epistaxis or nosebleeds
- Children's tonsil surgery
- Catarrh
- Blocked nose
- Adenoid surgery
- Adult tonsil surgery
Emergency Department
- Abdominal Pain
- Rib or Chest Injury
- Care of Feet and Toenails for Adults
- After sedation
- Ankle injury
- Managing Panic Attacks and Anxiety
- Asthma
- Burn to Hands
- How To Wear Your Wrist Splint
- Adult head injury
- Wound care
- Welcome to the Emergency Department
- Walking with Crutches
- Thromboprophylaxis
- Tetanus/Polio/Diphtheria Immunisation
- Tenosynovitis
- Swallowed Foreign Bodies
- Soft Tissue Shoulder Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury Of The Neck
- Pulled Elbow in Children
- Pre-Tibial Laceration
- Plaster Casts
- Nose Injury Advice
- Mallet Finger Injury
- Lower back pain advice
- Knee Injury
- Fever in Children
- Paediatric Minor Head Injury Glue & Go Advice
Endoscopy
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Bronchoscopy & EBUS
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Gastroscopy
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Gastroscopy with Oesophageal Stent Inserted
- Discharge advice following endoscopy with sedation (incl. Propofol)
- Discharge after ERCP - patient information
- Discharge advice following an endoscopy with Entonox
- Advice following a gastroscopy
- Advice following a gastroscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Advice following a colonoscopy
- Bronchoscopy with sedation
- Cut and Push Removal of A Freka Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
- Having an Oesophageal Dilatation
Foot & Ankle - Conditions
- Bunion
- Big Toe Arthritis
- Ankle Sprain
- Ankle Arthritis
- Adult Acquired Flatfoot
- Achilles Tendinopathy
- Small Toe Deformity
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Morton’s neuroma
- Midfoot Arthritis
- Hindfoot Arthritis
Foot & Ankle - Treatments
- Haglund’s Syndrome Surgery
- Flat Foot Reconstruction
- Bunion surgery
- Big Toe Fusion
- Big Toe Cheilectomy
- Ankle Fusion
- Ankle Arthroscopy
- Achilles Tendon Repair Surgery
- Small Toe Surgery
- Shockwave Therapy
- Morton’s Neuroma Surgery
- Midfoot Fusion
- Lateral Ligament Reconstruction
- Hindfoot Fusion
Gastroenterology
- Radiologically Inserted gastrostomy (RIG) Patient Information leaflet
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) - Information and Care Guidelines for patients and carers
- Gastroenterology Patient-initiated follow-up appointments
- How to take Picolax (Double Procedure)
- How to take Moviprep (Double Procedure)
- How to take Picolax
- How to Take Moviprep
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)
- Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Ready Steady Go Transition Programme
- Ciclosporin information
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Diet: Food Fact Sheet
- Ileo-Caecal Resection
- Adalimumab information
- All about Crohn's & Colitis
- Azathioprine and Mercaptopurine
- Biologic medicines
- Bloating and wind
- Bones information
- Bowel Cancer and IBD
- Counselling for IBD
- Crohn's disease - Your guide
- Dehydration
- Diarrhoea and constipation
- Other Treatments - Information sheet
- First Line Dietary Advice for Crohn’s Disease
- Coeliac Disease: FAQs
- Employment & IBD: A guide for employees
- Ferinject patient information
- Fatigue & IBD
- Finances information
- Living with a fistula
- Food - Your guide
- Golimumab information
- Infliximab information
- Insurance & IBD
- Joints - Information if you have Crohn's or Colitis
- Living with a Stoma
- Living with Crohn's or Colitis
- Managing bowel incontinence and IBD
- Medical terms
- Methotrexate information
- Microscopic Colitis
- My Crohn's & Colitis Care
- Personal Independence Payment
- Pregnancy and IBD
- Ready Steady Go questionnaire
- Rectal treatment for IBD
- Reproductive health & IBD
- Sexual relationships & IBD
- Smoking and IBD
- Steroids (Corticosteroids) information
- Students with IBD: A guide for universities and colleges
- Supporting someone with IBD: A guide for friends and family
- Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis
- Surgery for Crohn's Disease
- Taking medicines
- Talking to my child about my IBD
- Tests & Investigations for IBD
- Tofacitinib information
- Transition: Moving to adult care
- Travel and IBD information
- Ulcerative Colitis - Your Guide
- Ustekinumab
- Vedolizumab
- Aminosalicylates (5-ASAs)
General
- Infectious Diseases Patient Initiated Follow Up (PIFU)
- Stroke Patient-Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Tell us about your care (Complaints leaflet)
- Formal complaint information leaflet
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Management and Treatment of Lower Leg Cellulitis
- Reducing the risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
- Pneumonia
- Funeral Directors in the Milton Keynes Area
- Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICCs)
- Bereavement Information
- What happens if my heart stops?
