The National Child Psychiatry Inpatient Unit is located in Ward 4 at the Glasgow Royal Hospital for Children. It provides flexible inpatient psychiatric services for children aged 5-11 years with severe psychiatric disorders, which may be complicated by neurodevelopmental disorders, physical health problems and complex psychosocial factors and require the specialist assessment and treatment skills of our Child Psychiatry Team.
As the unit is a national service we consider referrals from all Scottish Health Boards.
To maintain the safety of patients, visitors and staff, visiting still needs to be carefully managed. You can find current information and guidance on the Patients, Hospital Appointments and Visiting page or contact the ward or unit directly to discuss visiting arrangements.
Leverndale Hospital provide in-patient mental health care to adults, older adults including continuing care and specialities such as perinatal, forensic and learning disability services.
To maintain the safety of patients, visitors and staff, visiting still needs to be carefully managed. You can find current information and guidance on the Patients, Hospital Appointments and Visiting page or contact the ward or unit directly to discuss visiting arrangements.
Further Information
Wards and Visiting
Visiting
To maintain the safety of patients, visitors and staff, visiting still needs to be carefully managed. You can find current information and guidance on the Patients, Hospital Appointments and Visiting page or contact the ward or unit directly to discuss visiting arrangements.
Adult Inpatient Services
Adult Inpatient Ward 1 / IPCU
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6582
Ward 2
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6595
Adult Inpatient Ward 3A / AAU
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6585
Adult Inpatient Ward 3B / AAU
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6586
Adult Inpatient Ward 4A / AAU
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 1397
Adult Inpatient Ward 4B / AAU
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6514 or 0141 211 6655
Balloch Ward
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6589
Rehabilitation Ward
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6584
Other Adult Services
Banff Ward / Functional
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6592
Balmore Ward / Dementia
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6591 or 0141 211 6469
Forensic Wards
Forensic Ward 5
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 1379
Forensic Ward 6
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 1367
Boulevard Ward
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6452
Bute Ward
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 1386
Campsie Ward
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6417
Services
Learning Disability – Whitehouse and Campsie
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Unit: 0141 211 6584
Quit Your Way: 0141 211 6564
Recreational Therapy Department: 0141 211 6645 or 0141 211 6647
Spiritual Care: 0141 211 6695
West of Scotland Mother and Baby Unit: 0141 211 6500
Discharge and Resettlement Team (DART)
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6505
ECT
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6616
Esteem
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6563
Mental Health Assessment Unit
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Mother and Baby Unit
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6539
Pharmacy
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6524
Quit Your Way
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6564
Recreational Therapy
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6647
Spiritual Care
Contact telephone number: 0141 211 6595
Travel Information and site access
The number 3 and X8 buses stop outside the hospital and Crookston Train station is only a 13 minute walk away.
Skye House provides inpatient treatment for young people with conditions like severe depression, eating disorders, psychosis and obsessive-compulsive disorders.
In addition to all the bedrooms at Skye House being en-suite, there is a purpose-built gym, fully equipped classrooms, landscaped gardens and overnight accommodation for visiting families.
Skye House has been specially designed and purpose-built to meet young people’s needs and leading to substantial improvements in their care and treatment. The planning of the unit also benefited from the fact that the young people themselves contributed significantly to the planning process.
While young people are in Skye House, they will go to school, therapy groups, family sessions and individual sessions. Young people will also have time to do things that they want to do.
Every week, young people will get a timetable for the next week. Although each young person’s timetable is different, there are some routines/groups which all young people should follow.
Mull, Harris and Lewis wings are where people admitted to Skye House have their individual en suite room. There are also two dining areas where meals and snacks are taken. There is a television room in each wing.
To maintain the safety of patients, visitors and staff, visiting still needs to be carefully managed. You can find current information and guidance on the Patients, Hospital Appointments and Visiting page or contact the ward or unit directly to discuss visiting arrangements.
