Services A to Z

The NRU is situated at the back of the QEUH across from A&E and in front of the Langlands building. It is a ground floor bungalow. 

The ward operates a flexible visiting in line with NHSGGC visiting policy.  We would encourage visitors to come out with meal times and timetabled therapy sessions where possible.

Please contact the ward to find out more details.

Telephone number: 0141 201 2663

Referrals for inpatient rehabilitation for patients in NHSGGC can be made via Trakcare new request / other orders rehab medicine (see attached PDF for instructions)

For referrals made out with NHSGGC, please e-mail a referral letter to ggc.nrureferrals@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

NRU operates with a multidisciplinary team approach. This means lots of different professionals come together to work as a team to promote your recovery.

• Nurses
• Health Support Workers
• Rehabilitation Medicine Doctors
• Physiotherapists
• Occupational Therapists
• Neuropsychologists
• Speech and Language Therapists
• Dieticians
• Orthotists 

Patient’s may not need to see all of these team members as some may be more relevant to your condition than others.   In addition some patient’s may be provided with mobility aids (walking aids, wheelchairs) to increase independence, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that this will be long term.

Once a patient arrives in NRU we will create a therapy timetable. We encourage patients to take responsibility for attending therapies but will support as required. It is useful to let friends and family know the timetable as visiting should be arranged around therapies and mealtimes. The intensity of therapy is usually greater than in other wards.

We provide some input as a group-based intervention or undertaken alongside other patients.

• Comfortable clothing for gym-based rehab e.g. trousers, long skirts, shorts, t-shirt and trainers.
• Walking aids or splints.
• Glasses, contact lenses, hearing aids.
• Toiletries.
• Puzzles, music devices, games, books, magazines

We have a mix of single and 4 bedded rooms. The allocation of each is based on patient need and may be subject to change during a patient’s hospital stay.

We have produced a map showing all breastfeeding friendly venues in Scotland.

All businesses and organisations in Scotland open to the general public and who allow children, are under legal obligation to allow breast and bottle feeding. Read more about the law and find out how to become a breastfeeding friendly business.

www.mygov.scot/breastfeeding-and-your-business

• Physical Activity – NHSGGC
• Physical Activity and Health professionals – NHSGGC
• Live Active Online Referral Form A – NHSGGC (for patients without established heart disease) a free 12 week programme with an exercise coach​
• Get Active – NHSGGC (for alternative options patient can drop into SIS or call: 0141 232 1860) for access to walking groups, chair based exercise classes etc.​
• Keeping active | NHS inform

• Manage your weight – NHSGGC
• Referral guidance ​
• The service is not suitable for the following patients suffering from the following;   ​
• Uncontrolled hypothyroidism​
• Untreated Cushing’s syndrome​
• Unstable major psychiatric illness​
• Ongoing alcohol or drug abuse​
• Making a New Weight Management Acute Referral on TrakCare via New Request

• Information on quit your way can be found here: Quit Your Way – NHSGGC​
• Referral via Trakcare 
• Refer via SCI gateway at: https://www.scigw.scot.nhs.uk/web/login.aspx?instance=Live&gpassAction=login​
• Quit Your Way service on 0800 916 8858

• The Support and Information Service can help on hospital sites: contact: sis@ggc.scot.nhs.uk​
• Same day financial support available for: Home Energy, Emergency Food on Discharge, Maternity Cash Grants – all available at your local hospital Support & Information Service​
• In community settings – money advice services and further information can be found at: Money Worries – NHSGGC

For alcohol and drug addiction problems individuals can either self refer directly to the local specialist teams or contact their GP. Crisis services are also available at the Glasgow Alcohol and Drug Crisis Service.

