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Last Updated: 30 September 2022

We have collected together our patient leaflets in this section, to help you as a patient or carer know more about a wide variety of procedures, conditions and other treatments.

For more details about each specialty, please visit our A to Z of services.

Do not act on the content of any leaflet (from our website or another) without the advice of a trained clinician. Each leaflet has contact details to receive further help and assistance. Do contact our PALS team if you need a translation of the guidance.

Anticoagulation Service

• Anticoagulant Treatment
• Anticoagulant Treatment - Additional Information
• Hospital Associated Thrombosis (Blood Clot)
• Warfarin Administration Inpatient Guide

Attend Anywhere (Video Appointments)

• Audiology
• Bariatric Dietetics
• Breast Surgery
• Cardiology
• Clinical Neurophysiology
• Colorectal
• Dermatology
• Diabetes
• Dietitian - General Adults
• Dietitian - Paediatrics
• Endocrinology
• ENT
• Gastro - Dietitian
• Gastroenterology
• Gastroenterology IBD
• Gynaecology
• Haematology
• IMSK Advanced Clinical Practice
• Maxillofacial
• Neurology
• Neurorehab
• Obstetrics
• Oncology
• Orthodontics
• Orthopaedics
• Paediatrics
• Pain Management
• Respiratory
• Respiratory ED
• Rheumatology
• SAMS
• Stroke Psychology
• Therapies
• Therapies - Oxygen / NIV
• Thyroid
• Upper GI Surgery
• Urology
• Vascular Surgery

Audiology

• Audiology Mould Fitting Booklet
• Audiology Open Fitting Booklet
• Hearing Aid Battery Centres
• Hearing Difficulties when a Hearing Test is Normal
• Hearing Support Volunteers
• Your Hearing Assessment

Bariatric Surgery

• Bariatric Surgery - Your Guide to our Service
• Coping with Anxiety or Difficulties Eating after Surgery
• Mindfulness and Mindful Eating

Bone Density Unit

• A guide to tell the patient how to book an appointment and about the procedure
• How to Book an appointment and about the procedure

Bradley Rehabilitation Unit

• Aphasia Friendly Bradley Unit Guide
• Neuro-rehabilitation

Breast Clinic

• Bisphosphonates for Early Breast Cancer
• Breast Patients discharged with Exudrain
• Breast Patients discharged with Redivac Drain
• Discharge from Routine Check-up Breast Clinic
• Mastitis and Breast Abscess
• Open Access Follow-up for Breast Cancer
• Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy (SLNB)
• Welcome to the Breast Clinic
• Wire Localisation Excision

Cardiology

• Advice following a Heart Attack
• Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring - Ashford Patients
• Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring - St Peter's Patients
• Ambulatory ECG Monitoring - Ashford Patients
• Ambulatory ECG Monitoring - St Peter's Patients
• Cardiac Risk Management
• Day Case Cardioversion
• Electrophysiology Study and Catheter Ablation
• Exercise Tolerance Testing
• Heart Failure Discharge Information
• ICDC Patient Pack
• New Pacemaker ICD Implant
• Omron ECG Monitor - Ashford Patients
• Omron ECG Monitor - St Peter's Patients
• Stress Echocardiogram
• Trans-oesophageal Echocardiogram
• Undergoing a Coronary Angioplast

Clinical Neurophysiology

• EEG Adult
• EEG Child
• EEG Prolonged Recording
• Evoked Potentials
• Nerve Conduction Studies and EMG

Day Surgery Unit

• After Your Hysteroscopy
• Before You Go Into Hospital
• Circumcision
• Day Surgery Post-Operative Advice - General Surgery
• Day Surgery Post-Operative Advice - Oral Surgery
• Day Surgery Post-Operative Advice - Orthopaedic Surgery
• Day Surgery Post-Operative Advice - Surgery to the Nose
• Day Surgery Post-Operative Advice - Vascular Surgery
• Examination under Anaesthesia (EUA) of Rectum / Anus
• Excision of Lipoma
• Excision of Pilonidal Sinus
• Insertion of Grommets
• Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
• Laparoscopic Repair of Inguinal Hernia
• Laparoscopy (Gynaecology)
• Lay Open of Anal Fistula
• Microlaryngoscopy
• Open Reduction and Internal Fixation (ORIF) of Radius / Ulna
• Open Repair of Inguinal Hernia
• Panendoscopy
• Removal of Metalworks
• Repair of Hydrocele
• Surgery to the Ear
• Surgery to the Foot
• Surgery to the Nose
• TMJ Arthroscopy
• Welcome to Day Surgery

