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Newly-diagnosed diabetes
Last updated on Friday, September 19, 2025
What is the study about? To further understand the development and progression of type 1 diabetes and to establish a resource to facilitate type 1 diabetes research. Who can take part? Newly diagnosed diabetic children aged 1-16 years of age, within 6 months of diagnosis. Siblings of newly...
read moreAssessment
Last updated on Thursday, January 30, 2020
When you are reviewed in the Lymphodema clinic, the clinical nurse specialists will assess your condition and will provide a diagnosis and treatment plan. The assessment will involve taking your past medical history and current medications, so it would be useful to bring your medications with yo...
read moreEnhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS)
Last updated on Monday, November 30, 2020
Enhanced recovery is the name given to a programme that aims to get you back to your normal health as quickly as possible after a major operation. Hospital staff look at all the evidence of what you and they can do before, during and after your surgery to help give you the best chances for a quic...
read moreMDT Coordinators
Last updated on Friday, May 24, 2024
The MDT co-ordinators are responsible for entering all patients with a suspected cancer onto the Somerset Cancer database. This system then allows the co-ordinators to track the patients through out patients, diagnostics and co-ordinate results for discussion at Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meet...
read moreContact Us
Last updated on Friday, April 19, 2024
‘If you have any ideas of how we could improve our service please let us know. We welcome comments good and bad, as we wish to provide the best service possible and your feedback will help us to do that. To request and or change your appointment please use the How to Request (&/or Change) a...
read moreHearing Aid Fitting Appointments
Last updated on Tuesday, July 31, 2018
The hearing aid fitting will normally last for one hour. At this appointment the audiologist will use a computer to programme your hearing aids so that they suit you and give you the best results. You will be shown how to use and care for your hearing aids and how to get the best from them....
read moreAdvanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS)
Last updated on Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Advanced Paediatric Life Support is taught, and its principles practised throughout the world. Over 83,000 candidates have completed the course since its inception in 1993. The 3-day APLS course comprises of a flexible one-day on-line component (VLE) and a two-day face-to-face course. Candidates...
read moreCare Standards
Last updated on Friday, April 20, 2018
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the government body which regulates all health and social care providers. As an NHS Trust we are required to meet the CQC’s ‘Essential Standards of Quality and Safety’. These are a set of 16 regulations which define what patients should expect to experience w...
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