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- 2nd Stage Urethroplasty
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- 1st stage urethroplasty with buccal mucosal graft (BMG)
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- A guide to choosing diabetes technology
- A nourishing plant-based diet
- A quick guide to the most common benefits: information for people with cancer and blood conditions
- Abdominal Pain
- Abdominoperineal excision of rectum (APER)
- About face - Pain management programme
- Achalasia – diagnosis and treatment
- Acinetobacter
- Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
- Activity trip planning
- Acupuncture for chronic pain and headache
- Acute Neurosurgical Rehabilitation Team (ANRT)
- Acute Oncology Service (AOS)
- Adenomyosis
- Adolescent Critical Care Unit ACCU
- Adolescent Social Work Service
- Adolescent Transition Clinic
- Adrenal surgery
- Adult allergy service
- Adult Auditory Implants and COVID-19 (coronavirus)
- Adult Cerebral Palsy and Neuro disability Service
- Adult cochlear implant programme
- Adult Diagnostics Audiology and Covid-19 (coronavirus)
- Adult Inherited Metabolic Disease Services
- Adult penicillin allergy testing
- Advance Care Planning: supporting you to plan ahead when undergoing CAR T-cell therapy
- Aftercare Guidance Following an Intrathecal Baclofen Pump Implant
- Afternoon colonoscopy with Klean-prep® bowel preparation
- Afternoon colonoscopy with Plenvu®
- Ageing with cerebral palsy
- Alcohol and Inherited Metabolic Disorders
- Allergy free from menu
- Allied Health Professioanls - UCH and UCH at Westmoreland Street
- Alpha thalassaemia
- Ambulatory Care Service
- An introduction to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME CFS)
- An introduction to our breast services and what to expect
- Animal and human bites
- Anorectal physiology
- Anterior Resection
- Anti-D prophylaxis in pregnancy
- Aphthous Ulcers
- Appointment Preparation using MyCare UCLH
- Artificial breathing (tracheostomy tubes)
- Ascitic drainage
- Audiology Service
- Auditory processing disorder - A guide to help your auditory perception
- Auditory Testing (adults)
- Autogenic Training
- Autologous stem cell transplant
- Automated red cell exchange for patients with sickle cell disease
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- Backache
- Balance Testing (adults)
- Bariatric Psychology
- Basal cell carcinoma (BCC)
- Be active: Health and wellbeing information for people affected by cancer
- Bedside nasojejunalnasogastric feeding tube insertion
- Being a stem cell or bone marrow donor: Your questions answered
- Benefits and welfare advice - information for people affected by cancer and blood conditions
- Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo - BPPV
- Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
- Biofeedback Therapy - Bowel Retraining
- Birth after caesarean section - Making the right choice for your birth
- BKPA-Acute Kidney Injury
- Bladder and bowel dysfunction in cerebral palsy
- Blood glucose and HbA1c targets
- Blood refusal - information for adults patients
- Blood test fact sheet
- Bone marrow harvest: Information for people donating their bone marrow to a relative
- Book your blood test appointment online - patient information sheet
- Botulinum toxin injections for the bladder
- Botulinum Toxin injections into the Urethral sphincter
- Botulinum toxin treatment
- Bowel preparation for patients having bowel surgery
- Brain stem death
- Brain surgery wound care
- Brain Tumour Service (BTU)
- Bravo® (wireless pH monitoring)
- British Spine Registry
- Bronchiolitis in children
- Bunion (Hallux Valgus) Surgery
- Burning mouth syndrome
- Burns and scalds
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- Camden traffic light booklet
- Cancer of an Unknown Primary Service
- Cancer Patient and Public Advisory Group (CPPAG)
- Capsule Endoscopy
- CAR T-cell therapy
- Carbapenemase Producing Organisms (CPO)
- Carbohydrate counting at school
- Carbohydrate counting using cup measures
- Carbohydrate dietary advice for patients with HPP
- Care in the last days of life
- Caring for your broken base of 5th metatarsal bone
- Caring for your child's teeth - ages 0-3 years
- Caring for your child's teeth - ages 3-6 years
- Caring for your drain after breast surgery
- Caring for your fractured (broken) toe
- Carotid Endarterecotmy
- Cartiva Synthetic Cartilage Implant for Big Toe Joint Arthritis
- Catheter care for men
- Catheter care for women
- Catheter Directed Thrombolysis (CDT)
- Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
- Cerebral angiogram (local anaesthetic)
- Cerebral angiogram - general anaesthetic
- Cerebral AVM (Arterio Venous Malformation) Endovascular Treatment
- Cerebral DAVF (Dural Arterio-Venous Fistula) Endovascular Treatment
- Cerebral Tumour Embolisation
- Chagas disease
- Charles Dent Metabolic Unit
- Checking your pulse and blood pressure - Easy Read
- Chickenpox in children and young adults
- Childcare resource
- Children's Diabetes Dietitians
- Circumcision Post operative information for adults
- Circumcision
- Cladribine tablets - Homecare Delivery Service
- Clinical psychology
- Clostridioides difficile (C. diff)
- Closure of Temporary Ilesotomy or Colostomy
- Coeliac disease and diabetes
