Welcome to the patient information library. We are currently in the process of reviewing and re-publishing all of our patient information leaflets, which means they may not all be available below at this time.
Accident and Emergency
- Same Day Emergency Care Leaflet
- Going to the Accident and Emergency Department (Easy Read)
- Intravenous Iron Infusion
- MySelfCare leaflets
Acute Medicine
- Prevention and Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE)
- Do you or someone you know suffer with medicine allergies?
Anaesthesia
- Advice for Patients having treatment under Local Anaesthetic and Intravenous Sedation
- Important information for adults accompanying patients having treatment under intravenous sedation
Audiology
- Brandt-Daroff Exercises
- Semont Manouvre
- Epley Manoeuvre-Left Ear
- Epley Manoeuvre-Right Ear
- Vestibular Assessment Clinic
- Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
- Vestibular Rehabilitation Cawthorne-Cooksie Exercises
- Glue Ear
- Understanding and managing your tinnitus
Breast Services
- Breast Assessment Clinic
- Physiotherapy exercises for breast pain with chest wall musculoskeletal symptoms (The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust)
Blood Transfusion
Bowel Cancer Screening
Cancer Services
Carers
Cardiology
- Coronary Angiogram-Angioplasty – Radial Approach Post Procedure Care
- Coronary Angiogram-Angioplasty – Femoral Approach Post Procedure Care
- Coronary Angiogram-Angioplasty – AngioSeal Closure Device
- Permanent Pacemaker Pulse Generator Change
- Patient Initiated Follow up (PIFU) – Cardiology
- Inserting a Pacemaker
- Cardiac Stress Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Colorectal
- Colorectal Multi-Disciplinary Team
- Patient Initiated Follow up (PIFU) – Stoma Care
- Anorectal Manometry
Community Paediatrics
- Autism Spectrum Disorder – Diagnostic Assessment in Children
- Epilepsy and seizure management in children and young people
- Community Nursing Service for Children with Learning Disabilities
- Community Children’s Nursing Service Information for Families and Referring Professionals
- Specialist Nurse for Children and Young People with Autism-suspected Autism
- Ordering Medical Supplies for your Child in the Community
- How to use the Aerochamber
- Advice on where to get repeat prescriptions for children on ADHD medication
- Specialist nurse trainers for children with disabilities
Complaints
Critical Care
Dermatology
Diabetes
Dietetics
- Low Fibre Diet Sheet
- Healthy Eating for Gestational Diabetes
- Nourishing Drink Recipes
- Eating with an Oesophageal Stent
- Advice to modify the fibre content of your diet
- 100kcal Food First Boosters
Discharge
Ear, nose and throat
Endoscopy
- Welcome to the Endoscopy unit
- How to take your bowel preparation
- Transnasal Endoscopy
- Colonic Polyps: Information after polypectomy
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography (ERCP)
- Therapeutic Gastroscopy OesophagoGastroDuodenoscopy and dilatation
- Colonoscopy Information Leaflet
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Information
- Gastroscopy – The Procedure Explained
- Inpatient Gastroscopy
- Colonic Polyps
- Information regarding large or complex polypectomy during colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy
- What is a PEG?
- How to take your bowel preparation prior to endoscopic procedure
Falls Prevention
Gastrointestinal
- Upper gastrointestinal multidisciplinary team Lincoln
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Functional Bowel Disease Service Hydrogen Methane Breath Test
General
- Giving consent (Easy Read)
- Tell us about your Hospital Stay (Easy Read)
- Staying in hospital (Easy Read)
- Leaving hospital (Easy Read)
- Having a Pre-operation assessment (Easy Read)
- Having a general anaesthetic (Easy Read)
Gynaecology
- Emergency Gynaecology Assessment Unit
- Colposcopy Aftercare Information
- Reviewing your cervical screening history
- Colposcopy Multi-Disciplinary Team
- Early Medical Termination at Home
- LINC Support
- Post Miscarriage Pregnancy Testing
- Conservative management of cervical intraepithelia neoplasia grade 2
Haematology
- Extravasation
- Nurse led Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance telephone clinic
- Lung Cancer Team – Pilgrim Hospital
- Radioactive Iodine Ablation Therapy
- Desmopressin DDAVP treatment
- Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist Service for Brain and Central Nervous System Tumours
- Radiotherapy – Temozolomide Information for Grade 3 to 4 Glioma – Astrocytoma – Glioblastoma
