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Clyde Biochemistry Laboratories (those based at Royal Alexandra Hospital, Inverclyde Royal Hospital and Vale of Leven Hospital) has been accredited with UKAS to standard ISO 15189:2012 for much of our test repertoire. The certificate of accreditation is available online.

The scope of our accreditation includes the majority of the tests performed by our laboratories, with a small number of tests not falling within our accreditation status (for example, no fluid analyses (on fluids other than CSF, urine or blood / serum / plasma) are accredited) – see the link above for details of our accredited scope.

Specialist services including Protein Electrophoresis and less often requested endocrine assays are based at RAH. 

All routine GP work within the Clyde Sector is also based at RAH.

Please accept our apologies for the behaviour of links on this webpage. This is due to a global setting which is outwith the Biochemistry Department’s control.

Clyde Biochemistry Document Library
Service Hours

Routine operating hours

  • Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5.00pm
  • Saturday and Sunday, 8.30am to 12.00pm (Inverclyde Royal Hospital) and 9.00am to 12.00pm (Royal Alexandra Hospital) 
  • There is a 24hr emergency service for urgent samples outwith these hours
Contact Details

Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH)

  • Address: Corsebar Road, Paisley, Renfrewshire PA2 9PN
  • Telephone: 0141 314 6157 extension 06157

Inverclyde Royal Hospital (IRH)

  • Address: Larkfield Road, Greenock PA16 0XN
  • Telephone: 01475 504827 extension 04827 – Emergency requests extension 04213

Vale of Leven Hospital (VOL)

  • Main Street, Alexandria G83 0UA
  • Telephone: 01389 817568 extension 87568

POCT issues / Cryoglobulin testing 

For routine issues with gas analysers or blood glucose meters and to arrange training / barcode for meters please email:

Cryoglobulin testing can also be arranged via this email address.

Clinical Advice

Both Primary and Secondary care professionals served by the Clyde Biochemistry Laboratory can obtain clinical advice by email:

Nutrition team referral process

Feedback

We are committed to providing a quality service to users. If you wish to provide feedback on the Clyde Glasgow Biochemistry service, please contact our Quality Manager by emailing Pamela.craig6@nhs.scot

Handbooks and Manuals
Laboratory Newsletter

The most recent laboratory newsletters are available below:

Previous issues of the newsletter are stored in the Clyde Biochemistry Document Library:

Clyde Biochemistry Document Library
Memos

Primary Care

Secondary Care

Previous memos can be found in the Clyde Biochemistry Document Library, linked above.

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

Stor – a digital repository for Public Health

What is an Environmental Control System?

Everyday, people use handsets and remotes to use the telephone, operate TVs and accessing sockets for turning on lights etc. For a few people using these handsets is extremely difficult due to complex physical disabilities. An environmental control is a technical system which can potentially overcome this problem. 

What can they control?

Environmental control systems can be set up to operate a huge range of devices, including:

  • Access and Security – community alarms, door lock
  • Communication – intercom, telephone
  • Comfort – beds, chairs, curtains, fan, lamps, lights
  • Access – door
  • Entertainment – TV, video, HiFi, DVD, Cable TV, Satellite TV, Teletext, Radio
How do Environmental Controls work?

Environmental controls are portable and use wireless signals to send commands to remote appliances.

Depending on the environmental control and the appliance that requires to be controlled, the environment control will send out either radio or infrared signals to operate the appliance remotely.

People can operate this equipment with various physical movements, such as; hand control, chin switch, head switch or voice activation.

Why do I need one?

People usually consider an environmental control to solve the following problems:

  • Cannot easily operate appliances and equipment around the home
  • Cannot unlock the door to let carers in
  • Cannot use ordinary remote control handsets
  • Spend some time on their own and may need to make an emergency call to a carer
  • Want to remain independent in their own home
  • Carer needs to be able to pop out without fear of person getting into trouble and being unable to call for help
Funding – Who will pay for it?

If you meet the NHS eligibility criteria, then you may be prescribed an environmental control system. The NHS will only install and maintain equipment that has been approved.

Some people choose to buy or rent environmental control systems privately. Others may be able to obtain funds from various government sources and have the equipment supplied to them on loan.

