Patient Information Leaflets for the Public (Large Print)
Waiting in our Emergency Department
Acute medicine
Anaesthetics
- Anaesthesia for Thoracic Surgery
- Caudal Block pain relief for children
- 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
- Blood Transfusion Refusal Information for Adults
- Breast Personalised Stratified Follow-Up (PSFU)
- Breast Personalised Stratified Follow-Up (PSFU) Annual mammogram
- Breast Personalised Stratified Follow-Up 5 year Programme (PSFU)
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Advice for Cancer Patients - Electrochemotherapy
- Head and Neck Cancer and Your Dental Care
- Help with travel costs
- Information for Women Recalled to the Breast Screening Assessment Clinic
- Psychological Support for People Affected by Cancer
- Rapid Diagnostic Cancer Clinic Psychology Service
- Syringe Pump, McKinley T34
- Teenagers and Young Adults Cancer Service
- Vacuum Assisted Excision Procedure
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
Chest medicine
Children’s services
- Acarizax® Treatment for House Dust Mite Allergy
- Back Pain in Children
- Bowel Atresia
- Cerebral Palsy
- Chicken Pox
- Children and Young People’s Epilepsy Services
- Constipation in Children
- Croup
- Delayed Onset Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy
- Early Onset Neonatal Sepsis
- Febrile Convulsions: Information for Parents
- First Afebrile Seizure in Children and Adolescents
- Food Challenge
- Functional Abdominal Pain
- Gastroschisis
- Grazax® Sublingual Immunotherapy
- Having a CT Scan: what should I know?
- Having a DMSA scan: what should I know?
- Headache in Children and Young People
- Hydrocephalus and Shunts Information for Parents
- Infant Reflux
- Inguinal Hernia in Boys
- Investigations after Your Child’s Urinary Tract Infection
- Keeping Kidneys Healthy in Children
- Jungle ward
- Keloid Scars in Paediatrics
- Malrotation and Volvulus
- Measles
- Meconium Ileus
- Micturating Cystourethrogram (MCUG)
- Antibiotics for an MCUG
- Necrotising Enterocolitis
- Neonatal Jaundice
- Nurse-Led Prolonged Jaundice Screening
- Paediatric Breathing Clinic
- Paediatric Ganglion
- Paediatric Hand Therapy Service
- Paediatric Neuropsychology Service: Neuropsychological Assessment
- Paediatric Neuropsychology Service: Treatment
- Paediatric Urodynamic Test
- Posterior Urethral Valves
- Pressure Ulcers Prevention in Children
- Preventing Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) in Children
- Prolonged Neonatal Jaundice
- Reactive Lymphadenopathy
- Sleep Hygiene for Teens
- Special Educational Needs clinic (SEN clinic)
- Supervised Feed
- Tenotomy in the Older Child
- Tibialis Anterior Tendon Transfer (TATT)
- 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
- 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
- Plaster of Paris
- Prolonged Neonatal Jaundice
- Pulled Elbow
- Radial Head or Neck Fracture in Children
- Roseola
- Scarlet Fever
- Tonsillitis in Children
- Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (URTI)
- Wound Care Advice
Chronic pain service
Clinical neurophysiology
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Nerve Conduction Studies (NCS) and Electromyogram (EMG)
- Paediatric Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Colorectal
Community services
- Community Breastfeeding Support in your Area
- Contractures
- Personal Wheelchair Budgets
- Post Discharge Assistance, Epsom and Ewell Borough
- Post Discharge Assistance, Kingston Borough
- Post Discharge Assistance, Merton Borough
- Post Discharge Assistance, Richmond Borough
- Post Discharge Assistance, Surrey Borough
- Post Discharge Assistance, Sutton Borough
- Post Discharge Assistance, Wandsworth Borough
- The BOOST Course
- Useful Community Contacts When Leaving Hospital
Day surgery unit
- Coming to the Day Surgery Unit
- Pregnancy Advisory Service: Surgical Termination of Pregnancy
- Surgery Under Local Anaesthetic
Dentistry
Dermatology
- After your skin biopsy
- Application of Skin Camouflage
- Foot Care
- Hair Loss Camouflage
- Metformin for Hidradenitis Suppurativa
- Referral for Skin Camouflage
- Shingles
- Vulval Skin Care
Diabetes and endocrinology
Diagnostic and X-ray Services
- Abdominal Biopsy (Kidney/Liver) Post Procedure Instructions
- Breast Needle Biopsy
- Breast Personalised Stratified Follow-Up (PSFU) Annual mammogram
- Central Venous Catheter Insertion
- Fistulogram and/or Fistuloplasty Aftercare
- 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
- Implanted Port (Portacath) Insertion
- Implantable Arm Ports
- MRI Scanning (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
- MRI Arthrogram
- MRI Scan for Babies using Feed and Wrap Technique
- MRI Scans in Pregnancy
- MRI Scans in Pregnancy in First Level, First Trimester or with Contrast
- MRI Small Bowel Study
- Pelvic Ultrasound Outpatient Appointment
- 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
- Jaw Exercises
- Saliva Maintenance
- Swallow Maintenance
- Swallow Rehabilitation
- Tongue Exercises
- Voice Care
Emergency
- Emergency Department (A&E)
- Achilles Tendon Rupture Advice
