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A

• A guide to Children and Young People’s Low Vision Services in Oxfordshire (PDF, 50KB)
• Activities to encourage early communication: babies aged 3-6 months (PDF, 18KB)
• Activities to encourage early communication: babies aged 9-12 months (PDF, 29KB)
• Adenoid surgery (PDF, 55KB)
• Admission to Discharge - helping your child's journey through hospital (PDF, 97KB)
• Advice after your child's head injury (PDF, 25KB)
• Allergy: Following your food challenge (PDF, 65KB)
• Alopecia - Dealing with questions and staring (PDF, 122KB)
• Amblyopia (Lazy Vision) (PDF, 58KB)
• Anogenital Warts in Children (PDF, 38KB)
• Antegrade Continence Enema (PDF, 46KB)
• Asthma: Information for parents and carers (PDF, 110KB)
• Azathioprine (PDF, 34KB)

B

• Being on Warfarin (PDF, 94KB)
• Bellhouse-Drayson Ward: Welcome to Bellhouse-Drayson Ward (PDF, 81KB)
• Breast milk fortifier (PDF, 52KB)
• Bullying and Teasing - Guide for children and young people (PDF, 55KB)

C

• Captopril (PDF, 36KB)
• Cardiac Catheterisation (PDF, 50KB)
• Cardiac surgery - information for parents and carers (PDF, 74KB)
• Caring for your Baby's First Teeth (PDF, 59KB)
• Caring for your child in a hip brace after hip surgery (PDF, 151KB)
• Childhood squint (PDF, 82KB)
• Children Having a Procedure Under General Anaesthesia or IV Sedation - Fasting Instructions (Afternoon List) (PDF, 19KB)
• Children Having a Procedure Under General Anaesthesia or IV Sedation - Fasting Instructions (Morning List) (PDF, 19KB)
• Children’s: Caudal Block (PDF, 32KB)
• Children’s: Epidural for pain relief after surgery (PDF, 35KB)
• Children’s: Nurse Controlled Analgesia (PDF, 31KB)
• Children’s: Pain assessment and pain relief (PDF, 77KB)
• Children’s: Patient Controlled Analgesia PCA information for carers (PDF, 43KB)
• Children's - Circumcision (PDF, 62KB)
• Children's Allergy Clinic: Food challenges (PDF, 75KB)
• Children's Allergy Clinic: general food challenges at home (PDF, 58KB)
• Children's Allergy Clinic: How to recognise and manage mild to moderate allergic reactions in children (PDF, 64KB)
• Children's Allergy Clinic: How to recognise and manage severe allergic reactions in children with Epipen action plan (PDF, 87KB)
• Children's Allergy Clinic: How to recognise and manage severe allergic reactions in children with JEXT action plan (PDF, 87KB)
• Children's Allergy Clinic: Mild to moderate allergic reaction - Action plan (PDF, 17KB)
• Children's Allergy Clinic: Oral allergy syndrome (PDF, 82KB)
• Children's Clinical Decision Unit (CDU) (PDF, 76KB)
• Children's Critical Care (PDF, 100KB)
• Children's Eye Clinic (PDF, 44KB)
• Children's fluid management: Information for parents to help with your child's continence (PDF, 37KB)
• Children's glasses (PDF, 56KB)
• Children's Haemoglobinopathy and Red Cell Disorders Service (PDF, 74KB)
• Children's Hospital: Oral Surgery (PDF, 54KB)
• Children's Minor Injury Treatment (PDF, 55KB)
• Children's surgery: Insertion of a port-a-cath (PDF, 61KB)
• Children's Ward: Welcome to the Children's Ward - Horton General Hospital (PDF, 65KB)
• Children's: Patient Controlled Analgesia information for children and young people (PDF, 32KB)
• Clavicle Fracture in Children (PDF, 39KB)
• Cleft Service: Helping your child cope with an operation (PDF, 79KB)
• Clinical psychology support for children and young people with diabetes (PDF, 41KB)
• Cochlear Implant Summary - information for parents and carers (PDF, 29KB)
• Coming to the hospital eye department (for children referred from school vision screening) (PDF, 19KB)
• Common procedures (PDF, 48KB)
• Common reactions to traumatic events: information for families during a child's hospital admission (PDF, 30KB)
• Communicating with a baby who was born prematurely (PDF, 27KB)
• Communicating with a child who is in hospital (PDF, 30KB)
• Communicating with a child with a cleft palate (PDF, 53KB)
• Communicating with a child with a tracheostomy (PDF, 28KB)
• Communicating with a child with a visual impairment (PDF, 28KB)
• Communicating with a child with facial palsy (PDF, 30KB)
• Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (PDF, 21KB)
• Congenital Heart Disease (PDF, 62KB)
• Craniotomy (PDF, 56KB)
• Croup advice sheet (PDF, 21KB)
• Cryopreservation (PDF, 28KB)
• Cyanotic spells (PDF, 61KB)
• Cystoscopy and STING (PDF, 41KB)

