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Patient Leaflets – Virtual Library
Anaesthetics
Anaesthetics and General Surgery
Lumbar Puncture information
You and Your Anaesthetic
Audiology
Children’s Hyperacusis
Children’s Services (Audiology)
Cleaning and Retubing your Earmould
Getting used to your digital hearing
Getting used to your digital hearing aid
Hearing Aid Battery & Repair Information
Hearing Aid Battery and Repair Information
Hearing aid Maintenance Information
Hearing Aids: Problem Solving (Earmoulds)
Hearing Aids: Problem Solving (Thin tubes)
Hearing Aids: Telephone Use
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
The Hearing Aid Diaries
Tinnitus
Use of Water Barrier/ Swim Moulds
Using the telephone with your hearing aid
Breast & General Surgery
Admission and discharge - Breast Care Unit
Advice to Patients Following Core Biopsy
Anastrozole
Benign phyllodes information
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
Information and Advice Regarding your Breast Surgery
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
Influenza and Pneumonia Vaccination for Adult patients undergoing treatment for Cancer
Information for patients undergoing removal of a cuffed tunnelled central line (Hickman/Groshong/Cook)
Management of Malignant Ascites
Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression(MSCC)
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
Cardioversion
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
Transesophageal Echocardiogram
Colorectal
CMR Surgical Registry: Patient information and informed consent
Colonoscopy - The procedure explained
Dietary advice for diverticular disease
Diverticular Disease
Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
Haemorrhoids
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
Sigmoid Colectomy
Versius Patient Information
Diabetes & Endocrinology
Alcohol, smoking and illicit drugs - What you need to know if you have diabetes
Diabetes and enteral feeding
Diabetes and pancreatic exocrine insufficiency
Diabetes: Safe driving and the DVLA
Hypoglycaemia explained
Information for patients new to Insulin (for 16 years and above)
Injections - Things you need to know
Insulin Pump Clinic
Keeping safe with insulin therapy
Managing Mealtime Insulin
Type 1 Diabetes - What to do when you're ill
Type 2 Diabetes - What to do when you're ill
Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Type 2 Diabetes and steroid tablets
Dietetics (adults)
A Guide to Fluid Restriction
A Guide to Food Labelling
Advice for family and friends helping somebody with cancer to eat and drink
Alcohol - Food fact sheet
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 Acute Pancreatitis
Dietary advice for Gallbladder Disease
Dietary Management of Constipation
Do you have a dry or sore mouth?
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 first as a treatment for under-nutrition
Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux and Nutrition
Gestational Diabetes Diet Sheet
Has your sense of taste changed?
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)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Diet - Food Fact Sheet
Light Diet
Low Lactose Diet
Nourishing Milky Drinks
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)
Calcium - Food fact sheet
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 Advice for Children Newly Diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes
Dietary Management of Toddler Diarrhoea
Eating out and travelling with an allergy resources
Egg Free Diet
Following a cow’s milk free diet whilst breastfeeding
High Energy Diet Sheet for Infants and Children
High Energy Dietary Information for Infants and Children on a Milk-Free Diet
Lactose intolerance
Light Diet
Lowering your Cholesterol - Paediatrics
Paediatric Carbohydrate Free Meal Ideas
Paediatric carbohydrate snacks of 10g or less
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
About tinnitus
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
Functional endoscopic sinus surgery
Gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR)
Glue ear
Grommets
Grommets in childhood
Hayfever - update COVID-19 pandemic
Hearing loss
Hoarseness
Hole in eardrum
Laryngoscopy, Bronchoscopy, Pharyngoscopy & Oesophagoscopy
Mastoid surgery
Mastoidectomy
Microlaryngoscopy and oesophagoscopy
Myringoplasty
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
Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy
Emergency Department
Fever in Children
How To Wear Your Wrist Splint
Knee Injury
Lower back pain advice
Mallet Finger Injury
Nose Injury Advice
Paediatric Minor Head Injury Glue & Go Advice
Plaster Casts
Pre-Tibial Laceration
Pulled Elbow in Children
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
Advice following a colonoscopy
Advice following a flexible sigmoidoscopy
Advice following a gastroscopy
Advice following a gastroscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy
Bronchoscopy & EBUS
Bronchoscopy with sedation
Cut and Push Removal of A Freka Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
Discharge advice following an endoscopy with Entonox
Discharge advice following endoscopy with sedation (incl. Propofol)
Discharge after ERCP - patient information
Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
Gastroscopy
Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
Gastroscopy with Oesophageal Stent Inserted
Having an Oesophageal Dilatation
Foot & Ankle - Conditions
Achilles Tendinopathy
Adult Acquired Flatfoot
Ankle Arthritis
Ankle Sprain
Big Toe Arthritis
Bunion
Hindfoot Arthritis
Midfoot Arthritis
Morton’s neuroma
Plantar Fasciitis
Small Toe Deformity
Foot & Ankle - Treatments
Achilles Tendon Repair Surgery
Ankle Arthroscopy
Ankle Fusion
Big Toe Cheilectomy
Big Toe Fusion
Bunion surgery
Flat Foot Reconstruction
Haglund’s Syndrome Surgery
Hindfoot Fusion
Lateral Ligament Reconstruction
Midfoot Fusion
Morton’s Neuroma Surgery
Shockwave Therapy
Small Toe Surgery
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
Dietary Advice for Ulcerative Colitis
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
Gastroscopy with Banding of Oesophageal Varices or Injection of Sclerotherapy
Golimumab information
How to Take Moviprep
How to take Moviprep (Double Procedure)
How to take Picolax
How to take Picolax (Double Procedure)
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
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
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
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
Abdominal Perineal Resection of the Rectum
Anal Fissure
Anal Fistula Operations
Anal warts
Ano-Rectal Tests
Anterior Resection
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
Hartmann’s Procedure
Information and Advice Regarding your Breast Surgery
Laparoscopic Hernia Repair
Lateral Anal Sphincterotomy
Local Anaesthetic/No Sedation Starving Instructions for Adult Patients
Loop Colostomy
Panproctocolectomy and Ileostomy
Pilonidal Sinus
Pruritus Ani
Reversal of Hartmann’s Procedure
Right Hemicolectomy
SDAU (Same Day Admissions Unit) for surgery
Subtotal Colectomy and formation of Ileostomy
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
Gemeprost
Going Home After a Laparoscopy (Adult)
Gynaecological Laparoscopy
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
Bone Marrow Biopsy
Factor V Leiden Information
Management of Malignant Ascites
MGUS (Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance)
Hepatology
Large Volume Paracentesis - Ascites Drainage
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
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
Caring for your Midline Catheter Caring for your Midline Catheter
Clostridioides difficile (C.diff or CDI)
How to collect a urine sample
Supported discharge service for patients receiving IV antibiotics Under OPAT
Maternity
– Down’s, Edward’s & Patau’s syndromes screening
A guide to starting insulin for women with gestational diabetes
Anomaly Scan Information
Antenatal Colostrum Collection
Antenatal Day Assessment Unit (ADAU)
Avebury Midwifery Team
Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
Birth Afterthoughts
Birth place decisions: Planning where to give birth
Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
Breech Presentation – What are your choices?
Caesarean Birth
Caring for your wound after having a caesarean section
Coronavirus: Parent information for newborn babies
Early pregnancy scan
Enhanced Recovery after Caesarean Delivery
Epidural – Your Choice
Expectant Management Following a Miscarriage
Feeding your baby during a hospital admission
Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme Handbook
GDm-Health
Gestational diabetes
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
Late Miscarriage or Termination of Pregnancy for Medical Reasons - Guidance for parents
Loss of Your Baby - Neonatal - Guidance for parents
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
Perineal Care
Pethidine Injection for homebirths
Planning your birth
Postnatal Community Care
Pregnancy information for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
Reducing the risk of pre-eclampsia - Information for women taking aspirin in pregnancy
Stillbirth or Termination of Pregnancy (over 24 weeks) - Guidance for parents
Supporting your partner or relative at night on the maternity wards
Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnant Women
The Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU)
Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
Understanding why your baby died
Use of water in labour and birth leaflet
Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
Neurology
First fit and epilepsy information leaflet
Guideline for Treatment and Prevention of Migraine / Tension-Type Headache
Managing Stress and Anxiety - For Patients with Epilepsy
Out-Patient Neurology Physiotherapy
Parkinson's Information Leaflet
Parkinson's UK - First Steps
Parkinson's UK - General Information
Providing Disease-Modifying Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Bladder Diary
Bladder training - A guide for women
Botox Injections for the treatment of an Overactive Bladder
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
Vaginal Pessary for Prolapse
Vulvovaginitis information
Occupational Therapy
Adjustable Height Commode
Anxiety Management Relaxation
Capener Splint
Care of Wound
Care of your Scar
Carpal Tunnel Exercises
Carpal Tunnel Splint Information
Chair Exercises
DeQuervains Tenosynovitis
Desensitisation
Dupuytrens Contracture Information Sheet
Elephant Feet Chair / Bed Raisers
Energy Conservation and COVID-19 (2019/2020)
