Patient Information Leaflets for the Public (Large Print)
Waiting in our Emergency Department
Acute medicine
Anaesthetics
- Admission on the Day of Surgery (Afternoon)
- Admission on the Day of Surgery (Morning)
- Anaesthesia for Thoracic Surgery
- Caudal Block pain relief for children
- Continuous Peripheral Nerve Block Catheter (CPNB)
- Entonox use in endoscopic procedures
- Epidural pain relief after surgery for children
- Ketamine Sedation
- Local Anaesthetic Nerve Blocks for Children
- Nerve Damage after Childbirth
- Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA)
- Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) pain relief for children
- Patient Fasting Information for Children
- Sedation
- Serratus anterior nerve blocks for pain relief in rib fractures
- Spinal block pain relief after surgery for children
- Your Anaesthetic for Heart Surgery
- Your Child’s Anaesthetic
Audiology
Cancer services
- Ambulatory Oncology Care Unit (AOCU)
- Chemotherapy and Biological Therapies
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Advice for Cancer Patients
- Cryoablation and You
- Electrochemotherapy
- Help with travel costs
- Information for Women Recalled to the Breast Screening Assessment Clinic
- Psychological Support for People Affected by Cancer
- Teenagers and Young Adults Cancer Service
- Wire-guided Localisation
Cardiac arrhythmia
- Catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation
- Catheter ablation for supra-ventricular tachycardia (SVT)
- Direct Current Cardioversion
- Implantable loop recorder (ILR)
Cardiac surgery
Cardiology
Cardiovascular
- Cardiac prevention and rehabilitation programme booklet
- High Dose Skin Care Advice following a Cardiac X-ray Procedure
- Implantable loop recorder (ILR)
- Infective Endocarditis
- Medications after an Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)
- Stop the Clot
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) Assessment
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) Procedure
- What is Pulmonary Hypertension?
Chest medicine
- Chest drain insertion
- Hypoxia Altitude Simulation Test
- Indwelling pleural catheter (IPC) insertion
- Pleural aspiration
Children’s services
- 48 Hour Review for Children who have attended Hospital with Wheeze or Asthma
- Allergy Clinic
- Anorectal Malformations
- Back Pain in Children
- Bowel Atresia
- Cerebral Palsy
- Chicken Pox
- Children and Young People’s Epilepsy Services
- Children’s Asthma Nursing Team
- Children’s Community Nursing Team
- Congenital Clasped Thumb in Children
- Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH)
- Constipation in Children
- Croup
- Delayed Onset Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy
- Early Onset Neonatal Sepsis
- Febrile Convulsions: Information for Parents
- Feeding Your Baby at Home with a Nasogastric Tube
- First Afebrile Seizure in Children and Adolescents
- Food Challenge
- Functional Abdominal Pain
- Gastroschisis
- Going Home with a Cannula
- Hand Fractures in Children
- Having a CT Scan: what should I know?
- Having a DMSA scan: what should I know?
- Headache in Children and Young People
- Home Food Introduction: A guide for children, parents and carers
- Hydrocephalus and Shunts Information for Parents
- Infant Reflux
- Inguinal Hernia in Boys
- Investigations after Your Child’s Urinary Tract Infection
- Jungle ward
- Long Lines and Central Lines
- Malrotation and Volvulus
- Measles
- Meconium Ileus
- Micturating Cystourethrogram (MCUG)
- Antibiotics for an MCUG
- Necrotising Enterocolitis
- Neonatal Jaundice
- Neonatal Rectal Washouts
- Nurse-Led Prolonged Jaundice Screening
- Oesophageal Atresia with Tracheo-oesophageal Fistula
- Paediatric Bladder Scan and UroFlow Test
- Paediatric Breathing Clinic
- Paediatric Haemophilia Service
- Paediatric Hand Therapy Service
- Paediatric Neuropsychology Service: Neuropsychological Assessment
- Paediatric Neuropsychology Service: Treatment
- Paediatric Urodynamic Test
- Patient Fasting Information for Children
- Play Information Leaflet
- Posterior Urethral Valves
- Pressure Ulcers Prevention in Children
- Preventing Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) in Children
- Prolonged Neonatal Jaundice
- Prominent Ears
- Reactive Lymphadenopathy
- Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Children and Young People
- Referral to the Paediatric Trauma Clinic
- Sleep Hygiene for Teens
- Supervised Feed
- The Children’s Asthma Nursing Team and Home Visits