Dermatology

• Bath PUVA Treatment
• Broadband UVB
• Cryotherapy
• Emollients
• Hand and Foot Bath PUVA
• Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist for Skin
• Narrowband UVB
• Nicotinamide B3
• Patch Testing
• Patient Contact Information for Skin Cancer
• Personalised Skin Treatment Plan
• Photo Hub
• Postoperative Advice
• Pre-Op Patient Information
• PUVA Gel Treatment

Diabetes / Endocrinology

Adults

• Alcohol and Diabetes
• Carbohydrate Counting
• Diabetes Hot Foot Clinic
• Diabetes in Pregnancy
• Emotional Well-being and Diabetes
• Exercise and Insulin
• Healthy Eating and Gestational Diabetes
• How to download and share your data
• Hypoglycaemia
• Information for starting insulin Basal-Bolus Regime
• Information for starting once a day insulin
• Information for starting twice a day insulin
• Inpatient Diabetes Care
• Instructions for Switching to Libre 2
• Insulin Pump Therapy including Sick Day Rules
• Sick Day Rules

Paediatrics

• Access to Psychology Support
• Annual Review Screening – Over 12s
• Annual Review Screening – Under 12s
• Children and Young Person's Diabetes Service
• Food and Insulin Diary for Calculating Carbohydrate Ratios
• Healthy Eating for Children and Young People with Type 1 Diabetes
• Insulin Pump Bolus Options
• Introduction to the Diabetes Transition Service
• Knowing the Signs for Type 1 Diabetes in your Child
• Mylife Bolus Advice App
• Sick Day Rules: Paediatric Diabetes
• Type 2 - Blood Glucose Targets for Children and Young People
• Type 2 - Exercise for Children and Young People
• Type 2 - Healthy Eating for Children and Young People
• Type 2 - Introduction Children and Young People
• Type 2 - Metformin Children and Young People
• Type 2 - My Diet Plan for Children and Young People

Dietetics

The following leaflets may be provided by your dietician depending on your treatment plan:

• Bile Acid Malabsorption
• Build Yourself Up
• COVID Nutrition Advice
• Cow’s Milk Alternatives Suitable for Children from 1 years old diagnosed with Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy
• Cow's Milk Protein and Egg Free Diet
• Cow's Milk Protein and Soya Free Diet
• Cow's Milk Protein Free Diet for Breast Feeding Mothers
• Dementia Support with Eating and Drinking
• Diabetes - Diet in Illness
• Diet and Gallbladder Disease
• Diet following Nissen Fundoplication
• Diet for Gout
• Dietary Advice for Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
• Dietary Management of Cow's Milk Protein Allergy in Children
• Dietary Management of Hypoglycaemia for Infants and Children
• Dietary Management of Reactive Hypoglycaemia
• Eatwell Plate / Healthy eating
• Exercise and Insulin
• Food and Insulin Diary
• Healthy Eating and Diabetes
• Healthy Eating and Gestational Diabetes
• Healthy Eating for Children and Young People with Type 1 Diabetes
• Healthy Snack Ideas
• Help my child gain weight on a milk free diet
• Hiatus Hernia or Acid Reflux
• How to gain weight for children and young people
• Increasing dietary fibre
• It's all about Eggs!
• It's all about Milk!
• It's all about Nuts!
• Lactose Free Diet for Adults
• Lactose Free Diet for Children
• Legume Allergy
• Liquid Diet in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Liquid Shrinkage Diet for Bariatric Surgery
• Low K Snack
• Nausea Vomiting and Loss of Appetite
• Nourishing Drinks and Puddings
• PEG Feeding
• Pelvic Health and Constipation Diet Sheet
• Pelvic Health and Diarrhoea Diet Sheet
• Pre op Chole LS Diet
• Risk Feeding
• Weight Management for Children and Young People
• Wound Healing