- Preventing Pressure Ulcers
- Dermatology Patient Information Sheet
- Pain management telephone appointments form
- Patient Information – Information about your outpatient consultation
- Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
General Surgery
- Surgical Directorate Booklet
- Revision Hip Surgery
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- You and Your Anaesthetic
- Local Anaesthetic/No Sedation Starving Instructions for Adult Patients
- Lateral Anal Sphincterotomy
- Laparoscopic Hernia Repair
- Discharge Advice following Bowel Surgery
- Bowel Surgery – The Enhanced Recovery Programme
- Information and Advice Regarding your Breast Surgery
- Gallstones
- Tests for Bowel Problems – A Guide to Help You
- Anal Fissure
- Excision of a Lump
- Delorme’s Procedure for a rectal prolapse
- SDAU (Same Day Admissions Unit) for surgery
- Right Hemicolectomy
- Reversal of Hartmann’s Procedure
- Pruritus Ani
- Pilonidal Sinus
- Formation of Loop Ileostomy
- Haemorrhoidectomy
- Anal warts
- A self–help Guide for People with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Good Bowel Habit and Preventing Constipation
- General Anaesthetic / Sedation Feeding Instructions - Adult Patients Morning and Afternoon Surgery
- Faecal Incontinence
- Varicose Veins – For Surgery
- Ano-Rectal Tests
- Anal Fistula Operations
Gynaecology
- Following Pregnancy Loss (up to 13 weeks and 6 days by scan)
- Gynaecology Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Colposcopy Treatment (Loop Excision) Your Aftercare
- Urodynamics Studies (UDS)
- Vaginal Hysterectomy for Uterine Prolapse and Vaginal Repair
- Urinary Incontinence
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage Under Local Anaesthetic (MVA)
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage (SMOM)
- Sacrocolpopexy for Vault Prolapse
- Intermittent Self Catheterisation (ISC) Uro Gynaecology
- Post-operative follow up for patients diagnosed with early stage endometrial cancer
- Medical Management of Miscarriage (Outpatient) at Less Than 9 weeks Gestation
- Hysteroscopy Under General Anaesthesia
- Hysterectomy
- Cryocautery to Cervical Ectropion
- Gynaecological Laparoscopy
- Gemeprost
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) for prolapse of the uterus (womb) or prolapse of the vaginal vault (top of vagina)
- Sacrohysteropexy for Uterine Prolapse (Womb Prolapse)
- Colposuspension for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Going Home After a Laparoscopy (Adult)
- Vaginal Pessary for Prolapse
- Botox Injections for the treatment of an Overactive Bladder
- Vulvoscopy, Vulval Biopsy: Your Aftercare
Haematology
- Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia
- Haematology PIFU – Bleeding Disorder
- Haematology PIFU - Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura
- Factor V Leiden Information
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- MGUS (Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance)
Hepatology
Imaging
- Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)
- Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy (RIG)
- Your X-ray
- Varicocele Embolisation
- Tunnelled Line Insertion
- Transfemoral Angiogram
- Your Water Soluble Enema
- Your Small Bowel Meal
- Your Barium Swallow
- Your Barium Meal
- Your CT Scan
- Nerve Root Block
- Going Home after your Fibroid Embolisation
- Angioplasty
- Small Bowel Aftercare Advice
- Explaining your CT Virtual Colonoscopy examination with Picolax® preparation
- Dietary instructions for patients requiring a barium enema taking Picolax®
- Your Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Ultrasound Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Biopsy under Ultrasound - Guidance
- Early pregnancy scan
- Abdominal CT Scan - Preparation
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Fibroid Embolisation
- Liver biopsy
- Biopsy
- CT Pneumocolon Aftercare Information
- Gastrostomy Insertion
- Picolax - Dietary instructions for patients requiring a small bowel enema taking Picolax®
Infection Prevention
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Caring for your Midline Catheter Caring for your Midline Catheter
- How to collect a urine sample
- Clostridioides difficile (C.diff or CDI)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Self-management programme
- Rectosigmoid and pancolitis
- Pregnancy and inflammatory bowel disease
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- Homecare Medicines Service
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
Maternity
- Having a small for gestational age (SGA) baby
- Preterm birth clinic
- Maternal request for caesarean section
- Expectant management following a miscarriage
- Feeling your baby move
- Being overweight in pregnancy and after birth
- Caring for your baby at night
- Cervical stitch
- Considering a caesarean birth
- Corticosteriods in pregnancy
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy -RCOG
- Birthing partners staying overnight
- Elective Caesarean Birth
- Gestational Diabetes mellitus
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Assisted vaginal birth (ventouse or forceps)
- Meet the Maternity Team
- Staying comfortable during labour
- Epidural – Your Choice
- TB, BCG and your baby
- Screening tests for you and your baby (STFYAYB)
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Breech Presentation – What are your choices?
