Getting Here
Further Information
Wards and visiting
Ward 1A – 23 Hour Unit
Call: 0141 452 4329
Location: Level 1 – follow signs to the lift. Take the lift/stairs to level 1. Turn left and walk along the corridor, then turn right. Ward 1A is straight ahead.
Ward 1C – Day Care Unit
Call: 0141 452 4401
Location: follow signs to the lift. Take the lift/level 1. Ward 1C is located along the corridor on your left.
Ward 1D – Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
Call: 0141 452 4761
Location: Level 1 – follow signs to the lift. Take the lift/stairs to level 1. Walk along the corridor and turn right and right again. Ward 1D is located along the corridor on your left.
Ward 1E – Cardiology
Call: 0141 452 4438
Location: Level 1 – follow signs to the lift. Take the lift/stairs to level 1. Ward 1E is straight ahead.
Ward 2A – Schiehallion Ward
Call: 0141 452 4450
Location: Level 2 – follow signs to the lift. Take lift/stair to level 2, exit and walk along the corridor and turn left. Ward 2A is straight ahead.
Ward 2B – Shiehallion Day Care
Call: 0141 452 4475
Location: Level 2 – follow signs to the lift. Take lift/stair, exit at level 2. Ward 2B is on your left.
Ward 2C – Acute Receiving Unit
Call: 0141 452 4490
Location: Level 2 – follow signs to the lift. Take lift/stair, exit at level 2. Ward 2C is next to the lift.
Ward 3A – Neurosurgery, Neurology, Complex Respiratory, Long Term Ventilation, Complex ENT, Endocrine, Metabolic and Eating Disorders
Call: 0141 452 4500
Location: Level 3 – follow signs to the lift. Take lift/stair, exit at level 3. Turn right and ward 3A is straight ahead.
Ward 3B – General Surgery, ENT, Cleft, Maxillo Facial, Plastics, Ophthalmology, Gastroenterology)
Call: 0141 451 4510
Location: Level 3 – follow the signs to the lift. Take lift/stair, exit at level 3. Ward 3B is next to lift.
Ward 3C – Renal, Dialysis suite, Urology, Orthopaedics, Diabetes, Medical Paediatrics, Rheumatology, Non LTV, Complex Respiratory)
Call: 0141 452 4520
Location: Level 3 – follow the signs to the lift. Take lift/stair, exit and turn left. Ward 3C is located along the corridor straight ahead.
Ward 4 – National Child Psychiatry In-patient Unit
Call:
- Office hours: 0141 452 4535
- Evenings and weekends: 0141 452 4540
Location: Level 4 – follow the signs to the lift. Take lift/stair, exit and turn right. Ward 4 is straight ahead.
Neonatal Wards
Call:
- Level 1: 0141 201 2261 or 0141 201 2339
- Level 2: 0141 232 4334 or 0141 232 4335
Services and outpatients
Accident and Emergency Department (A&E)
Call main switchboard: 0141 201 0000
Location: Level 0 – entrance on Langlands Road, across from car park 3.
Aroma Cafe
Call main switchboard: 0141 201 0000
Open: Monday to Friday, 8.00am – 4.00pm
Location: Level 0.
The Aroma Café provides a range of hot and cold snacks and beverages. The Café is wholly owned by NHSGGC and all profits are reinvested in the NHS.
Baby Feeding / Nappy Change
Call main switchboard: 0141 201 0000
Location: Level 0 – pass Information desk, turn right, walk ahead and turn right, Baby Feeding and Nappy Change is on your right.
Bone Marrow Transplant
Call main switchboard: 0141 201 0000
Cash Withdrawal (ATM)
Call main switchboard: 0141 201 0000
Location: Level 0 – exit the hospital at the main entrance, turn right, cash machine is located on the wall next to the entrance.
Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care
Call: 0141 452 4017
Email: chaplains@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Location: Level 0 – follow the signs to atrium, pass clinic 5, the Sanctuary is straight ahead.
Children’s Club/Sibling’s Creche
Call main switchboard: 0141 201 0000
Location: Level 0 – pass Information desk, turn right, Children’s Club is straight ahead.