Discharge to Assess

• Action Cards
• Discharge to Assess Webinar
• Hospital Discharge Information
• Looking after family or friends after they leave hospital
• Review challenge questions for the clinical team

Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT)

• Adult Tonsillectomy
• FESS
• Grommets and Adenoidectomy
• Paediatric Tonsillectomy
• Pinnaplasty
• Septoplasty
• Septorhinoplasty

Early Pregnancy Unit

• Bleeding and Abdominal Pain in Early Pregnancy
• Conservative Management of Miscarriage
• Early Pregnancy Unit
• Ectopic Pregnancy
• How to recover quickly from a laparoscopy
• Manual Vacuum Aspiration for Miscarriage (MVA)
• Outpatient Medical Management of Miscarriage
• Pregnancy of Unknown Location (PoUL)
• Surgical Management of Miscarriage
• Use of Methotrexate in Ectopic Pregnancy

Emergency Care

• Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit
• Head Injury

Endoscopy

• ERCP
• Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
• Having a Colonoscopy
• Having a Gastroscopy (OGD)
• Having an Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)
• Having an Oesophageal Dilatation
• Klean-Prep for Afternoon Appointment
• Klean-Prep for Capsule Endoscopy
• Klean-Prep for Morning Appointment
• MoviPrep for Afternoon Appointment
• MoviPrep for Morning Appointment
• Oesophageal Stent
• Picolax / Citrafleet for Afternoon Appointment
• Picolax / Citrafleet for Morning Appointment

General Medicine

• Delirium
• Discharge Lounge
• Forget-me-not Scheme
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Think Home First

General Surgery

• A Guide to Bowel Surgery
• Anorectal Physiology Studies
• Antiplatelet Medication Advice in Vascular Patients
• Bowel Preparation: Citrafleet and Picolax (AM)
• Bowel Preparation: Citrafleet and Picolax (PM)
• Bowel Preparation: Moviprep (AM)
• Bowel Preparation: Moviprep (PM)
• Bowel Preparation: Phosphate Enema (AM)
• Bowel Preparation: Phosphate Enema (PM)
• Emergency Laparotomy Surgery
• Emergency Surgery Ambulatory Care (ESAC)
• Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (Colorectal)
• Going Home with Cholecystostomy
• Preventing Surgical Wound Infection
• Psychological Risks associated with Bariatric Surgery
• Psychology Service in Anorectal Physiology
• Specialist Weight Management and Bariatric Psychology Service
• Welcome to Falcon Ward

Gynaecology

• Bartholin’s Abscess or Cyst with Word Catheter
• BMI and Infertility
• Chronic Pelvic Pain
• Colposcopy
• Colposcopy and Lletz Biopsy
• Endometriosis
• Fertility Welcome Pack
• Follicle Tracking Scans
• Gynaecology-Oncology Fast Track Clinic
• How to recover quickly from a laparoscopy
• Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist for Gynae-Oncology
• Outpatient Hysteroscopy
• Ovulation Induction with Clomiphene Treatment
• Ovulation Induction with Letrozole Treatment
• Pre-Operative Bowel Preparation for Gynaecological Laparoscopic Surgery
• Removing Temporary Ovarian Suspension Stitches
• TCRF (Transcervical Resection of Fibroids)
• Vulvodynia

Haematology

• Anticoagulant Treatment Leaflet 1
• Anticoagulant Treatment Leaflet 2
• Hospital Acquired Thrombosis
• Key Worker for Haematology

Infection Control

• Advice for patients with a cannula
• Carbapenemase-producing organisms
• Clostridium Difficile
• ESBL
• MRSA
• MRSA Antenatal Screening
• MRSA Screening Prior to Surgery
• Norovirus
• Scabies
• Shingles
• Short Term Central Venous Lines
• Surgical Wound Infection
• To prevent HCAI during Hospitalisation

Information Services

• Privacy Notice (A4)
• Privacy Notice (A5)

Inpatient Pain Service

• Entonox
• Epidural Haematoma Advice
• Oral Ketamine for Pain Relief
• Spinal Anaesthesia
• You and Your Anaesthetic

