Patient information
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Alcohol liaison service
Anaesthetics, surgery and theatres
- Anaesthesia in breastfeeding mothers - Labour Pains
- You and your anaesthetic - Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Your spinal anaesthetic - Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Enhanced recovery after bowel surgery
- Day surgery centre - Your day case operation
- Daycase arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction
- Looking after your arm and hand after a block
- Peripheral nerve blocks - Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Brachial plexus block for elbow, forearm, wrist and hand surgery
- Interscalene brachial plexus block for shoulder surgery
- Rees Bear has an anaesthetic - Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Royal College of Anaesthetists - Patient information
- Getting ready for surgery
- Theatre admissions unit
- Your child's general anaesthetic - Royal College of Anaesthetists
- General anaesthesia: a brief guide for young people from 12 years old - Royal College of Anaesthetists
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Blood Transfusion
- Anaemia - NHS Blood and Transplant
- Blood groups and red cell antibodies in pregnancy - NHS Blood and Transplant
- Information for patients needing irradiated blood - NHS Blood and Transplant
- Information for patients with sickle cell disease who may need a blood transfusion - NHS Blood and Transplant
- Iron in your diet - NHS Blood and Transplant
- Platelet antigens and antibodies in pregnancy - NHS Blood and Transplant
- Receiving a blood transfusion - NHS Blood and Transplant
- Red cell antibodies
- The Amazing You - Let's learn about blood with Billy and Sally - NHS Blood and Transplant
- Unexpected blood transfusion - NHS Blood and Transplant
- Voyages on the Microsub Discovery - Receiving a blood transfusion (children) - NHS Blood and Transplant
Bone Health
Breast Screening and Assessment Unit
C
Caring for yourself or someone else
Children and young people's services
- Children staying with us for more than 12 weeks
- Children's wards 48-hour open access card
- Community Paediatric Service
- Embrace ambulance transfers - Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Fever / High temperature - Healthier Together
- Helping children and young people in Rotherham get healthy
- How to prepare an antibiotic powder into liquid medication
- Innocent heart murmur
- Screening for retinopathy of prematurity - Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
- Your patient initiated follow up (PIFU)
Community care
Counselling and psychotherapy service
Critical Care
D
Dental
- Dental intravenous (IV) sedation: Instructions for a patient/parent/carer after sedation
- Dental intravenous (IV) sedation: Patient escort information
- Dental treatment under general anaesthetic for children
- Information about dental care using intravenous (IV) sedation for adult patients
- Molar incisor hypomineralisation
- Your child's general anaesthetic for dental treatment - information for parents and guardians
- Oral health advice for tube-fed children and adults
- Toothbrushing tips for people with reduced dexterity
E
Ear care and audiology
- Conductive hearing loss - a guide for parents and carers
- Digital hearing aids - mould fit
- Digital hearing aids - open fit
- Home treatment of BPPV - Brandt-Daroff exercises
- How to care for my Oticon hearing aid (open fit)
- How to care for my Phonak hearing aid (open fit)
- How to use ear drops
- How to use olive oil drops
- Paediatric listening tactics
- Severe to profound hearing loss and cochlear implants
- Tinnitus management
- Using your hearing aid
- Your visit to the hearing department (for children)
G
Gastroenterology
Gynaecology
- Advice for after a Novosure/Myosure procedure
- Bladder retraining
- Cervical screening - Reviewing your cervical screening history - GOV.UK
- Cold coagulation
- Colposcopy
- Cryotherapy
- Cystoscopy aftercare
- Gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogue injections
- Having an hysterosalpingogram
- Having a hysteroscopy as an outpatient
- Heavy menstrual bleeding
- Information about your infertility investigations
- Laparoscopy – recovering well - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Lichen sclerosus
- LLETZ or loop diathermy
- Manual vacuum aspiration (MVA)
- Morcellation for myomectomy or hysterectomy - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Pelvic floor repair operation - recovering well - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS): what it means for your long-term health - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Punch biopsy
- Recurrent miscarriage - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Vulvoscopy and/or vulval biopsy
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Haematology
Healthcare passports and communication cards
- Communication card (How I like to communicate and get information) - Change
- Create a personalised digital communication care - for people who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus - RNID
- Hospital passport for autistic people - National Autistic Society
- Hospital passport for people with learning disabilities
- Hospital passport for people with learning disabilities - Mencap
- Wellbeing passport - A guide to my emotional wellbeing - Mind
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M
Maternity
- After you have had your baby