- Administering subcutaneous Cytarabine at home
- Taking Dexamethasone when you have a brain tumour
- Seizures (fits) and brain tumours
- Deep Vein Thrombosis, Pulmonary Embolism and Brain Tumours
- Gynaecological Brachytherapy (Internal Radiotherapy) – Endometrium
- Gynaecological Brachytherapy (Internal Radiotherapy) – Cervix
- Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapies and Eating
- Prostate Seed Brachytherapy Pre-op Preparations
- Specialist Family Practitioners Oncology, Palliative and Bereavement Team
- Oncology Transition Service
- Suspected Lung Cancer Pathway
- Haematology Clinical Nurse Specialist Service
- Personalised Care in Cancer
- Scalp Cooling – a guide for patients
- Having a Bone Marrow Biopsy
- Androgen Receptor Targeted Agents in the treatment of Metastatic Prostate Cancer
- Skegness Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) Cancer Treatment Area
Head and neck
Health care of older people
Infection Prevention and Control
- Carbapenemase Producing Gram Negative Organisms Patient Information
- Isolation Precautions
- Clostridioides difficile Glutamate Dehydrogenase positive – Toxin negative
- Influenza
- Norovirus
- Looking After Your Cannula
- Penicillin Allergies and Sensitivities: a Guide for Patients Staying in Hospital
Macmillan
- Macmillan Oncology Transition Service
- Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist Service for Brain and Central Nervous System Tumours
- Radiotherapy – Temozolomide Information for Grade 3 to 4 Glioma – Astrocytoma – Glioblastoma
Maternity
- Antenatal hand expression
- Antenatal Toolkit – midwife resource
- Antenatal Toolkit – parent resource
- Iron Infusion in pregnancy
- Low iron levels in your blood during pregnancy
- Mothers Breastfeeding Checklist
- Maternity Tobacco Dependence Service
- Sepsis – understanding serious infection in pregnancy and after birth
- Fear of Childbirth
- Choosing to have your first baby birth at home
- Choosing home birth if you have had a baby before
- Foley Balloon Catheter Induction of Labour
- Large for Gestational Age
- Pre-labour Rupture of Membranes at Term
- Baby information for mothers who take medication to support their mental health in pregnancy
- Low Dose Aspirin 75 to 150mg in Pregnancy
- Vitamin K and Your New Baby
- Fit for the Future – essential advice and exercises following childbirth
- Healthy Eating for Gestational Diabetes
- Healthier You NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) September 2024
- Helping your breastfed baby to get all the milk he or she needs
- Dads and partners information – Maternity Unit – Lincoln County Hospital
- Dads and partners information – Neonatal Unit – Lincoln County Hospital
- Dads and partners information – Neonatal Unit – Pilgrim Hospital
- Dads and partners information – Maternity Unit, Pilgrim Hospital
- Guidance for bereaved parents wishing to take their baby home
- Postnatal toolkit
- Sterile water injections during labour
Medical Examiner Service
Neonatal services
Neurology
- Adult Electroencephalogram tests in the Clinical Neurophysiology Department
- Adult Sleep Deprived Electroencephalogram tests in the Clinical Neurophysiology Department
- Childrens Electroencephalogram tests in the Clinical Neurophysiology Department
- Children’s Melatonin Assisted Sleep Electroencephalogram on Safari Ward Lincoln County Hospital
- Children’s Sleep Deprived Electroencephalogram tests in the Clinical Neurophysiology Department
- Nerve Conduction Studies Electromyography tests in the Clinical Neurophysiology Department
- Somato-Sensory Evoked Potential tests in the Clinical Neurophysiology Department
- Nerve Conduction Studies tests in the Clinical Neurophysiology Department
- Visual Evoked Response tests in the Clinical Neurophysiology Department
- Ambulatory Electroencephalogram tests in the Clinical Neurophysiology Department
- Your Local Adult Epilepsy Nursing Service
Nuclear medicine
- Your Bone Scan explained
- Your Renogram explained
- Your Cystogram explained
- Your Meckels Scan explained
- Your Biliary Scan explained
- Your GI Tract Scan explained
- Your Heart Scan Explained
- Your Lung Perfusion Scan explained
- Your Differential Lung Function Scan explained
- Your lung VQ scan explained
- Your MUGA Scan explained
- Your Parathyroid Scan Explained
- Your SeHCAT study explained
- Paediatric DMSA (Dimercaptosuccinic acid) Kidney Scan
- Your Tektrotyd Scan explained
- Your Sentinel Lymph Node Procedure explained
- Your Liver and Spleen Scan explained
- Your Radioiodine Therapy for Hyperthyroidism Explained
- Zog and the Gamma Camera
