Patient information
Accident and Emergency (Emergency Department)
Adult Speech and Language Therapy
Audiology
Blood Tests (Phlebotomy)
Burns and Plastic Surgery
- Axillary and groin dissection
- Burns Unit clinical psychology and social work team
- Burns Unit paediatric clinical psychology service
- Corticosteroid injections for scars in adults and children
- Going home with drains
- Hydradenitis - discharge information for patients
- Implant based breast reconstruction
- Patient-Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Scar care
Cancer Care
- 2-week wait prostate pathway
- 4 Step Bowel Obstruction Diet
- A guide to complementary therapies
- Acute oncology team
- Breast cancer patients
- Breast cancer treatment
- Breast care nurse and multi-disciplinary team
- Cancer and haematology clinical trials
- Cancer Information and Wellbeing Services
- Cancer support available and an update about Macmillan dietitians
- Cancer support services - support centres and hospice care services
- Cervical (neck) dissection
- Cleaning and dressing your tunnelled central venous catheter
- Common nutritional problems and cancer
- Compression stockings
- Day case treatments
- Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
- Domiciliary (home) visits for warfarin clinic patients
- Eating well during cancer treatment
- Eating well during cancer treatment - a detailed guide
- Eating well with a small appetite
- Food safety for people having chemotherapy (Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment)
- Gynaecological oncology clinical nurse specialist and key worker
- Having a transperineal prostate biopsy
- Headwear for hair loss
- Health and wellbeing, physical activity, leisure and holidays
- Help for the vulnerable
- How are you feeling
- How are you feeling and how can we help
- How to check your lymph nodes
- Information for female patients having chemotherapy
- Life after cancer courses
- Life after treatment for lung cancer or mesothelioma
- Macmillan specialist dietitians
- Malignant ascites and paracentesis
- Malignant spinal cord compression - signs and symptoms
- Malignant spinal cord compression - your treatment and care
- Malignant Spinal Cord Compression (MSCC) treatment: What now?
- Managing taste changes
- Monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance (MGUS)
- Oncology nurse specialist
- Practical community family and carers and psychological support
- Pre-surgery exercise advice
- Puree diet
- Puree diet - a guide to which foods you can puree
- Risk of infection
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy and wide local excision
- Sexual health when having systemic anti-cancer treatment
- Skin cancer specialist nurse and key worker information
- Skin cancer team
- Soft diet
- Starting heparin treatment
- The thyroid gland and thyroid cancer
- Thyroid cancer team
- Understanding gynaecological cancers
- What you should know about your warfarin tablets
- Wig supply and fitting service for cancer and haematology patients
Cardiac Care
- Amiodarone therapy
- Dobutamine stress echocardiography
- External electrical cardioversion – consent information for patients
- Heart failure diary
- Implantable cardioverter defibrillator and cardiac resynchronisation therapy defibrillator
- Medicines for your heart
- Pacemaker guide for patients
- Transoesophageal echocardiography
- Transthoracic echocardiography
Children and young people
- Childhood illnesses: Bronchiolitis
- Childhood illnesses: Fevers - advice for parents and carers of children under 5
- Children and Young People's resources
- Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) in children and young people
- Collecting a urine sample from your baby
- Crying and feeding issues
- Following a first seizure without a fever in children and young people - information for parents and carers
- Gastroenteritis - advice for parents and carers of children aged 5 years old and under
- Guidance for parents regarding the COVID-19 vaccination programme for 12-15 year olds
- Head Injury: Advice for parents and carers of children aged under 16 years.
