A guide to avoiding unnecessary food additives
Weight Management action plan
Advice for children with a significantly limited diet
Alcohol and type 1 diabetes in adolescents
Allergy - Egg free diet
Allergy - Introducing milk free solids to your baby
Allergy - Milk free and Egg free diet
Allergy - Milk free diet
Allergy - Soya free diet
Bile Acid Diarrhoea (BAD) Dietary Advice
Care of your MIC Jejunostomy feeding tube
Coeliac disease
Constipation and your childs diet
Dementia Care - A practical guide to eating and drinking
Dementia Care Swallowing Problems
Diabetes - Glycaemic index
Diabetes - How to take control
Diabetes - Hypoglycaemia diet sheet
Diabetes - Physical Activity and diabetes
Diabetes - Physical activity and insulin for people with Type 1 Diabetes
Diabetes - Physical activity and insulin Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetes - Reducing Carbohydrates
Diabetes - Snacking
Diabetes - Sweeteners
Diabetes Healthy eating with diabetes
Diet advice for heart disease and stroke
Diet and cancer care - Constipation
Diet and cancer care - Diarrhoea
Diet and cancer care - Dietary advice for patients receiving radiotherapy to the pelvis area
Diet and cancer care - Dry mouth
Diet and cancer care - Nausea and vomiting
Diet and cancer care - Pancreatic Enzymes after Whipples Surgery or palliative pancreatic cancer)
Diet and Cancer care - Sore mouth or throat
Diet and Cancer Care - Taste changes
Diet and Cancer Care - Tube feeding
Diet and cancer care - Vitamin and mineral supplements
Dietary advice following gastrectomy
Dietary advice following oesophagectomy (inc jej feeding)
Dietary advice following pancreaticoduodenectomy (Whipple Procedure)
Dietary advice for people taking warfarin tablets
Dietary advice for people with a high output stoma
Dietary advice for people with an Ileostomy
Dietary advice for people with severe neutropenia in protective isolation
Dietary advice to gain weight and protect your heart
Dietary advice to Lower Blood Cholesterol Levels
Dietary and lifestyle advice for the management of heartburn
Dietary treatment of weight loss on a low sugar diet
Easy to chew diet
Eat well in pregnancy
Eating problems in school aged children
Eating well on a low fat diet
Eating well when breathing is difficult
Eating well when starting haemodialysis
Feeding advice for children with autism who have restricted eating
Fibre food fact sheet
Food boosters
Food Hierarchy
Food record
Food safety
Gluten Challenge for children
Having a Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) Tube inserted
Healthy Eating for children with Hyperlipidaemia
Healthy eating for diabetes in pregnancy
How to eat less salt
How to increase your iron intake
Information about exercise and diabetes for children and young people on multiple daily injection therapy (MDI)
Kidney Disease: A guide to diet
LEAP Info for Parents for introduction of peanut at home
Liquid diet
Liver disease and diet
Low iodine diet - a one week diet
Low Residue Diet
Naso–Jejunal (NJ) Tube Fitted at the Bedside Using Magnetic Imaging. (CORTRAK)
Nourishing drinks
Nourishing snacks
Nutritional supplements in hospital and what to try at home
Paediatric Diabetes - A step-by-step guide to carb-counting with accuracy
Paediatric Diabetes - Baking ideas for diabetes
Paediatric diabetes - Exercise
Paediatric Diabetes - Hypoglycaemia
Paediatric Diabetes - Information for children young people and families about exercise type 1 diabetes and insulin pump therapy
Paediatric Diabetes - Snacks
Paediatric Diabetes - Healthy Eating for Children with Diabetes
Paediatrics - How to gain weight in children
Paediatrics- How to gain weight in babies
Prevention or treatment of weight loss High protein high calorie information
Puree Diet
Reintroduction of cow's milk
Renal Disease - Eating out on a renal diet
Renal Disease - Healthy eating with kidney problems
Renal Disease - Blood Results
Renal Disease - Blood results pre-dialysis
Renal Disease - Christmas on a renal diet
Renal Disease - Controlling your blood sugar levels after a kidney transplant
Renal Disease - Diet action plan
Renal Disease - Diet and controlling blood results on NX stage dialysis
Renal Disease - Eating well after a kidney transplant
Renal Disease - Eating well on dialysis
Renal Disease - Eating well with kidney problems (calories for people with diabetes)
Renal Disease - Eating well with kidney problems (calories)
Renal Disease - fluid allowance
Renal Disease - Getting started on a low phosphate diet
Renal Disease - Getting started on a low potassium diet