- Your Glomerular Filtration Rate Test explained
- Your DaTSCAN explained
Obstetrics
Ophthalmology
- Minus-Lens Therapy
- Children’s Low Vision Clinic
- Dacrocystorhinostomy
- How to carry out your dot card exercises
- Children’s Glasses
- Adult Squint Surgery with Adjustable Sutures
- Convergence Insufficiency
- How to do smooth convergence exercises
- How to do stereogram exercises – near and distance
- Correcting a Squint (adult) leaflet
- Correcting a Squint (child) leaflet
- Botulinum A Toxin Injection for Blepharospasm and Hemifacial Spasm
- Two stage surgery for the removal of eyelid lumps
- Eye Removal Surgery
- Eyelid Surgery – what to expect
- Dilating Eye Drops for Children and Babies
- Squint, Lazy Eye and Glasses
- Amblyopia (lazy eye) – Information for parents
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Orthopaedics
- Flat Feet in Children – Information for Parents
- Intoeing in Children – Information for Parents
- Bow Legs and Knock Knees in Children – Information for Parents
- Pin site care
- Toe walking in children
- Relieving Heel Pressure whilst in a Cast
- Information whilst attending hospital for assessment in the virtual fracture clinic
Outpatients
Patient Advice and Liaison Service
Patient Experience
Patient Safety
Pharmacy
- Homecare Medicines Service – Information for Patients
- Self-Administration of Medicine
- Storing medicines at home
Phlebotomy
Physiotherapy
- Musculoskeletal Injection Therapy
- Aquatic Physiotherapy
- Coping with Breathlessness
- Knee exercises
- Total Knee Replacement Exercises
- Total Hip Replacement Exercises
- Moderate Cuff Repair
- Posterior stabilisation
- Humeral fracture
- Clavicle fracture
- Capsular release or MUA
- Applying a Shoulder Polysling
- Achilles Tendinopathy Exercises
- Ankle Fracture Exercises
- Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome
- Ankle Sprain Exercises
- Plantar fasciitis Exercises
- Weaver Dunn, Acromial-Clavicular Joint Stabilisation
Radiology
- CT Colonogram
- Deep (inpatient) percutaneous image guided biopsy
- CT Colonogram Aftercare
- Superficial (outpatient) Ultrasound Guided Percutaneous Biopsy
- Insertion of an inferior vena cava filter placement
- varicolele embolisation
- Fistulogram, fistuloplasty and venoplasty
- MRI Enterography small bowel scan
- MRI Arthrogram
- Having a CT Scan (Easy Read)
- Having a MRI (Easy Read)
- Having an X Ray (Easy Read)
- Having an Ultrasound Scan (Easy Read)
- Fine Needle Aspiration
- Information about your CT Scan
- Antegrade ureteric stent insertion
- Oesophageal stent insertion
- Percutaneous nephrostomy
- Radiologically inserted gastrostomy
- Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram drainage and stent
- Image guided percutaneous drainage
- Angiogram and angioplasty (including stent insertion)
- Radiotherapy for rectal cancer or cancer of the anal canal
- Having a Lung Biopsy (Radiology)
Rehabilitation Medicine
Respiratory Medicine
- Lung Clinical Nurse Specialist Lincoln
- What is a Flexible Bronchoscopy?
- Pulmonary Nodule
- Information for patients attending for lung function tests
- Information for patients attending for lung function tests with bronchodilator response (reversibility)
- Information for patients attending for a bronchial-challenge test (mannitol challenge test)
- Information for patients attending for overnight pulse oximetry
- Information for patients attending for a 6 minute walk test
- Instructions for Overnight Oximetry
- Patient Initiated Follow up (PIFU) – Respiratory Medicine
- Information for patients starting Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) treatment
- Information for patients starting Non-Invasive Ventilation
- Information for patients attending for a Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test
- Information for patients attending for blood gas testing
- Information for patients having Respiratory Polygraphy at home (sleep study)
- Information for patients attending for an estimated shunt fraction test
Safeguarding
- Domestic Abuse
- Consent for Children and Young People Transitioning to Adult Services
- Useful information for patients who are homeless in Lincoln
- Useful information for patients who are homeless in Grantham
- Useful information for patients who are homeless in Boston
- Safeguarding Children and Young People – A Guide for Families
Specialist Family Practitioners Oncology, Palliative and Bereavement Team
Surgery
- General Anaesthetic
- Spinal Anaesthetic
- How to use your methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) screen postal kit
- Minor skin surgery under local anaesthetic