- Advice for Patients Being Discharged Following an Accident or Assault
- Atrial Fibrillation and Anticoagulation Therapy
- Domestic Abuse Services Directory
- Early Pregnancy Unit (EPU)
- 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
- Testing for Blood Clots during or after Pregnancy
- Treatment Escalation Plans and Do Not Attempt Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation decisions
- Wound Care Advice
Endoscopy
- Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)
- ERCP
- Entonox use in Endoscopic Procedures
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Gastroscopy
- PEG Insertion
- Transnasal Endoscopy
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- The ABC of Living with Cirrhosis
- Azathioprine for Autoimmune Hepatitis
- Bezafibrate for Primary Biliary Cholangitis
- Bravo® Studies (Wireless pH monitoring)
- High Resolution Oesophageal Manometry and pH Studies
- Hydrogen Breath Tests
- Hydrogen Breath Test elimination diet
- Metabolic Dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD)
General Surgery
Gynaecology
- Colposcopy
- Endometriosis Management: Information and Decision Aid
- Gynaecology Diagnostic Outpatient Appointment
- Gynaecology Same Day Emergency Care Pathway
- Gynaecology Two Week Referral Clinic
- Hormone Implants as Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
- Laparoscopy
- Laparoscopic Myomectomy
- LLETZ Treatment
- Management of Miscarriage
- Manual Vacuum Aspiration
- Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTOP)
- Pelvic Ultrasound Outpatient Appointment
- Pregnancy Advisory Clinic
- Pregnancy Advisory Service: Surgical Termination of Pregnancy
- Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy
- Trans-cervical Resection of Endometrium
- Trans-cervical Resection of Fibroid or Polyp
Haematology
- Adult Haemophilia Service
- Anticoagulation for Left Ventricular Thrombus
- Blood Transfusion Refusal Information for Adults
- Breaking the Cycle: Sickle cell and thalassaemia pain management
- CAR-T Therapy
- Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
- How to use an Incentive Spirometer. For Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
- Information about Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassaemia (for Adults)
- Intravenous Iron Infusion
- Open Access INR Test
- Pulmonary Embolus
- Red Cell Pain Management & Psychology Service
- Stop the Clot
- Stopping Anticoagulants prior to Surgery or a Procedure
- Stopping Anticoagulants
- Syringe Pump, McKinley T34
- Testing for Blood Clots during or after Pregnancy
- Transfusion Alternatives for Patients Who Refuse Blood Components and Products
Hand Therapy
- The Hand Therapy Service
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Compression Gloves
- Dupuytren’s Contracture: Rehabilitation following surgery
- Hand Therapy X-ray Results
- Neoprene Braces for Thumb Osteoarthritis
- Paediatric Hand Therapy Service
- Proximal Interphalangeal (PIP) Joint Replacement Surgery and Rehabilitation
- Serial Casting for stiff joints
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 Reduction (Decolonisation) Treatment
Inpatients
- Bringing Your Own Medicines into Hospital
- Falls Prevention in Hospital
- Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA)
- Persistent Pain
- Pressure Ulcers Prevention
- Pressure Ulcers Prevention in Children
- Treatment Escalation Plans and Do Not Attempt Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation decisions
Major trauma
Maternity
- Anomaly / Mid-pregnancy Scan
- Antenatal Perineal Massage
- Breastfeeding and Tongue Tie
- Carmen Antenatal Ward
- Carmen Birth Centre: Our Philosophy of Care
- Community Breastfeeding Support in your Area
- Donor Human Milk
- Early Labour / Latent Phase of Labour
- Early Onset Neonatal Sepsis
- Early Pregnancy Unit (EPU)
- Epidural Blood Patch
- Headache after Childbirth
- 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
- Placenta Accreta Spectrum
- Postnatal Hypertension
- Pregnancy Exercise Class
- Preventing Blood Clots in Pregnancy and After Birth
- Prolonged Neonatal Jaundice
- Remifentanil PCA (Patient Controlled Analgesia)
- Testing for Blood Clots during or after Pregnancy
- Understanding what happened. PMRT review
- Welcome to Gwillim Ward
- Your Choice of Feeding Method
- Your Preterm Baby
Newborn Services
- Anorectal Malformations
- Bowel Atresia
- Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH)
- Early Onset Neonatal Sepsis
- Gastroenteritis
- Inguinal Hernia in Boys
- Long Lines and Central Lines
- Malrotation and Volvulus
- Meconium Ileus
- Necrotising Enterocolitis
- Neonatal Jaundice
- Nurse-Led Prolonged Jaundice Screening
- Oesophageal Atresia with Tracheo-oesophageal Fistula
- Posterior Urethral Valves
- Prolonged Neonatal Jaundice
Neurology
- Adult Home 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
- Diagnostic Clinical Neuropsychology Service
- Driving after Brain Injury
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Epilepsy Clinical Neuropsychology Service
- Greater Occipital Nerve Block
- Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU)
- Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIg) for Neurological Conditions
- Lemtrada (Alemtuzamab) Infusion Patient Guide
- Listeria Advice for Patients taking Lemtrada (Alemtuzumab)
- Ocrevus (Ocrelizumab) Infusion Patient Guide
- Paediatric Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Paediatric Home 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)
- 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
- What to do if you miss a dose of Fingolimod
- What to do if you miss a dose of siponimod (Mayzent®)
Nuclear medicine
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
- Acarizax® Treatment for House Dust Mite Allergy
- After an Antibiotic Challenge
- Arginine Test
- Carbimazole or Propylthiouracil (PTU)
- Glucagon Test
- Grazax® Sublingual Immunotherapy
- Growth Hormone Therapy
- Insulin Tolerance Test
- Keeping Kidneys Healthy in Children
- 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
- Single Functioning Kidney
- Standard Synacthen Test
- Vulvovaginitis in Prepubertal Children
- Water Deprivation Test
Pharmacy
- Allopurinol Treatment for Gout
- Bringing Your Own Medicines into Hospital
- Corticosteroid Injections
- Medications after an Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)
- MRSA Reduction (Decolonisation) Treatment
- 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
- 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
- Neck Pain
- Pelvic Floor Exercises for Men
- Pelvic Floor Muscle Overactivity
- Physiotherapy and Haemophilia
- Regaining Control of Your Bladder
- Respiratory Outpatient Physiotherapy
- Sport, Exercise and Activity with Haemophilia
- Tibialis Anterior Tendon Transfer (TATT)
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
- Extravasation
- Instructions for the Use of Topical Hydrocortisone 1% Cream
- Keloid Scars in Paediatrics
- Nail Bed Injury
- Nipple Areola Tattooing (Medical Tattooing)
- Nipple Areola Tattooing Aftercare
- Non-Cancer Related Bilateral Mastectomy Discharge Information
- Non-Cancer Related Bilateral Mastectomy Pre-operative Information
- Paediatric Ganglion
- Paediatric Referral to Plastic Surgery Department
- Paronychia
- Prominent Ears
- Referral for Skin Camouflage
- 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
Podiatric surgery
Pre-operative Information
Rehabilitation services
Renal Services
- ArterioVenous Fistula (AVF) Formation for Haemodialysis
- Blood Transfusion Refusal Information for Adults
- Donating a kidney if you live overseas
- Follow up after donating a kidney
- Going Home after Fistula and Graft Creation
- Keeping Kidneys Healthy in Children
- Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy aftercare
- Live donor nephrectomy: your operation
- Removal of a ureteric stent following a kidney transplant
- Renal 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
- Taking Tolvaptan
- The National Living Donor Kidney Sharing Scheme
- Urinary Tract Infections as a Transplant Recipient
Respiratory
Rheumatology
Switching from Humira to Yuflyma
Switching from Idacio to Yuflyma
Switching from RoActemra to Tyenne
Senior Health
- Falls Prevention in Hospital
- Constipation
- Foot Care
- Learning to Control Your Bowels
- Mary Seacole Ward
- Shingles
- Supporting Nutrition in Dementia
- Treatment Escalation Plans and Do Not Attempt Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation decisions
- Useful Community Contacts When Leaving Hospital
Sexual health
Specialist medicine
Speech & Language Therapy
- Aphasia Following Brain Injury
- Jaw Exercises
- Maintaining your Swallow Function after Head and Neck Treatment
- Saliva Maintenance
- Speech and Language Therapy for Motor Neuron Disease
- Speech and Language Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease
- Swallow Maintenance
- Swallow Rehabilitation
- Tongue Exercises
- Voice Care
- Your Choice of Feeding Method
Surgery
Therapies
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and Desensitisation Therapy
- Constipation
- Contractures
- Coping with Everyday Life with a Circular Frame
- Corticosteroid Injections
- Corticosteroid Injection Therapy in the Foot/Ankle
- Exercise & FRESH START
- Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome (GTPS)
- Hand Therapy Service
- Silicone for Scars
- Total Hip / Knee Replacement post-operative FAQs
- Useful Community Contacts When Leaving Hospital
Trauma and Orthopaedics
- 5th Metatarsal Fracture
- Ankle Fracture (Weber type A)
- Clavicle (Collar Bone) Injuries
- Deep Vein Thrombosis Advice for Fracture Clinic Patients
- Driving after Brain Injury
- Fracture Clinic
- Prosthetic Joint Infection
- Radial Head or Neck Fracture
- Scapula (Shoulder Blade) Injuries: A Guide for Patients
- Toe Fracture (excluding big toe)
- Vitamin C in Pain Management
Trust-wide leaflets
- The NHS Complaints Procedure and how it works
- General information booklet
- Going home – discharge information for patients
- Information for overseas visitors – hospital treatment and paying for care
- Treatment Escalation Plans and Do Not Attempt Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation decisions
- Useful Community Contacts When Leaving Hospital