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBTi) at the RLHIM
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Coil Embolisation in the Treatment of Cerebral Aneurysms
- Collection of lymphocytes from your blood
- Collection of stem cells from your blood
- Colonic and Pan-Enteric Capsule Endoscopy
- Colorectal and anal cancer multidisciplinary team (MDT)
- Colorectal suspected cancer pathway
- Common Questions About Melatonin
- Community ENT Service
- Community sickle cell and thalassaemia services
- Comparing various bariatric procedures
- Complex Neuro orthotics Clinic
- Computed tomography colonography
- Continent urinary diversions
- Continuing on your insulin pump
- Continuous glucose monitoring
- Contraceptive advice for patients who have received Sugammeadex
- Contraceptive coil insertion at the time of Caesarean section
- Contrast Agents for MRI Examinations
- Contrast agents for radiotherapy and proton beam therapy CT and MRI planning scans
- Contrast agents for X-ray, fluoroscopy, CT and angiography examinations
- Contrast Extravasation (contrast leakage)
- Controlling Hospital Infections
- Coping during the COVID-19 lockdown (RLHIM)
- Coping with nausea
- Cornavirus (COVID-19) Guidelines for MS Service
- Correcting a high blood glucose level
- COVID-19 - Information for women and their families
- COVID-19 positive patient leaving hospital
- COVID-19 testing within maternity services
- Croup in children
- Cryotherapy
- CT Cisternogram
- CT Colonography bowel preparation and diet sheet
- CT Guided Steroid Injections
- CT Myelogram
- Cutaneous Larva Migrans
- Cystoplasty
- Cystoscopy (Male)
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- Day Care Unit - The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN)
- Day surgery at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Dealing with difficult feelings: What to do in a crisis
- Dealing with high glucose levels; ABC (multiple daily injections)
- Dealing with high glucose levels; ABCC (hybrid closed loop systems)
- Dealing with high glucose levels; ABCC (insulin pumps)
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Deferasirox treatment for iron overload
- Delirium
- Dengue fever patient information films
- Dental extractions: post-operative instructions
- Dental Implants - General Information
- Dental Implants - NHS Patients
- Dental injuries Broken (fractured teeth)
- Dental injuries Fallen out (avulsed) teeth
- Dental injuries Loose or moved teeth
- Desferal treatment for iron overload
- Diabetes and travelling
- Diabetes annual review
- Diabetes M Bolus advice app
- Diabetes psychological support for children and young people
- Diarrhoea and vomiting in children
- Diarrhoea and vomiting
- Diarrhoea
- Dietary advice for Gestational Diabetes
- Dietary advice for patients with an ileostomy
- Dietary Management of Functional Dyspepsia and Gastroparesis
- Dimethyl Fumarate Homecare Delivery Service
- Dimethyl Fumerate
- Donating lymphocytes to your relative
- Dorsal Root Ganglion (DRG) Stimulation
- Dressing and catheter removal
- Drinking alcohol safely with Type 1 Diabetes
- Drug-eluting bead transarterial chemoembolisation for liver tumours (DEB-TACE)
- Dry Mouth
- Duke of Edinburgh Awards
- Dynamic sentinel lymph node biopsy
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- Early miscarriage
- Eating and drinking after gastric bypass
- Eating and drinking after sleeve gastrectomy
- Eating Better with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME CFS)
- Eating well with diabetes
- Echocardiogram
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Emergency nurse practitioner
- End of treatment clinic
- End of treatment: Information for teenagers with Hodgkin lymphoma
- Endobronchial electrocautery & argon plasma coagulation
- Endoscopic Full Thickness Resection of Submucosal Lesions
- Endoscopic submucosal dissection
- Endoscopic transsphenoidal pituitary surgery
- Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) Guided Biliary Drainage
- Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) guided gallbladder drainage
- Endoscopic ultrasound directed transgastric ERCP (EDGE)
- Energy and Pacing
- Energy conservation for patients with Mitochondrial Disease
- Enhanced Supportive Care (Cancer Services)
- Enhanced Surveillance of Covid Infection: Questions and Answers
- Enhancing your recovery after breast surgery
- Entering health information on MyCare from home
- Epidural Fibrin Patch
- Epilepsy Nurse Specialist Telephone Advice Line Service
- Epilepsy surgery - a guide for patients
- ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography)
- Essential information booklet
- EUS (Endoscopic Ultrasound)
- Exam guidance for CYP with type 1 diabetes
- Excercising with McArdle Disease - Top Tips
- Exercise advice for people with Mitochondrial Disease
- Exercise and activity - Multiple daily injections
- Exercise and activity in cerebral palsy
- Exercise and activity management - insulin pumps
- Exercise and McArdle Disease
- Exercise and type 1 diabetes
- Exercise snacks advise
- External cephalic version
- Extravasation
- Extreme Lateral Lumbar Fusion XLIF
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- Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT)
- Fampridine homecare delivery service
- Fatigue after Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