Children’s Diabetes Service
Call main switchboard: 0141 201 0000
Email: childrenwithdiabetes@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
- Emergency care and admissions are provided here at the Royal Hospital for Children.
- Outpatient care and teaching take place at the West Glasgow Ambulatory Care Hospital on the former Yorkhill site.
Discharge Lounge
Call main switchboard: 0141 201 0000
Location: Level 3 – follow the signs to the lift. Take lift/stair, exit at Level 3, turn right, area 3D is located along the corridor on your right.
Family Bereavement Service
Call: 0141 370 4747
Family Information and Resource Centre
Call: 0141 452 4012 or 0141 452 4011
Email: Family.Information@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Location: Level 0 – pass information desk, turn right, walk ahead and turn right, Family Information Centre is straight ahead.
Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity
Call main switchboard: 0141 201 0000
Location: Level 0.
GP Out of Hours Service – Adults and Children
Call: 111
Location: Level 0 – follow the signs to atrium, pass the atrium lift, GP Out of Hours Service (clinic 4) is located on your right.
Imaging – X-ray including Fluoroscopy
Call Freephone: 0800 056 0103
Open: Monday to Friday, 9.00am – 5.00pm
Location: Level 0 – go past the outpatients reception and turn left. Pass the stairs/lifts and turn right. You will find X-ray imaging located along the corridor on your left. Report to the reception desk.
Imaging (CT)
Call freephone: 0800 056 0103
Open: Monday to Friday, 9.00am – 5.00pm
Location: Level 1 – follow the signs to the atrium and take the lift/stair, exit lift A or B turn left. From lift C or D turn right following signs to X-ray/Imaging. Continue along the corridor to the end, and turn left. You will find X-ay/Imaging located on this corridor. Report to the reception desk.
Imaging (MRI) – Levels 0 and 1
Call Freephone: 0800 056 0103
Open:
- Monday to Thursday, 8.00am – 8.00pm
- Friday, 8.00am – 5.00pm
- Saturday and Sunday, 9.00am – 5.00pm
Location:
MRI Scanner 1 – Ground floor
Pass the Outpatients Reception and turn left. Pass the stairs/lifts and turn right. You will find X-ray imaging located along the corridor on your left. Report to the reception desk.
MRI Scanner 2 – 1st floor
Follow the signs into the Atrium and take the lift/stairs to Level 1. If exiting Lift A or B turn left and from left C or D you should turn right following the signs to X-ray/Imaging (1st floor). Continue along the corridor to the end, and turn left. You will find X-ray/Imaging located on this corridor at G core on your left. Report to the reception desk.
Imaging (Ultrasound) – Level 0
Call Freephone: 0800 056 0103
Open: Monday to Friday, 9.00am – 5.00pm
Location: Ground floor.
Pass the Outpatients Reception and turn left. Pass the stairs/lifts and turn right. You will find X-ray imaging located along the corridor on your left. Report to the reception desk.
Imaging (DEXA) – Level 0
Call Freephone: 0800 056 0103
Open: Monday to Friday, 9.00am – 5.00pm
Location: Ground floor
Pass the Outpatients Reception and turn left. Pass the stairs/lifts and turn right. You will find X-ray imaging located along the corridor on your left. Report to the reception desk.
Imaging (Fluoroscopy)
Call Freephone: 0800 056 0103
Open: Monday to Friday, 9.00am – 5.00pm
Location: Level 0 – ground floor.
Pass the Outpatients Reception and turn left. Pass the stairs/lifts and turn right. You will find X-ray imaging located along the corridor on your left. Report to the reception desk.
Imaging (Nuclear Medicine)
Call Freephone: 0800 056 0103
Open: Monday to Friday, 9.00am – 5.00pm
Location: 1st floor.
Follow the signs to the Atrium and take the lift/stairs to Level 1. If exiting lift A or B turn left and from left C or D you should turn right following the signs to X-ray/Imaging (1st floor). Continue along the corridor to the end, and turn left. You will find X-ray/Imaging located on this corridor at G Core on your left. Report to the reception desk.