- Transition from Paediatric Epilepsy to Adult Epilepsy Neurology services
- Transition from Paediatric Neurodisability to Adult Neurology Services
- Vesicostomy Button Care
- Vitamin D Deficiency
- Vitamin D in Children with Epilepsy and Neurodisability
- Vulvovaginitis in Prepubertal Children
Children’s and Young Persons’ Emergency Department
- 48 Hour Review for Children who have attended Hospital with Wheeze or Asthma
- Back Pain in Children
- Bronchiolitis
- Buckle Fracture
- Chicken Pox
- Clavicle Fracture
- Concussion in Children
- Constipation in Children
- Croup
- Delayed Onset Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy
- Eczema
- Entonox and Your Child
- Febrile Seizures
- Fever in Children
- First Afebrile Seizure in Children and Adolescents
- Gastroenteritis
- Hand, foot and mouth disease
- Headache in Children and Young People
- Head Injury in Children
- Ingestion (swallowing) of foreign bodies in children
- Jungle ward
- Ketamine Sedation
- Measles
- Mental Health in the Paediatric Emergency Department
- Oral Fluid Challenge
- Paediatric Assessment Unit (PAU)
- Paronychia
- Patient Fasting Information for Children
- Plaster of Paris
- Prolonged Neonatal Jaundice
- Pulled Elbow
- Radial Head or Neck Fracture in Children
- Referral to the Paediatric Trauma Clinic
- Roseola
- Scarlet Fever
- Sleep Hygiene for Teens
- Swallowing of super strong magnets in children
- Tonsillitis in Children
- Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (URTI)
- Wound Car Advice
Chronic pain service
- Continuous Peripheral Nerve Block Catheter (CPNB)
- Discharge following DBS for Pain
- Discharge following Occipital Nerve Stimulation
- Leaving Hospital after Removal of SCS Trial Leads
- Post Dural Puncture Headache Management
- SCS Equipment
- Wound Care Advice for Patients following Spinal Cord Stimulator Implantation
Clinical neurophysiology
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Nerve Conduction Studies (NCS) and Electromyogram (EMG)
- Paediatric Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Colorectal
Community services
- Children’s Community Nursing Team
- Community Breastfeeding Support in your Area
- Contractures
- Feeding Your Baby at Home with a Nasogastric Tube
- Gwynne Holford Ward Amputee Rehabilitation Service
- Mary Seacole Ward
- Nurse-Led Prolonged Jaundice Screening
- Personal Wheelchair Budgets
- Post Discharge Assistance, Merton Borough
- Post Discharge Assistance, Sutton Borough
- Post Discharge Assistance, Wandsworth Borough
- The BOOST Course
Day surgery unit
Dentistry
Dermatology
- Adalimumab and Biosimilars
- After your skin biopsy
- Application of Skin Camouflage
- Foot Care
- Hair Loss Camouflage
- Shingles
- Vulval Skin Care
Diabetes and endocrinology
Diagnostic and X-ray Services
- Breast Needle Biopsy
- Central Venous Catheter Insertion
- Following a Vacuum Assisted Excision Procedure
- Having a CT Scan: what should I know?
- Having a DMSA scan: what should I know?
- High Dose Skin Care Advice following an X-ray Procedure
- Image-Guided Injection
- Implanted Port (Portacath) Insertion
- MRI Arthrogram
- MRI Scan for Babies using Feed and Wrap Technique
- MRI Small Bowel Study
- Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) Insertion
- Skin Tunnelled Central Venous Catheter (STC) Insertion
- Vascath Central Venous Catheter Insertion
Ear, Nose & Throat
- Canalplasty Surgery
- Endoscopic Sinus Surgery
- Grommet Insertion
- Mastoid Surgery
- Meatoplasty Surgery
- Microlaryngoscopy and Bronchoscopy (MLB)
- Myringoplasty
- Nasal Steroid Sprays
- Ossiculoplasty
- Septoplasty
- Septorhinoplasty
- Stapedectomy
- Subtotal Petrosectomy and Blind Sac Closure
Emergency
- Waiting in our Emergency Department
- Advice for Patients Being Discharged Following an Accident or Assault
- Atrial Fibrillation and Anticoagulation Therapy
- Domestic Abuse Services Directory
- Early Pregnancy Unit (EPU)
- Emergency Department (A&E)
- General Surgery Same Day Emergency Care
- Gynaecology Same Day Emergency Care Pathway
- Infection and Sepsis
- Routine Blood Borne Virus Testing at St George’s Emergency Department
- Routine HIV Testing at St George’s Emergency Department
- Sedation
- Serratus anterior nerve blocks for pain relief in rib fractures
- Wound Car Advice
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- The ABC of Living with Cirrhosis
- Advanced Endoscopic Resection of Polyps in the Large Bowel
- Bravo® Studies (Wireless pH monitoring)
- Colonoscopy
- Entonox use in endoscopic procedures
- ERCP
- EUS Patient Information
