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
- 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 - Dietitian
- Thyroid
- Upper GI Surgery
- Urology
- Vascular Surgery
Audiology
- Audiology Mould Fitting Booklet
- Audiology Open Fitting Booklet
- Hearing Aid Battery Centres
- 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
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
Day Surgery Unit
- After Your Hysteroscopy
- Before You Go Into Hospital
- Circumcision
- Coming into the Day Surgery Unit
- 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
- 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
- Coeliac Disease Group
- Coeliac Disease Service
- 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 Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Dietary Management of Hypoglycaemia for Infants and Children
- Dietary Management of Reactive Hypoglycaemia
- Eatwell Plate / Healthy eating
- Exercise and Insulin
- Food and Insulin Diary
- Healthier Eating Out
- 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 motivated are you?
- 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
- 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
- Think Home First
- Your Hospital Discharge - Going Home / Another Place of Care
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
- 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
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
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
- Monitoring Surgical Wounds for Infection
- Psychological Risks associated with Bariatric Surgery
- Psychology Service in Anorectal Physiology
- Specialist Weight Management and Bariatric Psychology Service
- Surgical Assessment Unit (SAU)
- Welcome to Falcon Ward
- Welcome to Heron 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
- Laparoscopic Procedures involving Pelvic Nerves for Endometriosis or Nerve Entrapment
- 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
Inpatient Pain Service
- Entonox
- Epidural Haematoma Advice
- Oral Ketamine for Pain Relief
- Spinal Anaesthesia
- You and Your Anaesthetic
IV at Home
Maternity
COVID-19 Guidance
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
- Bobble Hat Pathway - Amber
- Bobble Hat Pathway - Green
- Bobble Hat Pathway - Red
- 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 Parent Guide
- 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)
- 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
- Testing for Blood Clots
- Tongue Tie and Frenotomy Explained
- Use of Methotrexate in Ectopic Pregnancy
- Uterine Artery Doppler
- Vitamin K - A Parents Guide
- 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
- Kent Surrey and Sussex Neonatal Transfer Service (KSS NTS)
- Maximising your Milk Supply
- Milk as Medicine
- Naso Orogastric Tube Feeding your Baby
- 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
- Tube Feeding My Baby
Nursing
- Preventing falls at home
- Preventing falls during your stay in hospital
- Supportive and Palliative Care Team
Occupational Health
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
- Trapeziectomy with mini tight-rope (Miss Sarkhel)
- Trapeziectomy with mini tight-rope (Mr Imam)
- Trigger Thumb / Finger
Occupational Therapy
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
Operations
Ophthalmology
- Advice to parents of children having dilating drops
- Amblyopia and Patching Treatment
- Atropine Eye Drops
- Atropine Occlusion
- Blepharitis
- Botulinum Toxin for Adult Squint
- Care of your eye after your injection
- Cataract Information
- Convergence Insufficiency and Treatment
- Corneal Cross-Linking (CXL)
- Corneal Transplantation: Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty (DALK)
- Corneal Transplantation: Endothelial Keratoplasty
- Cyclopentolate Eye Drops
- Diabetic Retinopathy
- Diabetic Retinopathy Surgery
- Digital Surveillance Clinic: AMD
- Digital Surveillance Clinic: Diabetic Macular Oedema
- Digital Surveillance Clinic: Glaucoma
- Digital Surveillance Clinic: Macular Pathologies
- Dry Eye
- Ectropion
- Entropion
- Epiretinal Membrane Surgery
- Eye Clinic Appointments
- Fluorescein Angiography and Indocyanine Green Angiography
- Gas in Eye and Posturing after Retinal Surgery
- How to instil your eye drops
- How to instil your eye ointment
- Laser / Cryo Retinopexy for Retinal Tears
- Laser Iridotomy
- Laser Treatment for Diabetic Macular Oedema (DME)
- Laser Treatment for Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy (PDR) Pan Retinal Photocoagulation (PRP)
- Macular Hole Surgery
- Obtaining Children's Glasses
- Posterior Vitreous Detachment (PVD)
- Post-Op Cataract Instructions
- Post-Operative Retinal Surgery / Laser Instructions
- Retinal Detachment
- SLT Laser
- Squint Surgery for Adults
- Squint Surgery for Children
- Yag Laser Capsulotomy
- Your Child's Appointment in the Eye Clinic
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
- Below Knee Ilizarov Exercises
- Care of a Plaster Cast
- Fast Track and Day Case Hip Joint Replacement Surgery
- Fractured Neck of Femur
- 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
- Travelling to Hospital
- Welcome to Ashford Hospital
- Welcome to St Peter's Hospital
- Your Appointment Card
Paediatrics
| Title | Date | Download | |
| Adrenaline Training Information | Jan 2021 | Booklet | |
| Allergy Clinic | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Ankle Exercises for Children | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Ankle Injury | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Babies Receiving Antibiotics | Jul 2018 | Booklet | |
| Babies who do not breastfeed effectively | Apr 2021 | Booklet | |
| BCG Vaccine - After care for your baby | Dec 2019 | Booklet | |
| Broken Collar Bone | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Bronchiolitis | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Burns Advice | Feb 2021 | Booklet | |
| Care of a Plaster Cast | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| COVID-19: Advice for Parents when a Child is Unwell or Injured | Apr 2020 | Handout | |
