- Before you leave home
- When you arrive at hospital
- Hospital facilities
- Consenting to treatment
- Teaching and research
- Specimens and blood tests
- Food and drink
- Mobile phones and portable entertainment devices
- Enquiries from family or carers
- Religious services
- Smoking and vaping
- Your health records
- Help with hospital travel costs
- Prescriptions and health costs
- Maps and travel
To go ahead with any surgery or treatment, by law we must ask for your permission and will ask you to sign a consent form. Your doctors will explain what will happen during any treatment. He or she will tell you what the risks, benefits and alternatives may be, and how you can expect to feel afterwards. It is important that you understand everything that will happen and you should sign the form only when all your questions have been answered to your satisfaction. You have a right to refuse any treatment or tests.