Further Information
Wards & Visiting
Lewis, Harris and Mull Wings (wards): 0141 232 6420
Services
Adolescent Mental Health Service: 0141 232 6420 or 0141 232 6425
Quit Your Way: 0141 211 6564
School – Hospital Education Service: 0141 201 0014
The teachers assess and teach the young people, aiming to facilitate a return to as near normal a life at school as is possible on discharge. This is done through maintaining the mainstream school’s work or providing a curriculum appropriate to their age and ability at that time, engaging in a multi-disciplinary therapeutic programme, and providing courses to assist the social and emotional development of the young people.
Dykebar Hospital is located on the outskirts of Paisley. It is the main inpatient facility for treatment for mental health within Renfrewshire and also has another Adult Mental health based Ward in Leverndale hospital, Ward 3B.
The hospital provides acute and continuing care in-patient services for adults aged 16-65 years of age who suffer mental health problems. It also provides similar inpatient services for the elderly mentally ill.
In addition there are outpatient clinics for psychiatry and psychology. There is a day service provision for alcohol problems. The hospital site provides various corporate services.
Further in-patient services for mental health are located within the Royal Alexandra Hospital for both adult and elderly including a day hospital facility for the elderly.
The Adult Community Mental Health Teams are currently located within the Charleston Centre in Paisley and Mile End Mill in Paisley. The Elderly community team is located within Ward 38 Royal Alexandra Hospital.
To maintain the safety of patients, visitors and staff, visiting still needs to be carefully managed. You can find current information and guidance on the Patients, Hospital Appointments and Visiting page or contact the ward or unit directly to discuss visiting arrangements.
Further Information
Services
Adult Mental Health Acute Services
Contact Information
South Ward: 0141 314 4070
Ward 3B Leverndale: 0141 211 6586
Adult Mental Health Continuing Care
Contact Information
Arran and Bute Ward: 0141 314 4066
Alcohol Problems Clinic
Contact Information
Call: 0141 314 4106
Community Mental Health Team
Contact Information
Call: 0141 618 5600
Location
Based in the Charleston Centre, Neilston Road, Paisley
Machines can be hired online for use during Labour and Birth online. They may also be available for hire or buy from your local Pharmacy e.g. Lloyds Pharmacy, Boots the Chemist.
Breastfeeding
Support and information over and above the support from your midwife and Health Visitor is available from:
Can I give birth in the CMU if it is my first baby?
If you have a healthy, single pregnancy with no medical or obstetric complications, you can choose to have your baby in the CMU.
Yes. Options for place of birth will be discussed with you at booking and during your pregnancy.
Why may I not be able to give birth at the CMU
The midwives at the CMU consider your and your babies’ health to be of paramount importance and therefore any medical or pregnancy related conditions have to be considered in deciding the best place to have your baby.
What if a complication happens during labour?
Because you have experienced a fit, healthy pregnancy, you are less likely to experience complications, however should the need arise, the highly skilled midwives will manage the situation appropriately and will accompany you to the consultant led unit.
What management strategies can I use during labour?
Midwives find that support offered by them and your birthing partner, in a warm, friendly environment enables you to maintain control of your labour and reduces the need for intervention and drugs.
Who can be with me in the CMU?
Bring with you the one or two people you choose to offer you support at this time.
What pain relief can I have in labour?
There is also a wide range of pain relief.
Midwives find that support offered by them and your birthing partner, in a warm, friendly environment enables you to maintain control of your labour and reduces the need for strong pain relief.
The Maternity building is physically linked to the children’s and adult hospitals via a walkway bridge.
The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital also has a foetal medicine unit providing specialist diagnostic facilities and treatment to unborn babies from across Scotland. The unit is equipped with three treatment rooms, scanning facilities, counselling facilities and separate waiting areas. There is one theatre, within Labour Ward, which is equipped with special laser technology used to provide treatment to babies while they are still in the womb (interventional fetal therapy).
Getting Around Our Campus
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Changes to NHSGGC Maternity Visiting and Support from Partners
To ensure we’re maximising rest periods for women staying at our maternity wards, we have changed when partners, key supporters, friends and family can visit.
Location: Located within Royal Hospital for Children (RHC)
Labour Ward
Call: 0141 201 2292
Within the labour ward, we encourage birthing partners to be present to support women through throughout their birth experience.
Birthing partners are encouraged to update friends and family on a woman’s progress thus limiting the number of direct calls to labour ward and ensuring that women remain informed and at the centre of all discussions surrounding the communication of their baby’s birth.
