Other preparation guides

Step-by-step guides by other organisations

• X-ray (Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust)
• MRI scan (Easy Health)
• Ultrasound scan (Easy Health)
• ECG (Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust)
• EEG (Widgit Health)
• Tracheostomy (Widgit Health)
• My first eye test (Widgit Health)
  
  

Widgit Health: Going to hospital guides

Tools to help you understand and prepare for your visit

• Going to hospital - full symbols  
  
• Going to hospital - key symbols  
  
• Going to hospital checklist  
  
• My daycase operation (if you are having an operation) 
  
• All easy-read symbol sheets 
  

Anaesthetics 

Learn about 'anaesthetic', when a doctor gives you medicine so that you don’t feel, hear or see anything during a test or operation

• Rees Bear has an anaesthetic  
  
• Davy the Detective: finding out about anaesthetics 
  
• General anaesthesia: A brief guide for young people

Videos

Find out what happens in hospital, what different tests and operations look and feel like and more

• What? Why? Children in Hospital 
  
• Get Well Soon by Dr Ranj 
  
• Operation Ouch by Dr Chris and Dr Xand

Apps for phones and tablets

Interactive apps that take you through hospitals, operations and tests

• Hetty's Hospital 
• Get Well Soon Hospital

Parents and carers 

• Helping your child cope when they go into hospital by Great Ormond Street Hospital
• Preparing your child for an operation by CBeebies 
• Seven techniques to help kids keep calm by CBeebies 
• Preparing your child for a stay in hospital compiled by Parent Voice
• Dr Ranj's Hospital Top Tips