Other departments may be applied to for funding in some circumstances. These include Social Services (for Home Adaptation Grants or Disabled Facilities Grants), Local Education Authorities (for Equipment for Education Grants) and Employment Services (for ‘Access to Work’ equipment grants).

What products and services will the NHS provide?

The NHS may contract out the supply and servicing of equipment to an environmental control manufacturer. If so, they will agree with the manufacturer what equipment should be installed and what type of maintenance contract will be required.

Typically the NHS pay for an annual service.

The NHS operate to strict guidelines for provision, so you may find that the NHS will not be able to pay for everything you ask for.

What if I want more equipment that the Health Services will provide?

You may be able to buy equipment direct from the manufacturers, or from one of their approved suppliers. If the environmental control needs to be reconfigured to add in the command functions for the new equipment, then this would need to be agreed with the NHS provider.

Eligibility

A specialist assessment is required to determine a person’s suitability and eligibility. These criteria are available on request. Please contact your GP or Health Professional and ask to be referred:

Co-ordinator (Environmental Controls)
Westmarc
Southern General Hospital
1345 Govan Road
Glasgow
G51 4TF

Email: westmarc@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Telephone: 0300 790 0129

Referral Form

Public Health Directorate

This section provides information on Public Health issues and functions. Much of the information will be of interest to staff and professional audiences working in the fields of Public Health and health improvement.

Working together to stem the tide – Director of Public Health Report January 2024
Turning the tide through prevention: Public Health strategy 2018-2028

What we do

Our Public Health Directorate aims to:

  • Influence policy and strategy including legal and fiscal measures to protect and promote health and reduce health inequalities.
  • Work with communities and partner organisations to improve health and reduce inequalities
  • Provide leadership for Public Health across NHSGGC and partner organisations
  • Ensure the protection of the public from communicable and non-communicable diseases and environmental hazards
  • Monitor the pattern of disease in the community
  • Assess the health needs of the population and advise how these needs can be met
  • Facilitate the strategic development of health care services provided
  • Ensure the systematic implementation of evidence based practice, clinical and quality standards for healthcare, preventative programmes and interventions such as screening; immunisation and behaviour change
  • Provide support for professional development – building capacity, research and evaluation services, access to evidence base and services to ensure dissemination of resources.

On 21st August 2018 NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Board approved “Turning the tide through prevention“, our new ten year Public Health Strategy. 

Find out more about our work and achievements in our 2015-2016 Out-turn report (pdf)

How we work

Our vision is to improve our population’s health and tackle health inequality.

We will build on our relationships with staff and residents across NHSGGC to adopt healthier lifestyles by working with, and supporting local communities, employers and staff.  To deliver our vision, our mission is to focus on the changeable determinants of ill health and provide clarity and co-ordinate efforts to prevent health inequalities and to enable our staff and partners to deliver our vision. 

Our Public Health Challenge
  • High numbers of children and families who continue to experience poor outcomes
  • Increasing number of individuals and families affected by poverty, debt, fuel and /or food poverty and homelessness
  • Poor life expectancy, high levels of morbidity and disability and the need to access a wider range of health (and other) services at a younger age and for longer than other areas of Scotland
  • Appropriately meeting the needs of an increasingly ethnically and culturally diverse population and delivering accessible, needs based services
  • High demand on resources associated with mitigating the impact of health inequalities on individuals rather than influencing their prevention upstream.
Priorities for preventing ill-health and early intervention

These include:

  • Improve identification and support to vulnerable children and families
  • Enable disadvantaged groups to use services in a way which reflects their needs
  • Increase identification of and reduce key risk factors including those associated health inequalities (smoking, healthy weight, drug, alcohol use and poverty mitigation)
  • Promote mental well-being, reduce disabling distress and suicide  and ensure early intervention for mental ill health
  • Embed the principles of the health promoting health service across care settings
  • Increase the use of anticipatory care planning; vaccinations and screening
  • Increase the proportion of key conditions including cancer and dementia detected at an early stage
  • Enable older people to stay healthy
  • Reduce harm from external hazards to health.
Director of Public Health (DPH) Reports
Working together to stem the tide – Director of Public Health Report January 2024

