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Arrowe Eye Casualty
Last updated on Monday, August 16, 2021
The emergency eye service is based in the eye clinic at Arrowe Park Hospital. The service is available during working hours for patients with acute eye conditions. Patients are required to be referred to obtain an appointment. Referrals are triaged based on clinical urgency. Out with these hours,...
read moreAvoiding anastomotic leak (breakdown of the bowel repair)
Last updated on Thursday, February 21, 2019
Avoid: Alcohol Smoking It is never too late to stop smoking or drinking and doing this will improve your chances of a good surgical outcome. Eating healthily is also important, especially if you are overweight.
read moreSedation
Last updated on Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Intravenous sedation is the most common form of sedation and is the use of drugs through a cannula in a vein (a drip) to make you feel less anxious and it will often make you drowsy or sleepy. The drugs may actually make you sleep and the drugs can make you forget what has happened. Other ways of...
read moreFriends and Family Test Cards
Last updated on Thursday, March 14, 2024
What is an FFT card? WUTH asks our patients to fill out a Friends and Family Test (FFT) card. This short survey helps the hospital improve care. On the card, you answer one main question: Overall, how was your experience of our service? Demographic Questions The card also asks some questio...
read moreSmoking in pregnancy
Last updated on Wednesday, September 4, 2024
About The study is testing whether some new ways of using Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) could help women to stop smoking and could improve women’s and babies’ health. Who can take part Pregnant person who is less than 25 weeks pregnant Smoke 5 or more cigarettes a day Don’t vape...
read moreRare Kidney Conditions
Last updated on Friday, August 9, 2024
About We are looking for patients with a wide range of rare kidney disease. Please visit the RaDaR website to see a full list. Our research nurse will add your medical history and scan / blood results to the national RaDaR database - your information on this database is anonymous. This datab...
read moreHip and knee
Last updated on Monday, June 17, 2024
Hip pain Most cases of hip pain in adults are caused by osteoarthritis, the most common type of arthritis in the UK. This page aims to give you a better idea of whether osteoarthritis or something more unusual is causing your hip pain, and what you can do about it. However, don’t try to diagno...
read moreAdvanced Fibrosis
Last updated on Friday, August 9, 2024
Pearl Study About Pearl We are looking for patients with liver cirrhosis caused by one of the underlying conditions of HCV, HBV, alcohol-related, NAFLD and haemochromatosis, who have never been diagnosed with liver cancer. We are aiming to recruit 20 people to this study. Nation-wide this s...
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