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General Surgery Patient Information Leaflets

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Anal Abscess/fistula

Information for patients, relatives and carers

Caring for your Tracheostomy at home

Information for patients, relatives and carers

Colonic Stent

Information for patients, relatives and carers

Colonic Stent Discharge Advice

Information for patients, relatives and carers

Complex Abdominal wall Hernia

Includes Stoppa Mesh repair and Component Separation techniques: Information for patients, relatives and carers

Diverticular Disease

Information for patients, relatives and carers

Getting You Fitter for CAWR Surgery

Helping you to improve your recovery, following surgery and reduce your risk of complications.

Minimally Invasive Robotic Assisted Surgery

Information for patients, relatives and carers

Pruritus Ani

Information for patients, relatives and carers

Recovering from Major Abdominal Surgery

Physiotherapy advice and exercise guide for patients, relatives and carers

Rigid Sigmoidoscopy

A guide to the test for patients, relatives and carers

Using Pre operative ‘Botox’ injection to abdominal wall In Complex Abdominal Wall Hernia

Information for patients, relatives and carers

What you need to know when coming into hospital for surgery

Information for patients, relatives and carers

Internal hospital signage with arrows to Main Reception, Outpatients and Pharmacy

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Help us keep everyone safe this winter

We’re asking everyone to please help protect our patients, visitors and employees during the winter months.

If you’re feeling unwell, please don’t visit our hospitals - even for appointments or to see loved ones, unless it’s in exceptional circumstances such as end-of-life care or maternity.

Colds, flu, Covid and norovirus (sickness and diarrhoea) can spread easily and cause serious illness in vulnerable patients.

Please only come in once you’ve been free of symptoms for at least 48 hours.

When you do visit:

Wash your hands with soap and water when you arrive and before you leave the ward (hand sanitiser alone is not enough).
Please don’t sit on patients’ beds, or eat and drink at the bedside.
And if you’re asked to wear a mask, please do so.

Thank you for helping us keep everyone safe this winter.