- Fatigue management ideas for patient with Mitochondrial Disease
- Fatigue management in cerebral palsy
- Febrile convulsions in children
- Feeling your baby move
- Femoral lines for red cell exchange
- Femoral lines for stem cell and T-cell collection
- FES and NMES
- Fetal monitoring in labour
- Fever in children and young adults
- Fibreoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallow (FEES)
- First Seizure Clinic
- Flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Flu information for patients and visitors
- Foreign bodies on the eye and corneal abrasions
- Free NHS prescriptions: Information for people affected by cancer
- Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) Clinic
- Functional Electrical Stimulation Clinic (FES)
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- Gastro-oesophageal reflux in children
- Gastroscopy - a guide for patients
- Gastrostomy (PEG) feeding - Making the decision
- Genetic testing for women affected by ovarian cancer
- Geographic Tongue
- Getting back to school with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME CFS)
- Giardia
- Gilolan
- Glansectomy and partial glansectomy
- Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency
- Going home after a donor (allogeneic) bone marrow transplant
- Going home with a cannula
- Going to A and E - Easy Read
- Going to hospital - Easy Read
- Going to the dentist during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue (GnRH-a) injections
- Group B Streptococcus
- Guide to services for people with red cell and iron disorders
- Guidelines for weight loss after gastric bypass
- Guidelines for weight loss after sleeve gastrectomy
- Gynaecological oncology multidisciplinary team (MDT)
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- Having a craniotomy or biopsy for a suspected brain tumour
- Having a CT scan
- Having a Dental General Anaesthetic - Easy Read
- Having a general anaesthetic - Easy Read
- Having a liver biopsy
- Having a scan - Easy Read
- Having a Sialogram
- Having an MRI arthrogram
- Having an MRI defecating proctogram
- Having an MRI of your small bowel
- Having an MRI scan of the penis
- Having an MRI scan
- Having an X-ray - Easy Read
- Having Gadolinium based contrast agent for MRI examinations while breast feeding
- Having proton beam therapy under general anaesthetic: information for children aged 1- 4
- Having proton beam therapy under general anaesthetic: information for children aged 5-8
- Having proton beam therapy: a guide for parents and carers
- Having proton beam therapy: a guide for patients and carers
- Having proton beam therapy: information for children aged 5- 8
- Having proton beam therapy: information for children aged 9-12
- Having proton beam therapy: information for teenagers aged 13-17
- Head injury in adolescents and young people
- Head injury in children
- Healthy Eating after Spinal Cord Injury
- Healthy eating: Health and wellbeing information for people affected by cancer
- Hearing Therapy and Covid-19 (coronavirus)
- Help with hospital travel costs
- Hepatitis B
- Hereditary spherocytosis
- Hernia
- HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound) - discharge advice
- HIFU
- High morning glucose
- High radiation
- Holistic Needs Assessment (HNA): Information for people affected by cancer and blood conditions
- Home exercises to improve strength and balance following hospital admission
- Home-acupuncture
- Hormone therapy for prostate cancer
- How to access your video appointment using MyCare UCLH with Microsoft Teams
- How to expand your removable brace
- How to get enough iron in your child’s diet
- How to get the help you need in hospital - Easy Read
- How to sleep better with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME CFS)
- How we use your information
- Huntington's Disease Service - MDT Clinic
- Huntington's Disease Service - Telephone Clinic
- Hydrocele leaflets
- Hydrogen methane breath test for bacterial overgrowth - testing at home
- Hydrogen methane breath test for bacterial overgrowth – testing in hospital
- Hydrogen methane breath test for fructose malabsorption – testing at home
- Hydrogen methane breath test for fructose malabsorption – testing in hospital
- Hydrogen methane breath test for lactose intolerance – testing at home
- Hydrogen methane breath test for lactose intolerance – testing in hospital
- Hydroxyurea for treatment of sickle cell disease
- Hyperemesis in the emergency department
- Hypnosis
- Hypoglycaemia
- Hypospadias repair
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- Ideas to help improve food intake before and after your operation
- Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT)
- Imaging and COVID-19 (coronavirus)
- Imaging-Guided Renal Biopsy
- Implantable Loop Recorder (ILR)
- Implantable ports
- Improve your sleep: Health and wellbeing information for people affected by cancer
- Incentive spirometry for adults with sickle cell disease
- Incision and grafting (Lue) procedure (post-operative information)
- Incision and grafting LUe Procedure
- Incontinence pads
- Infection control on the neonatal unit
- Infectious disease screening clinic for children and young people
- Infectious Disease Screening Clinic
- Information after someone dies in NHS care - Easy Read
- Information following a bereavement
