Clear, evidence-based information to make decisions about your treatment, and where to have your care.
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Core patient information leaflets
- Antibiotics – information for patients and carers
- Blood clots and thrombosis – preventing hospital acquired blood clots
- Insertion and care of your cannula
- Clostridium difficile diarrhoea
- Coming into hospital
- Making a complaint
- Delirium
- Dementia, Information for family, carers and people
- Discharge information
- Emergency Department and Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC)
- Hand hygiene for patients
- Information about your medicines
- MRSA
- Opioid medication
- Outpatient Services
- Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
- Patient health questionnaire – information for patients
- Personal data confidentiality and health records
- Preventing pressure ulcers
- Receiving a blood transfusion
- Slips, trips and falls and the safe use of bedrails
- Information about anaesthesia for patients undergoing surgery
- Having a general anaesthetic
- Chaplaincy
- Acute kidney injury
Easy read leaflets
- Thrombosis preventing hospital acquired blood clots.
- Insertion and care of your cannula.
- Clostridium difficile diarrhoea
- Making a Complaint.
- Delirium.
- Dementia, Information for family, carers and people.
- Hand hygiene for patients.
- Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS).
- Preventing pressure ulcers.
- Having a general anaesthetic.
- Constipation
A&E
Soft tissue injuries
Bariatric (weight reduction) surgery
Download our patient information leaflets relating to conditions and treatments below.
Oncology
Download our patient information leaflets relating to conditions and treatments below.
Oncology counselling
Enhanced supportive care and palliative care
Ophthalmology
Download our patient information leaflets relating to conditions and treatments below.
Ocular motility/paediatrics
- Accommodation facility
- Accommodation insufficiency
- Accommodative esotropia
- Adult squint surgery
- Botulinum toxin treatment for squint
- Child squint surgery
- Combined orthoptic and eye clinic appointment
- Convergence insufficiency (dot-card)
- Convergence insufficiency (jump)
- Convergence insufficiency (pen)
- Convergence insufficiency (stereogram)
- Decompensating esophoria
- Double vision
- Eye patching treatment for lazy eye (amblyopia)
- Mechanical deviations -Brown’s and Duane’s syndromes
- Orthoptic assessment for patients following a stroke
- Pseudo strabismus
- Spectacles for children
- Welcome to the Orthoptic Department
- Young person squint surgery
Ocular surface/corneal conditions and surgery
- Corneal collagen cross-linking
- Corneal transplantation endothelial keratoplasty (EK also known as DSAEs)
- Corneal transplantation deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty
- Corneal transplantation penetrating keratoplasty (PK)
- Dendritic corneal ulcers and stromal keratitis
- Dry eyes
- Keratoconus
- Sub-conjunctival haemorrhage
- Viral conjunctivitis
Cataract surgery
Eyelid conditions/watery eyes and surgery
Immunosuppression treatment
Investigations
Patient-initiated follow up (PIFU)
Retinal conditions and surgery
- Asymptomatic retinal detachment
- Diabetic macular oedema and treatment with Lucentis and Eylea
- Diabetic retinopathy virtual clinic
- Epiretinal membrane
- Floaters
- Gas in your eye
- Macular hole
- Posterior vitreous detachment
- Retinal detachment surgery
- Retinal vein occlusion
- Vitrectomy for diabetic vitreous haemorrhage
- Vitrectomy
Outpatient Fracture Care team (Virtual Fracture Clinic)
Download our patient information leaflets relating to fractures and injuries below.