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
Audiology
- Children’s Hyperacusis
- Cleaning and retubing your earmould
- Getting used to your digital hearing aid
- Hearing aid battery repair information
- Hearing aid maintenance information
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (Earmoulds)
- Hearing aids: Problem solving (thin tubes)
- Hearing aids: Telephone Use
- How to fit a new earmould
- Listening skills: Pre-school Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Listening skills: School Age Children - Information for parents, relatives and carers
- Softening Ear Wax with Olive Oil
- Tactics for Good Hearing
- Tinnitus
- Use of Water Barrier/ Swim Moulds
Blood Transfusion
Breast & General Surgery
- Admission and discharge - Breast Care Unit
- Advice following a core biopsy
- Anastrozole
- Benign phyllodes tumours leaflet
- Breast Care - Diagnosis and Treatment Plan
- Breast Care wound advice sheet
- Breast cysts
- Breast pain information
- Breast pain leaflet
- Chemotherapy for breast cancer
- Common Conditions
- Fat necrosis
- FEC-T chemotherapy
- Fibroadenoma
- Gynaecomastia
- Letrozole
- Outpatient Breast Clinic
- Tamoxifen
Cancer Services
- A Guide to Supported Self-Management and Surveillance for Colorectal Cancer
- Acute Oncology Service and Assessment Unit
- Awaiting Your Diagnosis and Colorectal Pathway
- Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Caring for the dying patient
- Extravasation What is it?
- Hair Loss, Hair Thinning, Wig and Headwear Service for chemotherapy / radiotherapy patients
- 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
- Influenza and Pneumonia Vaccination for Adult patients undergoing treatment for Cancer
- Management of Malignant Ascites
- Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression(MSCC)
- My Key To Care
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Patient Guidance Medication and driving
- Patient handheld Systemic Anticancer Therapy (SACT) booklet
- Safety at home after chemotherapy or when taking chemotherapy tablets home
- Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment referral - What happens next?
- What should I do if I have a chemotherapy spillage at home?
Cardiology
- Ajmaline Challenge
- Cardiac Angiography Pre-Procedure Leaflet
- Cardiac Angiography Unit Pacemaker Implant Pre-Procedure leaflet
- Cardiac CT Angiography (CCTA)
- Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise Programme Information for Participants
- Cardiology Outpatients 24 Hour Blood Pressure Monitor
- Cardiology Patient-Initiated Follow-up
- Cardioversion
- Contrast Echocardiogram
- CT Coronary Angiogram with Ivabradine
- Discharge Advice Following Coronary Angiography
- Discharge Information Following Pacemaker Insertion
- Echocardiogram
- Exercise Stress Echocardiogram
- Ongoing exercise programmes for Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Pacemaker Follow Up Service
- Pharmacological Stress Echocardiogram
- Transoesophageal Echocardiogram
Chaplaincy
Colorectal
Dermatology
Diabetes & Endocrinology
- Alcohol, smoking and illicit drugs - What you need to know if you have diabetes
- Diabetes: Safe driving and the DVLA
- Hypoglycaemia explained
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- Information for patients new to Insulin (for 16 years and above)
- Insulin Pump Clinic
- Keeping safe with insulin therapy
- Managing Mealtime Insulin
- Type 1 Diabetes - What to do when you're ill
- Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Dietetics (adults)
- 100kcal Boosters
- A Guide to Fluid Restriction
- A Guide to Food Labelling
- Advice for family and friends helping somebody with cancer to eat and drink
- Are you feeling full?
- Are you feeling sick?
- Are you too tired to cook meals?
- Calcium information sheet
- Carbohydrate Counting
- Chronic Pancreatitis Dietary Advice
- Coeliac Disease – What you need to know
- Dementia - Eating and drinking - Staying well
- Diabetes Insulin and exercise
- Dietary advice for Gallbladder Disease
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Do you have a dry or sore mouth?
- Do you have diarrhoea?
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Eating Well with Liver Disease
- Eating when you have a duodenal stent
- Eating when you have an Oesophageal Stent
- Following a milk-free diet while breastfeeding
- Food Enrichment Booklet
- Food first as a treatment for under-nutrition
- Foodbank support for Milton Keynes and surrounding areas
- Fortified Diet Plan
- Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux and Nutrition
- Gestational Diabetes Diet Sheet
- Glycaemic Index (GI)
- Has your sense of taste changed?
