Patient Information Leaflets

All Leaflets:

• A guide to purchasing footwear
• A&E Transport
• Abdominal ultrasound
• Actinic keratoses
• Active Cycle of Breathing Techniques (ACBT)
• Acupuncture in Physiotherapy
• Acute Stroke Unit
• Advice following breast surgery
• Advice following your ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography)
• Amblyopia
• Anaesthesia during Pregnancy
• Anaesthetic
• Anaesthetic (children)
• Anaesthetic (easy read)
• Angioplasty
• Angioplasty with Angio-seal
• Ankle foot orthosis (A.F.O)
• Arteriogram
• Azathioprine (Imuran) – Respiratory
• Baby skincare
• Back pain
• Balance & strengthening
• Barium enema
• Barium follow-through
• Barium swallow (adult)
• Barium swallow (child)
• Bartholins abscess
• Basal Cell Carcinoma
• Bassett Ward
• Bath PUVA
• Bereavement
• Biopsy in your mouth
• Bladder Tumours
• Blepharitis and lid hygiene
• Blood transfusion
• Bottle feeding
• Bowel preparation for colonoscopy
• Bowel preparation for colonoscopy with Klean-Prep
• Bowen’s disease
• Breast awareness
• Breast Care Nursing Service
• Breast clinic
• Breast core biopsy
• Bronchiolitis
• Bronchoscopy
• Buckle fractures of the wrist in children
• Bunionectomy
• Caesarean section
• Capener Ward
• Capsule Endoscopy
• Cardiac Rehabilitation Nurse Service
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Cardioversion
• Care of babies experiencing withdrawal symptoms
• Care of the mouth after oral surgery
• Care of your child after their operation
• Caring for your eye after surgery
• Caring for your eyelid after surgery
• Caring for your pin-site
• Carpal tunnel decompression
• Cataract surgery – risks and benefits
• Cataracts
• Caudal Epidural Injections
• Cellcept
• Cervical stitch
• Chemotherapy and Day Treatment Unit
• Chemotherapy and the rare risk of extravasation
• Chichester Unit
• Chilblains
• Child’s micturating cystourethrogram
• Child’s Unprepared Barium Enema
• Child’s visit to the Gemini Endoscopy Suite
• Children’s Pre-Operative Assessment
• Choroba lub wypadek w północnym Devon? (Ill or injured in Northern Devon?)
• Clostridium difficile
• Code of conduct
• Colles fracture
• Colonoscopy
• Colonoscopy (people with diabetes)
• Coloured overlays
• Coming into hospital (easy read)
• Comment card (easy read)
• Community Children’s Nursing Team
• Community Rehabilitation Service (Ilfracombe)
• Complaints (easy read)
• Complaints, Compliments and Concerns
• Complex care teams
• Compression hosiery (support stockings)
• Compression hosiery for leg ulcer
• Conjunctivitis
• Consent (easy read)
• Consent in the Special Care Baby Unit
• Consent leaflets
• Convergence exercises
• Copying letters to patients
• Corneal abrasion
• Corneal foreign bodies
• Cot death
• CT guided lung biopsy
• CT scan
• Cystogram (Adult)
• Cystoscopy
• Cytotoxic Chemotherapy
• Day surgery advice for breast care patients
• Day Surgery Unit
• Day Surgery Unit discharge note – Carpal Tunnel Decompression
• Day Surgery Unit Discharge Note – Dupuytrens Procedure
• Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
• DEXA scan
• Discharge from the Day Surgery Unit
• Dislocated shoulder
• Double vision (Diplopia) and care of Fresnel prisms
• Dry eye
• Dysarthria
• Dysphonia and keeping a healthy voice
• Ear care
• Early supported discharge team for strokes
• Early termination in North Devon
• Elbow crutches for non-weight bearing
• Emergency Department
• Entonox
• Epidurals for pain relief after surgery
• ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-pancreatography)
• Excretion urography (adult)
• Excretion urography (child)
• Exercises for after baby is born
• Exercises to help you in pregnancy
• Eye drops
• Eye drops for children’s eye test
• Fasting before operation (easy read)
• Flexible cystoscopy (aftercare)
• Flexible sigmoidoscopy
• Fluorescein angiography
• Food intake
• Food poisoning / diarrhoea advice
• Foot care and diabetes
• Foot orthoses
• Footwear
• Fortescue Ward
• Four layer bandaging
• Fractured clavicle / Fractured humerus
• Fusion of the MTP joint of the big toe
• Gall Bladder Operation (Cholecystectomy)
• Gastroscopy
• Glaucoma
• Glaucoma treatment
• Goal planning
• Going into Day Surgery (easy read)
• Haematuria Clinics
• Head injury (children)
• Head injury (people aged over 12 years)
• Health and safety information for parents wishing to take their baby home following a pregnancy loss
• Hearing aid
• Hearing test
• Heart failure nurse service
• Heart murmurs in a newborn infant
• Helping your child cope with pain
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• Hernia repair
• Hinged ankle foot orthosis (H.A.F.O)
• Hip ultrasound for babies
• Home assessment information
• Home or hospital – your choice
• Hospital ‘photo passport’ (easy read)
• Hospital Macmillan Specialist Palliative Care Team
• Hysterectomy
• Hysterosalpingogram (HSG) – x-ray of the uterus and fallopian tubes