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• Dacro Cysto Rhinostomy (DCR) in children to improve tear drainage (PDF, 64KB)
• Dental Care for Children with a Bleeding Disorder (PDF, 36KB)
• Dental Surgery - Dental day cases and Community dentistry - Information for parents and carers (PDF, 67KB)
• Discharge advice for a child who has had plaster of Paris applied to a limb (PDF, 48KB)
• Duane's Syndrome (PDF, 47KB)
• Duodenal atresia (PDF, 22KB)

E

• Eczema Treatment Plan (PDF, 54KB)
• Elbow injury in children (fat pad sign) (PDF, 40KB)
• Everyday routines are opportunities (PDF, 18KB)
• External Ventricular Drain (PDF, 55KB)
• Eye Hospital: Jayda's trip to the Eye Hospital (PDF, 483KB)
• Eye tests for children (PDF, 47KB)

F

• Fasting: Young People (Teenagers) Having A Procedure Under General Anaesthesia Or IV Sedation (PDF, 20KB)
• Food challenges (PDF, 75KB)
• Foramen Magnum Decompression (PDF, 58KB)

G

• Gastroschisis (PDF, 23KB)
• Gastrostomy (PDF, 45KB)
• General food challenges at home (PDF, 58KB)
• Glasses: Children's glasses (PDF, 56KB)
• Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) Test (PDF, 42KB)
• Grommets surgery for glue ear (PDF, 67KB)
• Guidelines on how to give Isotretinoin (Roaccutane) to a child with a Nasogastric or Gastrostomy Tube (PDF, 39KB)

H

• HAPI Children's Clinic (Hand and Plastics Injury) (PDF, 53KB)
• Having a RED Frame (PDF, 50KB)
• Hip displacement in children with cerebral palsy (PDF, 123KB)
• How to recognise and manage mild to moderate allergic reactions in children (PDF, 64KB)
• How to recognise and manage severe allergic reactions in children (Emerade) (PDF, 87KB)
• How to recognise and manage severe allergic reactions in children (EpiPen) (PDF, 87KB)
• How to recognise and manage severe allergic reactions in children (JEXT) (PDF, 87KB)
• Hydrocele repair (PDF, 59KB)
• Hypospadias: Treatment for Hypospadias (PDF, 87KB)

I

• Immunisations for Children with a Bleeding Disorder (PDF, 39KB)
• Information about Cystic Fibrosis for Nursery and Pre-school Staff (PDF, 32KB)
• Ingestion of Super Strong Magnets in Children (PDF, 91KB)
• Inguinal Hernia Repair (PDF, 60KB)

J

• Jayda's trip to the Eye Hospital (PDF, 483KB)

K

• Kamran's Ward (PDF, 259KB)
• Kamran's Ward: section one - Kamran's Ward and our Team (PDF, 80KB)
• Kamran's Ward: section three - my personal record (PDF, 56KB)

L

• Laser treatment for birthmarks (under a general anaesthetic) (PDF, 66KB)
• Learning body parts (PDF, 29KB)
• Leaving hospital: Information for parents / carers (PDF, 97KB)
• Lichen sclerosus in children (PDF, 39KB)
• Lisinopril (PDF, 35KB)
• Local anaesthetic - procedures for children (PDF, 41KB)
• Lumbar Puncture (PDF, 56KB)

M

• Mastoid Surgery (including: Mastoidectomy, Combined Approach Tympanoplasty, Ossiculoplasty) (PDF, 67KB)
• Meconium ileus (PDF, 22KB)
• Melatonin sedative for a sleep EEG (PDF, 59KB)
• Methotrexate for the treatment of psoriasis and eczema in children (PDF, 45KB)
• Microlarynggoscopy and Bronchoscopy (MLB) (PDF, 53KB)
• Mild to moderate allergic reaction - Action plan (PDF, 17KB)
• Minor burn and scald injuries (PDF, 48KB)
• Morphine for pain relief in children (PDF, 21KB)
• My Speech and Language Therapy Programme (PDF, 28KB)

N

• Nasogastric tube feeding at home (PDF, 128KB)
• Nephrectomy (PDF, 63KB)
• Nissen's Fundoplication (PDF, 77KB)

O

• Oesophageal atresia with tracheo-oesophageal fistula (PDF, 32KB)
• Oral allergy syndrome (PDF, 82KB)
• Oral cyclophosphamide to treat rhabdomyosarcoma (PDF, 40KB)
• Oral Surgery (PDF, 54KB)
• Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation: Parent / Carer (PDF, 46KB)
• Oxford Children's Hospital Neurorehabilitation Service (PDF, 33KB)