- High output stoma diet sheet
- Homemade Nutritional Booster Recipes
- How to Take Oral Nutritional Supplements
- IDDSI Level 4: Puree Diet
- IDDSI Level 6: Soft and Bite-sized diet
- IDDSI Level 7: Easy to Chew (ETC)
- Instructions for taking Preload prior to surgery
- Iron (good sources of)
- Low Lactose Diet
- Nourishing Drinks
- Nourishing Milky Drinks
- Nutrition during Chemotherapy
- Omega 3 - Food fact sheet
- Patient Information Healthy Eating with Diabetes
- Reducing your Salt Intake
- Snack Suggestions for a Puree Diet
- Stroke and healthy eating
- Taking Pancreatic Enzymes
- The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- Thickened Drinks
- Tube feeding - The Clinical Community Dietetic Service
- Tube feeding pack
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
- Wheat Free Diet
- Wound Healing - Dietary advice
Dietetics (children)
- Constipation in Infants and Children
- Cow’s Milk and Soya Free Diet for Children
- Cow’s milk-free diet for children
- Cow’s milk-free diet for infants
- Dietary Management of Toddler Diarrhoea
- Eating and Drinking After Bowel Surgery
- Eating out and travelling with an allergy resources
- Egg Free Diet
- Following a cow’s milk free diet whilst breastfeeding
- Gluten challenge for Coeliac Disease in children
- High Energy Diet Sheet for Infants and Children
- High Energy Dietary Information for Infants and Children on a Milk-Free Diet
- Lactose intolerance
- Lowering your Cholesterol - Paediatrics
- Paediatric Carbohydrate Free Meal Ideas
- Shopping guide for cow’s milk-free foods and drinks
- Sources of Calcium for a cow’s milk free diet
- Weaning a baby with a food allergy/intolerance
Ear, Nose and Throat
- Adenoid surgery
- Adult tonsil surgery
- Allergy to house dust and dust mites
- Blocked nose
- Care of ears
- Catarrh
- Children's tonsil surgery
- Correct use of nose drops
- Endoscopic Dacrocystorhinostomy (DCR) (Surgery for a watery eye)
- ENT operations
- Epistaxis Advice Sheet
- Epistaxis or nosebleeds
- Exercises for Vertigo Sufferers
- Facial skin lesions
- Flexible nasal endoscopy
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR)
- Glue ear
- Grommets
- Grommets in childhood
- Hearing loss
- Hoarseness
- Hole in eardrum
- Laryngoscopy, Bronchoscopy, Pharyngoscopy & Oesophagoscopy
- Mastoid surgery
- Mastoidectomy
- Microlaryngoscopy and oesophagoscopy
- Myringoplasty
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Nasal douching
- Neck dissection information
- Neck dissection leaflet
- Nose bleed advice
- Otosclerosis
- Otosclerosis and stapedotomy
- Pain control advice following throat operations
- Parotid surgery
- Rhinoplasty
- Septal surgery
- Sinusitis
- Snoring & sleep apnoea
- Sore throats
- Surgery for a watery eye
- Surgery of the submandibular gland
- Thyroid Lobectomy
- Thyroid surgery
- Tinnitus
- Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy
Emergency Department
- Abdominal Pain
- Adult head injury
- After sedation
- Ankle injury
- Asthma
- Burn to Hands
- Care of Feet and Toenails for Adults
- Fever in Children
- How To Wear Your Wrist Splint
- Knee Injury
- Lower back pain advice
- Mallet Finger Injury
- Managing Panic Attacks and Anxiety
- Nose Injury Advice
- Paediatric Minor Head Injury Glue & Go Advice
- Plaster Casts
- Pre-Tibial Laceration
- Pulled Elbow in Children
- Rib or Chest Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury
- Soft Tissue Injury Of The Neck
- Soft Tissue Shoulder Injury
- Swallowed Foreign Bodies
- Tenosynovitis
- Tetanus/Polio/Diphtheria Immunisation
- Thromboprophylaxis
- Walking with Crutches
- Welcome to the Emergency Department
- Wound care
Endoscopy
- Bowel Prep: How to take Klean-prep
- Bowel Prep: How to take Moviprep
- Bowel Prep: How to take Picolax
- Bowel Prep: How to take Plenvu
- Bronchoscopy & EBUS
- Colonoscopy Procedure
- Cut and Push Removal of A Freka Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection Procedure
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- Endoscopic Ultrasound Scan (EUS)
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Procedure
- Gastroscopy
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or injection therapy
- Gastroscopy with Oesophageal Stent Inserted
- Low Fibre Diet Sheet
- Oesophageal Dilatation Procedure
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
Foot & Ankle - Conditions
Foot & Ankle - Treatments
Gastroenterology
- Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
- Adalimumab information
- All about Crohn's & Colitis
- Aminosalicylates (5-ASAs)
- Azathioprine and Mercaptopurine
- Biologic medicines
- Bloating and wind
- Bones information
- Bowel Cancer and IBD
- Ciclosporin information
- Coeliac Disease: FAQs
- Counselling for IBD
- Crohn's disease - Your guide