| Croup | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Cup Feeding Parent Guide | Apr 2021 | Handout | |
| Dietary Management of Hypoglycaemia for Infants and Children | Aug 2020 | n/a | |
| Discharge Advice Paediatric A&E | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Discharge from Allergy Clinic | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Epilepsy Information for Families with School Aged Children | Jun 2020 | Handout | |
| Eye Injuries | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Febrile Convulsion | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Fever in Children | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Food Challenges | Jul 2021 | Booklet | |
| Foreign Body Ingestion | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Fractured 5th Metacarpal | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Gastroenteritis | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Gluten Reintroduction | Oct 2021 | Handout | |
| Head Injury - Baby and Toddler | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Head Injury - Child | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Heart Murmur | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Injured Fingers and Toes | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Joint Hypermobility in Children | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Knee Injury | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Limping Child Discharge Plan | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Little Oaks - Paediatric Oncology Shared Care Unit | Apr 2018 | Booklet | |
| Mallet Finger | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Neck Injury | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Oak Ward - Important information for your admission | Jul 2020 | Handout | |
| Pulled Elbow | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Risks of Infection in Newborn Babies | Jul 2019 | Booklet | |
| Safeguarding Children and Young People | Sep 2021 | Booklet | |
| Skeletal Survey | Nov 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Skin Prick Testing | Nov 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Superacondylar Fracture | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Sweat Test | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Torus Fracture | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Transitional Care Unit (for Joan Booker Patients) | Jun 2017 | Handout | |
| Welcome to Ash Ward | May 2018 | Booklet | |
| Welcome to the Paediatric A&E Department | Oct 2021 | Booklet | |
| Wound Care | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| X-Rays in Children | Oct 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
Pain Management (Acute)
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:
Faculty of Pain Medicine (RCOA) Leaflets:
- Faculty of Pain Medicine website
Patient Advice and Liaison Service
Palliative Care
Pelvic Health Physiotherapy
| Title | Date | Download | |
| Advanced Pelvic Floor Rehab | Nov 2019 | Handout | |
| Anorectal and Vaginal Examinations | Jul 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Ashford Face to Face Appointments | Jun 2021 | Handout | |
| Bile Acid Malabsorption | Jul 2020 | Booklet | Handout |
| Bladder and Bowel Diary | Feb 2018 | Booklet | |
| Bladder Retraining | Nov 2021 | Handout | |
| Bowel Diary | Nov 2021 | Booklet | |
| How to Improve Bladder and Bowel Problems | May 2021 | Handout | |
| If In Doubt - Check It Out: Pregnancy Complications | Jun 2020 | Handout | |
| Looking After Your Bowels | Nov 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injuries | May 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Pelvic Floor Exercises | Jun 2021 | Handout | |
| Pelvic Floor Exercises for Men | Nov 2021 | Handout | |
| Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation Class | Feb 2020 | Booklet | Handout |
| Pelvic Girdle and Low Back Pain during Pregnancy | Apr 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Pelvic Health and Constipation Diet Sheet | Feb 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Pelvic Health and Diarrhoea Diet Sheet | Feb 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Physiotherapy | May 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Postnatal Exercise Class | Feb 2020 | Booklet | Handout |
| Postnatal Exercise Class Handout | Dec 2019 | Handout | |
| Postnatal Physiotherapy Advice | Sep 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Pregnancy Exercise Class | Feb 2020 | Booklet | Handout |
| Pregnancy Exercise Class Handout | Dec 2019 | Handout | |
| Pregnancy Hydrotherapy Exercise Class | Feb 2020 | Booklet | Handout |
| River Bourne Face to Face Appointments | Jun 2021 | Handout | |
| Staying Fit During Pregnancy and Labour | Nov 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Stress Urinary Incontinence | May 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) | Dec 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Upper Back and Rib Pain | Mar 2021 | Handout | |
| Urge Urinary Incontinence | Apr 2021 | Booklet | Handout |
| Woking Leisure Face to Face Appointments | Jun 2021 | Handout | |
| Women's Health Class | May 2021 | Handout |
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
- 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
- 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
- Positional Talipes
- 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
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
Rheumatology
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
- 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
- Speech and Language Therapy ENT
- Support Groups and Sources of Information
- Total Communication
- Ways to look after your voice
- What is Aphasia?
- What is Cognitive Communication?
- What is Dysarthria?
- What is Dyspraxia?
Stoma Care
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
Surrey Integrated Musculoskeletal Service (iMSK)
Urogynaecology
- Catheter Care following Retention
- 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