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Gastroscopy
- Gastroscopy and Colonoscopy
- Hepatology clinical assessment service (CAS)
- High Resolution Oesophageal Manometry and pH Studies
- Hydrogen Breath Tests
- Hydrogen Breath Test elimination diet
- Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
- PEG Insertion
- Transnasal Endoscopy
General surgery
General Surgery Same Day Emergency Care
Gynaecology
- Gynaecology Same Day Emergency Care Pathway
- Gynaecology Two Week Referral Clinic
- Hormone Implants as Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
- Laparoscopy
- Laparoscopic Myomectomy
- Management of Miscarriage
- Manual Vacuum Aspiration
- Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTOP)
- Myosure (Hysteroscopic Morcellation)
- Outpatient Hysteroscopy
- Pelvic Floor Muscle Overactivity
- Pregnancy Advisory Clinic
- Pregnancy Advisory Service: Surgical Termination of Pregnancy
- Recovering from Gynaecological Surgery
- Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy
- Trans-cervical Resection of Endometrium
- Trans-cervical Resection of Fibroid or Polyp
Haematology
- Acquired Haemophilia A
- Adult Haemophilia Service
- Anticoagulation for Left Ventricular Thrombus
- Automated Red Blood Cell Exchange Transfusion for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
- Breaking the Cycle: Sickle cell and thalassaemia pain management
- Cyclophosphamide in Acquired Haemophilia A
- Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
- Desmopressin (DDAVP) at Home
- Desmopressin (DDAVP) Test
- Haemophilia Centre
- How to use an Incentive Spirometer. For Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
- Information about Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassaemia (for Adults)
- Open Access INR Test
- Paediatric Haemophilia Service
- Possible Brain Bleed in Children with Bleeding Disorders
- Priapism and Sickle Cell Disease
- Pulmonary Embolus
- Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Children and Young People
- Red Cell Pain Management & Psychology Service
- Rituximab in Acquired Haemophilia A
- Sexual Health and Contraception: patients with thalassaemia and sickle cell disease
- Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Service (Adults)
- Stopping Anticoagulants prior to Surgery or a Procedure
- Stopping Anticoagulants
- Transfusion Alternatives for Patients Who Refuse Blood Components and Products
- Travel Information for Adults with Sickle Cell Disease
- Using Hydroxycarbamide (Hydroxyurea)
- Vaccinations and Antibiotics: Information for Adults with Sickle Cell Disease
- Virology Testing for Patients receiving Regular Blood Transfusions
Hand Therapy
- The Hand Therapy Service
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Compression Gloves
- Dupuytren’s Contracture: Rehabilitation following surgery
- Hand Therapy X-ray Results
- Proximal Interphalangeal (PIP) Joint Replacement Surgery and Rehabilitation
- Rehabilitation after a Finger Extensor Tendon Repair weeks 4+
- Serial Casting for stiff joints
- Tips and Ideas on Doing Things with One Hand
Infection Prevention & Control
- Infection Prevention and Control
- Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE)
- Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) – I am a contact
- Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) – I am a carrier
- Clostridium difficile
- Legionella infection
- Norovirus
- MRSA
- Pre-operative Screening for MRSA
Inpatients
- Falls Prevention in Hospital
- Persistent Pain
- Pressure Ulcers Prevention
- Pressure Ulcers Prevention in Children
Intensive Care
Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Family Liaison Service
Major trauma
Maternity
- Abnormal Invasion of Placenta
- Anomaly / Mid-pregnancy Scan
- Antenatal Perineal Massage
- “Big Baby” Diagnosis on Third Trimester Ultrasound Scan
- Breastfeeding and Tongue Tie
- Community Breastfeeding Support in your Area
- Donor Human Milk
- Early Onset Neonatal Sepsis
- Early Pregnancy Unit (EPU)
- Epidural Blood Patch
- Headache after Childbirth
- Hepatitis C Screening – Antenatal Services
- Managing Your Pain After Birth – how to use over-the-counter painkillers
- Maternity High Dependency Unit
- Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
- Neonatal Jaundice
- Nerve Damage after Childbirth
- Postnatal Hypertension
- Preventing Blood Clots in Pregnancy and After Birth
- Prolonged Neonatal Jaundice
- Remifentanil PCA (Patient Controlled Analgesia)
- Your Preterm Baby
Maxillo-facial
