Every novelist loves a madhouse. We spend hours in the company of imaginary friends ourselves and the research is more fun and easier to fudge than learning about cardiology or neurosurgery. 1. Regeneration by Pat Barker TfL can offer advice on planning a journey using an accessible route and can provide a mentor to come with you for your first few journeys to help you gain confidence and become an independent traveller, to find out more complete TfL’s form online. By bus Wear a hospital provided surgical facemask when visiting a patient on the ward with a respiratory illness. Universal mask wearingisno longer required, but if you would prefer to wear onethese are available at hospital entrances.

The GP will have to submit an Individual Funding Request (IFR) to your ICB and provide details of where they want you to go. You may be offered a face-to-face appointment in a hospital or clinic, or a telephone or video appointment.You can choose which type of appointment you have, which hospital or clinic to use and which specialist team will be in charge of your treatment, as long as they meet your healthcare needs. I’m worried about the politics of publishing a book like this. Over the years the thought has been: ‘let’s do our work, but not broadcast it so that we can do our work.’ There’s something to that logic. I am worried that there will be people who will come out against it, and it will affect the ways we do things.” If you have not received a text message or phone call from us cancelling your appointment, it will go ahead as per the instructions in your appointment letter. Your letter will explain if your appointment is via phone, video or face-to-face. We are taking every precaution to keep patients who are coming into hospital safe. Simply select the "Leave review" option provided on each hospital profile to record your experiences about the treatment you received. Find the clinic you'd like to attend the appointment at from the options available, then choose Select this appointment.

You or your carer might want to ask some questions. You should be given time and support to understand what you are being told.Another novel set in a wartime hospital, winning the Booker the year after Regeneration. Four damaged people find themselves and each other in an Italian villa being used as a field hospital at the end of the second world war. The English patient, László Almásy – who is in fact not English – knows that he is dying. As he sinks and surfaces on morphine, he tells the story of his affair with a married Englishwoman in north Africa. There is no prospect of physical healing, for Almásy nor, by the time the atomic bombs have fallen at the end, for the world, but narrative has belated and secondary consolations of its own. 9. Middlemarch by George Eliot We can offer overnight accommodation for the relatives of patients being admitted to the hospital or for patients who attend the hospital for regular treatment. We can also provide facilities for patients prior to their appointment who have to travel a long way to attend the hospital for complex investigations or treatment, but who do not need to be readmitted to a ward. Please ask the ward staff or pre-admission staff to see if this accommodation would be suitable for you, or your relatives, at any stage of your treatment.

The doctor should explain everything in a way you find easy to understand, and you can ask as many questions as you like. You can also ask a carer or friend to help you.This choice is a legal right. If you're not offered a choice at the point of referral, ask your doctor why and say that you wish to go through your options. If you're visiting England or recently moved to England, look up the relevant information about accessing the NHS, as charges may occur. You or your carer can include in your hospital passport any help you need with eating or drinking, or how to tell if you are in pain. If a GP wants to refer you for a service or treatment that they think is best for you but is not routinely offered by the NHS, the process is different.

If you have a Lasting Power of Attorney you need to be able to agree to this. This means that if you cannot agree to having a Lasting Power of Attorney you might have to get a deputy instead. He landed a day job at Ben Taub while moonlighting for McSweeney’s and taking part in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. As Nuila deepened his work at the hospital, he started noticing that patients there received extremely good care, despite its reputation for serving clientele who could not afford to go anywhere better. The disconnect between the hospital’s reputation and what he saw as a doctor there lingered in his mind, eventually becoming the seeds of The People’s Hospital. “People don’t know that public healthcare can be successful, and these presumptions bother me.” You may notice that a patient who has arrived after you is seen before you. This patient will likely be seeing a different doctor to you.

Preparing for your appointment

We encourage you to ask questions at your appointment. You and your healthcare professional will work together to make decisions about your care, so before you leave your appointment, make sure you understand: Someone who has a Lasting Power of Attorney is someone who knows the person well. They will be able to make decisions for a person whenever they are needed. They do not need the court to tell them they can. Allow plenty of time for your visit, especially if this is your first appointment. You may have to wait if your healthcare professional's other appointments overrun or they are called away to an emergency. Your appointment You're also able to choose which consultant-led team will be in charge of your treatment, as long as that team provides the treatment you require. If you are unable to book an appointment online, please call 020 7794 0500 ext 32312, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays), 8am to 4pm.