- How to treat your Wheeze/Asthma
Colorectal Services
Community hubs
Critical Care
Data and information governance
Dermatology
- Application of local anaesthetic cream
- Attending the Dermatology Bucks review clinic
- Attending the Leg Ulcer Clinic
- Attending the Paediatric Allergy Clinic
- Attending the Patch Test Clinic
- Attending the Photodynamic Therapy Clinic
- Emollients and moisturisers
- Milk free diet for children
- Minor skin surgery
- Post operative wound care
- Post operative wound care male genital biopsy
- Post operative wound care secondary intention
- Post operative wound care vulval biopsy
- Supermarket free from egg information
- Understanding patch test results
Ear, Nose and Throat
End of Life and Palliative Care
Endocrinology
Falls Prevention
Gastroenterology
- Having a capsule endoscopy
- Having a colonoscopy
- Having a flexible signmoidoscopy
- Having a gastroscopy
- Having a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding tube
- Having an Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio Pancreatogram (ERCP)
- How to take Moviprep
- How to take Plenvu
- Low fibre diet for a Flexible Sigmoidoscopy or Colonoscopy
- The nasal loop system
- Transnasal endoscopy (TNE)
- What to expect after a colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy
- What to expect after having Your Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio Pancreatogram (ERCP)
- What to expect after your gastroscopy
- What to expect after your oesophageal dilatation
General
- Chronic pain management programme
- Information for patients awaiting treatment - My Planned Care
- Long COVID: a List of resources for further information
- Patient-Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
- Private rooms for NHS patients in Wycombe Hospital
- Sepsis
- Specialist learning disability and autism liaison nurses
- Veteran aware information leaflet
- Wearing a surgical mask while in hospital
General: Patient Advice and Liaison
Haematology
- Advice for patients following a blood clot
- Anticoagulation clinics
- Haematology clinical nurse specialist and key worker
- Having a bone marrow test
- Mouth care for patients undergoing cancer treatment
- Receiving a Blood Transfusion
- Risk of infection
- Sexual health when having systemic anti-cancer treatment
- Teenage and young adults day case treatments
- Vague symptoms pathway
- Wig supply and fitting service for cancer and haematology patients
Hearing Therapy
In patients
Infection Control
- Bed space information
- Campylobacter
- Candida auris
- Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE)
- Clean hands - a step by step guide
- Clostridium difficile
- Clostridium difficile GDH (Glutamate Dehydrogenase)
- Contact screening and what to expect
- Coronavirus COVID-19
- Diarrhoea and vomiting caused by Norovirus - a guide
- Diarrhoea and vomiting caused by Norovirus - information for patients
- Diarrhoea and vomiting caused by Norovirus - information for visitors
- Glycopeptide Resistant Enterococci (GRE)
- Good hand hygiene and how it benefits everyone
- Monkeypox patient information
- MRSA
- MRSA - information for visitors
- MRSA eradication therapy
- MRSA suppression therapy
- Multi-resistant Acinetobacter (MRAB)
- Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) Staphylococcus aureus
- Patient screening and what to expect
- Salmonella (food poisoning)
- While you're in isolation
Maternity: Pregnancy Loss
Maternity: Pregnancy, Labour and Postnatal Care
Neonatal
- Breast milk for your premature baby
- Crying and feeding issues
- Donor Breast Milk
- Home oxygen care plan
- How to comfort my baby
- Human breast milk fortifier
- Infection screening for newborn babies
- Neonatal Outreach Team
- Neonatal Unit Parent Information
- Newborn hip screening
- Obstetric Brachial Plexus Injury
- Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity
- Tube feeding your baby
- What Is Polyhydramnios?
Nutrition and Dietetics
- 4 Step Bowel Obstruction Diet
- Dietary information for people with a colostomy
- Dietary Information for people with an ileostomy
- Eating and drinking at end of life
- Energy dense diet for children
- Food First: Advice for eating well if you have lost weight or are underweight
- Food first: guide to fortifying food
- Food first: high calorie snacks
- Food First: Homemade supplement record sheet
- Food first: homemade supplements
- Food first: how to prepare a pint of fortified milk
- Food first: making mealtimes easier
- Food First: Over the counter supplements
- Food First: Quick guide to eating an extra 500 calories per day
- Low fibre diet
- Managing taste changes
- Nutrition and long COVID
- Palliative feeding for comfort
- Palliative feeding for comfort guidelines
- Way Forward Bucks - information for healthcare professionals
- Way Forward Bucks - information for patients
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Abdominal hysterectomy
- Bleeding in early pregnancy
- Body weight and fertility
- Botox injections into bladder
- Clomiphene Citrate for Ovulation Induction
- Colposcopy appointment
- Cystoscopy
- Early pregnancy unit
- Ectopic pregnancy unit
- Endometrial hyperplasia - Thickening of the womb lining
- Endometriosis
- Fibroid embolisation
- Going home after laparoscopic surgery
- Gynaecology Day Case Surgery – Post-operative information
- Hormone coil (Mirena/Levosert)
- Hystero Contrast Sonography (HyCoSy)
- Hysteroscopic endometrial resection
- Hysteroscopic rollerball ablation
- Hysteroscopy in an outpatient clinic
- Hysteroscopy in an outpatient clinic for patients with a spinal cord injury
- Hysteroscopy under general anaesthesia
- Hysteroscopy: advice following an outpatient hysteroscopy procedure
- Laparoscopic hysterectomy and assisted vaginal hysterectomy
- Laparoscopic keyhole surgery
- Laparoscopic sterilisation
- Loop diathermy treatment to the cervix - post procedure advice
- Miscarriage expectant management
- Miscarriage medical management
- Miscarriage surgical management
- Molar pregnancy - hydatidiform mole
- Myosure hysteroscopic procedure
- Outpatient hysteroscopy advice for patients on Warfarin
- Pelvic floor - Vaginal hysterectomy pelvic floor repair
- Pelvic floor exercises
- Pelvic Floor Repair (Anterior and Posterior) without the use of mesh
- Positive pregnancy test with scan showing empty womb
- Scanning in the Early Pregnancy Unit
- Transcervical resection of fibroids
- Treatment of uterine fibroids
- Urodynamics
Occupational Therapy
Ophthalmology
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Orthodontics
Paediatrics
- Administration of insulin via pen device
- Ambulatory Care for Children requiring Intravenous Drug Administration via a Peripheral Cannula
- Basic life support for infants
- Bruising: information about injuries, bruises, marks or bleeding in non-mobile babies and children
- Child and young person temporary open door hospital service
- Child Protection: The Medical Assessment - A parent and child’s guide
- Childhood illnesses: Bronchiolitis
- Childhood illnesses: Fevers - advice for parents and carers of children under 5
- Children having a skeletal survey or CT scan
- Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) in children and young people
- Collecting a urine sample from your baby
- Complications of diabetes explained
- Contraception advice for young people with diabetes
- Crying and feeding issues
- Daycase tonsil surgery - intracapsular tonsillectomy
- Dental advice for children & young people with diabetes
- Disposal of sharps used for children with diabetes
- Drugs and diabetes
- Energy dense diet for children
- Following a first seizure without a fever in children and young people - information for parents and carers
- Foot care for a child with diabetes
- Gastroenteritis - advice for parents and carers of children aged 5 years old and under
- General Management of Hypoglycaemia in Diabetes Mellitus
- Guidance for parents regarding the COVID-19 vaccination programme for 12-15 year olds
- Head Injury: Advice for parents and carers of children aged under 16 years.
