{"id":815,"date":"2023-01-28T22:11:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T22:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/what-to-bring\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:43:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T08:43:44","slug":"what-to-bring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/what-to-bring\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Bring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What else to bring with you<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are staying in hospital overnight, please bring basic personal items such as night clothes, a dressing gown, slippers, soap, a toothbrush and toothpaste, a comb or hairbrush, shampoo, deodorant, hand or face cream, and (if required) a shaving kit.<br>Shaving points are available on each ward, and adaptor plugs can be provided if needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are able to wear day clothes during your stay, ward staff will let you know. Laundry services are not available and we would advise you to ask a member of your family or a friend to take home any clothes that need to be washed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Bring your medicines with you when coming to hospital<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re coming to the hospital, bring any medications you\u2019re taking with you. This includes prescription &amp; non-prescription medication such as inhalers, tablets, eye drops etc. Click here for information: <a href=\"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/pharmacies\/my-meds-sustainability\/\">My Meds &amp; Sustainability \u2013 NHS Lothian | Our Services<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What else to bring with you If you are staying in hospital overnight, please bring basic personal items such as night clothes, a dressing gown, slippers, soap, a toothbrush and toothpaste, a comb or hairbrush, shampoo, deodorant, hand or face cream, and (if required) a shaving kit.Shaving points are available on each ward, and adaptor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":35,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-815","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"st3vi3b0y","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/blog\/author\/st3vi3b0y\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"What else to bring with you If you are staying in hospital overnight, please bring basic personal items such as night clothes, a dressing gown, slippers, soap, a toothbrush and toothpaste, a comb or hairbrush, shampoo, deodorant, hand or face cream, and (if required) a shaving kit.Shaving points are available on each ward, and adaptor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/815\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}