• Alcohol and Drug Recovery Services – NHSGGC
• Central and Local Alcohol and Drug Recovery Services – NHSGGC

• Carers – NHSGGC
• Carers support can be accessed via the Support and Information Service, contact: sis@ggc.scot.nhs.uk​
• Call the Carers Information Line on 0141 353 6504 – they will put carer in touch with local service​
• Information leaflets & cards available to order for free

• Heads Up – Mental Health Support – NHSGGC

Support and information on Type 2 Diabetes, Prediabetes and Gestational Diabetes:

• Type 2 Diabetes Hub – NHSGGC

Opening Times

Monday – Friday: 8.30am – 4.30pm (Closed Public Holidays & weekends)

Contact

Appointment enquires: 0141 452 (8) 3659

If for any reason you are unable to attend your appointment, please inform us by telephoning as soon as possible during office hours. We will make you another appointment and this will allow someone else to use the one you cannot.

Location

The Nuclear Medicine department is on the first floor of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital main building. Follow signs to the atrium and take the Arran lift / stairs to the first floor. Take a left and the Nuclear Medicine department is in front (next to radiology).

This is building 1 on the campus map that can be downloaded from the link below.

Opening Times

Monday – Friday: 8.30am – 4.30pm (Closed Public Holidays & weekends)

Contact

Appointment enquires: 0141 201 (6) 2032

If for any reason you are unable to attend your appointment, please inform us by telephoning as soon as possible during office hours. We will make you another appointment and this will allow someone else to use the one you cannot.

Location

Nuclear Medicine (SPECT) is located in the Department of Clinical Neuroradiology (Imaging), in the Neurosurgical block of the Institute of Neurological Sciences. This is building 7 on the campus map that can be downloaded from the link below.

Opening Times

Monday – Friday: 8.30am – 4.30pm (Closed Public Holidays & weekends)

Contact

Appointment enquires: 0141 347 (6) 8420

If for any reason you are unable to attend your appointment, please inform us by telephoning as soon as possible during office hours. We will make you another appointment and this will allow someone else to use the one you cannot.

Location

The Nuclear Medicine department is within the Imaging Department on the ground floor.

A map to the hospital can be downloaded from the link below.

Non-imaging Nuclear Medicine services are provided within several departments in the hospital and specific contact information and directions is provided in your appointment letter.

General site information and directions to the hospital can be found in the main pages here.

Non-imaging Nuclear Medicine services are provided within several departments in the hospital and specific contact information and directions is provided in your appointment letter.

General site information and directions to the hospital can be found in the main pages here.

You will be referred by your GP or by a hospital consultant.

It is helpful if you have a full bladder when you attend for scan.  Your scan may be performed in two ways: by abdominal approach (a full bladder will help with this method) and or vaginal approach.  Both of these methods are comfortable and the sonographer will explain why they have chosen which method is best on the day. The doctor or sonographer may ask you when your last period was and we can carry out scans at any time of the cycle, including when you have your period.

Your appointment will take around 10 to 30 minutes.

The doctor or sonographer may explain some of the findings during the examination. You will get a more detailed explanation of your results at a separate clinic appointment or by letter from your gynaecology consultant or GP.

Contact Hours

• Monday to Friday 9.00am until 5.00pm

New Victoria Hospital

• Location: Clinic K
• Telephone number: 0141 347 8606

New Stobhill Hospital

• Location: Clinic F
• Telephone number: 0141 355 1220

Royal Alexandra Hospital Maternity Unit

Location: Ultrasound Department

Telephone number: 0141 314 6748

Inverclyde Royal Hospital

• Location: OP ultrasound is at Main X-ray Level C
• Telephone number: 01475 504963

Vale of Leven Hospital Maternity Building

• Location: Gynaecology out-patient department
• Telephone number 01389 817275

The Gynaecology Inpatient Wards provide dedicated care for Gynaecology patients requiring treatments/surgery; either elective or emergency.

Our wards are multi-professional with a dedicated team of specialist consultants, nurses, healthcare assistants, physiotherapists and clerical staff working together to ensure that each patient receives outstanding care.