Previous Reports

Back to basics: report of the Director of Public Health on population health in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde 2015-2017
Building momentum for change: report of the director of public health on population health in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde 2013-2015
Keeping health in mind: report of the Director of Public Health into the health of the population of Greater Glasgow and Clyde and recommendations for action 2011 – 2013
An unequal struggle for health: report of the Director of Public Health into the health of the population of Greater Glasgow and Clyde and priorities for action 2009-2011
A call to debate: a call to action. A report on the health of the population of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde 2007 – 2008
Healthy minds: the report of the director of public health on population health in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde 2017-2019

The Public Health Directorate is based at West House on the Gartnavel Hospitals campus.

Contact us

West House
Gartnavel Royal Hospital Campus
1055 Great Western Road
Glasgow
G12 0XH

Further contact details

Director of Public Health

The Director of Public Health is:
Dr Emilia Crighton 
Email: Emilia.Crighton@nhs.scot

Head of Health Services and Equalities

Dr Bea Von Wissmann, Interim Head of Health Services and Equalities

General enquiries: ggc.publichealth.healthservices@nhs.scot

Head of Health Protection

Dr Iain Kennedy, Acting Head of Public Health Protection

General enquiries: ggc.phpu@nhs.scot

Head of Health Improvement

Anna Baxendale

General enquiries: ggc.health.improvement@nhs.scot

Our work is delivered through the following departments

Public Health Protection Unit (PHPU)
Public Health Screening
Health Improvement
Maternal and Child Public Health
Information Management
Research and Evaluation
Pharmacy Public Health
Equalities in Health
National Infection Prevention and Control Manual
Public Health

Problem with your appointment?

Please contact 0141 211 9647 or 0141 211 9646 

Department Opening Hours

Monday to Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm

Department Location

Radiology Department
3rd Floor
Glasgow Dental Hospital and School
378 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow
G2 3JZ

Patient Information Leaflets

Please select the type of exam from the list below:

CT Scan

Problem with your appointment?

Please contact the Central Booking Office on 0141 347 8379

The Central Booking Office is open

  • Monday to Friday: 9:00am – 4:00pm
  • Saturday: closed
  • Sunday: closed

Department Opening Hours

Monday to Friday 8:45am to 5.00pm

Department Location

Glasgow Royal Infirmary
84 Castle Street
Glasgow
G4 0SF

Patient Information Leaflets

Interventional

Problem with your appointment?

Please contact 0141 211 4002

Department Opening Hours

Monday – Friday 9am to 5pm

Department Location

Please report to the ward as instructed in your appointment letter

Glasgow Royal Infirmary
84 Castle Street
Glasgow
G4 0SF

Patient Information Leaflets

MRI Scan

Problem with your appointment?

Please contact the Central Booking Office on 0141 347 8406

The Central Booking Office is open

  • Monday to Friday: 9:00am – 4:00pm
  • Saturday: closed
  • Sunday: closed

There is no provision for childcare during your MRI scan.  If you need to bring a child, please ensure there is also a responsible adult to look after them or we may not be able to perform your scan.

Department Opening Hours

  • Monday – Friday: 8:45am to 5:00pm

Department Location

Glasgow Royal Infirmary
84 Castle Street
Glasgow
G4 0SF

Patient Information Leaflets

Ultrasound

Problem with your appointment?

Please contact the Central Booking Office on 0141 347 8367

The Central Booking Office is open

  • Monday to Friday: 9.00am – 4.00pm
  • Saturday: closed
  • Sunday: closed

Department Opening Hours

Monday to Friday 8:45am to 5.00pm

Department Location

Glasgow Royal Infirmary
84 Castle Street
Glasgow
G4 0SF

Patient Information Leaflets

X-ray (including Fluoroscopy)

Problem with your appointment?

Please contact the department on 0141 242 9722

Department Opening Hours

Monday to Friday 8:45am to 5.00pm

Department Location

Glasgow Royal Infirmary
84 Castle Street
Glasgow
G4 0SF

GP Walk In Service

This service is available Monday to Friday 9:00am to 4:30pm

During peak times you may be asked to wait outside the department.

If the department is extremely busy you may be sent away and asked to re-attend.