Energy Conservation and Work Simplification
Finger and Arm Exercises Whilst in Plaster
Fist Exercises
Flexion Strap
Flexor Tendon Injuries 0-4 weeks
Free Standing Toilet Frame
Ganglions
Hand and Wrist Exercises
Hand Therapy
Hand Therapy - Boutonnière Exercises Sheet
Hand Therapy - Boutonnière II Exercises
Hand Therapy Unit: Coban Wrap
Hand Therapy Unit: Contrast Baths
Hand Therapy Unit: Control of Oedema
Hand Therapy Unit: Cubital Tunnel Information Sheet
Hand Therapy Unit: Trigger Finger
Individual Joint Exercises (Hand Therapy)
Intrinsic Muscle Exercises
Kitchen trolley
Long-handled Shoehorn
Mallet Injury
Marker Pen Exercises
Night Resting Splint
Perching Stool
Precautions following a finger fracture or dislocation
Raised Toilet Seat
Rheumatology Hand and Wrist Exercise Programme
Roylan Dynamic Extension Splint
Silicone Gel
Splint Instructions
Tendonitis and Tenosynovitis
Thumb Exercises
Thumb Splint - Neoprene
Thumb Strengthening Exercises
Total hip replacement & Hemiarthroplasty information
Wheeled Commode
Wrist and Thumb Splint
Wrist Splint
Wrist Strengthening Exercises
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
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
Exposure of Impacted Upper Canine
Jaw Joint Problems Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
Lichen Planus
Oral (Mouth) Biopsy
Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery
Oral Maxillo Facial Surgery (Post operative wound care after Facial Surgery)
Oral Maxillofacial Surgery (Jaw Joint Problems – Self help)
Orthodontics
Information prior to oral surgery under intravenous sedation
Jaw joint problems
Jaw joint problems - TMJ
Removal of impacted wisdom teeth
Orthopaedics
ACL Rehabilitation
Acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) injury
Advice and Exercises Following Spinal Surgery
Advice sheet for Patients fitted with a Polypropylene Cast
Ankle Sprains
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
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
Hip Fracture: A guide for patients and relatives
Hip Fracture: A guide for patients and relatives
Hip Spica
Knee Arthroscopy
Lumbar decompression surgery
Tennis / Golfer's Elbow
Total Hip Replacement
Total Knee Replacement
Paediatric Diabetes
Administration of Insulin via pen device
Blood Glucose testing
Blood Ketones testing
Children with Diabetes and becoming ill
Disability Living Allowance
Holiday Advice
How to treat your asthma / wheeze
Insulin Management for Long Distance Travel
Isolation Nursing
Management of a severe hypoglycaemia
Oxygen Therapy and your child
Paediatric Diabetes Clinic Brochure
Sick Day Rules for Children with Diabetes
The Honeymoon Period
Travel Checklist
Treatment for mild hypoglycaemia
Use of Glucogel
What is your HbA1c?
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 the Umbilical cord
Care of Your Mouth after Oral Surgery
Central Line Training for Schools
Central Venous Catheters: A Guide for Parents and Carers
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
Jaundice in Newborn Babies
Lamotrigine for preventing seizures
Laparoscopy: Going Home After
Levetiracetam for preventing seizures
Lumbar puncture for newborn
Midazolam for stopping seizures
My Child is Having Sedation: Advice for Parents
Nephrotic Syndrome
NNU and NNU Community - Coronavirus (COVID 19) Guidance and Support
Oral carbamazepine for preventing seizures
Paediatric Bereavement Booklet
Paediatric Epilepsy Service
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
Chronic Pain Service
Epidural Injection
Facet injections
Pain injection treatment explained
Pain Relief After Surgery
Radiofrequency facet joint denervation
Sacroiliac Injections
Sacroiliac Joint Radiofrequency Denervation (SIJ RFD)
Pathology
A simple guide to the post-mortem examination procedure
Information for Adult patients who may wish to refuse the use of Blood / Blood Products.
Information for patients about blood transfusion
Instructions for patients collecting urine samples for Oxalate
Pharmacy Services
Methotrexate Injections
Physiotherapy
ACL Reconstruction
Active cycle of breathing technique (ACBT) Breathing exercises to clear sputum from your chest
Activities to help increase stability around the hips
Advanced/Functional Scapula Setting
Advice and Exercises Following A Total Hip Replacement
Advice and Exercises Following A Total Knee Replacement
Advice and Exercises Following an OASI - 3rd/4th Degree Tear
Advice and exercises following Caesarean Section
Advice and Exercises Following Spinal Surgery
Applying a Shoulder Polysling
Atropine Penalisation Information Sheet
Ball Skills
Bed Exercises
Bladder Diary
Bronchiectasis Group
Bronchiectasis Group
Calf Stretches
Chest Percussion
Children's Physiotherapy - Children Under 4 Years Old
Children’s Physiotherapy - Children Over 4 Years Old
Co-ordination - Core stability
Co-ordination - Pelvic stability exercises Level Two
Co-ordination Pelvic Stability Exercises - Level One
Co-ordination, Balance and Weight Transference
Co-ordination, Bilateral integration exercises Level One
Co-ordination, Bilateral Integration Exercises Level Three
Co-ordination, Bilateral Integration Exercises Level Two
Co-ordination, Shoulder stability exercises
Cough Assist Device: NIPPY Clearway
Diastasis Recti following pregnancy
Do you have diarrhoea?