IV at Home

• Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy

Maternity

COVID-19 Guidance

• Breastfeeding Guidance during COVID-19
• Parent information for newborn babies
• Planning your birth

Trust Leaflets

• Advice and guidance for parents wishing to take their deceased baby home
• Antenatal Hydronephrosis
• Babies who do not breastfeed effectively
• Biomechanics
• Birth After Caesarean Section
• Birth Reflections
• Bleeding and abdominal pain in early pregnancy
• Caesarean Section Wound Infections
• Care of the Perineum after Birth
• Choosing where to have your baby
• Collecting Colostrum Antenatally
• Consent for Laboratory Examination and Cremation or Sensitive Disposal of Early Pregnancy Loss up to 11+6 weeks
• Cup Feeding Guide and Competency for Parents
• Delayed Cord Clamping
• Early Pregnancy Unit
• Ectopic Pregnancy
• ECV
• Elective Caesarean Section
• Going home after a Caesarean Section
• How to Access Maternity Notes on your Smart Phone
• Induction of Labour
• Induction of Labour with Cervical Ripening Balloon
• Information for Pregnancy Loss
• Information for Women Taking Aspirin in Pregnancy
• Low Pregnancy Associated Plasma Protein A (PAPP-A)
• Magnesium Sulphate as a Protection against Cerebral Palsy
• Milk as Medicine
• Monitoring your babys heartbeat in labour
• Monofer (Iron Infusion) - Maternity
• MRSA Antenatal Screening
• Outpatient Induction of Labour for Low Risk Pregnancy
• Postnatal Care
• Postnatal Exercises
• Preconception advice for women with Type 1 and 2 Diabetes
• Pregnancy of Unknown Location (PoUL)
• Preparing for your homebirth
• Preterm Birth Surveillance Clinic
• Promoting recovery after sustaining an OASI
• Safe Sleep for Baby
• Screening for Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection
• Suppression of Lactation
• Term, Well Baby Feeding
• Testing for Blood Clots
• Tongue Tie and Infant Feeding
• Use of Methotrexate in Ectopic Pregnancy
• Uterine Artery Doppler
• Vitamin K - A Parents Guide
• Vulnerable Baby Feeding
• Women who decline blood products
• Your baby’s movements in pregnancy

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

• Breastfeeding at Home with Breast Milk Fortifier Supplements
• Cooling Treatment for Babies with HIE
• Could you Become a Breastmilk Donor?
• Heart Murmurs in Newborn Babies
• Home Oxygen Therapy (HOT)
• Immunisations for Parents of Premature Babies
• Infant Basic Life Support
• Kent Surrey and Sussex Neonatal Transfer Service (KSS NTS)
• Maximising your Milk Supply
• Milk as Medicine
• Naso Orogastric Tube Feeding your Baby
• Nasogastric Tube Feeding: Competencies for Parents / Carers
• Neonatal Community Outreach Team
• Neonatal Lumbar Puncture
• Parent information following the death of your baby on NICU
• Parent Information NICU
• Personal Hygiene for your Baby
• Probiotics in Preventing Jaundice
• Quiet Time
• Respiratory Syncytial Virus
• St Peter's Milk Bank
• Support for Parents on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
• Supporting Your Baby's Development: 23 - 26 Weeks
• Supporting Your Baby's Development: 26 - 28 Weeks
• Supporting Your Baby's Development: 28 - 30 Weeks
• Supporting Your Baby's Development: 30 - 32 Weeks
• Supporting Your Baby's Development: 32 - 36 Weeks
• Supporting Your Baby's Development: 36 - 40 Weeks
• The Chaplaincy Team
• Transition to Nutriprem 2 Formula
• Transitional Care Unit
• Travelling Home from the Neonatal Unit
• Vulnerable Baby Feeding

External Leaflets

• EFCNI - Bonding with and Caring for Preterm Born Babies
• SABP - Perinatal Mental Health Service
• RCPCH - Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity
• UK HSA - TB, BCG Vaccine and your Baby
• RCOPHTH - Treatment for Retinopathy of Prematurity

Neurology

• Migraine Service

Nursing

• Preventing falls at home
• Preventing falls during your stay in hospital
• Supportive and Palliative Care Team