- Information for carers and patients - looking after someone
- Information for carers of children or young people having mIBG and topotecan (MATIN) treatment
- Information for carers of children or young people having mIBG treatment
- Information for families and patients discharged during COVID-19 pandemic
- Information for Patient Escorts
- Information for patients discharged from the Emergency Department with Suspected COVID-19
- Information for patients on the Endodontic Treatment Waiting List
- Information for Patients Requiring Cystectomy and Stoma Formation
- Information for patients undergoing bowel surgery
- Information for Patients Undergoing Inhalation Sedation
- Information for Patients Undergoing Intranasal Sedation
- Information for Patients undergoing Intravenous Sedation
- Information for Patients Undergoing Oral Sedation
- Information for private maternity patients
- Information for sports coaches
- Information for visitors of patients admitted at UCLH
- Information on preformed metal crowns for childrens teeth
- Information on the extraction of wisdom teeth
- Inguinal lymphadenectomy
- Inhalation sedation - Under 16 years
- Inhalation sedation for young children
- Injecting Insulin
- Inner Ear Balance Problems
- Insertion of a malleable penile prosthesis
- Insertion of inflatable penile prosthesis
- Insomnia and Behavioural Sleep Medicine Clinic
- Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health
- Insulin pump bolus options
- Insulin pump pathway
- Integrated Cancer Care Service for children and young adults
- Integrated Cancer Care Service
- Integrated Children and Adolescent Service
- Integrated General Medicine Service
- Integrated Womens Service
- Interventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Intradural Spinal Tumour Resection
- Intrathecal baclofen pump implant - aftercare guidance
- Intrathecal baclofen
- Intrathecal Phenol
- Intravenous sedation - 12 to 16 years
- Intravenous sedation - Under 16 years
- Intravesical installations for bladder cancer - Mitomycin
- Intravesical treatment using BCG immunotherapy
- Intravesical treatment using Mitomycin C chemotherapy - After transurethral resection of a bladder tumour (TURBT)
- Intravesical treatment using Mitomycin C chemotherapy
- Intravesical treatment using radio-frequency (RF) induced thermochemotherapy (Mitomycin C)
- Intravesical treatment using thermo-chemotherapy (Mitomycin C)
- Introduction to the Lymphoedema Service - Video or telephone consultation
- Introduction to the Lymphoedema Service: Face-to-face consultation
- Introduction to the Teenage and Young Adult Ambulatory Care Service
- Irreversible Electroporation (IRE)
- Irreversible Electroporation for Prostate Cancer (IRE or Nanoknife™)
- IV Dyna CT
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- Ketones and Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
- Knee replacement
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- Labial Adhesions
- Laparoscopic colposuspension
- Laparoscopic Fundoplication
- Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass
- Laparoscopic hysterectomy
- Laparoscopic mesh sacrocolpopexy
- Laparoscopic mesh sacrohysteropexy
- Laparoscopic salpingo-oophorectomy
- Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy
- Laparoscopic suture sacrohysteropexy
- Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy
- Latent tuberculosis
- Learning About Series - Making the most of your memory
- Left hemicolectomy
- Lichen Planus
- Lichen Sclerosis
- Lipohypertrophy
- Lithotripsy
- Living with cerebral palsy
- London Complex Mesh Centre (LCMC) - Pain Management Service
- London Complex Mesh Centre (LCMC) - Psychological Wellbeing Service
- Long-term follow-up: information for people who have had treatment for cancer or a blood condition as a child or young adult
- Looking after your blood glucose meter
- Looking after your insulin
- Low fibre diet sheet
- Low phosphate diet for adults on futibatinib
- Lumbar Fusion and Decompression (Single level)
- Lumbar Spinal Neurosurgery
- Lung Function Testing and COVID-19 (coronavirus)
- Lung tumour ablation
- Lutetium-177 PSMA radionuclide therapy
- Lymphoma multidisciplinary team (MDT)
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- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) under general anaesthesia
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Having an MRI Scan
- Mainz II Rectal Bladder
- Malaria
- Mallet finger
- Manage your fatigue: Health and wellbeing information for people affected by cancer
- Management of Fetal Spina Bifida
- Management of Gum Disease
- Managing dislocations and subluxations
- Managing Fatigue following SAH
- Managing food, activity and Type 1 Diabetes: An introduction for newly diagnosed children and families
- Managing high fat protein meals - Omnipod
- Managing high fat protein meals Medtronic - 640G
- Managing meals high in protein and or fat – Tandem Tslim
- Managing pain at home - Information for adult patients
- Managing Pain
- Managing Spasticity
- Managing the emotional impact of cancer
- Medical management of miscarriage
- Medical Students at UCLH
- Medication for an overactive bladder
- Medications, vaccinations and travel in sickle cell disease
- Medications, vaccinations and travel in thalassaemia
- Medicines for neuropathic pain