We operate an ERAS programme in Gynaecology. The aim of this programme is to get women back to full health as quickly as possible after surgery, empowering them to take an active part in their recovery. Research has shown that after surgery, the sooner patients mobile and the earlier they are eating and drinking, the quicker their recovery will be. They are less likely to develop complications after surgery, such as chest infections and blood clots.

The main elements of the ERAS programme include:

1. Maximising health pre-operatively
2. Pre-operative assessment and preparation
3. Good care planning and pain relief after surgery
4. Early mobilisation and return to eating and drinking as soon as possible after surgery.

We encourage and support people to stay connected to those who matter most in their lives while they are in hospital. This page provides details of current visiting arrangements in place, and guidance and safety measures everyone needs to follow. Person Centred Visiting is in place across NHSGGC.

Person Centred Visiting means we will work together with patients, family members and staff so that care is in line with the following core principles:

• Welcoming – we welcome and encourage the involvement of the people who matter to patients.
• Patient Led – We are guided by patients when the people who matter will visit, how they would like them involved in their care, and when they want to rest.
• Partnership – we work in partnership with the people who matter to patients
• Flexibility – we have no set visiting times
• Respect – we respect people individual needs and act on an individual basis to ensure the safety, privacy and dignity of all patients. This means there may be times when we need to ask people to leave a clinical area temporarily.

Queen Elizabeth University Hospital – Ward 49

• Senior Charge Nurse: Christine Dunn
• Telephone number: 0141 201 2282

Royal Alexandra Hospital – Ward 32

• Senior Nurse in Charge: Nikki Harvey
• Telephone number: 0141 314 7032

Glasgow Royal Infirmary – Ward 56

• Senior Charge Nurse: Julie Graham
• Telephone number: 0141 201 3371 or 0141 201 3363

The emergency gynaecology departments are available to patients who need seen urgently and cannot wait for an outpatient appointment. This may include certain patients with early pregnancy problems.

You will either be referred directly to Emergency Gynaecology by your GP or transferred from the relevant hospitals Emergency Department (Accident and Emergency).

You can attend this unit only if your General Practitioner (GP) has assessed you and has discussed your case with the consultant on-call. If you have not been assessed by your GP and you feel your case is an emergency, you should attend your local Accident and Emergency Department.

The service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

When you arrive in Emergency Gynaecology Service, a member of staff will register your details and carry out some basic observations (blood pressure, pulse, temperature and urine checks). A doctor will talk to you about your symptoms and after discussion carry out any examinations, tests, scans or investigations needed. You may be able to go home after these things have been completed although some women need to be admitted to the ward.

If you attend over the weekend or in the evening and you need an ultrasound scan, this may be arranged for the next available appointment, which may be 2 to 3 days later.

In some cases you may be asked to return for repeat blood tests or scans. You will be given an appointment time for this. Please note that whilst we make every effort to see you at the appointed time, it is not always possible if there are unwell or upset patients needing to be seen urgently.

If you are discharged from our care but your symptoms return, please contact us for further advice. We will provide you with follow up contact details when you are discharged.

Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Gynaecology Emergency Service

• Call: 0141 201 2249
• Charge nurses: Jill McCafferty and Evonne Nicholson

Glasgow Royal Infirmary Gynaecology Emergency Service

• Call: 0141 201 3371
• Charge Nurses: Lisa Thomson and Susan Gilchrist

Royal Alexandra Hospital Gynaecology Emergency Service

• Call: 0141 314 7032
• Charge Nurses: Pauline Turner and Gillian McLean

Information coming here soon.

Glasgow

• New Stobhill Hospital
• New Victoria Hospital
• Glasgow Royal Infirmary
• Queen Elizabeth University Hospital

Clyde

• Royal Alexandra Hospital
• Inverclyde Royal Hospital
• Vale of Leven Hospital

Our gynaecology clinic see women for a range of different gynaecological conditions and some disorders of the female genito urinary tract including:

• Heavy/Irregular vaginal bleeding
• Chronic pelvis pain
• Menopause
• Premature ovarian failure
• Premenstrual syndrome
• Uterine fibroids
• Ovarian cyst
• Vulval conditions
• Prolapse
• Fertility issues

Before you attend the clinic you will be sent a leaflet explaining what to expect and outlining possible procedures which may be carried out during your visit.

