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Urgent Treatment Centre

Title - Register with a GP Surgery
Description - Everyone in England can register with a GP surgery or change their GP surgery for free. You can register with most surgeries online.
Urology

Title - Advice for patients with suspected kidney stones
Description - Kidney stones are hard collections of salt and minerals often made up of calcium or uric acid. They form inside the kidney and can travel to other parts of the urinary tract. A kidney stone forms when too much of certain minerals in your body accumulate in your urine. When you are not well hydrated, your urine becomes more concentrated with higher levels of certain minerals. When mineral levels are higher, it is more likely that a kidney stone will form.

Title - Cystoscopy
Description - Cystoscopy is the name for a procedure allowing a doctor to look into your bladder and urethra with a special telescope called a cystoscope. The urethra is the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the outside of the body.

Title - Female Urinary Tract Infection
Description - Female Urinary Tract Infection

Title - Following your flexible cystoscopy
Description - Aftercare advice

Title - Living with a Ureteric stent
Description - A ureteric stent is a plastic tube used to keep the kidney draining if the ureter (thin tube structure) becomes blocked. This can result in pain, life threatening infection and damage to the kidney.

Title - Overactive Bladder
Description - Overactive Bladder is a very common problem that often causes distressing and inconvenient symptoms. It can cause you to rush to the toilet many times during the day and night and can sometimes also cause you to leak some urine before you reach the toilet. This information leaflet aims to explain what an overactive bladder is and what causes it, as well as explaining what can be done to help.

Title - Removal of a ureteric stent discharge advice
Description - This leaflet has been produced to give you general information about the removal of a ureteric stent either via string or flexible cystoscopy. It is not intended to replace the discussion between you and your doctor, but may act as a starting point for discussion.

Title - transperineal ultrasound-guided biopsy
Description - A transperineal ultrasound-guided biopsy of your prostate is a procedure to check for prostate cancer. At present, this is the most reliable way for checking your prostate. The most common side effects are bleeding and reduced urinary flow. Infection is rare. Many of the prostate cancers diagnosed are not life-threatening. They may require no active treatment, and only careful monitoring

Title - Urology Team
Description - This pack aims to provide you and your family with some information that you may require now or in the future. We recognise that each patient and their family may react differently to the diagnosis and that your needs will vary at different times.