- Medtronic MinimedTM 780G system with SmartGuardTM technology Top Tips
- Menu ideas after bariatric surgery
- Metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC)
- Metformin
- Metronidazole following bowel resection for Crohn’s Disease
- MGUS (monoclonal gammopathy of uncertain significance) telephone clinic
- Mid urethral tension-free vaginal tape
- Middle Meningeal Artery Embolisation for Subdural Hematoma
- Migraine Associated Dizziness
- Minced & Moist Nourishing Diet for Dysphagia
- Mindfulness
- Minor oral surgery post operative instructions
- Mohs micrographic surgery
- Molecular Radiotherapy Information Series 3 Information for adults having Lutetium (Lu-177) treatment
- Molecular Radiotherapy Series No. 6 - Information for parents of children and young people having radioactive iodine (131I) treatment
- Molecular Radiotherapy Series No. 7 - Information for parents of children and young people having radioisotope treatment
- Morning colonoscopy with Klean-prep bowel preparation
- Morning colonoscopy with Plenvu®
- Motor mapping and monitoring
- Motor Neurone Disease
- Moving to adult diabetes services
- Moving to Secondary School
- MRI targeted transperineal prostate biopsy
- MRSA - information for patients and visitors
- MS Walking Clinic
- Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid
- Multi level lumbar decompression
- Multi level Lumbar Microdisectomy
- Multi-Level Anterior cervical discectomy
- Multidisciplinary Team and Care pathway (BTU)
- Muscle Biopsy
- Musculoskeletal and Manual Medicine Service
- Myalgic encephalomyelitis/Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and Fibromyalgia Service
- MyCare UCLH patient leaflet
- Mylife™ Bolus advice app
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- Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy
- Neighbour finger strapping
- Neobladder
- Neonatal loss: After the death of your baby. A guide to what options are available
- Neonatal Parenteral Nutrition
- Nephrostomy care discharge advice sheet
- Nerve Biopsy
- Neuro-oncology service: Gliolan®
- Neuromuscular Complex Care Centre
- Neuroradiology - Radiation safety information for patients, carers and families
- Nevro™ spinal cord stimulation
- New diagnosis of type one diabetes service
- Newborn BCG Vaccine
- NHNN Outpatients Department
- Non-Surgical Therapy for Gum Disease
- Norovirus
- Nosebleed (epistaxis) advice
- Nourishing drinks
- Nuclear Medicine (NM) and Covid-19 (Coronavirus)
- Nurse led telephone thyroid clinic
- Nurse-led transition clinic for people who have had treatment for cancer or a blood condition as a child or young adult
- Nutrition and Coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Nutrition and Dietetic Service
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- Obesity/High body mass index/what are the risks
- Occupational Therapy
- Oesophageal manometry and 24 hour reflux recording - off medication
- Oesophageal manometry and 24 hour reflux recording - on medication
- Oesophageal Manometry
- Oesophagectomy
- On treatment diary for patients having head and neck radiotherapy or proton beam therapy
- Oral Mucosal Biopsy
- Orthognathic treatment
- Ostomy diet sheet
- Our support for bereaved families during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Outpatient Hysteroscopy
- Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT)
- Outpatient Therapy Services
- Outreach Hearing Aid Centres and Covid-19_Edgware Community Hospital
- Outreach Hearing Aid Centres and COVID-19_Finchley Memorial Hospital
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- Pacing, grading and Energy conservation ideas for patients with Channelopathy
- Paediatric Audiology and Covid-19 (coronavirus)
- Paediatric Auditory Implants and COVID-19 (coronavirus)
- Paediatric Series No 01- Radiotherapy to the brain
- Paediatric Series No 02 - Radiotherapy to the head, mouth and neck
- Paediatric Series No 03- Radiotherapy to the chest
- Paediatric Series No 04- Radiotherapy to the abdomen and pelvis
- Paediatric Series No 05- Radiotherapy to the testes
- Paediatric Series No 06- Radiotherapy to the whole brain
- Paediatric Series No 07- Radiotherapy to the whole central nervous system
- Paediatric Series No 08 - Radiotherapy to the whole lungs
- Paediatric Series No 09 - Having total body irradiation
- Paediatric Series No 10 - Radiotherapy to the spine
- Paediatric Series No 11- Radiotherapy to a limb
- Paediatric Series No 12 - Anaesthesia for children having radiotherapy
- Paediatric Series No 13 - Anaesthesia for children having proton beam therapy
- Paediatric Series No 15 - Radiotherapy to the abdomen
- Paediatric Series No 16 - Radiotherapy to the Pelvis
- Paediatric Series No 17 - Radiotherapy to the neck and chest
- Paediatric Series No 18 - Radiotherapy to the neck, chest, abdomen and pelvis
- Paediatric Series No 19 - Radiotherapy to the eye (orbit)
- PALS - Easy Read
- Pancreatobiliary Cancer Service
- Parathyroid surgery
- Parking for Blue Badge holders
- Parkinson's and Physical Activity
- Partial Penectomy
- Parvovirus B19 in patients with haemolytic anaemias
- Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
- Patient isolation
- Patient records are going digital
- Patient safety card
- Patient-initiated follow-up (PIFU) for people with lymphoma
- PEG tube insertion - what will happen next?
