Please use the search below, the A-Z below or the category list.
A
- A&E transport
- Abdominal supports
- Abdominal ultrasound
- Achilles tendinopathy
- Actinic keratoses
- Active Cycle of Breathing Techniques (ACBT)
- Acupuncture in physiotherapy
- Acute neck sprain
- Acute Oncology Service (AOS)
- Advice following breast surgery
- Advice for rheumatoid patients with risk of developing a foot related problems
- Age-related macular degeneration (treatment)
- Amblyopia (lazy eye)
- Amniocentesis
- Amputation – above knee (therapy advice)
- Amputation – below knee (therapy advice)
- Anaesthesia during pregnancy
- Anaesthetic
- Anaesthetic (children)
- Anaesthetic (easy read)
- Anaesthetic choices for hip or knee replacement
- Anaesthetist-controlled sedation
- Angioplasty
- Angioplasty with Angio-seal
- Ankle arthritis
- Ankle foot orthosis (A.F.O)
- Ankle fracture
- Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction
- Anti D
- Antibiotics and the oral contraceptive pill
- Anticoagulation service in North Devon
- Aphasia
- Appendicectomy
- Appendicectomy – child
- Arrhythmia service
- Arthritis flare (management of)
- Aspen TLSO (thoracolumbar sacral orthosis) brace
- Aspen Vista collar
- Athlete’s foot and fungal nail infections
- Atropine 1% eye drops
- Axilla core biopsy
- Azathioprine – Dermatology
- Azathioprine (Imuran) – Respiratory
- Azathioprine (Imuran) – Rheumatology
- Azithromycin (sexual health clinics)
B
- Baby skincare
- Baby’s movement in pregnancy
- Back pain
- Balance appointment
- Balance assessment
- Balance rehabilitation
- Barium follow-through
- Barium follow-through and an MRI of the small bowel
- Barium swallow (adult)
- Barium swallow (child)
- Barnstaple area re-education, nutrition and insulin (BARNI)
- Basal cell carcinoma
- Basic foot care
- Bassett Ward
- Before my appointment in Audiology (easy read)
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
- Bereavement – information and advice (community hospitals in North Devon)
- Bifocals for children with Down’s syndrome
- Biopsy in your mouth
- Birth after previous caesarean
- Bisphosphonates and dental extractions
- Bladder retraining – fluid adjustment
- Bladder retraining – taking control
- Bladder Tumours – transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT)
- Blepharitis and lid hygiene
- Blood tests taken in GP practices – category 2 and private
- Blood transfusion
- Bottle feeding
- Bowel preparation for colonoscopy with Klean-Prep
- Bowel preparation for colonoscopy with picolax
- Bowen’s disease
- Breast awareness
- Breast cancer related lymphoedema
- Breast cancer treatment follow-up plan
- Breast care after your needle biopsy
- Breast Care Nursing Service
- Breast clinic
- Breast core biopsy
- Breast feeding
- Breastfeeding and dental health
- Breastfeeding, expressing and storage
- Breathlessness management
- Bronchiolitis
- Bronchoscopy
- Bronchoscopy with sedation (aftercare)
- Bruising or injury to non-mobile children
- Buckle fractures of the wrist in children
C
- Caesarean section
- Calming hand
- Cancer Care Counselling Service
- Capsule Endoscopy
- Cardiac CT angiography
- Cardiac rehabilitation classes
- Cardiac rehabilitation nurse specialist service
- Cardiac surgery (advice following)
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Cardioversion
- Care of babies experiencing withdrawal symptoms
- Care of children and young people suffering self-harm
- Care of the mouth after oral surgery
- Care of the mouth after oral surgery (Dental Access Centre)
- Care of your child after their operation
- Caring for your eye after injection
- Caring for your eye after injection
- Caring for your eye after surgery
- Caring for your eyelid after surgery
- Caroline Thorpe Ward, Welcome to
- Carpal tunnel decompression
- Carpal Tunnel Decompression (discharge note)
- Cataract surgery – risks and benefits
- Cataracts
- Caudal Epidural Injections
- Cellcept
- Cervical stitch
- Chair back brace
- Chaplaincy and spiritual care
- Chemotherapy and Day Treatment Unit
- Chemotherapy and the rare risk of extravasation
- Chilblains
- Child’s micturating cystourethrogram
- Children and young people’s diabetes team (age 0 – 18)
- Children’s eye tests
- Choosing to have a caesarean section
- Choroba lub wypadek w północnym Devon? (Ill or injured in Northern Devon?)