Newborn Services
- Anorectal Malformations
- Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH)
- Early Onset Neonatal Sepsis
- Long Lines and Central Lines
- Necrotising Enterocolitis
- Oesophageal Atresia with Tracheo-oesophageal Fistula
- Neonatal Jaundice
- Posterior Urethral Valves
- Prolonged Neonatal Jaundice
Neurology
- Adult Home Video Telemetry
- Adult Video Telemetry
- Aftercare for Procedures involving Groin Arterial Puncture
- Aftercare for Procedures involving Radial Arterial Puncture
- Aphasia Following Brain Injury
- Awake craniotomy for your brain tumour
- Cerebral Palsy
- Cerebral Spinal Fluid (CSF) Leaks and Their Management
- Clival Tumours: Chordomas and Chondrosarcomas
- Cognitive Communication Disorders Following Brain Injury
- Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Surgery for Parkinson’s Disease
- Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Surgery for Parkinson’s Disease
- Diagnostic Clinical Neuropsychology Service
- Discharge advice for patients going home after implantation of a Deep Brain Stimulator
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Epilepsy Clinical Neuropsychology Service
- Going Home Following Surgery to Remove a Malignancy of the Temporal Bone
- Going Home Following Surgical Closure of a Temporal Bone Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Leak
- Greater Occipital Nerve Block
- Hypoxic Brain Injury Resulting from Cardiac Arrest
- Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIg) for Neurological Conditions
- Lemtrada (Alemtuzamab) Infusion Patient Guide
- Listeria Advice for Patients taking Lemtrada (Alemtuzumab)
- Mechanical Thrombectomy
- Methotrexate Patient Information Leaflet
- Ocrevus (Ocrelizumab) Infusion Patient Guide
- Paediatric Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Paediatric Home Video Telemetry
- Paediatric Video Telemetry
- Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA)
- Ponesimod (Ponvory®) missed dose. What do I do?
- Sleep Hygiene for People with Multiple Sclerosis
- Speech and Language Therapy for Motor Neuron Disease
- Speech and Language Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease
- Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (SAH)
- Surgical Closure of a Temporal Bone Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Leak
- Surgical Removal of a Malignancy of the Temporal Bone
- Surgical Removal of a Paraganglioma of the Temporal Bone
- Transition from Paediatric Epilepsy to Adult Epilepsy Neurology services
- Traumatic Brain Injury Clinical Neuropsychology Service
- Vagus Nerve Stimulation – what is it?
- Vagus Nerve Stimulation – what is it? Easy Read
- Vascular Malformations
- Vitamin D in Children with Epilepsy and Neurodisability
- Welcome to Thomas Young Ward
- What to do if you miss a dose of Fingolimod
- What to do if you miss a dose of siponimod (Mayzent®)
Nutrition and dietetics
- Exclusive Enteral Nutrition (EEN)
- Exercise & FRESH START
- Extremely Thick Fluids
- Liquidised Diet
- Mildly Thick Fluids
- Mixed Consistencies
- Moderately Thick Fluids
- Pureed
- Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy
- Regular Easy to Chew
- Slightly Thick Fluids
- Supporting Nutrition in Dementia
- Soft and Bite Sized
- Transitional Foods
Outpatients
Paediatric medicine
- Arginine Test
- Carbimazole or Propylthiouracil (PTU)
- Glucagon Test
- Growth Hormone Therapy
- Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin (hCG) Stimulation Test
- Insulin Tolerance Test
- LHRH Test
- Low Dose Synacthen Test
- Oestrogen Therapy in Girls
- Oral Glucose Tolerance Test
- Oral Glucose Tolerance Test for Tall Stature
- Preventing Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) in Children
- Standard Synacthen Test
- Vulvovaginitis in Prepubertal Children
- Water Deprivation Test
Pharmacy
- Adalimumab and Biosimilars
- Bringing Your Own Medicines into Hospital
- Medications after an Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)
- Rifampicin and Clindamycin for Hidradenitis Suppurativa
Physiotherapy
- Achilles Tendinopathy
- Acupuncture for Migraine and Tension Headache
- Antenatal Perineal Massage
- Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)
- Cardiac prevention and rehabilitation programme booklet
- Chest Wall Injuries
- Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy
- Frozen Shoulder (Adhesive Capsulitis)
- Haemophilia Joint Health Score Assessment
- How to Manage an Acute Joint or Muscle Bleed
- Learning to Control Your Bowels