Dynamic Hip Screw (DHS) or a Hemiarthroplasty- Advice and exercises
Elbow Exercises
Elbow Exercises and advice following a fracture
Exercises & Advice Following A Shoulder MUA
Exercises & Advice following Rotator Cuff Repair
Exercises and advice following Gynae Surgery
Exercises and advice following: Shoulder Capsular Release
Exercises and advice following: Shoulder Stabilisation
Exercises and advice following: Sub Acromial Decompression
Exercises for Scoliosis
Fitting your Hip Tric Abduction Brace
Fitting your knee brace
Getting back into shape after your delivery
Hamstring Stretches
Hand / eye co-ordination
Hand eye/hand foot co-ordination
How to fit a Miami J Collar
How to fit your Aspen Vista neck collar
How to fit your spinal brace (3 point extension)
Hydrotherapy
Hydrotherapy - Self Help Group
Ideas to improve body image and awareness
Jumping / hopping balance
Knee Arthroscopy
Knee exercises
Looking after your pelvic floor when you have had a baby
Lower Limb Stretches Leaflet A
Lower Limb Stretches Leaflet B
Lung Volume Recruitment (LVR) Bag
Management of increased muscle tone
Mediflo Duo
Osgood-Schlatter Disease
Out-Patient Neurology Physiotherapy
Outpatient MSK Physiotherapy
Paediatric Hydrotherapy
Paediatric Joint Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Co-ordination Assessment
Paediatric Musculoskeletal Stability Group
PARI PEP
Patello Femoral Microfracture Surgery and Rehabilitation
Pelvic Floor Exercises and Advice for Men
Pelvic floor exercises and advice for women
Pelvic girdle pain - information videos
Pelvic Organ Prolapse Advice & Exercises
Perineal Massage in Pregnancy – Advice and Information
Positional Talipes Calcaneovalgus
Positional Talipes Equinovarus
Posture
Proprioception Exercises For The Upper Limb
Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Rhythm, timing and sequencing
Right Congenital Muscular Torticollis Information Sheet for Parents/Carers
Sacroiliac Joint Exercises
Self Referral to Women’s and Men’s Health Physiotherapy Services – For urinary/bladder symptoms only
Stairs Full Weight Bearing with Crutches
Stairs Non Weight Bearing
Stairs partial weight bearing
Step with walking aids
The Goal Game (For 2 or more players)
The Use of Positioning Equipment Prescribed by Your Physiotherapist
Thoracic Mobility
Tibio Femoral Microfracture Surgery and Rehabilitation
Tips for Healthy Bowels
Toy & Play - 0-3 months
Toy & Play - 3-6 months
Trouble Shooting For Physical Activities
Trouble Shooting in the Classroom
Upper Limb Stretches
Using crutches - Heel Weight Bearing
Walking and stairs heel weight bearing with crutches
Walking full weight bearing with crutches or frame
Walking partial weight bearing with crutches or frame
Women’s Health Advice Group
Respiratory/Chest Medicine
How to use a Genuair® inhaler
How to use a metered dose inhaler
How to use an Accuhaler
How to use Easi-breathe
How to use the Aerochamber
How to use the Autohaler
How to use the Breezhaler
How to use the Turbohaler
Large volumatic spacer - multiple breath technique
Large volumatic spacer - single breath
Looking After Your Chest Drain
Pleural Clinic - Information Sheet
Pneumonia
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
Patient-initiated follow-up appointments
Psoriatic arthritis
Rituximab information
Sarilumab information
Secukinumab information
Steroid information
Steroid injections information
Sulfasalazine information
Tocilizumab information
Tofacitinib information
Ustekinumab information
Zolendronic acid information
Sexual Health
BBV Clinic
Therapy Services
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
Nephrostomy Tube Insertion and Care
One Stop Prostate Clinic
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 Team Macmillan CNS and MDT
Varicocele
What is a Flexible Cystoscopy?
What is a Supra-Pubic Catheter?
What is a Urethrotomy?
