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• Information for patients undergoing bowel surgery

  This page provides information for patients who are due to be admitted to hospital for bowel surgery.

• Abdominoperineal excision of rectum (APER)

  This page provides information about a surgical procedure to remove the structures at the end of the large bowel (colon) as part of treatment for cancer.

• Maternal Fetal Assessment Unit (MFAU)

  If you need an assessment by a midwife or doctor that is outside of your routine antenatal appointments you will be invited to attend the Maternal and Fetal Assessment Unit (MFAU).

• Single level lumbar decompression

  A lumbar decompression is the surgical removal of parts of the spine bones in the lower back; these sections of bone are called the spinous processes and the laminae. Lumbar refers to the lower back.

• Series No.45 - Conformal radiotherapy for brain metastases

  This information page has been written to help answer some of the questions you may have about brain metastases, and their treatment with this specialised radiotherapy technique.

• Spina bifida open fetal surgery

  Evidence shows that in selected cases open fetal surgery to close the spina bifida defect improves baby outcomes compared to surgery after birth.

• Series No.28 - Gynaecological bowel preparation

  This page is for patients who are about to start a course of radiotherapy to the pelvis for a gynaecological cancer.

• Series No.17 - Finishing Radiotherapy Treatment

  This information has been written to help you now that your radiotherapy treatment is finishing.

• Hospital on Gray's Inn Road closed

  The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital (RNTNEH) site on Gray's Inn Road is now permanently closed to clinical care.

• New guidelines for referrals from lower GI services

  The gastrointestinal service has changed its guidelines for referrals to the lower GI two-week wait (2WW) pathway as well as its process for new referrals.