Occupational Health

• Blood Borne Viruses
• Moving and Handling Policy

Occupational Hand Therapy

• Ganglion Cysts
• Kinesiotape Application
• Mallet Injury
• PIP Joint Replacements (Miss Sarkhel)
• PIP Joint Replacements (Mr Gupta)
• Post-Op Advice: Carpal Tunnel Decompression
• Post-Op Advice: Trigger Finger Release
• Post-Op Advice: Wrist ORIF
• Post Plaster Removal Wrist Fracture
• Single MCP Joint Replacement (Miss Sarkhel)
• Soft Splint Instructions
• Thermoplastic Splint Information
• Osteoarthritis (OA) Level 1 Exercises
• Osteoarthritis (OA) Level 2 Exercises
• Osteoarthritis (OA) Level 3 Exercises
• Trapeziectomy with mini tight-rope (Miss Sarkhel)
• Trapeziectomy with mini tight-rope (Mr Imam)
• Trigger Thumb / Finger

Occupational Therapy

• Managing Fatigue and Shortness of Breath

Oncology

• Clinical Nurse Specialist for Breast
• Clinical Nurse Specialist for Cancer of Unknown Primary
• Clinical Nurse Specialist for Lung Cancer
• Clinical Nurse Specialist for Secondary Breast Cancer
• Clinical Nurse Specialist for Upper GI
• Gynaecology-Oncology Fast Track Clinic
• Keyworker for Colorectal Cancer
• Keyworker for Haematology
• Keyworker for Urological Cancer
• Little Oaks - Paediatric Oncology Shared Care Unit
• Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist for Gynae-Oncology
• Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist for Skin
• Non-Specific but Serious Symptoms Clinic (NSSSC)
• Open Access Follow-up for Breast Cancer
• Supported Self-Management following Radiotherapy Treatment for Prostate Cancer
• Supported Self-Management for Patients on Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer
• Supported Self-Management for patients who have undergone treatment for bowel cancer

Ophthalmology

Oral Surgery and Orthodontics

• Apicectomy
• Cryotherapy (Oral)
• Dry Mouth
• Fixed Appliances
• Functional Appliances
• Impacted Canines (Removal)
• INR Blood Test
• Intravenous Sedation
• Mandibular Advancement Splint
• Minor Skin Operation - Post-op Information
• Oral Biopsy under Local Anaesthetic
• Orthognathic Surgery
• Recurrent Apthous Oral Ulceration
• Removable Appliances
• Removal of Wisdom Teeth
• Retainers
• Submandibular Gland Removal
• Surgery to Mouth and Jaws - Post-op Information
• Surgical Removal of Parotid Gland
• Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction

Orthopaedics

• ACL Reconstruction
• Air Cast Boot
• Below Knee Ilizarov Exercises
• Care of a Plaster Cast
• Fast Track and Day Case Hip Joint Replacement Surgery
• Hinge Knee Brace
• Hip Joint Replacement Surgery ERP
• Joint and Soft Tissue Injections
• Knee Arthroscopy
• Knee Joint Replacement Surgery ERP
• Knee Meniscal Repair
• Knee Meniscal Root Repair
• Living with an Ilizarov Frame
• Miami J® Cervical Collars - Fitting and Care in Supine (Lying)
• Miami J® Cervical Collars - Fitting and Wearing in Sitting (Post-operative)
• Miami J® Collar - Fitting and care in sitting with assistance of one carer
• Orthopaedic Supported Discharge
• Rehabilitation
• Thoracolumbosacral Orthosis Brace (TLSO) - Fitting and Wearing in Lying
• Thoracolumbosacral Orthosis Brace (TLSO) - Fitting and Wearing in Sitting

Outpatients

• 18 Weeks Information Leaflet
• Monofer (Iron Infusion) - Infusion Suite
• Travelling to Hospital
• Welcome to Ashford Hospital
• Welcome to St Peter's Hospital
• Your Appointment Card

Paediatrics

Pain Management (Acute)

• Entonox
• Epidural Haematoma Advice

Pain Management (Chronic)

• After your Treatment
• Clinical Hypnosis on Pain Management Programme
• Managing Flare Up
• Neck Exercises
• Non Specific Low Back Pain Exercises
• Pain Management Patient Information Resources
• TENS

