Patient resources

Advice on earwax management

Pharmacy Homecare Medicines Service

Having a stent in the stomach or small bowel (pyloric or duodenal stent)

Checking if you are pregnant before having an X-ray

Going home with a chemotherapy pump

Please note that this booklet should only be used as authorised by a member of the chemotherapy health care team.

Keeping your medicines safe during your stay in hospital

Having a platelets function blood test

Mycophenolate mofetil for eye (ocular) inflammation

Being fed through a tube when your cancer cannot be cured

Please note that this leaflet should only be used as authorised by a member of the Head and Neck Healthcare Team.

Information about your immunotherapy treatment for cancer

How to use crutches after your foot operation

Having indoor daylight photodynamic therapy to treat your skin condition

Having conventional photodynamic therapy to treat your skin condition

Having surgery for pain in the ball of your foot (metatarsalgia)

Managing chest pain caused by inflamed joints in your rib cage (costochondritis)

Having surgery to remove bone spurs from your big toe

Having a capsule endoscopy to examine your small and/or large bowel – instructions after swallowing capsule

Treatment options for vaginal prolapse

Having a capsule endoscopy to examine your small and/or large bowel

Recovery after an overnight stay for major gynaecological surgery