Advice for children with a significantly limited diet
Allergy - Gluten Challenge (Children)
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
Coeliac Disease Webinar
Constipation and your child's diet
Dementia Care - A practical guide to eating and drinking
Dementia Care – A Practical Guide to Swallowing Problems
Diabetes - How to take control
Diabetes - Hypoglycaemia
Diabetes: Physical Activity and Insulin - Type 1 Diabetes
Diabetes: Reducing Carbohydrates
Diabetes - Snacking
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 an Ileostomy
Dietary Advice for Bile Acid Diarrhoea (BAD)
Dietary advice for patients taking orlistat
Dietary advice to gain weight and protect your heart
Dietary and lifestyle advice for the management of heartburn
Dietary Information to Promote Wound Healing
Dietary treatment of weight loss on a low sugar diet
Easy to Chew Diet
Eating well during and after Covid-19 illness
Eat well in pregnancy
Eating problems in school aged children
Eating well when breathing is difficult
Feeding advice for children with autism who have restricted eating
Food Boosters
Food fact sheet: Fibre
Food Hierarchy
Food record
Food safety
Healthy Eating for children with Hyperlipidaemia
Healthy Eating for Diabetes in Pregnancy
How to eat less salt
How to increase your iron intake
Improving your nutrition during and after Covid-19 illness
Kidney Disease: A guide to diet
LEAP: Information for Parents for introduction of peanut at home
Liquid diet
Liver disease and diet
Low Iodine Diet – a one week diet
Low Residue Diet
Mediterranean diet
Nourishing drinks
Nourishing snacks
Nutrition support during and after Covid-19 illness
Nutrition Team: Dietary advice for people with a high output stoma
Nutritional supplements in hospital and what to try at home
Paediatric Diabetes - A step-by-step guide to carb-counting with accuracy
Paediatric Diabetes - Alcohol and type 1 Diabetes advice for adolescents
Paediatric Diabetes- Bespoke Exercise Plan for young people with type 1 Diabetes
Paediatric Diabetes - Carb-counting home bakes
Paediatric Diabetes - Exercise
Paediatric Diabetes - Healthy Eating Principles for Children with Diabetes
Paediatric Diabetes - Hypoglycaemia
Paediatric Diabetes - Information for children young people and families about exercise type 1 diabetes and insulin pump therapy
Paediatric Diabetes - Snacks
Paediatrics - How to gain weight in babies
Paediatrics - How to gain weight in children
Physical Activity and Insulin: Type 2 Diabetes
Prevention or treatment of weight loss: high protein & high calorie diet information
Reintroduction of cow's milk
Reintroduction of Soya
Renal Disease: A guide to diet
Renal Disease: Blood Results
Renal Disease: Christmas on a renal diet
Renal Disease: Diet and controlling blood results on NX stage dialysis
Renal Disease: Eating out or taking out on a kidney friendly diet
Renal Disease: Eating well after a kidney transplant
Renal Disease: Eating well when starting haemodialysis
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 - The Basics
Renal Disease: Low Potassium Diet for People with Diabetes
Renal Disease - Low potassium snacks and drinks
Renal Disease: Low potassium snack and drinks for people who have diabetes
Renal Disease - Meal and snack suggestions for a small appetite
Renal Disease: PD Peritonitis and diet
Renal Disease: Peritoneal Dialysis and diet
Renal Disease: Protein Portions with CKD
Start right - Eating for the one to five year olds
Starting on a basal bolus insulin regimen
Starting your baby on solid food
Swallowing Difficulties: How to eat well on a Pureed diet
Swallowing Difficulties: How to Eat Well on a Soft and Bite-sized Diet
Swallowing difficulties - No oral fluids
The Gluten-Free Diet
Vitamin D Food Fact Sheet
What can I eat now I have an oesophageal stent
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON BLOOD TESTING DUE TO COVID-19
If you are experiencing symptoms associated with COVID-19, e.g. fever, loss of taste or continuous new cough, please DO NOT attend for a blood test.
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.