- Health for girls with diabetes
- Heart murmurs in children
- How to treat your Wheeze/Asthma
- Human breast milk fortifier
- Information for parents with a child newly diagnosed with diabetes
- Making changes to insulin doses: ten top tips
- Management of HYPERglycaemia via a pen
- Management of hyperglycaemia via a pump
- Milk free diet for children
- Nephritis in Children and Young people
- Paediatric drug challenges
- Paediatric outreach team
- Paediatric permanent open door service
- Physical Activity and Type 1 Diabetes in Children and Young People
- Routine pregnancy testing before treatment
- Sensible drinking and Type 1 Diabetes
- Sick day guidelines for a child with diabetes
- Sick day rules for children and young people with diabetes
- Smoking and diabetes (and how to stop)
- Travel pack for a child with diabetes
- When your child is coming to Stoke Mandeville Hospital for a general anaesthetic - Mandeville Wing
- When your child is coming to Stoke Mandeville Hospital for a general anaesthetic - Ward 3
- When your child is coming to Wycombe Hospital for a general anaesthetic - Ward 11
Pathology
Pharmacy
- Antibiotics
- Denosumab for treatment of osteoporosis
- Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics: what you need to know about side effects
- How to use your ear drops
- How to use your eye drops
- How to use your eye ointment
- How to use your nasal spray
- How to use your nose drops
- How to use your pessaries
- How to use your suppositories
- Linezolid Information: what you need to know about monitoring for side effects
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Physiotherapy
Podiatry
Radiology (X-rays and Clinical Imaging)
Rapid Response and Intermediate Care
Research and Innovation
Respiratory medicine
- A patient's guide to oxygen at home
- A patient’s guide to administering nebulised colomycin (colistimethate sodium) at home
- A patient’s guide to nebuliser equipment – cleaning and maintenance
- A patient’s guide to Oramorph (morphine sulphate oral solution 10mg/5ml) for use in breathlessness
- A patient’s guide to the active cycle of breathing technique (ACBT)
- Hospital@Home programme: Monitoring respiratory patients at home
- Pulmonary rehabilitation programme
- Respiratory discharge support - a guide for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other respiratory diseases
Stroke
Surgery
- About the consent form
- About the consent form for treatment
- Advice following regional anaesthetic
- Advice for overweight patients having surgery
- Attending pre-operative assessment clinics
- Brachial plexus nerve block
- Carbohydrate loading drink to enhance your recovery
- Cardiopulmonary exercise test
- Daycase tonsil surgery - intracapsular tonsillectomy
- Diabetes and surgery patient passport
- Discharge advice
- Elective colorectal surgery enhanced recovery programme
- Elective colorectal surgery enhanced recovery programme patient diary
- Femoral nerve block
- Hip replacement - enhanced recovery after surgery
- How to get fit for surgery
- How to recognise and prevent complications after your surgery
- Information for people on regular medication due to come in for surgery
- Knee replacement - enhanced recovery after surgery
- Liver shrinkage diet female
- Liver shrinkage diet male
- Major colorectal surgery recommended patient information
- Pain management after surgery
- Patients charter
- Plastic Surgery Trauma Service (Adults)
- Popliteal sciatic nerve block
- Pre-op pregnancy testing for adults
- Pre-operative liver shrinkage diet (1200 kcal/day)
- Pre-operative liver shrinkage diet (1500 kcal/day)
- Pre-operative questionnaire online
- Pre-surgery exercise advice
- Pre-surgery exercise advice
- Pregnancy testing before surgery for adolescents and young adults
- Preparing for your hospital stay
- Recommended reading before hip or knee replacement surgery
- Respiratory complications prevention
- Sciatic nerve block
Tissue Viability
Wheelchair Services