- Reducing the risk of pre-eclampsia - Information for women taking aspirin in pregnancy
- Down’s, Edward’s & Patau’s syndromes screening
- Monitoring your Baby’s Heartbeat in Labour
- Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme Handbook
- The Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU)
- Illness in newborn babies
- Planning your birth
- Coronavirus: Parent information for newborn babies
- Use of water in labour and birth
- Postnatal Community Care
- HIV and Pregnancy – You and Your Baby
- GDm-Health
- Caring for your wound after having a caesarean section
- Outpatient Induction of Labour
- Induction of Labour
- Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Pregnancy
- Newborn Feeding Policy Summary
- Perineal Care
- Feeding your baby during a hospital admission
- Antenatal Day Assessment Unit (ADAU)
- NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Birth Reflections
- Understanding why your baby died
- Gestational diabetes using the GDmHealth App
- Pregnancy information for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Pethidine Injection for homebirths
- Loss of Your Baby - Neonatal - Guidance for parents
- Late Miscarriage or Termination of Pregnancy for Medical Reasons - Guidance for parents
- Stillbirth or Termination of Pregnancy (over 24 weeks) - Guidance for parents
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- How to take your blood pressure at home using an upper arm monitor
- Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnant Women
- Antenatal Colostrum Collection
- A guide to starting insulin for women with gestational diabetes
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Early pregnancy scan
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
- Home birth at MKUH
Neonatal Unit
- Car seat information
- Sucrose - pain relief for babies
- Cleaning and Storing the Single Patient Use Pump Kits
- The Neonatal Community Team: Going Home
- Neonatal Unit Parents’ Leaflet
- Intravenous Antibiotics (IVAB’s)
- Heart Murmurs in Newborn Babies
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Bronchiolitis + RSV
- Birth Reflections
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- Lumbar puncture for newborn
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Care of the Umbilical cord
- Jaundice in Newborn Babies
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Red Box Patient System
Neurology
- Neurology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Providing Disease-Modifying Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis Patients
- Managing Stress and Anxiety - For Patients with Epilepsy
- First fit and epilepsy information leaflet
- Parkinson's UK - First Steps
- Parkinson's UK - General Information
- Parkinson's Information Leaflet
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Bladder Diary
- Bladder training - A guide for women
- Female sterilisation
- Healthy Bladder information
- Heavy periods (adolescents)
- Outpatient Hysteroscopy – An Internal Examination of Your Womb
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) information
- Urethral Bulking for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Urodynamics information
- Vulvovaginitis information
Occupational Therapy
Ophthalmology
- Squint information sheet
- Registered Sight Impaired
- Registered Severely Sight Impaired
- Fluorescein Angiography
- Occlusion Treatment (Eye Patching)
- Cataract surgery For Patients who have had previous refractive Corneal Surgery
- Intravitreal Injection
- How to use your eye drops
- Dispensing Bifocals to Children
- AREDS 2 trial of vitamins and minerals for macular degeneration
- After Care: Intravitreal Injection
- Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG)
- Ocular hypertension
- Glaucoma and Your Relatives
- Driving with Glaucoma
- Glaucoma - A guide
- Glaucoma - Eye drops and dispensing aids
- Obtaining Children’s Glasses
- Macular Laser Treatment
- Glasses Information Sheet
- Laser Iridotomies
- Strabismus (Squint) Surgery
- Use of Cyclopentolate Eye Drops
- Vision Advice for Children
- Macular Hole
- Glaucoma and Trabeculectomy
- Discharge Information Sheet
- Children’s Eye Clinic appointments
- Vision checks at School for the rising 5’s
- You child's eyes - Vision Information for Pre-School Children
- Reading Medicines Information Leaflets
- Facial Nerve Paralysis
- Blepharitis
- Stand Magnifiers for Home Use
- Surgery for a watery eye (Lacrimal surgery)
- Intravitreal Injection
- Illuminated Magnifiers for Home Use
- Information For Hand-Magnifier Users
- Intravitreal Injection After Care
- Adult Age Related Ptosis
- High Power Spectacles for Home Use
- Floater, Flashes and Vitreous Separation
- Convergence Insufficiency Exercises
