A - Z of Children's Hospital Leaflets

We know that there can be a lot to take in when you visit the hospital so our services produce helpful information leaflets that you can download and read in your own time. 

Our patient information leaflets are listed below. You can also use the search function to find the leaflet you are looking for. Simply search for a service or key word. 

If you would like the information in another language, please use BrowseAloud™ by clicking on the symbol on your screen.

BrowseAloud™will translate text on the webpage into other languages. Browsealoud will also read the text aloud in the required language and you can download it as an MP3 file.

Please be aware that Browsealoud may not always translate accurately.

If you would like information in large print please ask the department that you are attending.

If you can't find an information leaflet the service or condition you're looking for, please let the service know so that we can add make this available for you and other patients.   

• A

  • A & E - Accident and Emergency
  • A - Z of Ward L42
  • Allergy Service
  • Alveolar bone graft
  • Anesthetics
  • Anterior Pituitary Function Test (APFT)
  • Arthritis - Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)

• B

  • Bisphosphonate
  • Blood clots
  • Blood Haemophilia
  • Botulinum Toxin Treatment
  • Brain bleed

• C

  • Caudal Block for Pain Relief after surgery
  • Checklist for your child's surgery with parent and carers top tips
  • Child Basic Life Support
  • Children's Assessment and Treatment (CAT) Unit
  • Children's Surgical Admission Lounge (CSAL)
  • Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders
  • Children’s Critical Care
  • Children’s Speech & Language Therapy
  • Circumcision
  • Cleft Lip and Palate Service
  • Clonidine Patches
  • Collar bone fractures
  • Complaints, worries and concerns
  • Complications of Excess Weight Service
  • Congenital Heart Disease
  • Consent
  • Constipation in Children
  • Coronavirus (COVID-19)
  • Correction of Chordee
  • Craniofacial Service
  • Craniotomy
  • Criteria Led Discharge
  • CRMO
  • Crohn’s Disease
  • Cup Feeding on Transitional Care & the Neonatal Unit
  • Cystic Fibrosis

• D

  • Davy the detective
  • Day Surgery
  • Dermatology
  • Desmopressin
  • Diet
  • Dietetics
  • Discharge - leaflets about going home from hospital
  • Down Syndrome - Health Services in Leeds for Children with Down Syndrome
  • Dummies and Non-nutritive sucking

• E

  • Ear Nose and Throat (ENT)
  • Easy Read
  • Eating Disorders
  • Emergency Dietary Regimen
  • Endocrine
  • Endoscopy
  • Enzyme and Food Diary
  • EUA +/- Biopsies
  • Eyes (Ophthalmology)

• F

  • Fair Processing Notice
  • Falls
  • Family Integrated Care
  • Fertility
  • Fetal Cardiology Unit
  • Fun Songs for Making Sounds with your Child

• G

  • G6PD Deficiency
  • Gastrostomy - PEG tube, Balloon G-tube, Balloon Button tube
  • Gender Identity Development Services for Children and Adolescents
  • Glue ear?
  • Going Home on Low Flow Oxygen
  • Gonadotrophin Releasing Hormone (GnRH) Test

• H

  • Haematology
  • Head & Neck
  • Head injuries
  • Healthy Bacteria for Premature Babies
  • Hearing Aid Battery Safety Information
  • Heart Health Matters
  • Heart murmur in newborn babies
  • Henoch-Schonlein Purpura in Children
  • HIV transition
  • Hospices
  • Hypospadias Repair

• I

  • Immunotherapy
  • Infant Babble Therapy
  • Inherited Bleeding Disorder Centre

• J

  • Jaundice in newborns

• K

  • Keeping your skin healthy when you are in hospital
  • Ketotic Hypoglycaemia
  • Kidney/Renal

• L

  • Leeds Dental Institute
  • Light Treatment
  • Long term follow up clinic
  • Lumbar Puncture for Children
  • Lymphatic malformations

• M

  • Medicines
  • Minor surgery
  • Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (MEN) Test

• N

  • Nasal rinsing children and adolescents with PCD
  • Neonatal Unit
  • Neuromuscular Service
  • Neurosurgery
  • Newborn Hip Screening

• O

  • Oncology and Haematology
  • Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT)
  • Orthopaedics

• P

  • Paediatric Intensive Care
  • Pari PEP and Pari LC Sprint - assembling and cleaning
  • Patent Processus Vaginalis (PPV)/ Hydrocele
  • Platelet Function Tests
  • Portable Ventilator
  • Positional Plagiocephaly
  • Pregnancy testing in teenage girls
  • Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD)
  • Psychology

• Q

• R

  • Raising concerns about your child
  • Reasonable adjustment
  • Rectal Washouts
  • Rees Bear has an anaesthetic
  • Respiratory Medicine
  • Rheumatology

• S

  • Safeguarding
  • Scoliosis
  • Short Synacthen Test (SST)
  • Sickle Cell Disease
  • Sirolimus for the treatment of children with vascular anomalies
  • So you have been in an accident - A booklet just for you
  • So you have been in an accident - Booklet for teenagers
  • Speech Videofluoroscopy
  • Spinal
  • Stoma
  • Surgery
  • Swallowing tablets

• T

  • Thalassaemia
  • Theatres & Anaesthetics
  • Tonsil surgery (Tonsillectomy)
  • Torticollis
  • Toy cleaning and toys from home
  • Transcranial doppler (TCD) scans for children with sickle cell disease
  • Transition?
  • Tube feeding

• U

  • Urodynamics
  • Uveitis

• V

  • Vascular Malformations
  • Venous malformations
  • Video Telemetry
  • Vitamin K
  • von Willebrand's disease

• W

  • Ward L52 Paediatric Neurosciences
  • Wheeze
  • Wheeze Symptom Diary

• X

• Y

• Z