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Patient Information Leaflets
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Dental pain
Gives advice on next steps for people who have attended A&E with toothache
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguarding (DoLS)
DoLS protects people aged 18 years and over who lack mental capacity or are not able to make a decision about their care or treatment.
Dermatology Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU)
What the Dermatology Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU) service is and how it can help you manage your condition
Dermatology Wig Service
Information about prescribing of your wig
Descemet's membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) surgery
Tells you what to expect if you have DMEK surgery – an operation on the cornea of the eye – along with its risks and potential benefits
Descemet's stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK) surgery
Explains what DSEK (corneal graft surgery) entails
DEXA scan
Why you may need a scan used to diagnose or assess a person’s risk of osteoporosis
Diabetes and pregnancy planning
If you have diabetes, and you are thinking about having a baby, then this information is for you. If you have diabetes and do not plan to have a baby just yet, it is still important that you have this information for the future.
Diabetes care in pregnancy: Type 1 and Type 2
If you are pregnant and have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes this leaflet aims to outline the care offered at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.
Diabetes screening in Maternity
You have been given this leaflet as you have been identified as being at risk from gestational diabetes. It explains how we diagnose this condition.
Diabetic kidney damage
Outlines steps you can take to minimise diabetic kidney damage
Diabetic macular oedema (DMO)
Explains what DMO is and how it is treated, including the risks and benefits
Diabetic retinopathy and normal vaginal delivery
This statement from the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust’s Department of Ophthalmology (Eye Department) relates to diabetic retinopathy and vaginal birth.
Diagnostic and therapeutic pleural (lung) aspiration
For patients who are to undergo a diagnostic or therapeutic pleural aspiration - removal of fluid from around the lung
Diagnostic Coronary (DC) Angiography
Outlines information and advice you should follow to help understand this procedure for patients on the DC Angiography waiting list
Diagnostic laparoscopy
You have been advised to have a diagnostic laparoscopy to help find the cause of your symptoms and to help your gynaecologist make a diagnosis. This leaflet outlines the common reasons doctors recommend this operation, what will happen when you come into hospital, the potential benefits and risks, and what to expect when you go home.
Diarrhoea - Help with eating if you have diarrhoea
Advice on preventing and controlling diarrhoea
Diathermy loop excision (LLETZ)
This leaflet aims to help women who are having a diathermy loop excision under either a local or a general anaesthetic.
Different ways to take the Combined Pill
Explains the different ways to take the combined contraceptive pill
Digital assessments using PROMS for patients having radiotherapy treatment
How you can use digital assessments to record your treatment progression and outcomes, in order to help improve services