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Easy Read information sheets
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)