- Dehydration
- Diarrhoea and constipation
- Employment & IBD: A guide for employees
- Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)
- Fatigue & IBD
- Ferinject patient information
- Finances information
- First Line Dietary Advice for Crohn’s Disease
- Food - Your guide
- Gastroenterology Patient-initiated follow-up appointments
- Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or injection therapy
- Golimumab information
- Ileo-Caecal Resection
- Infliximab information
- Insurance & IBD
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Diet: Food Fact Sheet
- Joints - Information if you have Crohn's or Colitis
- Living with a fistula
- 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
- Other Treatments - Information sheet
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) - Information and Care Guidelines for patients and carers
- Personal Independence Payment
- Pregnancy and IBD
- Radiologically Inserted gastrostomy (RIG) Patient Information leaflet
- Ready Steady Go questionnaire
- Ready Steady Go Transition Programme
- 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 Crohn's Disease
- Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis
- 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
- Vitamin D - Food Fact Sheet
General
- Bereavement Information
- Dermatology Patient Information Sheet
- Formal complaint information leaflet
- Funeral Directors in the Milton Keynes Area
- Infectious Diseases Patient Initiated Follow Up (PIFU)
- Management and Treatment of Lower Leg Cellulitis
- Pain management telephone appointments form
- Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
- Patient Information – Information about your outpatient consultation
- Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICCs)
- Pneumonia
- Preventing Pressure Ulcers
- Reducing the risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
- Stroke Patient-Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
- Tell us about your care (Complaints leaflet)
- What happens if my heart stops?
General Surgery
- A self–help Guide for People with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Anal Fissure
- Anal Fistula Operations
- Anal warts
- Ano-Rectal Tests
- Bowel Surgery – The Enhanced Recovery Programme
- Delorme’s Procedure for a rectal prolapse
- Discharge Advice following Bowel Surgery
- Excision of a Lump
- Faecal Incontinence
- Formation of Loop Ileostomy
- Gallstones
- General Anaesthetic / Sedation Feeding Instructions - Adult Patients Morning and Afternoon Surgery
- Good Bowel Habit and Preventing Constipation
- Haemorrhoidectomy
- Information and Advice Regarding your Breast Surgery
- Information for adult patients with diabetes undergoing surgery
- Laparoscopic Hernia Repair
- Lateral Anal Sphincterotomy
- Local Anaesthetic/No Sedation Starving Instructions for Adult Patients
- Pilonidal Sinus
- Pruritus Ani
- Reversal of Hartmann’s Procedure
- Revision Hip Surgery
- Right Hemicolectomy
- SDAU (Same Day Admissions Unit) for surgery
- Surgical Directorate Booklet
- Tests for Bowel Problems – A Guide to Help You
- Varicose Veins – For Surgery
- You and Your Anaesthetic
Gynaecology
- Botox Injections for the treatment of an Overactive Bladder
- Colposcopy Treatment (Loop Excision) Your Aftercare
- Colposuspension for Stress Urinary Incontinence
- Cryocautery to Cervical Ectropion
- Following Pregnancy Loss (up to 13 weeks and 6 days by scan)
- Gemeprost
- Going Home After a Laparoscopy (Adult)
- Gynaecological Laparoscopy
- Gynaecology Patient Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Hysterectomy
- Hysteroscopy Under General Anaesthesia
- Intermittent Self Catheterisation (ISC) Uro Gynaecology
- Medical Management of Miscarriage (Outpatient) at Less Than 9 weeks Gestation
- Post-operative follow up for patients diagnosed with early stage endometrial cancer
- Sacrocolpopexy for Vault Prolapse
- Sacrohysteropexy for Uterine Prolapse (Womb Prolapse)
- Sacrospinous fixation (SSF) for prolapse of the uterus (womb) or prolapse of the vaginal vault (top of vagina)
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage (SMOM)
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage Under Local Anaesthetic (MVA)
- Urinary Incontinence
- Urodynamics Studies (UDS)
- Vaginal Hysterectomy for Uterine Prolapse and Vaginal Repair
- Vaginal Pessary for Prolapse
- Vulvoscopy, Vulval Biopsy: Your Aftercare
Haematology
Imaging
- Abdominal CT Scan - Preparation
- Angioplasty
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Biopsy
- CT Pneumocolon Aftercare Information
- Dietary instructions for patients requiring a barium enema taking Picolax®
- Early pregnancy scan
- Explaining your CT Virtual Colonoscopy examination with Picolax® preparation
- Fibroid Embolisation
