Getting Here
Services
Children and Families
Contact details
- Health Visiting Team – Phone: 0141 355 2253
- School Nursing Team – Phone: 0141 201 3489
Opening Hours
- Monday to Thursday 8.30am to 4.30pm and Friday 8.30am to 4pm (Excluding Public Holidays)
Health Visiting and School Nursing services for children and young people aged 0-19 and their families who are registered with a GP in East Dunbartonshire.
The team consists of Public Health Nurses (School Nurses and Health Visitors), Community Nursery Nurses, Health Care Support Workers and Dental Health Care Support Workers.
Alcohol and Drug Recovery Service
Contact details
- Phone: 0141 232 8211
Opening Hours
- Monday to Friday, 9.00am until 5.00pm (Appointments are available in the evening by arrangement.)
This is a joint health and social care service for people with addiction problems, primarily focusing on people with alcohol or opiate dependency.
The service offers community detoxification, substitute prescribing from CAT team and in partnership with GPs, assistance with the effects of substance misuse on a wide range of life issues and one to one support. Series of group work programmes such as relapse prevention are also offered. Service is available for young people or children affected by parental substance misuse.
Community Mental Health Team
Contact details
- Phone: 0141 232 8200
Opening Hours
- Monday to Friday, 9.00am until 5.00pm
This multidisciplinary team provides a range of skilled community mental health services to the adult population, age 18 – 65 years living in the area. In conjunction with other agencies, the team will play a major role in reducing the need for psychiatric hospital admissions and minimising lengths of stay in psychiatric wards.
Community Midwifery
A range of antenatal services are provided within the centre.
As soon as you know you are pregnant, make an appointment with a midwife by calling the following number.
- Phone: 0141 347 8422
We urge all mums-to-be, even those with children already, to book into your local maternity services by week 12 of your pregnancy.
Community Occupational Therapy
Opening Hours:
- Duty Service available to accept referrals Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 12.30pm
The main purpose of the service is to provide assessments that focus on enabling the person to remain as safe and independent as possible in their own home. The assessment takes account of the service user’s needs and aspirations and the carer’s ability to care for them.
This may include advice and information; suggestions for managing in a different way; redirection to other services or arranging for equipment and minor or major adaptations.
Whilst the service mostly supports adults with physical disabilities, it also has a brief to assist children, adults with learning impairments and mental health problems who are experiencing difficulties because of an environmental barrier.
Community Rehabilitation Team
Phone: 0141 232 8213
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30pm
The Community Rehabilitation Team provides an integrated multidisciplinary service for adults and older people.
The service aims to maximise independence and increase quality of life for individuals in their own home or other appropriate community setting. There is a strong focus on preventing avoidable hospital admissions, early supported discharge and enabling individuals to maximise functional independence. The Team works with individuals to reach jointly agreed rehabilitative goals and promote the benefits of self-management of disability and long-term conditions through education. The Teams works closely with other health and care services and external agencies to ensure a coordinated approach to patient care.
The service is available to people over the age of 16 with complex physical health needs as a result of but not limited to disability, illness and increasing frailty. Individuals need to have the potential to engage with rehabilitation.
The Team consists of Team Lead, Dieticians, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Support Workers and Nurses.
There is also a GP accessed Rapid Response Service for a same day response to individuals at risk of hospital admission up until 3pm each day.
Community Treatment and Care
Crisis Team
Opening Hours:
- Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 8.00pm
- Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays, 9.00am to 5.00pm
The service provides short-term intensive community based care for people who are experiencing a mental health crisis.
The aims are to provide an alternative to hospital admission where possible, support early discharge from hospital if required and to offer assessment, interventions and support for people in a mental health crisis.
Diabetes
Contact information
- Torrance: 01360 620526
- Milngavie: 0141 232 4800
Opening Hours
Monday to Friday, 9.00am until 5.00pm
Specialised Diabetic care and education to all diabetic patients registered with an East Dunbartonshire GP.
Glasgow and Clyde Weight Management Service
A comprehensive service spanning prevention of overweight to pharmacological and surgical treatment of severe and complex obesity. Access appropriate levels through BMI criteria. Specialist clinical services requires GP referral for those with BMI > 35 or > 30 with co morbidities.