Visiting within high dependency will be determined by the woman’s condition.
Partners will be supported to visit and additional visitors will be guided by the woman’s condition and activity within the area.
Services and Outpatients
Day Care Unit
Call: 0141 201 2274
Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAS)
Call: 0141 201 2331
Community Midwives
Call: 0141 201 2256
Antenatal Clinic
Call: 0141 201 2252
For appointments amendments please call Medical Records.
Maternity Triage
Call: 0141 232 4363
This is a 24 hour service for women booked at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital who may have concerns about their pregnancy.
Changes to NHSGGC Maternity Visiting and Support from Partners
To ensure we’re maximising rest periods for women staying at our maternity wards, we have changed when partners, key supporters, friends and family can visit.
McColl’s Travel operate a bus service 340 between Helensburgh, Vale of Leven Hospital and the Royal Alexandra Hospital (Paisley), via Dumbarton and Alexandria, 7 days a week. This service is jointly funded by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and SPT.
Small, intimate and beautifully designed. There are three large comfortable birthing rooms, one of which has a state of the art birthing pool. The rooms also contains en suite bath, shower and toilet facilities. To encourage you to be active in labour there is soft matting, birthing balls and a birthing couch.
The unit is located in a quiet peaceful area of the hospital and is easily accessed from the nearby free car park with its own dedicated entrance on the ground floor.
You and your birthing partner can be assured of first class facilities which have been designed with your comfort, privacy and safety in mind. You are very welcome to come and visit the unit and see these facilities. Please call 01389 817232 to arrange a tour.
Following the birth of your baby, you will continue to be accommodated within the unit in a single room.
Changes to NHSGGC Maternity Visiting and Support from Partners
To ensure we’re maximising rest periods for women staying at our maternity wards, we have changed when partners, key supporters, friends and family can visit.
Mother of Joshua: “I have never lived anywhere where the local midwifery unit is the team you rely on, I have only ever known maternity units that are medically based. When I became pregnant I knew straight away the CMU was where I wanted to have my baby. Many people tried to advise me often suggesting the bigger units. However I am so glad I stuck to my guns. My whole experience of the CMU has been fantastic. All the staff who have had an input into my care have been supportive and professional at all times.
The actual day I went into labour will always be a pleasant memory because of the amazing support I had over the phone from the midwives in the CMU. Their experience was invaluable and they gave reassurance and guidance which allowed me the confidence to stay at home as long as possible.
When I finally came into the CMU to have my baby the 2 midwives on that night were amazing. They kept me calm and had a big influence on the wonderful experience of labour I had. It was much less scary because of them and their kindness and invaluable experience. It is something I will always treasure.
Joshua was born in a most relaxing environment and it was all down to the wonderful place they call the Vale if Leven CMU and the wonderful staff who work here. Thank you all for the wonderful job you are doing and I hope you go on doing it for many years to come. My husband and I will certainly be recommending the CMU to whoever we can.”
Father of Joshua: “My wife has written her thoughts but I wanted to write mine down too. I am GP working locally and during my training I have seen many deliveries. However I have never seen a delivery in a midwife led unit. I must confess that I was really worried initially about our baby being born at the Vale. I asked myself the question what would happen if complication arose, because the nearest doctors were in the RAH in Paisley. Many of my GP colleagues had the opinion that the safest place to have a baby was where doctors work. I didn’t know where to go for the best, but as the delivery date approached I realized 3 things.
I have heard of lots of negative experience at other large maternity units
I have NEVER heard of a negative experience from the CMU at the Vale.
It seemed ridiculous not to use local services when everyone wants the Vale to stay open.
So we decided to stay with the CMU at the Vale and it was the best choice we made.
After Joshua was born we didn’t really know what we were doing! This was our first baby after all!! The midwives listened to our questions, explored our feelings and gave us the opportunity to make our own decisions after giving us the information. I have seen first-hand mothers panicking and midwives having no time to help. I have also seen mothers pushed home because of bed shortages. The Vale is so different. I’ll be recommending the Vale to all my Patients. Thank You!!!”