Surrey iMSK Leaflets:

• Surrey musculoskeletal service
• Chronic pain services
• Multidisciplinary pain management programme
• Pain management videos

British Pain Society Leaflets:

• Chronic pain services
• Multidisciplinary pain management programme

Faculty of Pain Medicine (RCOA) Leaflets:

• Faculty of Pain Medicine website

Patient Advice and Liaison Service

• COVID-19: Keeping you safe when visiting ASPH
• Medical Examiners' Office
• Your Comments and Concerns

Palliative Care

• Supportive and Palliative Care Team

Pelvic Health Physiotherapy

Pharmacy

• About your Medicines
• Medicines and Elective Surgery
• Pharmacy Medication Support Service
• Urge Urinary Incontinence

Physiotherapy

• Achilles Tendinopathy
• ACL Reconstruction
• ACLD Knee
• Acupuncture
• Advanced Lower Limb Class - RiverBourne
• Air Cast Boot
• Antenatal Exercise Class
• Antenatal Hydrotherapy Class
• Attending the Total Knee Replacement Class
• Back to Fitness Class - Ashford Hospital
• Back to Fitness Class - RiverBourne
• Bubble PEP
• Capsular release
• Cervical Discectomy and Decompression
• Copeland resurfacing
• COVID Exercise Advice
• COVID Management Class Workbook
• COVID Recovery Class Workbook
• Cricket Pad Splint
• Dynamic Conditioning Class - RiverBourne
• Exercise for Healthy Bones
• Fat pad impingement
• Fun to be Fit Class - RiverBourne
• Gardening
• Gym Class Information
• Hinge Knee Brace
• Humeral Brace
• Hydrotherapy SPH
• Hypermobility exercises
• If In Doubt - Check It Out: Post-Operative Complications
• Keeping your Independence and Mobility in Hospital
• Knee Meniscal Repair
• Knee Meniscal Root Repair
• Lower Limb Exercise and Education Group - Ashford Hospital
• Lower Limb Exercise and Education Group - RiverBourne
• Lumbar Discectomy and Decompression
• Miami J® Cervical Collars - Fitting and Care in Supine (Lying)
• Miami J® Cervical Collars - Fitting and Wearing in Sitting (Post-operative)
• Otago Exercises Level 1
• Otago Exercises Level 2
• Otago Exercises Level 3
• Otago Exercises Level 4
• Patella Tendinopathy
• Patient Initiated Follow-Up (Ashford)
• Patient Initiated Follow-Up (St Peter's)
• Patient Initiated Follow-Up (Woking)
• Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation Class
• Pelvic Pain
• Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS)
• Physiotherapy in Pain Management
• Plantar Fasciopathy
• Positive Expiratory Pressure (PEP)
• Posterior Tibialis Tendon Dysfunction (PTTD)
• Postnatal Exercise Class
• Proximal Hamstring Tendinopathy
• Rebound Hip Brace
• Rehab Clinic / Open Gym - RiverBourne
• Rehabilitation after lower limb amputation
• Reverse total shoulder replacement
• Rotator Cuff Related Shoulder Pain
• Rotator cuff repair ERP
• Severs Disease
• Stabilisation
• Staying Active in the Community
• Subacromial decompression
• Thoracolumbosacral Orthosis Brace (TLSO) - Fitting and Wearing in Lying
• Thoracolumbosacral Orthosis Brace (TLSO) - Fitting and Wearing in Sitting
• Total Knee Replacement Class - Ashford Hospital
• Total Shoulder Replacement
• Upper Limb Class - RiverBourne
• Upper Limb Class - Woking Hospital
• Using Your Elbow Crutches: Full, Protected and Partial Weight Bearing
• Using Your Elbow Crutches: Non Weight Bearing
• Using Your Elbow Crutches: Touch Weight Bearing
• Wrist Splint

