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. If you cannot find the information you are looking for please contact our Patient Experience Team via email at [email protected]
Accident and Emergency
Acute Medicine
Audiology
- Brandt-Daroff Exercises
- Semont Manouvre
- Vestibular Triage Clinic
- Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
- Vestibular Rehabilitation Cawthorne-Cooksie Exercises
Blood Transfusion
Bowel Cancer Screening
Cancer Services
Colorectal
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
Complaints
Critical Care
Dermatology
Dietetics
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
Falls Prevention
Gastrointestinal
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
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
Head and neck
Infection Prevention and Control
- Carbapenemase Producing Enterobacterales information
- Isolation Precautions
- Clostridioides difficile Glutamate Dehydrogenase positive – Toxin negative
- Influenza
- Norovirus
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
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
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
Obstetrics
- Baby information for mothers who take medication to support their mental health in pregnancy
- Low Dose Aspirin 75 to 150mg in Pregnancy
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
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
Pharmacy
Phlebotomy
Physiotherapy
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