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Easy Read information sheets
If you would like this information in another language or format, please contact the Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS).
One of our reasonable adjustments to ensure fair access and outcomes for people with a learning (intellectual) disability is the provision of Easy Read information sheets.
Hospital information
After you have had a tooth out (Easy Read) (422.08 KB)- ECMO (497.48 KB)
- Getting a good night's sleep (Easy Read) (546.37 KB)
- Giving a poo sample (Easy Read) (532.83 KB)
- Giving a wee sample (Easy Read) (306.48 KB)
- Having a blood test (Easy Read) (421.7 KB)
- Having a clinic appointment (Easy Read) (665.56 KB)
- Having a drip (Easy Read) (529.08 KB)
- Having an NG tube (Easy Read) (606.45 KB)
- Having scar injections (Easy Read) (603.79 KB)
- Helping you cope with procedures (Easy Read) (569.66 KB)
- How to complain (Easy Read) (445.7 KB)
- Keeping your bladder healthy (Easy Read) (579.13 KB)
- Keeping your bowels healthy (Easy Read) (536.87 KB)
- Preventing falls (375.13 KB)
Growing up, gaining independence
- Growing up, gaining independence (Easy Read) (586.41 KB)
- Growing up, gaining independence: families (Easy Read) (580.94 KB)
- Growing Up, Gaining Independence: information for families of young people with a learning disability (182.99 KB)
- Confidentiality (Easy Read) (609.21 KB)
- Giving consent (Easy Read) (614.3 KB)
- How the NHS works (Easy Read) (576.84 KB)
- Keeping organised and safe (Easy Read) (578.21 KB)
- Legal and financial stuff (Easy Read) (583.22 KB)
- Managing your appointments (Easy Read) (620.85 KB)
- Seeing the doctor on your own (Easy Read) (578.95 KB)
- Understanding your health (Easy Read) (576.22 KB)
Tests and scans
- Having a 3 minute step test (Easy Read) (496.16 KB)
- Having a 6 minute walk test (Easy Read) (505.7 KB)
- Having a blood clot removed (Easy Read) (582.29 KB)
- Having a bone scan (Easy Read) (575.32 KB)
- Having a brain angiogram (Easy Read) (580.7 KB)
- Having a bronchoscopy (Easy Read) (583.28 KB)
- Having colonic manometry (Easy Read) (213.74 KB)
- Having a check up before you fly information sheet (Easy Read) (429.14 KB)
- Having a contrast enema (Easy Read) (597.11 KB)
- Having a contrast scan (Easy Read) (607.16 KB)
- Having a CT scan (Easy Read) (589.45 KB)
- Having a CT scan under general anaesthetic (Easy Read) (595.24 KB)
- Having a CT scan under sedation (Easy Read) (601.95 KB)
- Having a DEXA scan (Easy Read) (607.16 KB)
- Having a DMSA scan (Easy Read) (597.65 KB)
- Having a foodpipe manometry test (Easy Read) (213.3 KB)
- Having a lung scan (Easy Read) (581.54 KB)
- Having a MAG3 scan (Easy Read) (609.67 KB)
- Having a MCUG bladder scan (Easy Read) (451.89 KB)
- Having a nasal nitric oxide test (Easy Read) (502.21 KB)
- Having a nephrostogram (Easy Read) (626.55 KB)
- Having a nerve block (Easy Read) (406.39 KB)
- Having a pregnancy test (692.22 KB)
- Having a salivary gland scan (Easy Read) (570.44 KB)
- Having a skin prick allergy test (Easy Read) (435.45 KB)
- Having a transit study (Easy Read) (429.15 KB)
- Having a tummy assessment on Squirrel Ward (Easy Read) (571.63 KB)
- Having a venogram (Easy Read) (606.35 KB)
- Having an anorectal manometry test (Easy Read) (518.61 KB)
- Having an Echo (401.61 KB)
- Having an ECG (424.51 KB)
- Having an EGG (Easy Read) (454.75 KB)
- Having an EEG (Easy Read) (482 KB)
- Having an Evoked Potential test (Easy Read) (412.12 KB)
- Having an Exercise Induced Asthma test (Easy Read) (521.11 KB)
- Having an eye angiogram (Easy Read) (513.99 KB)
- Having an ultrasound scan (Easy Read) (610.03 KB)
- Having an x-ray (Easy Read) (606.76 KB)
- Having antroduodenal manometry (Easy Read) (449.41 KB)
- Having BAEP (Easy Read) (403.87 KB)
- Having Home Video Telemetry (HVT) (Easy Read) (406.51 KB)
- Having salivary gland injections (91.28 KB)
- Having SSEP (Easy Read) (403.65 KB)
- Having a sleep EEG (Easy Read) (401.2 KB)
- Having a sleep study (Easy Read) (452.53 KB)
- Having spinal cord monitoring during an operation (Easy Read) (408.56 KB)
- Having telemetry monitoring (Easy Read) (410.67 KB)
- Having VEP (Easy Read) (402.57 KB)
- What happens in a breathing test (Easy Read) (578.83 KB)
Operations and procedures
- Having a biopsy (Easy Read) (448.44 KB)
- Having a cochlear implant operation (Easy Read) (542.88 KB)
- Having a drain (Easy Read) (445.97 KB)
- Having a heart operation (Easy Read) (525.3 KB)
- Having a liver biopsy (Easy Read) (444.23 KB)
- Having a lumbar puncture (Easy Read) (493.3 KB)
- Having a muscle biopsy (Easy Read) (545.66 KB)
- Having an assessment before craniofacial surgery (Easy Read) (314.92 KB)
- Having dental treatment under sedation (Easy Read) (36.48 KB)
- Having embolisation (Easy Read) (508.37 KB)
- Having oesophageal dilatation (Easy Read) (577.95 KB)
- Having sclerotherapy (Easy Read) (431.22 KB)
- Having a skin biopsy (Easy Read) (500.17 KB)
- Having craniofacial surgery without a frame (Easy Read) (338.94 KB)
- Having craniofacial surgery with a frame (Easy Read) (350.57 KB)
- Having craniofacial surgery with springs (Easy Read) (344.54 KB)
- Having your nose reshaped (Easy Read) (332.19 KB)
- Having your veins lasered (Easy Read) (521.26 KB)
Medicines
- How to take liquid medicine (Easy Read) (503.11 KB)
- How to take tablets or capsules (Easy Read) (415.1 KB)
- How to use ear drops (Easy Read) (433.09 KB)
- How to use eye drops (Easy Read) (437.54 KB)
- How to use nose drops (Easy Read) (514.63 KB)
- How to use an inhaler (Easy Read) (506.96 KB)
- How to use a suppository (Easy Read) (502.52 KB)
- How to use eye ointment (Easy Read) (512 KB)