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• Paediatric Barium Swallow/Meal (PDF, 23KB)
• Paediatric Clinical Neuropsychology (PDF, 40KB)
• Paediatric Gastroenterology: Azathioprine (PDF, 34KB)
• Paediatric Gastroenterology: Steroids (PDF, 35KB)
• Paediatric Gastroenterology: Sulfasalazine (Sulphasalazine, Salazopyrin) (PDF, 34KB)
• Paediatric Pre Operative Assessment Clinics - Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery (PDF, 40KB)
• Paediatric Preparation for CT Scanning (PDF, 65KB)
• Paediatric Urology: Children's fluid management: Information for parents to help with your child's continence (PDF, 37KB)
• Pain relief after your child's day case surgery (PDF, 79KB)
• Perianal abscess (PDF, 48KB)
• Posterior Distraction (PDF, 38KB)
• Posterior urethral valves (PDF, 30KB)
• Prepucial Adhesions (PDF, 44KB)
• Preventing Pressure Ulcers (PDF, 40KB)
• Propranolol treatment for infantile haemangioma (PDF, 111KB)
• PUJ obstruction and Pyeloplasty (PDF, 27KB)
• Pyloric Stenosis (PDF, 60KB)

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• Radiotherapy: General anaesthesia for the treatment of children with radiotherapy (PDF, 83KB)
• Reading to toddlers (PDF, 16KB)
• Rectal biopsy (PDF, 42KB)
• Removal of a Chalazion Cyst (PDF, 59KB)
• Repair of a Perforated Eardrum (Myringoplasty) (PDF, 65KB)
• Research in Paediatric Critical Care (PDF, 26KB)
• Research in the Oxford Children's Hospital (PDF, 71KB)

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• Screening your baby for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (PDF, 38KB)
• Sedation for clinical procedures (PDF, 45KB)
• Severe allergic reaction - Action Plan Epipen (PDF, 38KB)
• Severe allergic reaction - Action Plan JEXT (PDF, 38KB)
• Signs to look out for after an epidural for pain relief (Information for parents and carers) (PDF, 21KB)
• Signs to look out for after an epidural for pain relief (Information for young people) (PDF, 21KB)
• Skin Clinic Card (PDF, 19KB)
• Skin Clinic Card - For children, parents and carers (PDF, 34KB)
• Sleep: A leaflet for Parents, Children and Young People (PDF, 52KB)
• Speech and Language Therapy (PDF, 47KB)
• Spinal Surgery (PDF, 54KB)
• Squint surgery for children (PDF, 46KB)
• Steroids (PDF, 35KB)
• Success with patching (PDF, 51KB)
• Sulfasalazine (Sulphasalazine, Salazopyrin) (PDF, 34KB)
• Supporting Children Who May Have Experienced Sexual Harm (PDF, 33KB)
• Swallowed (Ingested) Foreign Objects in Children (PDF, 34KB)

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• Tear duct probing (PDF, 60KB)
• Testicular Tissue Cryopreservation: Parent / Carer (PDF, 46KB)
• Therapy advice for children with complex needs having spinal surgery (PDF, 41KB)
• Thoracotomy (PDF, 49KB)
• Tips to help your child to take medicine (PDF, 17KB)
• Tom's Ward: Information for inpatients and their parents / carers (PDF, 37KB)
• Tongue-tie - diagnosis and treatment (PDF, 104KB)
• Tonsil Surgery (Tonsillectomy) (PDF, 59KB)
• Topical timolol treatment for infantile haemangioma (PDF, 110KB)
• Transcranial Doppler Screening (PDF, 60KB)
• Treatment for Hypospadias (PDF, 87KB)
• TVCN: Guidelines on how to give Isotretinoin (Roaccutane) to a child with a Nasogastric or Gastrostomy Tube (PDF, 39KB)
• TVCN: Oral cyclophosphamide to treat rhabdomyosarcoma (PDF, 40KB)

U

• Umbilical hernia repair (PDF, 127KB)
• Undescended testes (PDF, 128KB)
• Unlicensed and "Off-label" Medicines (PDF, 24KB)

V

• Ventriculoperitoneal (VP) and Ventriculoatrial (VA) shunt (PDF, 55KB)
• Ventriculostomy (PDF, 54KB)
• Viral Induced Wheeze (PDF, 538KB)
• Vitamin D (PDF, 34KB)
• Vulvitis in childhood (PDF, 36KB)

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• Welcome to Bellhouse-Drayson Ward (PDF, 81KB)
• Welcome to the Children's Ward - Horton General Hospital (PDF, 65KB)
• Welcome to the Paediatric Haemophilia and Bleeding Disorders Service (PDF, 44KB)
• Welcome to the Paediatric Haemophilia and Bleeding Disorders Service - Information for parents of children new to the service (PDF, 44KB)
• What is an 'infection screen'? (PDF, 21KB)
• What to do in preparation for your child's admission for day surgery (PDF, 41KB)

X

• X-rays and Scans as Part of Child Protection Procedures (PDF, 271KB)

Y

• Young People (Teenagers) Having A Procedure Under General Anaesthesia Or IV Sedation (PDF, 20KB)
• Your child's MRI without an anaesthetic (PDF, 34KB)

Gastrostomy videos

Videos to support families caring for children with gastrostomies - OxSTaR

These videos have been shortlisted twice for the HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2022.

See also Gastrostomy (pdf, 45 KB) - also in A-Z above.

Literature list

We have created a list of useful children's books to help young patients through the experience of hospital care.

Oxford Children's Hospital literature list (pdf, 172 KB)