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ ME Service
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Chronic uveitis in children with arthritis
- Clinical nurse specialist – upper GI (gastrointestinal)
- Clomiphene citrate (Clomid) for induction of ovulation
- Clostridium difficile
- Code of conduct
- Colles fracture
- Colonoscopy – bowel preparations (people with diabetes)
- Colonoscopy (with Kleenprep)
- Colonoscopy (with MoviPrep)
- Colonoscopy under the bowel cancer screening programme (aftercare)
- Colonoscopy under the bowel cancer screening programme (with Klean-Prep)
- Colonoscopy with sedation (aftercare)
- Colonoscopy with sedation and polypectomy (aftercare)
- Coloured overlays
- Colposuspension
- Combined oral contraceptive (COC)
- Coming into hospital (easy read)
- Coming into hospital: your stay at North Devon District Hospital
- Comment card (easy read)
- Community Children’s Nursing Team
- Community Parkinson’s Team
- Complaints (easy read)
- Complex procedures in dermatology
- Compliments, concerns and complaints
- Compression garments and Lymphoedema/Lipoedema
- Compression hosiery (support stockings)
- Conjunctivitis
- Consent (easy read)
- Consent in the Special Care Unit
- Consent leaflets
- Constraint induced movement therapy (CIMT)
- Contact lens clinic
- Contrast swallow and meal
- Convergence exercises
- Coping with stress following a major incident
- Corneal abrasion
- Corneal cross-linking
- Corneal foreign bodies
- Corsets (spinal supports)
- Corticosteroid / local anaesthetic injections
- Cot death
- CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) therapy
- CT biopsy
- CT guided lung biopsy
- CT scan
- Cyclodiode laser (eye treatment)
- Cyclophosphamide (Endoxana)
- Cystogram (Adult)
- Cystoscopy
- Cytotoxic Chemotherapy
D
- Dacryocystorhimostomy (DCR)
- Day surgery advice for breast care patients
- Day Surgery Unit (welcome to)
- Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
- Delirium
- Dental general anaesthetic (easy read)
- Dental treatment under inhalation sedation
- Dental treatment under IV / transmucosal sedation
- Dental treatment under sedation – information for accompanying person
- Dentures – looking after immediate dentures
- Development care – Caring for your premature baby
- Developmental assessment (GMDS-ER)
- Diabetes footcare
- Diarrhoea and vomiting in hospital
- Discharge from hospital – there’s no place like home
- Discharge from the Day Surgery Unit
- Discharge from the Petter Day Treatment Unit
- Dislocated shoulder
- Double vision (Diplopia) and care of Fresnel prisms
- Doxycycline (sexual health clinics)
- Driving with double vision (diplopia)
- Dry eye
- Dupuytrens procedure (discharge note)
- Duty of candour – what it means for patients and their families
- DXA scan
- Dynamic ankle foot orthosis (D.A.F.O)
- Dysarthria
- Dysphonia and keeping a healthy voice
E
- Ear care
- Early Keratoconus clinic
- Early pregnancy assessment clinic
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Elbow crutches for non-weight bearing
- Electroencephalograph (EEG)
- Emergency Department
- End of life care
- Endometrial ablation
- Enhanced recovery in medicine
- Enhanced recovery programme (bowel surgery)
- Entonox
- Epidurals for pain relief after surgery
- ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-pancreatography)
- ERCP with sedation, sphincterotomy and biliary stent
- Excretion urography (adult)
- Exercise band advice
- Exercises to help you in pregnancy
- Extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)
- Extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT)
- Eye drops
- Eye drops for children’s eye test
F
- Faecal incontinence and loose stools
- Faint (syncope or vasovagal episode)
- Falls factsheet
- Falls factsheet – for those living in a care setting
- Fasting before operation (easy read)
- Feverish children – what to do if your child is feverish
- Finger Tip Test
- Flexible cystoscopy (aftercare)
- Flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Flexible sigmoidoscopy (aftercare)
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy (with Kleanprep)
- Flexible sigmoidoscopy +/- banding of haemorrhoids
