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        • Service overview
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• Centre for haemostasis and thrombosis
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      • Service overview
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    • Service overview
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    • Service overview
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    • Service overview
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• Children's community occupational therapy service
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• Community @home service
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• Community acupuncture clinic
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  • Service overview
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  • Service overview
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  • Service overview
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      • Service overview
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      • Service overview
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      • Service overview
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      • Service overview
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      • Service overview
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      • Service overview
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      • Overview
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  • Service overview
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      • Genetics prenatal diagnostic service
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  • Service overview
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      • Service overview
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        • Sub specialties list
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          • Referrals
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          • Service overview
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          • Referrals
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          • Service overview
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      • Service overview
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      • Service overview
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  • Service overview
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      • General information
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      • Overview
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      • General information
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      • General information
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  • Service overview
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  • Service overview
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  • Service overview
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  • Service overview
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  • Service overview
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      • Service overview
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• Sexual health
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      • Service overview
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      • Service overview
      • Your appointment
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      • Team
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      • Service overview
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      • Service overview
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      • Service overview
      • Opening times
  • Patient leaflets
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      • Methods of contraception
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      • Having an HIV test
      • What do to if you have recently been exposed to HIV
• Sleep disorders centre
  • Sleep disorders centre
  • Patients
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• Spiritual health care
  • Service overview
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  • Team
• Stop smoking service
  • Service overview
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• Stroke unit
  • Service overview
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  • Team list
• Theatres
  • Pre-operative assessment clinic
  • Day surgery
  • Main operating theatres
  • Surgical admissions lounge
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• Therapies
  • Service overview
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  • Foot health
    • Service overview
    • Patients
      • Patients
      • Patient leaflets
    • Team
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    • Service overview
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    • Service overview
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    • Service overview
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      • Specialties
      • Lambeth Integrated MSK service (LIMS)
        • Overview
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      • Women's and men's health physiotherapy
        • Overview
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  • Private physiotherapy
    • Service overview
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  • Psychology services
    • Service overview
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    • Team
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    • Service overview
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    • Service overview
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• Thoracic surgery
  • Service overview
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  • Referrals
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• Toxicology
  • Service overview
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  • Referrals
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• Transplant
  • Overview
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  • Vascular access service
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    • About kidney transplants
    • Living donor case studies
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      • Specialist transplantation services
      • Blood group incompatible
      • Antibody incompatible
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      • Kidney transplants and urology
      • HIV and kidney transplant
      • Laparoscopic kidney donation
  • Pancreatic transplant
    • Service overview
    • Patients
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• Trauma and orthopaedics
  • Service overview
  • Patients
    • Patients
    • Patient leaflets
  • Referrals
  • Team
• Tissue viability and wound care
  • Overview
  • Patients
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    • About pressure ulcers
    • Training
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• Urology
  • Overview
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  • Patients
    • Your appointment
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  • Specialties
    • Recurrent prostate cancer
      • Overview
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      • Team
    • Specialties list
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    • Andrology
      • Service overview
      • Patients
      • Referrals
      • Team
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      • Patients
      • Treatment options
      • Team
    • Kidney cancer
      • Service overview
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      • Team
    • Prostate service
      • Service overview
      • Patients
      • Team
    • Retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF) clinic
      • Overview
      • Patients
      • Referrals
      • Team
    • Stone unit
      • Service overview
      • Patients
      • Team
    • Functional, reconstructive and adolescent urology
      • Overview
      • Team
  • Team
    • Team list
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    • Consultants and other medical staff
    • Management / matrons
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  • Urology developments
    • Latest developments
  • Urology leaflets
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• Weight management
  • Overview
  • Patients
  • Referrals
• Wheelchair and specialist seating community service
  • Service overview
  • Patients
  • Referrals
• Younger people with physical disabilities service
  • Service overview
  • Patients
  • Referrals

You can now find our children's patient information leaflets on the Evelina London Children's Healthcare website.