- Pelvic floor physiotherapy
- Pemphigus
- Penicillin allergy
- Penile cancer multidisciplinary team (MDT)
- Penile cancer
- Penile cancer
- Penile clamps (Penile compression devices)
- Penile plication (Nesbit) procedure
- Penile surgery with full thickness skin graft
- Penile surgery with split skin graft
- Percutaneous endoscopic interlaminar lumbar discectomy for sciatica
- Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL)
- Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS Bladder)
- Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS) – bowel
- Percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic lumbar discectomy for sciatica
- Perineal care after childbirth
- Peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs)
- Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM)
- Phototherapy
- Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Team: Supporting adults affected by cancer and blood conditions
- Physiotherapy for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia
- Physiotherapy for chronic musculoskeletal pain
- Planned elective caesarean section
- Planning to have your baby at the EGA Wing at UCLH
- Planning your care in advance
- Planning your journey home
- Plasma cell multidisciplinary team (MDT)
- Plasma Exchange Service at NHNN
- Plasters and casts
- Pneumonia
- Polypharmacy and medicines review
- Post Operative Instructions - Tranexamic acid mouthwash
- Post Procedural Care Diagnostic Angiogram and Endovascular Treatment
- Post-extraction advice
- Practical urinary catheter care
- Pre Assessment Clinic
- Pre-assessments for the Eastman Dental Hospital
- Pre-operative Assessment Centre
- Pregnancy and COVID-19 vaccination phoneline
- Pregnancy of an unknown location
- Pregnancy of Unknown Location (PUL)
- Pregnancy: 11- to 14-week scan
- Preparing for the Future - Huntington's Disease
- Prescription costs
- Pretibial lacerations (cuts on the shin)
- Preventing blood clots during outpatient cancer treatment
- Preventing pressure ulcers (bed sores)
- Preventing surgical wound infections
- Preventing Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) - Adults
- Preventing venous thromboembolism (VTE) - myeloma outpatients
- Preventing VTE
- Priapism in patients with sickle cell disease
- Prostate Artery Embolisation (PAE)
- Prostate high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy
- Prostate One-Day Clinic
- Prostate pathway
- Protecting your skin when using insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors
- Proton beam therapy - An easy read guide
- Psych-oncology team
- Psychological support for adults with red cell disorders
- Pulled elbow in children
- Pulmonary embolism (PE)
- Pump School – Starting on an insulin pump
- Pureed Nourishing Diet for Dysphagia
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- Radioiodine therapy
- Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy (RIG) Feeding
- Radiotherapy - An easy read guide
- Radium-223 for metastatic prostate cancer
- Rafaelo Procedure
- Raising a concern or making a complaint
- Ramadan and type 1 diabetes
- Rapid Diagnostic Centre
- Receiving your chemotherapy via an infusion device
- Reclaiming the Congestion Charge
- Reclaiming the ULEZ Charge
- Recovery following an autologous stem cell transplant
- Recovery following CAR T-cell therapy
- Reducing the risk of lymphoedema: Information for patients with gynaecological cancer
- Reducing the risk of lymphoedema: Information for patients with head and neck cancer
- Relapses, setbacks and flare-ups in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Relaxation can help symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME CFS)
- Religious fasting and type 1 diabetes
- Renal Cryoablation
- Repetitive strain injury
- Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) for Depression
- Respond Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Health Service
- Retropubic midurethral sling
- RFA for the treatment of thyroid nodules
- Right hemicolectomy and extended right hemicolectomy
- RLHIM Psychological Therapy Services
- RLHIM: About our pharmacy
- Robotic colorectal surgery
- Robotic prostatectomy - discharge information
- Robotic prostatectomy
- Root canal re-treatment
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- Sacral Neuromodulation (SNM)
- Sacrospinous colpopexy
- Sacrospinous hysteropexy
- Safer eating during your cancer treatment
- Saliva management in cerebral palsy
- Schistosomiasis
- School
- Selective internal radiotherapy (SIRT)
- Sensitive arrangements for pregnancy tissue after miscarriage and/or surgical treatment
- Series No - 43 Radiotherapy to the adult brain and spine
- Series No 1 - General skincare advice for patients having radiotherapy
- Series No 12 - Total Body Irradiation
- Series No 13 - Radiotherapy to the adult spine
- Series No 17 - Finishing Radiotherapy Treatment
- Series No 2 - Radiotherapy To The Breast