Renal Disease - Haemodialysis and Diet
Renal Disease - How to increase the potassium in your diet
Renal Disease - Low Phosphate Diet
Renal Disease - Low Potassium Diet
Renal Disease - Low potassium diet for people with diabetes
Renal Disease - Low potassium snack and drinks for people who have diabetes
Renal Disease - Low potassium snacks and drinks
Renal disease - Managing your fluid balance
Renal Disease - Meal and snack suggestions for a small appetite
Renal Disease - Peritoneal Dialysis and diet
Renal Disease - Peritonitis and diet
Renal Disease - Protein Portions with CKD
Renal Disease low potassium diet the basics
Swallowing Difficulties: How to Eat Well on a Soft and Bite-sized Diet
Soya reintroduction
Start right - Eating for the one to five year olds
Starting your baby on solid food
Swallowing difficulties - No oral fluids
The Gluten-Free Diet
Vitamin D Food Fact Sheet
Weight loss - food facts and tips
Weight management - Action plan
Weight management - Advice for Asian People
Weight management - Change for the better
Weight Management - Glycaemic Index
Weight management - Making changes work for you
Weight management - Meal ideas
Weight management - Resources
Weight management - Food Portions
What can I eat now I have an oesophageal stent
Wound healing Diet sheet
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON BLOOD TESTING DUE TO COVID-19
Shielding Patients in very high risk for COVID Group
All people who have been identified as very high risk (requiring shielding) for COVID are in the process of being contacted by their clinician regarding their ongoing care. If you require a blood test whilst shielding as part of your care, appointment details including when and where your blood test will be carried out will be sent to you via a text message from SwiftQueue who manage our blood test bookings.
If you have regular blood tests and have been asked to have these, please ensure you have blood forms at home available; if you haven’t please contact your specialty to have some sent to you in advance of your blood tests.
Older People and Vulnerable Adults
People who are in the groups identified by the government as higher risk e.g are over 70 or receive a yearly flu jab, but are not in the very high risk (requiring shielding) group, can attend our normal blood test clinics. The blood test clinics and waiting areas have been adapted so that social distancing can be maintained.
Please check the locations on the map below.
Click on the map for information about phlebotomy clinics in Coventry. You can book an appointment online at the locations in red.
Please book an appointment before attending for a blood test. Click on the ‘Book Online’ button above. Booking an appointment helps patients, their carers and family members to plan their hospital visit better, helping to reduce clinic waiting times and enabling patients to be seen much more quickly.
Location: Outpatients Department, on the ground floor. Opening hours: 8am-4.45pm, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays).
Children under 16 years old will need to book online here.
Please book an appointment before attending for a blood test, click on the ‘Book Online’ button above. Patients from Rugby and the surrounding areas are able to access the Friends Blood Taking Unit at the Hospital of St Cross.
Referrals for blood tests can be from GP's, practice nurses or from hospital consultants. Patients are also able to leave other samples, such as urine, which have been collected at home, at the hospital's Pathology Reception.
Location: Near Brookfield House, just off North Road - map here. Opening hours: The blood taking clinic sessions for adults and children are listed below:
Monday -Friday 7am-4:45pm Appointment only
Wednesday Evening 5pm-7pm Suspended due to COVID
Saturday Morning 7am-10pm Suspended due to COVID
April 2020 NEW - This Clinic is now by appointment. Please book an appointment before attending for a blood test. Click on the ‘Book Online’ button above.
Address: Stoney Stanton Road, Coventry CV1 4FS Location: Access is via the main doors, the Phlebotomy team are in Area A. Opening hours: Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays). 8am–4.45pm
Glucose Tolerance Test (GTT)
Specialist Tests - There are a small number of specialist tests where blood needs to be taken on a hospital site as the sample must be transferred to the laboratory rapidly for the test to be undertaken. Click here for a list of these specialist tests and to find out more.