Imaging (X-Rays and Scans)
Call main switchboard: 0141 201 0000
Location: Level 1 – follow the signs to Atrium. Take lift to Level 1. Exit lift at Level 1 and walk along the corridor and turn right. At the end of the corridor turn left. X-ray/Imaging is located along the corridor on your left.
MediCinema
Call main switchboard: 0141 201 0000
Email: medicinema@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Location: Level 3 – follow the signs for Atrium, take lift/stair to Level 3, exit and turn right, walk along the corridor and turn right. Cinema is on your left.
Outpatients – Reception
Call main switchboard: 0141 201 0000
Location: Level 0 – main entrance. Pass the Information Desk, Outpatients Reception is straight ahead.
Paediatric Clinical Psychology Service
Call: 0141 451 6574 or 0141 451 6499
Location: Level 2 – office block.
Paediatric Liaison Psychiatry Team
Paediatric Orthotics Department
Call: 0141 452 4651
Location: Clinic 12 – ground floor.
Paediatric Rheumatology
Call main switchboard: 0141 201 0000
Paediatric Rheumatology provides care to young people with Rheumatic conditions such as Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA), Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Vasculitis, Uveitis, Juvenile Dermatomyositis, Scleroderma and anto inflammatory conditions.
We cover inpatient, outpatient and day care areas within the Royal Hospital for Children and Outpatients in the Panda unit in the Royal Alexandra Hospital.
We have a number of videos on https://www.whatwhychildreninhospital.org.uk/ to help explain a number of our procedures such as blood test, infusions and joint injections.
Our email address is: ChildrensRheumatologyNurses@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Here is a map of the QEUH campus, our clinics are in area 4 on the ground floor of the children’s hospital.
http://www.nhsggc.org.uk/media/238440/qeuh_rhc_campus_map_travel_info.pdf
In Paisley our clinics are in the PANDA centre, near ward 15.
We are part of the Scottish Paediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology Network http://www.sparn.scot.nhs.uk/contact-us/
For our Attend Anywhere Waiting Room please click.
Pharmacy
Call main switchboard: 0141 201 0000
Location: Level 0 – follow the signs to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, upon arrival turn left, Pharmacy is located on your left.
Restaurant
Call main switchboard: 0141 201 0000
Location: Level 1 – follow the signs to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, upon arrival take Arran (lift/stair) to Level 1, exit Arran at Level 1, turn right, Restaurant is straight ahead on your left.
Open: Monday to Friday – 07.00am – 18.30pm and Saturday to Sunday – 08.00am – 17.00pm
Self Check-In Kiosks
Call main switchboard: 0141 201 0000
Location: Level 0.
Specialist Play Services
Call: 0141 452 4009
Location: Ground floor.
Therapy Hub
Call: 0141 452 4650
Location: Clinic 12, ground floor.
Travel Office
Call main Hospital switchboard: 0141 201 0000
Location: Level 0 – main entrance.
Zone 12 – Adolescent Group Room
Call main switchboard: 0141 201 0000
Location: Follow the signs to Atrium, take lift/stair to Level 3, exit and turn right, walk along the corridor and turn right, Zone 12 is on your right.
Information for Patients, Carers and Visitors
It can be very stressful when your child is unwell. We know that there is a huge amount of information available at your fingertips, but finding something that provides clear and accurate information is not always easy!
The resources on the Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow (RHCG) website/app have been developed with our multi-disciplinary team to help ensure you can find everything you need to know about your child coming to hospital (including how to get here and finding your way around), as well as providing up to date, quality information on common health conditions and what to do in an emergency.
It also includes age specific information for teenagers and young people and is closely linked with our NHS GGC KIDS website, to help provide you with the information you need to manage your child’s health.
Our parent and young people advice has been developed in partnership between our hospital medical staff and primary care colleagues and adapted with permission from the Healthier Together initiative. You’ll find information on common childhood illnesses, including advice on ‘red-flag’ warning signs to look out for, when and where to seek help and how to keep your child comfortable. Our information is regularly reviewed by our team to make sure we are giving you accurate and up-to-date advice.
Improving the quality of care for children and young people in Glasgow