Pre-operative assessment (Easy Read)
Easy read information about what to expect when you go to hospital for a pre-operative (pre-op) assessment
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People
Number of people in A&E department
1:07
Hours
Average wait to be seen by a clinician
1:34
Hours
Average time in the department
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Prehabilitation (Surgery): Introduction and goal setting
Advice to help you proactively manage your physical and mental health while you prepare for your upcoming treatment
Read morePrehabilitation (Surgery): Managing anxiety and low mood
Advice to help you proactively manage your physical and mental health while you prepare for your upcoming treatment
Read morePrehabilitation (Surgery): Pain management
Advice to help you proactively manage your physical and mental health while you prepare for your upcoming treatment
Read morePrehabilitation (Surgery): Quit smoking and reduce your alcohol intake
Advice to help you proactively manage your physical and mental health while you prepare for your upcoming treatment
Read morePrehabilitation (Surgery): Sleep better
Advice to help you proactively manage your physical and mental health while you prepare for your upcoming treatment
Read morePrehabilitation (Surgery): Weight management and healthy eating
Advice to help you proactively manage your physical and mental health while you prepare for your upcoming treatment
Read morePrehabilitation: Physical activities
Advice to help you proactively manage your physical and mental health while you prepare for your upcoming treatment
Read morePreparing your skin prior to orthopaedic surgery
Instructions for preparing your skin using washes for patients coming into hospital for an orthopaedic operation
Read moreRadiology examination results
Explains the process of getting your results following an examination in the Radiology (X-ray) Department at the Royal Berkshire Hospital
Read moreRadiology Team
Information to help distinguish between the different staff members you may meet at your appointment and to understand their role in your care
Read moreRadiotherapy to the head and neck
Information for patients beginning radiotherapy treatment for head and neck cancers
Read moreReducing or pausing medication immediately before surgery
Signposts people coming in for planned surgery to information about some medications that may need to be reduced or paused before the operation and what to do
Read moreRheumatology patient initiated follow-up (PIFU)
Explains what the Rheumatology Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU) service is and how it can help you manage your condition
Read moreScar massage following skin surgery
Outlines the benefits of scar massage following skin surgery, and explains how to do it
Read moreStroke Unit discharge
Explains the services you may be referred to upon leaving the Stroke Unit and provides information on medication and driving after a stroke
Read moreSugammadex contraception advice
Contraception advice for patients who have received an anaesthetic drug called Sugammadex
Read moreTesticular ultrasound
Information about a testicular sonogram or scrotal ultrasound) – a test to look at the testes (balls) and scrotum
Read moreTransition from primary to secondary school (Audiology)
Advice to help you to hear as well as possible when you move to secondary school
Read moreTransnasal endoscopy aftercare advice
Advice following transnasal oesophago-gastro duodenoscopy (TNE), also known simply as a transnasal endoscopy
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