Public Health

This information is specifically aimed at pharmacists and their staff who work in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area but will be helpful to all who are active in public health improvement and health protection.   It provides information on health improvement and health protection topics which relate to community pharmacy practice and today’s public health agendas, giving detailed advice and contacts useful in delivering these agendas.

Please click on any menu item for more information.

We are very keen to keep improving and expanding the website. Please direct all helpful suggestions or comments to the website editor by emailing the Public Health Pharmacy mailbox PharmacyPublicHealth@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

1 Aug 2017

Keeping fit and active – an exercise guide

PH Hosted Resource – Talk to your toddler

•  Talk to your toddler and lister too

PH Hosted Resource – Talk to your toddler community language versions

•  Talk to your toddler – Arabic Language Verssion
•  Talk to your toddler – Mandarin Language Version
•  Talk to your toddler – Romanian language version
•  Talk to your toddler – Turkish Language Version
• Talk to your toddler – Polish Language Version

Keep your family safe from secondhad smoke (pdf)

Other language versions

PH Hosted Resources – Keeping your family safe from secondhand smoke Alt language versions

•  Keep your family safe from secondhad smoke (Arabic)
•  Keep your family safe from secondhad smoke (Farsi)
•  Keep your family safe from secondhad smoke (Kurdish)
•  Keep your family safe from secondhand smoke (Polish)
•  Keep your family safe from secondhand smoke (Urdu)

PH Hosted Resources – Want to stop smoking when you are pregnant? (English language version)

•  Want to stop smoking when you are pregnant?

PH Hosted Resources – Want to stop smoking when you are pregnant? (Alternative language versions)

•  Want to stop smoking when you are pregnant? (Arabic)
•  Want to stop smoking when you are pregnant? (Chinese)
•  Want to stop smoking when you are pregnant? (Polish)
•  Want to stop smoking when you are pregnant? (Punjabi)
•  Want to stop smoking when you are pregnant? (Slovak)

This suite of leaflets has been put together in response to concerns expressed by GPs that there was a lack of brief information readily available to them to pass on to people with dementia (or, if more appropriate, someone who is caring for a person with dementia).

The leaflets have been prepared by colleagues at Alzheimer Scotland, in conjunction with the Scottish Dementia Working Group. 

The aim of the leaflets is to provide people with dementia, and / or a person who cares for them, with useful information on a range of topics that can be provided at an appropriate time for the person. Most are addressed to people with dementia, thought they will all be of relevance to carers, too.

An outline of content of the leaflets is provided below. 

The Research and Evaluation team provides the following services:

• Complete project management of population surveys such as the adult health and well-being survey and the schools survey
• Advice and support to colleagues across the health sector in designing, implementing, analysing and commissioning research.  This includes evaluation of community based health programmes and evaluation of innovative approaches to health improvement
• Building organisational expertise in research and evaluation by offering training in key research skills, advice on research governance issues and research clinics
• Advice and support in database management/design
• Pushing the boundaries of public health by exploring overarching themes in research, such as tobacco control, studying under-investigated determinants of health such as work on Green Spaces or Arts & Health and evaluating interventions addressing inequalities and health such as Integration Through Safety for Asylum Seekers
• Enhancing organisational learning from research and evaluation by organising a comprehensive, accessible seminar programme across Greater Glasgow & Clyde

If you require any further information you can contact the Research and Evaluation Team at:

Contact.Research@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

Cervical skills training is only available to staff working in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Argyll Bute.

Core training (1 day training – training for new smear takers)

Please click on below dates for registration link

Please note spaces are limited to 25 per course.

Course fee: £75

Venue: Tuesday 1 October – Microsoft Teams

Update training (three yearly half day update for current smear takers)

Please click on below dates for registration link.

Smear takers will update knowledge and skills; increase awareness of current practice; and address unsatisfactory smears. 

Please note spaces are limited to 30 per course.

Course fee: £30

Venue: Tuesday 19 March 2024 – Microsoft Teams, Tuesday 16 April 2024 – Microsoft Teams, Tuesday 4 June – QEUH, Tuesday 3 September – Microsoft Teams, Tuesday 5 November 2024 – Microsoft Teams  

All training sessions will include new and updated content to bring you up to date with the scheduled changes to screening.

If you have any queries, please contact Jade Curtis on 0141 201 4541 (64541) or email jade.curtis@ggc.scot.nhs.uk /  PHSU.Admin@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

White Powder Incident

Members of the public who have been exposed to a suspect biological agent should receive an initial 10 days’ ciprofloxacin as prophylaxis against anthrax, plague, tularaemia or other biological agent (unless contraindicated – doxycycline is an alternative – see below). This is a precaution until laboratory results for the agent are known. Initial and follow-up treatments can be provided under the emergency PGDs below.