- Lung Volume Recruitment (LVR) Bag
- Pelvic Floor Exercises for Men
- Pelvic Floor Muscle Overactivity
- Physiotherapy and Haemophilia
- Regaining Control of Your Bladder
- Sport, Exercise and Activity with Haemophilia
- Sternum (Breast Bone) Fracture
Plastic surgery
- Accessory Digits: Outpatient Removal
- Application of Skin Camouflage
- Camptodactyly in Children
- Clinodactyly in Children
- Composite Graft to an Amputated Tip of Finger/Toe
- Discharge from the Plastic Dressing Clinic
- Instructions for the Use of Topical Hydrocortisone 1% Cream
- Nail Bed Injury
- Non-Cancer Related Bilateral Mastectomy Discharge Information
- Non-Cancer Related Bilateral Mastectomy Pre-operative Information
- Paronychia
- Prominent Ears
- Referral for Skin Camouflage
- Referral to St George’s Hospital Plastic Surgery Department
- Referral to the Paediatric Trauma Clinic
- Scar Massage
- Seroma Aspiration
- Skin grafts and donor sites pre-operative information
- Syndactyly
- Tongue-Tie
- Trigger Thumb / Finger
- Wound and Dressing Care
Pre-operative Information
Rehabilitation services
Renal Services
- ArterioVenous Fistula (AVF) Formation for Haemodialysis
- Donating a kidney if you live overseas
- Follow up after donating a kidney
- Going Home after Fistula and Graft Creation
- Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy aftercare
- Live donor nephrectomy: your operation
- Removal of a ureteric stent following a kidney transplant
- Renal Clinical Psychology Service
- Skin Tunnelled Dialysis Catheter (STDC) Insertion
- Taking mycophenolate mofetil following kidney transplant
- Taking prednisolone following kidney transplant
- Taking tacrolimus (Adoport) following kidney transplant
- The National Living Donor Kidney Sharing Scheme
- The use of Hepatitis C infected kidneys in Hepatitis C negative recipients
Senior health
- Falls Prevention in Hospital
- Constipation
- Foot Care
- Learning to Control Your Bowels
- Mary Seacole Ward
- Shingles
- Supporting Nutrition in Dementia
Sexual health
Specialist medicine
- Bone anchored hearing aid fitting pack
- Bronchial Challenge – Mannitol
- Entonox Use in Endoscopic Procedures
- ERCP
- Overnight Pulse Oximetry
- Rifampicin and Clindamycin for Hidradenitis Suppurativa
- Shingles
Speech & Language Therapy
- Aphasia Following Brain Injury
- Maintaining your Swallow Function after Head and Neck Treatment
- Speech and Language Therapy for Motor Neuron Disease
- Speech and Language Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease
Surgery
- Anaesthesia for Thoracic (Lung & Chest Wall) Surgery
- Appendicectomy
- Going home with a wound drain after breast surgery
- Smoking and Orthopaedic Surgery
- Thoracic Surgery: Activity Before and After
- Vesicostomy Button Care
- Your Anaesthetic for Heart Surgery
Therapies
- Botulinum Toxin Injection for Adult Spasticity
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and Desensitisation Therapy
- Congenital Clasped Thumb in Children
- Constipation
- Contractures
- Coping with Everyday Life with a Circular Frame
- Corticosteroid Injection Therapy in the Foot/Ankle
- Exercise & FRESH START
- Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome (GTPS)
- Hand Fractures in Children
- Hand Therapy Relaxation Techniques – Breathing
- Hand Therapy Service
- Metacarpal Phalangeal (MCP) Joint Replacement Programme 4 weeks post surgery
- Mirror Therapy for Patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Oedema Management Techniques – Coban Wrap
- Oedema Management Techniques – Retrograde Massage
- Osteoarthritis of the Thumb
- Paedatric Hand Therapy Service
- Paedatric Hand Therapy Service
- Proximal Inter-Phalangeal (PIP) Joint Injury
- Push Thumb Brace
- Recovering from Gynaecological Surgery
- Rehabilitation after a Thumb Flexor Tendon Repair
- Scar Tissue Management Post Natal
- Silicone for Scars
- Total Hip / Knee Replacement post-operative FAQs
- Trigger Finger
- Videofluoroscopy Clinic (Adult)
Trauma and orthopaedics
- 5th Metatarsal Fracture
- Ankle Fracture (Weber type A)
- Clavicle (Collar Bone) Injuries: A Guide for Patients
- Deep Vein Thrombosis Advice for Fracture Clinic Patients
- Fracture Clinic
- Radial Head or Neck Fracture
- Scapula (Shoulder Blade) Injuries: A Guide for Patients
- Smoking and Orthopaedic Surgery
- Toe Fracture (excluding big toe)
- Vitamin C in Pain Management
Trust-wide leaflets
- General information booklet
- Going home – discharge information for patients
- Information for overseas visitors – hospital treatment and paying for care
