Prehabilitation (Surgery): Introduction and goal setting
Advice to help you proactively manage your physical and mental health while you prepare for your upcoming treatment
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Prehabilitation (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 morePremature prelabour rupture of membranes
Very infrequently, a woman’s waters break many weeks before her baby is due; it happens in about 1 in 50 pregnancies.
Read morePreparation for deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH) radiotherapy treatment for left sided breast cancer
How to practice DIBH in preparation for radiotherapy
Read morePreparing for adulthood - making decisions
For parents and carers of young people who lack capacity and who are approaching the age of 16. It explains about the Mental Capacity Act and how decisions are made in a person’s ‘best interest’
Read morePreparing for laser treatment for diabetic retinopathy and maculopathy
Answers questions people with diabetic retinopathy commonly ask about laser treatment
Read morePreparing for surgery if you have diabetes
Advice on how to best prepare for an operation or procedure if you have diabetes
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 morePreparing your skin prior to surgery
Instructions for patients coming into the Royal Berkshire Hospital for an operation or procedure - how to prepare your skin using washes
Read morePrescribed Footwear May23
Advice to patients who have been supplied with prescribed footwear from the Orthotics Department
Read morePressure ulcers prevention in children
Explains what pressure ulcers are and gives advice on how to lessen the risk of getting them
Read morePreterm birth clinic
This leaflet explains what happens at our specialist clinic, which monitors and treats those at a higher risk of spontaneous late miscarriage early preterm (premature) birth.
Read morePreterm birth: Information for parents of babies born early around 25 weeks gestation
Link takes you to Neonatal Network South East website for information if your baby has been born between 22 and 24 weeks gestation, known as pre-term birth (PTB).
Read morePreventing falls and improving safety
Reducing the risk of falls by keeping mobile and carrying out regular, safe activity to remain independent
Read morePreventing perineal tears: Advice and suggestions
This leaflet has been produced to help you prepare your perineum and pelvic floor muscles for the birth of your baby/babies. This will help to minimise the risk of perineal tears during birth.
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