- Flexible sigmoidoscopy with sedation and polypectomy (aftercare)
- Fluorescein angiography
- Following your bereavement on SCU (parental information)
- Following your trans rectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy
- Food intake
- Food poisoning / diarrhoea advice
- Foot care advice for rheumatoid patients with an ulcerated foot
- Foot care for children and adolescents with diabetes
- Foot infection
- Foot orthoses
- Footwear
- Fortescue Ward
- Fractured clavicle / Fractured humerus
- Fractured neck of femur
- Free-standing toilet equipment
G
- Gall Bladder Operation (Cholecystectomy)
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux in babies
- Gastroscopy
- Gastroscopy and banding of varices with sedation (aftercare)
- Gastroscopy and colonoscopy
- Gastroscopy and colonoscopy with sedation (aftercare)
- Gastroscopy and injection of botox with sedation (aftercare)
- Gastroscopy and injection of varices with sedation (aftercare)
- Gastroscopy and oesophageal dilatation with sedation (aftercare)
- Gastroscopy with sedation (aftercare)
- Gastroscopy with sedation and polypectomy (aftercare)
- Gastroscopy with throat spray (aftercare)
- Gestational diabetes
- Glaucoma
- Glaucoma treatment
- Goal planning
- Going into Day Surgery (easy read)
- Grommets
- Ground reaction foot orthosis (G.R.A.F.O)
- Group B streptococcus (GBS) infection in newborn babies
- Gynaecological procedure – aftercare
H
- Haematology clinical nurse specialist
- Haematuria clinics
- Hand hygiene information
- Handheld fan
- Having a hearing aid fitted (easy read)
- Having an abortion in North Devon
- Having an impression taken for an ear mould (easy read)
- Having your balance tested (easy read)
- Having your hearing tested (easy read)
- Head injury (children)
- Head injury (people aged over 12 years)
- Health and social care community services
- Hearing appointment – what you need to know
- Hearing assessment – baby
- Hearing assessment – child
- Hearing review appointment – child
- Heart failure service
- Heart murmurs in a newborn infant
- Help with health costs
- Help with your medicines
- Help with ‘hypos’
- Helping your child cope with pain
- Hernia repair
- Hinged ankle foot orthosis (H.A.F.O)
- Hip ultrasound for babies
- Holistic Needs Assessment (HNA)
- Home or hospital – your choice
- Hospital ‘photo passport’ (easy read)
- Hospital specialist palliative care service
- How to look after your compression garment
- How to look after your splint/cast
- Hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil)
- Hyperextension brace
- Hysterectomy
- Hysterosalpingogram (HSG) – x-ray of the uterus and fallopian tubes
- Hysteroscopy – Dilation and Curettage (D&C)
- Hysteroscopy – Dilation and Curettage (D&C) under local anaesthetic
I
- ICD (Deactivating the defibrillator function)
- ICD (Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator)
- Ilfracombe Medical Day Care Unit
- Increase in body weight during pregnancy
- Induction of labour
- Induction of labour when the baby has died in the womb
- Infection in newborns
- Information about intravenous sedation (oral and maxillofacial surgery)
- Information about your medicines
- Information for parents following a late foetal loss
- Information for parents following a still birth
- Information for parents following the loss of a newborn baby
- Information for parents of extremely premature babies
- Information for patients sent into hospital by their GP
- Inherited bleeding disorders (mild or moderate) – advice for the parents and carers of children
- Inherited bleeding disorders (severe) – advice for the parents and carers of children
- Instructions for improving eye control using a Fresnel prism bar
- Intra-articular or soft tissue injections
- Intravenous injection of contrast medium
- Intravenous injection of contrast medium for MRI scan
- Iritis (anterior uveitis)
- Isotretinoin
K
L
- Laparoscopic hysterectomy
- Laparoscopy
- Large loop excision of the transformation zone (LLETZ)
- Laser treatment (YAG Capsulotomy)
- Leaving hospital
- Leflunomide (Arava)
- Lipoedema
- Literacy difficulties
- Local anaesthetic
- Low Level Light Therapy for lymphoedema patients
- Low vision assessment for children
- Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in men
- Lumbar puncture in newborn babies
- Lung Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Lymph nodes
- Lymphoedema
- Lymphoedema service
- Lymphoedema/Lipoedema and skin care
- Lynch syndrome (screening tests )
M
- Macular clinic – discharge
- Making arrangements following your bereavement
- Mallet finger
- Mammography
- Mammography on the augmented/implant breast
- Mastoidectomy
- McKinley T34 syringe pump
- Medications, urgent care and the rheumatoid foot
- Medicine support service
- Medicines derived from animal products
- Melatonin sleep electroencephalograph (EEG) in children
- Mental well being during pregnancy
- Metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC)
- Metatarsalgia
- Methotrexate (Dermatology)
- Methotrexate (management of ectopic pregnancy)
- Methotrexate (Matrex) – Rheumatology
- Metronidazole (sexual health clinics)
- Midline catheter insertion
- Miscarriage
- Miscarriage (medical management)
- Money saving tips – during your stay
- Monitoring your baby’s heartbeat in labour
- Moulded spinal jacket
- MRI Scan
- MRI scan (children)
- MRSA
- MRSA screening
- Multiple sclerosis nurse service
- My daycase operation – dental (easy read)
N
O
- Obstetric ultrasound service
- Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Syndrome
- Occupational Therapy
- Ocular hypertension
- Off to the best start
- Oral health – adults
- Oral health – adults with additional needs
- Oral health – babies
- Oral health – children
- Oral health – children with additional needs
- Oral health – young people
- Oral health during pregnancy
- Orthopaedic supported discharge (OSD) service – fractured neck of femur
- Orthoptic examination (adult)
- Orthostatic or postural hypotension
- Orthotic (insole) devices
- Osteoarthritis (O.A.) and your hip
- Osteoarthritis (O.A.) and your knee
- Osteoarthritis in the shoulder
P
- Pacemaker
- Paediatric Bladder & Bowel Care Service
- Paediatric bladder and bowel care – complex and/or additional needs
- 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)
- Panretinal photocoagulation (PRP)
- Patching therapy
- Pathfinder Team
- Patient controlled analgesia (PCA)
- Patient escort information (oral and maxillofacial surgery)
- Pelvic floor exercises & advice following hysterectomy, repair and other gynaecology surgery
- Pelvic floor muscles
- Pelvic girdle pain and pregnancy
- Pelvic ultrasound
- Percutaneous insertion of a nephrostomy tube
- Percutaneous insertion of a nephroureterostomy tube
- Perineum care (tear)
- Peripheral nerve block
- Peripheral neuropathy in the feet
- Personal information
- Petter Day Treatment Unit
- Phototherapy for skin disorders
- Physiotherapy & Occupational Therapy advice to help you recover from a fractured neck of femur
- Physiotherapy advice after abdominal surgery
- Physiotherapy advice after your caesarean section
- Physiotherapy advice and exercises for after baby is born
- Physiotherapy advice following hysterectomy, repair and other gynaecology operations
- Physiotherapy advice following the cast removal after a bunionectomy
- Physiotherapy and frozen shoulder
- Physiotherapy following a capsular release
- Physiotherapy following a rotator cuff repair
- Physiotherapy following a shoulder replacement
- Physiotherapy following a shoulder stabilisation
- Physiotherapy following a subacromial decompression
- Physiotherapy outpatient at Bideford Community Hospital
- Physiotherapy outpatient at Holsworthy Community Hospital
- Physiotherapy outpatient at North Devon District Hospital
- Physiotherapy outpatient at South Molton Community Hospital
- Physiotherapy outpatient at Torrington Hospital
- Physiotherapy outpatients at the Tyrrell (Ilfracombe) Hospital
- Plantar fasciitis
- Plaster Room
- Podiatry assessment
- Positional talipes – talipes calcaneo valgus
- Positional talipes – talipes equinovarus
- Positioning for premature babies
- Post mortem – information for parents
- Post mortem examination procedure, A guide to the
- Posterior vitreous detachment
- Postural hypotension
- Pre-eclampsia
- Pregnancy of Unknown Location (PUL)
- Pregnant and using alcohol or drugs?