• Hysteroscopy – Dilation and Curettage (D&C)
• Induction of Labour
• Infectious Diarrhoea & Vomiting
• Information for patients sent into hospital by their GP
• Information for pregnant women who misuse drugs or alcohol
• Information for pregnant women who smoke cannabis
• Intra-Articular or Soft Tissue Injections
• Iritis (anterior uveitis)
• Isotretinoin
• Jaundice in babies
• Key worker in Urology
• Knee ankle foot orthosis (K.A.F.O)
• Knee Arthroscopy (physiotherapy)
• Knee brace
• Laparoscopy
• Laser treatment (YAG Capsulotomy)
• Late termination in North Devon
• Leaving hospital
• Literacy difficulties
• Lundy / Roborough Ward
• Lung Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Lymph Glands (nodes)
• Lymph nodes
• Malignant melanoma
• Mallet finger
• Mammography
• Mastoidectomy
• Mental well being during pregnancy
• Metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC)
• Metatarsalgia
• Methotrexate (Matrex)
• Midline catheter insertion
• Miscarriage
• Molluscum contagiosum
• Monitoring your baby’s heartbeat in labour
• Moulded spinal jacket
• MRI Scan
• MRI scan (children)
• MRSA
• MRSA Screening
• Multiple sclerosis
• Myringotomy and the insertion of grommets
• Neck ache and pain
• New footwear
• North Devon Skin Cancer Team
• Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Syndrome
• Occlusion therapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Ocular hypertension
• Oral PUVA
• Orthoptic examination (adult)
• Orthotic (insole) devices
• Osteoarthritis (O.A.) and your hip
• Osteoarthritis (O.A.) and your Knee
• Outpatient Physiotherapy at Bideford Hospital
• Outpatient Physiotherapy at Torrington Hospital
• Pacifiers / dummies on the Special Care Baby Unit
• Paediatric High Dependency Unit
• Paediatric Psychology Service
• Pain relief and your baby
• Pain relief in labour
• PALS – Patient Advice & Liaison Service
• PALS and making a comment (easy read)
• Parkinson Disease North Devon
• Parkinson’s Disease – telephone advice line
• Patch tests
• Patient controlled analgesia (PCA)
• Pelvic floor exercises & advice following hysterectomy, repair and other gynaecology surgery
• Pelvic floor muscles
• Pelvic Ultrasound
• Percutaneous insertion of a nephrostomy tube
• Peripheral nerve block
• Persistent pain (pacing)
• Personal information
• Petter Day Treatment Unit
• Physiotherapy & Occupational Therapy advice to help you recover from a fractured neck of femur
• Physiotherapy advice after your caesarean section
• Physiotherapy advice following hysterectomy, repair and other gynaecology operations
• Physiotherapy and frozen shoulder
• Physiotherapy outpatients
• Plantar fasciitis
• Plaster Room
• Podiatry assessment
• Podiatry Patient Management Plan
• Post mortem examination procedure on a baby or child, A guide to the
• Post mortem examination procedure, A guide to the
• Posterior approach, total hip replacement (therapy advice)
• Posterior vitreous detachment
• Pre-Eclampsia
• Pruritus ani
• Pulled elbow
• Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic
• Ready, willing and able
• Removal of Haemorrhoids (Haemorrhoidectomy)
• Renal ultrasound
• Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) – Screening
• Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) – Treatment
• Rubber band ligation
• Sacrocolpopexy
• Safeguarding your baby in the Maternity Unit
• Scabies
• Sedation
• Sentinel lymph node biopsy
• Shoe adaptation
• Shoulder dystocia
• Shoulder injury
• Sialogram
• Soft diet
• South Molton Community Rehabilitation Team
• Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU), Welcome to
• Specialist Weight Management Clinic
• Spinal anaesthetic
• Sprained ankle
• Squint, about
• Stents – oesophageal, gastric and duodenal
• Stroke Physical Fitness & Self-management Programme
• Stroke Rehabilitation Unit
• Styes, meibomian cysts and hot compresses
• Sub Arachnoid Haemorrhage
• Sunburn
• Surgical emergency clinic
• T.U.R.P. (Transurethral Resection of the Prostate)
• Tell us what you think
• The mental & psychological effects of trauma on children
• Tilt table test
• Tonsillectomy and/or an adenoidectomy
• Topical PUVA
• Total hip replacement
• Total hip replacement (therapy advice)
• Total knee replacement
• Toys and your baby
• Trabeculectomy
• Tracking instructions
• Trans-Cervical Resection of the Endometrium (TCRE)
• Truss
• Twins and multiple pregnancy
• Ultrasound
• Ultrasound scans (Gynaecology)
• Urethrogram
• Urine and blood glucose testing for people with diabetes
• Urodynamic investigation
• Vaginal birth after caesarean section
• Vaginal repair
• Varicose Vein Surgery
• Vasectomy
• Venogram
• Venous leg ulcers
• Verrucae
• Vitamin K and haemorrhagic disease of the newborn
• Warning signs of infection
• Water soluble contrast enema
• Waterbirth and the use of water for pain relief in labour
• Wearing glasses
• Wide local excision
• Wig supply
• YAG-Iridotomy