The Community Maternity Unit is small, intimate and beautifully designed. There is a large comfortable birthing room with a state of the art birthing pool. It also contains en suite bath, shower and toilet facilities.
To encourage you to be active in labour there is soft matting, birthing balls and a birthing couch. The room offers beautiful views down the River Clyde. You and your birthing partner can be assured of first class facilities.
It has been designed with your comfort, privacy and safety in mind. You are very welcome to come and visit the unit and see these facilities. Please call 01475 504619 or 01475 504775 to arrange a tour.
Following the birth of your baby, you will continue to be accommodated within the unit in a two bedded room until you are both ready to go home.
Changes to NHSGGC Maternity Visiting and Support from Partners
To ensure we’re maximising rest periods for women staying at our maternity wards, we have changed when partners, key supporters, friends and family can visit.
Midwives care for women and their babies. They prepare for the birth, assist the woman at the birth and provide practical and emotional advice and support in the care of the newborn baby.
They take specialist training after qualifying as a nurse, or train directly as a midwife.
The 25 Midwives at Inverclyde CMU between them have decades of training and experience in caring for mums to be and delivering babies.
Many, if not most, live locally and know the community and its people very well – our midwives often meet people in the street they delivered as newborn babies!
Mum’s Journey
Follow the steps of mum’s journey, from the early days of pregnancy through to baby’s first few days, by clicking the links below.
You’re Pregnant
When you become pregnant, your first contact is with a midwife, who records details of your medical history and assesses how healthy you are. The midwife will find out if your pregnancy is progressing smoothly.
If there are no problems with either your health or that of your unborn baby, you will be able to receive all your care at the Inverclyde CMU all the way through to giving birth. You will be able to do this even if this is your first baby.
If you’re expecting twins (or even more babies!), you will receive all your care from midwives up until the time you are due but – purely as a precaution – you will be asked to give birth in a consultant-led unit, usually the one at the Royal Alexandra Hospital.
If there are any concerns whatsoever about your health, or that of your baby, you will receive your care jointly between the local midwives and consultants at the Royal Alexandra Hospital. You will give birth at the Royal Alexandra Hospital.
However, for most mums this is just a precaution as most births go absolutely smoothly and good planning by staff will mean there is little to worry about.
During Pregnancy
At 12 weeks you will be offered an ultrasound scan and this will allow midwives to estimate when your baby is due.
During your pregnancy you will be invited to attend a series of workshop sessions which are designed to help you prepare for birth and getting ready to be a mum. These will cover subjects like:
Relaxation techniques
Parenting skills
Breastfeeding
We don’t forget about your partner or birth supporter either – they can come to workshop sessions too and find out how they can help you during the birth and beyond.
A blood test is offered at 15 – 16 weeks into the pregnancy in order to screen for any problems. Four or five weeks later, this is followed by a second ultrasound scan, which is intended to provide a more detailed look at the baby – by this time you will be starting to feel the baby’s first movements.
At 24 weeks you will have an ante-natal appointment with your midwife, during which she will check the baby’s growth and listen to his or her heartbeat. If you are a first-time mum, you will have another appointment with the midwife at 32 weeks.
At 34 weeks, you are getting close to the time of the birth. You will be offered more blood tests to find out if you need extra iron and you will be given a chance to look around the CMU’s birthing suite. At 38 weeks first-time mums will have another appointment with their midwife.
When the time comes to give birth to your baby, it is important that you feel relaxed in your surroundings.
Labour and Birth
Inverclyde CMU’s birthing suite, along with the rest of the unit, was completely refurbished and is state of the art.
In particular, we have installed a new birthing pool, which you can use to help you stay comfortable during labour and give birth in if you choose. We also provide birth mats, birthing balls and birthing stools. You can bring in your own CDs, or choose from a selection we provide, and have the lights dimmed in order make the birth as peaceful and private as possible.
It is these kinds of things that can help you in controlling pain. Before giving birth, your midwife will have spent some time discussing this with you and will help you to overcome your worries and fears.
Massage, relaxing music, breathing techniques and the birthing pool can make all the difference – but if these are not enough, you can have Entonox (gas and air) and, if appropriate, the drug pethidine to help make contractions less pain. Like every drug, this has drawbacks and these will have been explained to you by your midwife.
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