A to Z of Patient Services
Updated 10 October 2012
Below is a list of services that Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust offers. For the majority of these you will need to be referred by your GP.
Visit our appointments page, especially if you need to rearrange or cancel your inpatient or outpatient appointment.
Please also see Departments, Services and Consultants listed on NHS Choices for Colchester General Hospital and Essex County Hospital (opens in a new window). For health advice and information 24 hours a day, visit the NHS Direct website. And Colchester Cornerstone offers health and welfare information, advice and support. The services include weight management, stop smoking, alcohol reduction, counselling, sexual health and emotional wellbeing, as well as general health information and advice.
For a list of services at Colchester hospitals, click on a letter below that starts with the patient service of your choice. Or click the name directly.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
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- Accident and Emergency
- Amputee Rehabilitation
- Anaesthetics
- Audiology - see Hearing and Balance Services
- Babies Hearing - see Newborn Hearing Screening Programme
- Bereavement services
- Blood clinics and blood tests
- Bowel Cancer Screening
- Breast Screening Unit
- Breast Surgery
- Cancer services
- Cardiology
- Cardio-Respiratory
- Care of the Elderly
- Chaplaincy
- Chemotherapy - see Cancer services
- Children's services
- CoHoC (Colchester Hospital Charity)
- Colposcopy
- Colorectal surgery
- Community Equipment Service
- Community paediatrics - contact the Children's Community Team at Anglian Community Enterprise (ACE)
- Contraception and Sexual Health Services
- Critical Care
- Cryoglobulin Tests
- CT Scan - see Radiology
- Dermatology
- Diabetes - see Diabetic Medicine
- Dietetics
- Diagnostic services - see Radiology
- Discharge team - see Hospital Assessment Team
- Early Pregnancy
- Ear Nose and Throat
- Emergency Assessment Unit
- Endocrinology
- Family Planning
- Finance
- Fracture clinic - see Accident and Emergency
- Gastroenterology
- General Medicine
- Glucose Tolerance Tests
- General Surgery
- Genito Urinary Medicine
- Gynaecology and Obstetrics
- Gynae Services for Oncology (see also Cancer Services for other Oncology)
- Haematology
- Hand Therapy
- Hearing and Balance Services
- Hospital Assessment Team
- Hydrotherapy
- Hysteroscopy
- Infection Control
- Infertility
- Laparoscopy
- Look Good... Feel Better Workshops
- Maternity
- Matrons (how they can help you)
- Menopause Clinic
- MRI Scan - see Radiology
- Neonatal Unit
- Nephrology (Renal)
- Neurology
- Neuro-Rehabilitation
- Newborn Hearing Screening Programme
- Nuclear Medicine
- Nutrition & Dietetics
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Obs & Gynae)
- Occupational Therapy
- Oncology - see Cancer services
- Occupational Health & Wellbeing Service
- Ophthalmology
- Optometry
- Oral Surgery
- Orthodontics
- Orthopaedics (for Clinicians) - opens in a new window
- Orthoptics
- Orthotics
- Outpatients
- Outpatients for Gynaecology
- Palliative care - see Cancer services
- Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
- Patient information leaflets
- Paediatric Surgery - see Children's services
- Paediatrics - see Children's services
- Pain Management
- Pharmacy
- Pharmacy Support Unit
- Physiotherapy
- Plastic Surgery
- Prosthetics
- Radiology
- Radiotherapy - see Cancer services
- Renal - see Nephrology
- Rheumatology
- SCBU - Special Care Baby Unit - see Neonatal Unit
- Sexual Health
- Sleep Studies
- Speech and Language Therapy - see Therapies
- Social workers - see Hospital Assessment Team
- Stoma Care
- Stroke Unit
- Sweat Tests
- Theatres
- Therapies
- Thoracic Medicine
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Travel Health Clinic
- Ultrasound Scan of your pregnancy
- Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery
- Unplanned Pregnancy Clinic | Terminations | See also Early Pregnancy
- Urology
- Vascular Surgery
- Vulval Clinic
- X-ray - see Radiology