Radiology

• Antegrade Ureteric Stent Insertion
• Barium Small Bowel Meal
• Barium Swallow and Meal
• Bone Density (DEXA) Scan
• Breast Biopsy Aftercare
• Breast Ultrasound
• Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS)
• Core Biopsy of the Breast
• CT Angiography
• CT Scan - Urgent Referrals
• CT Scans
• Embolisation
• Female Pelvic Ultrasound
• Fibroid Embolisation (Uterine Artery Embolisation)
• Fistulogram, Fistuloplasty, and Venoplasty
• Fluoroscopy
• Going for your X-Ray
• Hycosy
• Hycosy and Hysterosalpingography
• Inferior Vena Cava Filter Placement
• Intravenous Urography
• Kyphoplasty and Vertebroplasty
• Mammography
• Making your Imaging Appointment
• MR Angiography
• MRI Musculoskeletal
• Myocardial Perfusion Scans
• Paediatric Micturating Cystourethrogram (MCUG)
• Percutaneous Biopsy
• Percutaneous Drainage
• Percutaneous Nephrostomy
• Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangiogram (PTC) and Drainage
• Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC)
• PET / CT Scans
• Radiological Inserted Gastrostomy (RIG)
• Sialogram
• Thrombolysis
• Transrectal Ultrasound Biopsy of the Prostate
• Ultrasound Guided FNA Breast
• Ultrasound Guided FNA Thyroid
• Ultrasound Guided Injection
• Ultrasound Scans
• Varicoceles
• Vascular Angiogram or Balloon Angioplasty
• Vascular Ultrasound

Renal Services

• Acute Kidney Injury

Respiratory Medicine

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
• COVID Advice and Recovery Part 1
• COVID Advice and Recovery Part 2
• Lung Investigations
• Pleural Aspiration
• Tunnelled Indwelling Pleural Catheters

Resuscitation

• ReSPECT - Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment

Rheumatology

• Depomedrone (steroid) injection

Senior Adult Medical Services (SAMS)

• Postural Hypotension
• Welcome to Cherry Ward
• Welcome to the Department of Senior Adult Medical Services (SAMS)

Speech and Language Therapy

• Dementia Making Conversation Easier
• FEES - Fibreoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing
• IDDSI Level 1 - Slightly Thick Fluids
• IDDSI Level 2 - Mildly Thick Fluids
• IDDSI Level 3 - Moderately Thick Fluids
• IDDSI Level 4 - Extremely Thick Fluids
• IDDSI Level 4 - Pureed
• IDDSI Level 5 - Minced and Moist
• IDDSI Level 6 - Soft and Bite Sized
• IDDSI Level 7 - Regular Easy to Chew
• Speech and Language Therapy ENT
• Support Groups and Sources of Information
• Total Communication
• Videofluoroscopy
• Ways to look after your voice
• What is Aphasia?
• What is Cognitive Communication Disorder?
• What is Dysarthria?
• What is Dyspraxia?

Stoma Care

• High Output Ileostomy Regime
• Keyworker for Colorectal Cancer
• Taking Loperamide Ileostomy

Stroke Services

• Early Supported Discharge for Stroke
• Thrombolysis for the Treatment of Ischemic Strokes
• Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)
• Welcome to Cedar Ward (HASU)
• Welcome to the Stroke Team

Surrey Heartlands

• Information for Patients

Surrey Integrated Musculoskeletal Service (iMSK)

• GP Information Leaflet
• Patient Information Leaflet

Urogynaecology

• Catheter Care for Women
• Colposuspension
• Cystoscopy in Day Surgery
• Flexible Cystoscopy
• Intravesical Instillation for Bladder Pain Syndrome
• Mid-urethral tape with MHRA
• Sacrocolpopexy with MHRA
• Urethral Bulking Injections
• Urodynamics for Urogynaecology
• Uteropexy with MHRA
• Vaginal Prolapse Repair
• Vaginal Prolapse Repair with Biological Mesh

Urology

• Acute Urinary Retention
• BCG Treatment for Superficial Bladder Cancer
• Circumcision in the Adult
• Flow Rate and Post-Void Residual
• Lithotripsy
• Mitomycin Treatment for Superficial Bladder Cancer
• Nocturia (waking up at night to pass urine) - patient information leaflet, questionnaires and sleep-frequency-volume chart
• Prostate Biopsy (TRUS)
• Superficial (Non-invasive) Bladder Cancer
• Transperineal Prostate Biopsy
• Transperineal Prostate Biopsy Under Local Anaesthetic
• Ureteric Colic