- Blepharoplasty (Lid Surgery)
- Botulinum toxin treatment for squint / double vision
- Trabeculectomy information
Oral and Maxillofacial
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery (Post operative wound care after Facial Surgery)
- Oral (Mouth) Biopsy
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Lichen Planus
- Exposure of Impacted Upper Canine
- Oral Maxillofacial Surgery (Jaw Joint Problems – Self help)
- Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery
Orthodontics
- Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Information prior to oral surgery under intravenous sedation
- Removal of impacted wisdom teeth
- Jaw joint problems
Orthopaedics
- Fractured Neck of Femur
- Orthopaedic Patient Initiated Follow up (PIFU)
- Lumbar decompression surgery
- Damage to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
- Ankle Sprains
- Acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) injury
- Buckle Fractures of the Radius in Children
- Cervical Disc Protrusion and Radiculopathy: Surgical Options
- Discharge advice: “Buckle” fractures
- Discharge advice following attendance with a radial head/neck fracture
- Discharge advice: Paediatric (Children’s) clavicle fracture
- Discharge advice mallet finger injury
- Discharge advice 5th metatarsal fracture
- Discharge advice following attendance with a hand (5th metacarpal) fracture
- Advice sheet for Patients fitted with a Polypropylene Cast
- Tennis / Golfer's Elbow
- Knee Arthroscopy
- Hip Spica
- Dupuytren’s Contracture
- Carpal Tunnel Decompression
- ACL Rehabilitation
- Total Knee Replacement
- Total Hip Replacement
Paediatric Diabetes
- Isolation Nursing
- How to treat your asthma / wheeze
- Oxygen Therapy and your child
- Sick Day Rules for Children with Diabetes
- Paediatric Diabetes Clinic Brochure
- Insulin Management for Long Distance Travel
- Children with Diabetes and becoming ill
- Use of Glucogel
- Management of a severe hypoglycaemia
- Treatment for mild hypoglycaemia
- What is your HbA1c?
- The Honeymoon Period
- Holiday Advice
- Disability Living Allowance
- Travel Checklist
- Blood Ketones testing
- Blood Glucose testing
- Administration of Insulin via pen device
Paediatrics
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Paediatric Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Paediatric Bereavement Booklet
- Home Leave Agreement
- Traction: principles and application
- Laparoscopy: Going Home After
- How to Administer Buccolam®
- Appendicitis and Your Child
- Urine Sample
- Your Child’s Outpatient Appointment
- Urinary Tract Infections (Complications and Tests)
- Fasting - All You Need to Know (A Guide for Parents/Carers)
- Skin Prick Testing
- Food Challenges
- Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
- Viral Induced Wheeze
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Treatment of Hypoglycaemia (Hypo’s) For Insulin Pump Users
- Treatment of High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) on Pump Therapy
- Preventing Diarrhoea and Vomiting in Children 0-5 years
- Rectal Paraldehyde For Stopping Seizures
- My Child is Having Sedation: Advice for Parents
- Home Intravenous (IV) Antibiotic Teaching Pack for Children / Parents / Carers of Children with Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
- High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) On Pump Therapy
- Head Injury – Discharge Information for Parents / Carers (Paediatrics)
- Head Injury Advice Sheet for Children
- Fever Advice Sheet for Children 0-5 years
- Egg allergy and Mumps, Measles and Rubella (MMR) Vaccination in Children
- Cystic Fibrosis Information for Families
- Children and young people with constipation - Advice sheet for parents and carers
- Children’s Community Nursing Service
- Bronchiolitis Advice Sheet
- Basal Rate Testing for Insulin Pump Users
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Pregnancy testing before an operation, investigation or treatment
- A Leaflet for Young People: Safeguarding (16-18 Years)
- Young People’s Guide
- Recurrent Abdominal Pain
- Pain Assessment (A Guide for Parents / Carers)
- Central Venous Catheters: A Guide for Parents and Carers
- Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) - A guide for Older Children (8-16yrs)
- Childhood obesity
- Paediatric Pre Assessment Booklet
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Nephrotic Syndrome
- Care of Your Mouth after Oral Surgery
- Incision and Curettage
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Central Line Training for Schools
- Care of a child with a chest infection / pneumonia
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Child Protection Medical
- Children’s Cancer Services
- Pica (Eating Inedible Objects) and Polydipsia (Drinking Excessively)