- Pregnant women who smoke cannabis
- Prescribing by non-medical prescribers
- Pressure ulcers (pressure sores) in home environment
- Pressure ulcers (pressure sores) in hospital
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Pruritus ani
- PSA Tracker
- Pseudostrabismus
- Pubic rami fractures
- Pulled elbow
- Pupil dilation advice
R
- Rapid Response Service
- Receiving letters about your care with us
- Recurrent urinary tract infections
- Remifentanil PCA
- Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) – Screening
- Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) – Treatment
- Rheumatoid foot and good fitting footwear
- Rheumatology self-management education course
- Risk feeding
- Role of the cancer of unknown primary (CUP) clinical nurse specialist
- Rubber band ligation
S
- Sacrocolpopexy
- Safeguarding children and young people
- Safeguarding your baby in the Maternity Unit
- Salaried Dental Service
- SALT Adult Learning Disability Service Community Team
- Scabies
- Security in the Ladywell Unit
- Sedation
- Sedation for cystoscopy
- Selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT)
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy
- Sexual activity after joint replacement surgery
- SGLT2 medications in type 2 diabetes
- Shoe adaptation
- Shoulder dystocia
- Shoulder injury
- Skeletal survey examination – information for those with parental responsibility
- Skin biopsy (head and neck areas)
- Skin Cancer Nursing Service
- Skin cancer service hand-held diary
- Sleep deprived electroencephalograph
- Soft contact lens care
- Soft lumbar support
- South West Neonatal Network leaflets
- Special Care Unit (SCU), Welcome to
- Spinal anaesthetic
- Spinal decompression surgery
- Sprained ankle
- Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)
- Squint surgery (adult)
- Squint surgery in children
- Squint, about
- Stents – oesophageal, gastric and duodenal
- Sternotomy aftercare
- Strength and balance group
- Stroke Physical Fitness & Self-management Programme
- Strong opioids for palliative care patients
- Styes, meibomian cysts and hot compresses
- Sulphasalazine EC (Salazopyrin EN)
- Sunburn
- Support splint
- Supported discharge service – stroke
- Suprapubic catheter (aftercare)
- Surgical Appliance / Orthotic Department
- Surgical emergency clinic
- Suspected first seizure/fit
- Swallowing difficulties – SALT Adult Learning Disability Service
- Swallowing difficulties (Dysphagia)
- Symptom advice (heart failure)
T
- T.U.R.P. (Transurethral Resection of the Prostate)
- Telephone advice line for people with Parkinson’s Disease
- Temporal artery biopsy for the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis
- Termination of pregnancy during the second trimester
- Termination of pregnancy for foetal abnormalities
- Termination of pregnancy under 9 weeks gastation
- The mental & psychological effects of trauma on children
- Tibialis posterior tendinopathy
- Tilt table test
- Tinnitus appointment
- Toe care after nail surgery
- Tonsillectomy
- Toys and your baby in SCU
- Trabectome surgery (eye operation)
- Trabeculectomy
- Tracking instructions
- Trans-Cervical Resection of the Endometrium (TCRE)
- Transient ischaemic attack (TIA)
- Transition from paediatric to adult audiology services
- Transobturator tape (TOT) for female urinary stress incontinence
- TRUS biopsy
- Truss
- Turning a breech baby in the womb
- Twins and multiple pregnancy
- Two week wait referral (2ww): What does this mean for me?
- Tympanometry – other test at the Audiology clinic (easy read)
U
- Ultrasound
- Ultrasound guided biopsy
- Ultrasound guided drain insertion
- Ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration (FNA)
- Ultrasound guided liver biopsy
- Ultrasound guided pelvis biopsy
- Ultrasound scans (Gynaecology)
- Urethral catheter
- Urethrogram
- Urinary tract ultrasound
- Urodynamic investigation
- Uveitis / Iritis
V
W
- Waiting for have an operation – what happens next?
- Water precautions for ears
- Water soluble contrast enema
- Waterbirth and the use of water for pain relief in labour
- Wearing glasses
- Weight Management Service
- What to expect after having your baby
- What to expect at your appointment (bladder & bowel care service)
- Whooping cough and pregnancy
- Wig supply
- Wig supply for dermatology patients
- Wisdom teeth removal (Dental Access Centre)
- Wisdom teeth removal (North Devon District Hospital)
- Wrist fracture