Health Improvement
The planning and health improvement team aim to improve health and address inequality.
The team deliver programmes and services on oral health, youth health, tobacco, public health pharmacy, smoking cessation and community nutrition. Other areas of work include joint planning, support for the HSCP’s Public Partnership Forum and leadership for Healthy Working Lives.
Contact information
- Youth Health and Ourspace: 0141 355 2378
- Public Partnership Forum: 0141 355 2391
- Smoking Cessation: 0141 355 2327
- Food Co-op: 0141 355 2400
Smokefree Services are responsible for a wide range of tobacco projects aimed at reducing the damage from tobacco to people in and around Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Hearing Aid Battery Replacement Service
Joint Community Learning Disability Team
Contact information
Call: 0141 304 7450
Opening Hours
Monday to Friday, 9.00am until 5.00pm (Out of hours ‘Standby’ for social work service and out of hours services for health are in operation).
This is a joint service between Social Work and Health. It includes a range of health professionals and social worker. The aim of the service is to assist people with a learning disability to live as independently as possible within the community either with their families or in accommodation of their own with whatever support they need.
MSK Physiotherapy
MSK (musculoskeletal) Physiotherapy can help with assessment and management of patients with MSK conditions such as back pain, shoulder pain, knee arthritis. MSK Physiotherapy Service is an outpatient service only, so if your enquiry is for domiciliary Physiotherapy, then please refer to the Community Rehabilitation Team section of this website.
Our Musculoskeletal (MSK) Physiotherapy website has helpful information such as: self-help, how to access the service, locations of outpatient MSK Physiotherapy clinics and our waiting times.
If you are a patient already attending who wishes to reschedule your appointment, please call the referral management centre on 0141 347 8909 (Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 8.00pm).
Physical Disability and Sensory Impairment Team
This team provides a service which assesses the needs of young adults (16-65yrs) with a physical disability and offers to assess the needs of their carers. In addition it also provides a service to all young adults and older people with a sensory impairment, and provides the appropriate equipment and services to meet their needs.
Opening Hours
Monday to Friday, 9.00am until 5.00pm (Out of hours ‘Standby’ for social work service and out of hours services for health are in operation).
SI Duty System: Five half days per week i.e. Monday, Wednesday & Fridays – duty phone calls Tuesday and Thursdays – duty home visits. An out-of-hours social work service is available from Glasgow City Council’s Standby Team out of office hours and public holidays
Podiatry
Call: 0141 347 8909
To self refer and make an appointment call our Podiatry Appointment Hotline on 0141 347 8909 (Monday – Friday 8.00am – 8.00pm, Saturday 9.00am – 1.00pm) or email AHP.Appointments@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Primary Care Mental Health Team
Call: 0141 232 8203
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday, 9.00am until 5.00pm
The Primary Care Mental Health Team (PCMHT) provides brief evidence based therapeutic and counselling services, to clients who present with mild to moderate mental health problems.
Sandyford Sexual Health Services
Sandyford is the specialist sexual health service for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. All our clinics are appointment only. Find out what services are available at Sandyford and how to use them.
To find out more about our Young Person’s Service.
Sandyford has clinics and venues throughout Glasgow and Clyde.
If you have had unprotected sex and require emergency contraception or PEP, please phone 0141 211 8130.
SPHERE Bladder and Bowel Service
Contact information
Opening Hours: Assessments by appointment (Monday to Friday, 8.30am until 4.30pm 0141 304 7400)
Specialised bladder and bowel care advice and assessment of continence garments to people within East Dunbartonshire.
The SPHERE Bladder and Bowel Service provides a professional, caring, confidential and supportive approach to people with bladder or/and bowel symptoms.
The aim of the team is to promote continence by empowering the individual to self manage their symptoms by teaching behavioural and lifestyle changes that can promote bladder and bowel health. To support the individual, the service has two specially trained teams across the city.
These teams include specialist nurses and physiotherapists who can advise and support the individual on improving their bladder or/and bowel symptoms or prevent any deterioration by facilitating and providing rehabilitative treatments.
Woodhead Medical Practice
Contact details
- Phone: 0141 776 2468
- Prescriptions: 0141 355 2310