- Gastrostomy Insertion
- Going Home after your Fibroid Embolisation
- Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)
- Liver biopsy
- Nerve Root Block
- Picolax - Dietary instructions for patients requiring a small bowel enema taking Picolax®
- Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy (RIG)
- Small Bowel Aftercare Advice
- Transfemoral Angiogram
- Tunnelled Line Insertion
- Varicocele Embolisation
- Your Barium Meal
- Your Barium Swallow
- Your CT Scan
- Your Neck or Thyroid Biopsy under Ultrasound - Guidance
- Your Neck or Thyroid Ultrasound Scan
- Your Small Bowel Meal
- Your Ultrasound Scan
- Your Water Soluble Enema
- Your X-ray
Infection Prevention
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
- Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
- Dietary Management of Constipation
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Homecare Medicines Service
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Self-management programme
- Pregnancy and inflammatory bowel disease
- Rectosigmoid and pancolitis
- Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy
Maternity
- A guide to starting insulin for women with gestational diabetes
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Antenatal Colostrum Collection
- Antenatal Day Assessment Unit (ADAU)
- Assisted vaginal birth (ventouse or forceps)
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Being overweight in pregnancy and after birth
- Birth Reflections
- Birthing partners staying overnight
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Breech Presentation – What are your choices?
- Caring for your baby at night
- Caring for your wound after having a caesarean section
- Cervical stitch
- Considering a caesarean birth
- Coronavirus: Parent information for newborn babies
- Corticosteriods in pregnancy
- Down’s, Edward’s & Patau’s syndromes screening
- Early pregnancy scan
- Elective Caesarean Birth
- Epidural – Your Choice
- Expectant management following a miscarriage
- Feeding your baby during a hospital admission
- Feeling your baby move
- Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme Handbook
- GDm-Health
- Gestational Diabetes mellitus
- Gestational diabetes using the GDmHealth App
- Having a small for gestational age (SGA) baby
- HIV and Pregnancy – You and Your Baby
- Home birth at MKUH
- Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Pregnancy
- How to take your blood pressure at home using an upper arm monitor
- Illness in newborn babies
- Induction of Labour
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy -RCOG
- Late Miscarriage or Termination of Pregnancy for Medical Reasons - Guidance for parents
- Loss of Your Baby - Neonatal - Guidance for parents
- Maternal request for caesarean section
- Meet the Maternity Team
- Monitoring your Baby’s Heartbeat in Labour
- Newborn Feeding Policy Summary
- NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme
- Outpatient Induction of Labour
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Perineal Care
- Pethidine Injection for homebirths
- Planning your birth
- Postnatal Community Care
- Pregnancy information for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
- Preterm birth clinic
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Reducing the risk of pre-eclampsia - Information for women taking aspirin in pregnancy
- Screening tests for you and your baby (STFYAYB)
- Staying comfortable during labour
- Stillbirth or Termination of Pregnancy (over 24 weeks) - Guidance for parents
- Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnant Women
- TB, BCG and your baby
- The Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU)
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- Understanding why your baby died
- Use of water in labour and birth
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
Neonatal Unit
- Birth Reflections
- Bronchiolitis + RSV
- Car seat information
- Care of the Umbilical cord
- Cleaning and Storing the Single Patient Use Pump Kits
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Heart Murmurs in Newborn Babies
- Intravenous Antibiotics (IVAB’s)
- Jaundice in Newborn Babies
- Lumbar puncture for newborn
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Red Box Patient System
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Sucrose - pain relief for babies
- The Neonatal Community Team: Going Home
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- Use of Donor Milk on the Neonatal Unit
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
Neurology
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
- Adult Age Related Ptosis
- After Care: Intravitreal Injection
- AREDS 2 trial of vitamins and minerals for macular degeneration
- Blepharitis