It can be useful to write down any questions you may have about your condition and future management before your appointment and bring it with you so you don’t forget to ask during the appointment.

When you arrive at clinic you can either check-in at the self-service points in the entrance hall or go straight the clinic reception area who will direct you to the waiting area.

You will then be invited into a consultation room where you will be seen by a doctor or a nurse specialist. You will have a medical history taken and be asked about your symptoms and current health status.

If you require an examination or any test that can be arrange at the clinic the doctor or nurse will arrange for these to be performed. If the results are not available immediately the doctor or nurse will arrange a follow up appointment either by telephone or returning to the clinic. If the results are available the doctor or nurse will discuss the finding with you and the plan for any further investigations or treatment.

Your doctor or nurse will write to you and your GP with the results of your investigations and will arrange any further treatment that is needed.

You can be referred by your GP or by a hospital consultant.

New Stobill Hospital

• Charge Nurse: Shona Brown
• Telephone number: 0141 355 1220

New Victoria Hospital

• Senior Charge Nurse: Karen Nicolson
• Telephone number: 0141 347 8404

Glasgow Royal Infirmary

• Senior Charge Nurse: Janet Craig
• Telephone number: 0141 211 8570

Queen Elizabeth University Hospital

• Charge Nurse: Rosie McClusckey
• Email: Endometriosis.WOS@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

Royal Alexandra Hospital

• Senior Charge Nurse: Kelsey Rollo
• Telephone number: 0141 314 9553

Inverclyde Royal Hospital

• Charge Nurse: Jennifer Harvey
• Telephone number: 01475 504542

Vale of Leven Hospital

• Charge Midwife: Marie Whalen
• Telephone number: 01389 817275

We provide dedicated care for our patients with the support from a Multi Professional dedicated team of Specialist Consultants, Nurses, Pain Management Team, Urology and Bowel Surgeons and clerical staff together to ensure the patient receives outstanding care.

The Consultants are experts in woman’s health and the management of endometriosis, including the most complex surgical techniques. The management of your care will be in discussion with you and how this supports you and your symptoms.

The Consultants operate weekly outpatient’s clinic appointments and surgical intervention.

The Endometriosis Nurse Specialist operates outpatient’s clinic and telephone consultations, and will provide you with ongoing support.

The service is accessed via a referral system from either your gynaecologist or GP and concentrating on patients with confirmed advanced endometriosis.

Please bring any menstrual/pain diary with you to allow this to be discussed at your consultation.  This assessment is important to tailor your proposed care to your specific needs. Questions will involve your menstrual, bowel and bladder activities together with any potential future fertility plans.

It can be useful to write down any questions you may have about your condition and future management before your appointment and bring it with you so you don’t forget to ask during the appointment. 

The Consultant will go through your history with you. You will then be examined (this includes vaginal examination) and may also undergo transvaginal ultrasound scan. If you are on your menstrual period that shouldn’t be a problem and you can still have examination and ultrasound unless you prefer not to. 

The next step is a discussion of available options. We will formulate a treatment plan that may involve medical or surgical management. If surgical option is appropriate the waiting time for this will be depended on whether you will require input from other surgical specialities i.e. bowel surgeons, urology surgeons.

Specialist Consultants

• Dr Robert Hawthorn
• Dr Karina Datsun

Clinical Nurse Specialist

• Rosie McCluskey

Secretary to Dr Hawthorn and Dr Datsun

• Email Carole Carruth: Email-Carole.Carruth@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
• Phone: 0141 201 2264
• Nurse specialist Email: Endometriosis.WOS@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

More information coming soon.