- Series No 20 - Vaginal Brachytherapy (Internal radiotherapy)
- Series No 25 - High dose rate (HDR) endo-oesophageal (gullet) brachytherapy
- Series No 26 - High dose rate (HDR) endo-bronchial brachytherapy
- Series No 28 - Gyanaecological bowel preparation
- Series No 29 - Gynaecology Radiotherapy
- Series No 3 - Radiotherapy and chemoradiotherapy to the head, mouth and neck
- Series No 36 - Internal intrauterine radiotherapy treatment as an inpatient
- Series No 36 HDR brachytherapy for cancer of the cervix
- Series No 39 - Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) for lung cancer
- Series No 4 - Radiotherapy to the brain
- Series No 41 - Radiotherapy for tumours of the base of skull
- Series No 41 - Radiotherapy for tumours of the base of skull
- Series No 42 - Radiotherapy for meningiomas
- Series No 44 - Radiotherapy for craniopharyngiomas and pituitary adenomas
- Series No 45 - Conformal radiotherapy for brain metastases
- Series No 46 - Superficial radiotherapy treatment to the skin
- Series No 5 - Molecular Radiotherapy for adults having radioactive iodine (131I) treatment
- Series No 5 - Radiotherapy to the prostate or prostate bed
- Series No 50 - Having radiotherapy to a limb
- Series No 51- Radiotherapy to the bladder
- Series No 52 - Radiotherapy for bone pain
- Series No 56 - Bowel Preparation for Prostate Patients
- Series No 6 - Radiotherapy to the chest
- Series No 8 - Radiotherapy to the pelvis
- Sexual health, contraception and preparing for pregnancy: Information for patients with thalassaemia and sickle cell disease
- Sick day rules - insulin pump therapy
- Sick day rules – multiple daily injections
- Sickle cell disease and pregnancy
- Sickle cell disease in adulthood
- Sickle cell disease in children
- Sigmoid colectomy
- Single level anterior cervical discectomy
- Single level lumbar decompression
- Single level lumbar microdiscectomy
- Sir William Gowers Unit - Preparing for your stay
- Skin cancer multidisciplinary team (MDT)
- Sleep Hygeine
- Sleep
- Snack ideas
- Soft and Bite Sized Nourishing Diet
- Sore Throats and Quinsy
- Spasticity clinic information leaflet
- Specialist Centre for Oesophago-gastric Cancer
- Specialist centre for urological cancer
- Speech and Language Therapy Service for Deaf Children
- Spinal AVM - Endovascular Treatment
- Spinal DAVF Endovascular Treatment
- Spinal Neurosurgery
- Spinal Wound Care
- Stem cell collection and donation: Information for people donating their stem cells to a relative
- Stopping you from falling
- Strong opioid medicines for pain relief
- Strong opioid patches for pain relief
- Subtotal and Total Gastrectomy
- Suffering but it's not an emergency - Bengali
- Suffering but it's not an emergency - Mandarin
- Suffering but it's not an emergency - Polish
- Suffering but it's not an emergency - Somali
- Suffering but it's not an emergency - Turkish
- Suffering, but it's not an emergency?
- Support for homeless people
- Supported self-management follow-up for people with breast cancer
- Supported self-management follow-up for people with colorectal cancer
- Supported self-management follow-up for women with endometrial cancer
- Supporting someone with Galactosaemia
- Supportive Care Unit
- Supra-pubic fat pad excision
- Surgery for prolapse
- Surgical Endodontic Treatment
- Surgical management of endometriosis
- Surgical management of miscarriage (SMM) under general anaesthetic
- Surgical management of miscarriage (SMM) under local anaesthetic
- Surgical Reception Unit (SRU)
- Surgical Therapy for Gum Disease
- Suspected scaphoid (wrist) injury
- SWGU Preparing for your stay
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- Talk to us - Easy Read
- Tandem TSlim top tips
- Tattoos and cosmetic procedures
- Teenage and Young Adult Ambulatory Care Service
- Telephone follow-up for heart monitoring
- Temperomandibular disorder
- Temporomandibular disorder (Complex)
- Testicular self-examination
- Thalamotomy for Tremor using Transcranial MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound
- Thalassaemia (transfusion-dependent and non-transfusion-dependent)
- Thalassaemia and pregnancy
- The acute leukaemia multidisciplinary team (MDT)
- The COPE Pain Management Programme
- The Hospital for Tropical Diseases Outpatient Services
- The Link Pain Management Programme
- The Patient Transport Service
- The use of mesh in surgery for urinary incontinence and prolapse
- TheraSphere® Treatment (SIRT)
- Thoracic Surgery – Enhanced Recovery Patient Diary
- Thoracic surgery – Information and Advice for Patients, Relatives and Carers
- Thoracic Surgery – Information for patients: Having a mediastinoscopy / mediastinotomy procedure
- Thoracic surgery – Information for patients: Having a robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS)
- Thoracic Surgery – Information for patients: Having a thymectomy procedure