- Blepharoplasty (Lid Surgery)
- Botulinum toxin treatment for squint / double vision
- Cataract surgery For Patients who have had previous refractive Corneal Surgery
- Children’s Eye Clinic appointments
- Convergence Insufficiency Exercises
- Discharge Information Sheet
- Dispensing Bifocals to Children
- Driving with Glaucoma
- Facial Nerve Paralysis
- Floater, Flashes and Vitreous Separation
- Fluorescein Angiography
- Glasses Information Sheet
- Glaucoma - A guide
- Glaucoma - Eye drops and dispensing aids
- Glaucoma and Trabeculectomy
- Glaucoma and Your Relatives
- High Power Spectacles for Home Use
- How to use your eye drops
- Illuminated Magnifiers for Home Use
- Information For Hand-Magnifier Users
- Intravitreal Injection
- Intravitreal Injection
- Intravitreal Injection After Care
- Laser Iridotomies
- Macular Hole
- Macular Laser Treatment
- Obtaining Children’s Glasses
- Occlusion Treatment (Eye Patching)
- Ocular hypertension
- Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG)
- Reading Medicines Information Leaflets
- Registered Severely Sight Impaired
- Registered Sight Impaired
- Squint information sheet
- Stand Magnifiers for Home Use
- Strabismus (Squint) Surgery
- Surgery for a watery eye (Lacrimal surgery)
- Trabeculectomy information
- Use of Cyclopentolate Eye Drops
- Vision Advice for Children
- Vision checks at School for the rising 5’s
- You child's eyes - Vision Information for Pre-School Children
Oral and Maxillofacial
Orthodontics
Orthopaedics
- ACL Rehabilitation
- Acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) injury
- Advice sheet for Patients fitted with a Polypropylene Cast
- Ankle Sprains
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
- Awake Shoulder Surgery
- Buckle Fractures of the Radius in Children
- Carpal Tunnel Decompression
- Cervical Disc Protrusion and Radiculopathy: Surgical Options
- Damage to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)
- Discharge advice 5th metatarsal fracture
- Discharge advice following attendance with a hand (5th metacarpal) fracture
- Discharge advice following attendance with a radial head/neck fracture
- Discharge advice mallet finger injury
- Discharge advice: “Buckle” fractures
- Discharge advice: Paediatric (Children’s) clavicle fracture
- Dupuytren’s Contracture
- Fractured Neck of Femur
- Hip Spica
- Knee Arthroscopy
- Lumbar decompression surgery
- Orthopaedic Patient Initiated Follow up (PIFU)
- Tennis / Golfer's Elbow
- Total Hip Replacement
- Total Knee Replacement
Paediatric Diabetes
Paediatrics
- A Leaflet for Young People: Safeguarding (16-18 Years)
- Appendicitis and Your Child
- Basal Rate Testing for Insulin Pump Users
- Bronchiolitis Advice Sheet
- Care of a child with a chest infection / pneumonia
- Care of Your Mouth after Oral Surgery
- Central Line Training for Schools
- Central Venous Catheters: A Guide for Parents and Carers
- Chest infection/pneumonia
- Child Protection Medical
- Childhood obesity
- Children and young people with constipation - Advice sheet for parents and carers
- Children’s Cancer Services
- Children’s Community Nursing Service
- Clobazam for preventing seizures
- Cystic Fibrosis Information for Families
- Dairy Re-introduction plan – Milk Ladder
- Egg allergy and Mumps, Measles and Rubella (MMR) Vaccination in Children
- Egg introduction - Egg ladder
- Ethosuximide for preventing seizures
- Fasting - All You Need to Know (A Guide for Parents/Carers)
- Fever Advice Sheet for Children 0-5 years
- Food Challenges
- Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)
- Head Injury – Discharge Information for Parents / Carers (Paediatrics)
- Head Injury Advice Sheet for Children
- High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) On Pump Therapy
- Home Intravenous (IV) Antibiotic Teaching Pack for Children / Parents / Carers of Children with Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
- Home Leave Agreement
- House dust mite allergy
- How to Administer Buccolam®
- Incision and Curettage
- Lamotrigine for preventing seizures
- Laparoscopy: Going Home After
- Levetiracetam for preventing seizures
- Mastoid surgery
- Midazolam for stopping seizures
- My Child is Having Sedation: Advice for Parents
- Myringoplasty surgery
- Nephrotic Syndrome
- Oral carbamazepine for preventing seizures
- Paediatric Bereavement Booklet
- Paediatric Epilepsy Service
- Paediatric Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Paediatric Pre Assessment Booklet
- Pain Assessment (A Guide for Parents / Carers)
- Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) - A guide for Older Children (8-16yrs)
- Pica (Eating Inedible Objects) and Polydipsia (Drinking Excessively)
- Pregnancy testing before an operation, investigation or treatment