Patient Information Leaflets

Please select the type of exam from the list below:

CT Scan

Problem with your appointment?

Please contact the Central Booking Office on 0141 347 8379

The Central Booking Office is open

  • Monday to Friday: 9:00am – 4:00pm
  • Saturday: closed
  • Sunday: closed

Department Opening Hours

Monday – Friday: 8:45am to 5:00pm

Department Location

Institute of Neurological Sciences – Neurosurgical Building
(Building 7 on Campus Map)
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital
1345 Govan Road
Glasgow
G51 4TF

Patient Information Leaflets

MRI Scan

Problem with your appointment?

Please contact the Central Booking Office on 0141 347 8406

The Central Booking Office is open

  • Monday to Friday: 9:00am – 4:00pm
  • Saturday: closed
  • Sunday: closed

There is no provision for childcare during your MRI scan.  If you need to bring a child, please ensure there is also a responsible adult to look after them or we may not be able to perform your scan.

Department Opening Hours

Monday to Friday 8:45am to 5:00pm

Department Location

Institute of Neurological Sciences – Neurosurgical Building
(Building 7 on Campus Map)
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital
1345 Govan Road
Glasgow
G51 4TF

Patient Information Leaflets

Please select your examination from the list below

Please select the type of exam from the list below:

CT Scan

Problem with your appointment?

Please contact the Central Booking Office on 0141 347 8379

The Central Booking Office is open

  • Monday to Friday: 9.00am – 4.00pm
  • Saturday: closed
  • Sunday: closed

Department Opening Hours

Monday to Friday 8:45am – 5:00pm

Department Location

Radiology Dept
Ground Floor
Inverclyde Royal Hospital
Larkfield Road
Greenock
PA16 0XN

Patient Information Leaflets

DEXA

Problem with your appointment?

Please contact 01475 504 403

  • Monday: Answer machine only
  • Tuesday: 9.00am – 4:30pm 
  • Wednesday: 9.00am – 4:30pm 
  • Thursday: 9.00am – 4:30pm
  • Friday: Answer machine only

Department Opening Hours

Monday to Friday 8:45am to 5:00pm

Department Location

Radiology Dept
Ground Floor
Inverclyde Royal Hospital
Larkfield Road
Greenock
PA16 0XN

Interventional

Problem with your appointment?

Please contact 01475 504 509

Department Opening Hours

Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm

Department Location

Radiology Dept
Ground Floor
Inverclyde Royal Hospital
Larkfield Road
Greenock
PA16 0XN

Patient Information Leaflets                                  

MRI Scan

Problem with your appointment?

Please contact the Central Booking Office on 0141 347 8406

The Central Booking Office is open

  • Monday to Friday: 9:00am – 4.00pm
  • Saturday: closed
  • Sunday: closed

There is no provision for childcare during your MRI scan.  If you need to bring a child, please ensure there is also a responsible adult to look after them or we may not be able to perform your scan.

Department Opening Hours

Monday to Friday 08:45am – 5:00pm

Department Location

Radiology Dept
Ground Floor
Inverclyde Royal Hospital
Larkfield Road
Greenock
PA16 0XN

Patient Information Leaflets

Ultrasound

Problem with your appointment?

Please contact the Central Booking Office on 0141 347 8367

The Central Booking Office is open

  • Monday to Friday: 9:00am – 4:00pm
  • Saturday: closed
  • Sunday: closed

Department Opening Hours

Monday to Friday 8:45am – 5:00pm

Department Location

Radiology Dept
Ground Floor
Inverclyde Royal Hospital
Larkfield Road
Greenock
PA16 0XN

Patient Information Leaflets

X-ray (including Fluoroscopy)

Problem with your appointment?

Please contact 01475 524207

Department Opening Hours

Monday to Friday 8:45am – 5:00pm

Department Location

Radiology Dept
Ground Floor
Inverclyde Royal Hospital
Larkfield Road
Greenock
PA16 0XN

GP Walk In Service

This service is available Monday to Friday 9:00am to 4:30pm

During peak times you may be asked to wait outside the department.

If the department is extremely busy you may be sent away and asked to re-attend.

Patient Information Leaflets