- Clobazam for preventing seizures
- Dairy Re-introduction plan – Milk Ladder
- Egg introduction - Egg ladder
- Ethosuximide for preventing seizures
- House dust mite allergy
- Lamotrigine for preventing seizures
- Levetiracetam for preventing seizures
- Midazolam for stopping seizures
- Oral carbamazepine for preventing seizures
- Red Box Patient System
- Paediatric Epilepsy Service
- Sodium valproate for preventing seizures
- SUDEP (Sudden death in epilepsy): What you need to know
- Topiramate for preventing seizures
- Mastoid surgery
Pain Management
- Epidural – Your Choice
- Pain relief after surgery
- Chronic Pain Service
- Pain injection treatment explained
- Facet injections
- Radiofrequency facet joint denervation
- Sacroiliac Injections
- Sacroiliac Joint Radiofrequency Denervation (SIJ RFD)
Pathology
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
- Instructions for patients collecting urine samples for Oxalate
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Information for Adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of Blood / Blood Products.
- A simple guide to the post-mortem examination procedure
Pharmacy Services
Physiotherapy
- Improving your pelvic health and fitness after pregnancy
- Advice and exercises following an OASI 3rd/4th degree tear
- Looking after your pelvic floor when you have had a baby
- Perineal Massage in Pregnancy – Advice and Information
- Exercises and advice following Gynae Surgery
- Diastasis Recti following pregnancy
- Getting back into shape after your delivery
- Advice and exercises following Caesarean Section
- Knee exercises
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for women
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
Respiratory/Chest Medicine
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Lung Function Unit – CPAP Service - Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointment
- Pleural Clinic - Information Sheet
- Pneumonia
- Looking After Your Chest Drain
Rheumatology
- Rheumatology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Ankylosing spondylitis information
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Etanercept information
- Cyclophosphamide information
- Certolizumab Pegol information booklet
- Ciclosporin information
- Baricitinib information
- Azathioprine information
- Apremilast information
- Amitriptyline information
- Allopurinol information
- Adalimumab information
- Abatacept information
- Zolendronic acid information
- Ustekinumab information
- Tofacitinib information
- Tocilizumab information
- Sulfasalazine information
- Steroid injections information
- Steroid information
- Secukinumab information
- Sarilumab information
- Alendronic acid and Osteoporosis fact sheet
- Rituximab information
- Painkillers and NSAIDS information
- Mycophenolate information
- Methotrexate information
- Leflunomide information
- Inflixmab information
- Iloprost information
- Hydroxychloroquine information
- Golimumab information
- Febuxostat information
Sexual Health
Stoma Care
- Abdominal Perineal Resection of the Rectum
- Subtotal Colectomy and formation of Ileostomy
- Panproctocolectomy and Ileostomy
- Loop Colostomy
- Hartmann’s Procedure
- Anterior Resection
Therapy Services
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for men
- Therapies - MSK Physiotherapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up
- Therapies - Hand Therapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Therapies - Amputee Physiotherapy Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Therapies - Orthotics Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Paediatric Physiotherapy CDC Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Paediatric Physiotherapy SSHC - Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Therapies Patient Initiated Follow-up - Women's & Men's Health
Urology
- Orchidectomy
- Urology Patient-Initiated Follow-up appointments
- Bladder tumours - Transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT)
- The nurse-led prostate surveillance telephone clinic
- Urology Team Macmillan CNS and MDT
- Intravesical BCG
- Going Home with a Catheter
- Varicocele
- Nephrostomy Tube Insertion and Care
- Adult Circumcision
- Kidney Stones
- Trans-Rectal Ultrasound Guided Biopsy of the Prostate Gland
- Trans Urethral Resection of Prostate (TURP)
- Circumcision A Parent / Carer's Guide
- One Stop Prostate Clinic
- What is a Urethrotomy?
- What is a Supra-Pubic Catheter?
- Urodynamics
- Extra Corporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL)
- Ureteric Stent - Going home
- What is a Flexible Cystoscopy?
- Intravesical Epirubicin chemotherapy: Procedure specific information
- Baus Kidney stones patient information