- Preventing Diarrhoea and Vomiting in Children 0-5 years
- Prolonged Jaundice in Babies
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Rectal Paraldehyde For Stopping Seizures
- Recurrent Abdominal Pain
- Red Box Patient System
- Safeguarding Children and Young People (0-18 years)
- Skin Prick Testing
- Sodium valproate for preventing seizures
- SUDEP (Sudden death in epilepsy): What you need to know
- Topiramate for preventing seizures
- Traction: principles and application
- Treatment of High Blood Glucose Levels (Hyperglycaemia) on Pump Therapy
- Treatment of Hypoglycaemia (Hypo’s) For Insulin Pump Users
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Urinary Tract Infections (Complications and Tests)
- Urine Sample
- Viral Induced Wheeze
- Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
- Young People’s Guide
- Your Child’s Outpatient Appointment
Pain Management
Palliative Care
Pathology
- A simple guide to the post-mortem examination procedure
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Information for adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of blood / blood components
- Information for Adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of Blood / Blood Products.
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Information for patients about blood transfusion
- Instructions for patients collecting urine samples for Oxalate
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Red Cell Antibodies
Pharmacy Services
Physiotherapy
- Advice and exercises following an OASI 3rd/4th degree tear
- Advice and exercises following Caesarean Section
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Diastasis Recti following pregnancy
- Exercises and advice following Gynae Surgery
- Getting back into shape after your delivery
- Improving your pelvic health and fitness after pregnancy
- Knee exercises
- Looking after your pelvic floor when you have had a baby
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for women
- Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
- Perineal Massage in Pregnancy – Advice and Information
Respiratory/Chest Medicine
Rheumatology
- Abatacept information
- Adalimumab information
- Alendronic acid and Osteoporosis fact sheet
- Allopurinol information
- Amitriptyline information
- Ankylosing spondylitis information
- Apremilast information
- Azathioprine information
- Baricitinib information
- Certolizumab Pegol information booklet
- Ciclosporin information
- Cyclophosphamide information
- Etanercept information
- Febuxostat information
- Golimumab information
- Hydroxychloroquine information
- Iloprost information
- Inflixmab information
- Leflunomide information
- Methotrexate information
- Mycophenolate information
- Painkillers and NSAIDS information
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Rheumatology Patient-Initiated Follow-Up appointments
- Rituximab information
- Sarilumab information
- Secukinumab information
- Steroid information
- Steroid injections information
- Sulfasalazine information
- Tocilizumab information
- Tofacitinib information
- Ustekinumab information
- Zolendronic acid information
Sexual Health
Stoma Care
Therapy Services
- Paediatric Physiotherapy CDC Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Paediatric Physiotherapy SSHC - Patient-Initiated Follow-Up - Therapies
- Pelvic floor exercises and advice for men
- Therapies - Amputee Physiotherapy Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Therapies - Hand Therapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up appointment
- Therapies - MSK Physiotherapy - Patient Initiated Follow Up
- Therapies - Orthotics Patient-Initiated Follow-Up
- Therapies - Respiratory - Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Therapies Patient Initiated Follow-up - Women's & Men's Health
Urology
- Adult Circumcision
- Baus Kidney stones patient information
- Bladder tumours - Transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT)
- Circumcision A Parent / Carer's Guide
- Extra Corporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL)
- Going Home with a Catheter
- Intravesical BCG
- Intravesical Epirubicin chemotherapy: Procedure specific information
- Kidney Stones
- Nephrectomy and Nephroureterectomy – The Enhanced Recovery Programme
- Nephrostomy Tube Insertion and Care
- One Stop Prostate Clinic
- Orchidectomy
- The nurse-led prostate surveillance telephone clinic
- Trans Urethral Resection of Prostate (TURP)
- Trans-Rectal Ultrasound Guided Biopsy of the Prostate Gland
- Ureteric Stent - Going home
- Urodynamics
- Urology Patient-Initiated Follow-up appointments
- Urology Team Macmillan CNS and MDT
- Varicocele
- What is a Flexible Cystoscopy?
- What is a Supra-Pubic Catheter?
- What is a Urethrotomy?