- Antenatal pelvic floor exercises
- Being overweight in pregnancy and after birth - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Bereavement Support
- Birth after previous caesarean - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Breech baby at the end of pregnancy - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Caring for your perineum after giving birth
- Covid-19 vaccine and pregnancy - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Declining blood or blood products in pregnancy
- Dilapan induction
- Early labour
- Early pregnancy home management advice
- Expressing and storing breastmilk - Breastfeeding Network
- Gestational diabetes - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Giving birth by caesarean section
- Induction of labour
- Iron deficiency anaemia in pregnancy
- How to protect your baby from RSV - UK Health Security Agency
- Labour and birthing positions
- Managing your diabetes during pregnancy - Diabetes UK
- Multiple pregnancy: having more than one baby - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy and hyperemesis gravidarum
- Neonatal jaundice - Bliss
- Pelvic girdle pain and pregnancy - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Perineal tears during childbirth - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Pregnancy loss support
- Protecting you and your baby with anti-D immunoglobulin
- Transferring to another hospital during pregnancy
- Treating ectopic pregnancy, pregnancy of unknown symptoms or trophoblastic symptoms with methotrexate
- Vitamin K
- When your baby has an ectopic or irregular heartbeat
- Whooping cough vaccination in pregnancy - NHS.uk
- Why shouldn't I use a home doppler? - Kicks Count
N
Nutrition support team
O
Orthotics
- Ankle foot orthosis (AFO)
- Aspen neck brace
- Callipers and footwear adaptions
- Compression hosiery
- Elastic band truss
- Epicondylitis brace
- Footwear adaptations
- Knee Ankle Foot Orthosis (KAFO)
- Supporting your scrotal hernia with a bag truss
- Using a helmet
- Using a leg or arm gaiter
- Using a neck brace
- Using a range of motion (ROM) knee brace
- Using a soft skull protector helmet
- Using a spinal brace
- Using a wrist brace
- Using fabric supports
- Using offloading shoes 'Procare'
- Using orthotic insoles
- Using prescription footwear
P
Pregnancy Advisory Service (PAS)
R
Radiology
- After your Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with contrast media
- Ascites - Guts Charity
- Extravasation of contrast following an X-ray or scan
- Fallopian tube recanalisation by selective salpingography
- Having a barium swallow or barium meal
- Having a micturating cystourethrogram
- Having an hysterosalpingogram
- Having an MRI scan
- Having an MRI scan (easy read) - Macmillan
- Having an ultrasound guided ascitic drain
- Having an ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration
- Having an X-ray evacuation proctogram
- Information following an injection of x-ray contrast
- Screening if you have a moderately increased risk of breast cancer
Respiratory
- All about asthma (easy read) - Asthma and Lung UK
- Asthma attack recovery plan - Asthma and Lung UK
- Breathlessness - Asthma and Lung UK
- Bronchiectasis patient passport - Asthma and Lung UK
- COPD patient passport - Asthma and Lung UK
- First steps to living with COPD - Asthma and Lung UK
- Guide to asthma self-management (video playlist by Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust), including:
- Home oxygen therapy - Asthma and Lung UK
- How to stop smoking - Asthma and Lung UK
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) - Asthma and Lung UK
- Living with bronchiectasis - Asthma and Lung UK
- Living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) - Asthma and Lung UK
- Living with pulmonary fibrosis - Asthma and Lung UK
- Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) - Asthma and Lung UK
- Pulmonary fibrosis patient passport - Asthma and Lung UK
- Your exercise handbook - Asthma and Lung UK
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Sexual health
- Advice before the fitting on Intrauterine contraception (copper or hormone coil)
- Cervical screening: helping you decide - Gov.uk
- Choosing to have a vasectomy
- Contraception - Hormonal coil - Contraception Choices
- Copper coil
- Emergency contraception - NHS.uk
- Explaining the vasectomy process (video)
- Genital warts treatment - FPA Women's Health
- Hep C - The Hepatitis C Trust
- Hormonal coil
- Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) - BASHH
- Molluscum contagiosum - BASHH
- Mycoplasma genitalium - BASHH
- Nexplanon implant insertion aftercare advice
- Nexplanon implant removal aftercare advice
- Post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV (PEP) - BASHH
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) - AidsMap
- Protecting your from mpox (monkeypox): information on the smallpox vaccine - UKHSA (Gov.uk)
- Scabies - British Association of Dermatologists
- Syphilis - Sexwise
- Thrush and bacterial vaginosis - Sexwise
- Trichomonas vaginalis - Sexwise
- Tricycling the contraceptive pill
- Vasectomy - post-operative instructions
- Vulval skincare - British Association of Dermatologists
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Urgent and emergency care
Advice about care for children and young people (paediatrics)
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V
Video/virtual appointments
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