- Thoracic Surgery – Information for patients: Having surgery via median sternotomy
- Thoracic Surgery – Information for patients: Having VATS / thoracotomy procedure
- Thoracic Surgery – Information for patients: Having VATS for drainage of air or fluid, pleural biopsies and talc pleurodesis
- Thoracic Surgery – Information for patients: Navigational bronchoscopy
- Thrombectomy
- Thyroid Surgery
- Thyroidectomy. An operation to remove all or part of the thyroid gland
- Total laparoscopic hysterectomy
- Total penectomy and perineal urethrostomy
- Tracheostomy tubes
- Tracheotomy
- Traffic Light Trauma and Emergency Action Card
- Transcranial dopplers (TCD)
- Transient synovitis in children
- Transnasal Endoscopy
- Transobturator midurethral sling
- Transperineal biopsy of the Prostate
- Transsphenoidal hypophysectomy
- Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumour (TURBT)
- Travelling to your hospital appointment Information for people with cancer or a blood condition
- Treatment options for iron overload
- Treatment Under GA
- Trigeminal neuropathic pain (Facial Pain Team)
- Tunnelled lines
- Two-step verification on MyCare UCLH
- Typhoid and Paratyphoid
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- UCH comment card - tell us what you think - Easy Read
- UCLH Respiratory Outpatient Physiotherapy - Breathing Pattern Disorder
- UCLH Respiratory Outpatient Physiotherapy - Breathlessness
- UCLH Respiratory Outpatient Physiotherapy - Cough
- UCLH Same sex accommodation leaflet
- Ultrasound-guided caudal epidural injection
- Ultrasound-guided facet joint injection
- Ultrasound-guided joint injections
- Ultrasound-guided nerve root injection
- Under Five’s, Food, Activity and Diabetes
- Understanding pain - Information for adult Inpatients
- Understanding steroids
- Upper gastrointestinal suspected cancer pathway
- Ureteric stents
- Ureterorenoscopy
- Ureteroscopy
- Urinary sheaths
- Use of crutches
- Use of off-licence products during endovascular procedures
- Useful websites
- Using a spacer with your child
- Using Dexcom G6 at mealtimes
- Using Entonox for pain relief
- Uterine Artery/Fibroid Embolisation (UAE)
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- Vaginal dilation therapy - Information for patients who have completed radiotherapy treatment
- Vaginal hysterectomy and colporrhaphy
- Vaginal pessaries
- Varicose vein surgery
- Varocele embolisation
- Vertebroplasty/ Kyphoplasty
- Vestibular rehabilitation
- Video swallows
- Video-assisted anal fistula treatment
- Viral illness
- Virtual Arthroplasty Clinic
- Virtual Fracture Clinic
- Vitamin and mineral supplements for children
- Vitamin K prophylaxis
- Volunteering opportunities at UCLH
- Vortex® ports
- Vulval lichen sclerosis
- Vulvo-vaginitis
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- Walking Assessment - McArdle Clinic
- Weak opioid medicines for pain relief
- Wearing a surgical mask in the wards
- WEB Intracranial Aneurysm Device in the Treatment of Cerebral Aneurysms
- Welcome to Chemotherapy Daycare
- Welcome to National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Welcome to the fracture clinic
- Welcome to the Teenage and Young Adult Service
- What care to expect after your child has been diagnosed with Diabetes
- What care to expect when transferring care to UCLH
- What is prolapse
- What is the glycaemic index
- What to do if my pump breaks
- What to expect from your clinical nurse specialist (CNS)
- What to expect from your neuro-oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)
- Wheezy child Plan
- When a child dies
- White Patch One Stop Clinic
- Why it is important to get your heart checked? Information for patients with mitochondrial disease
- Why smoking is bad for patients with lupus
- Wigs and other headwear – A guide for people affected by cancer and blood conditions
- Women who decline blood and blood products
- Womens health and cerebral palsy
- Wound care after a surgical procedure
- Wound care
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- You and your dental general anaesthetic
- Young Persons Neuromuscular Clinic
- Your appointment at the Children and Young Peoples Outpatient Department
- Your baby's visit to the Nuffield
- Your breast milk for your baby
- Your care in the Cancer Centre if you have a respiratory virus
- Your child is having an MRI scan under GA
- Your child is having an MRI scan under sedation
- Your child is having an MRI scan with a play specialist
- Your child's visit to the speech Clinic
- Your late preterm baby
- Your pathway coordinator (Teenage and Young Adult Service)
- Your recovery after Critical Care
- Your smoke free hospital
- Your Transition Coordinator
- Your visits to Nuffield in the first few months
- Youth Volunteering for young people aged 16-18 at UCLH
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- Zika virus
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