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The following videos outline healthy lifestyle and pregnancy.

Eating Well in Pregnancy – Plus the Right Vitamins

Eating the Right Amount for You and Baby

Moving More for a Healthier Pregnancy

Drinking Enough Water When You’re Pregnant

Eating with Awareness – What is Mindful Eating?

Understanding Blood Sugar and Pregnancy Diabetes

Advice for Gestational Diabetes

Video 1: What is Gestational Diabetes?

In this video, we will answer some important questions about gestational diabetes; discussing what it is, the symptoms it can cause, how it can affect you and your baby, and the ways in which it can be treated.

Video 2: Healthy Eating, and an overview of the food groups

In this video, we will be discussing healthy eating, the Eat Well guide, an overview of the food groups and providing a detailed overview of carbohydrates.

Video 3: Portion sizes, smart swaps and meal patterns

During this video we will be discussing portion sizes, smart swaps, snack ideas, meal patterns and foods to include or avoid during pregnancy

Video 4: Breastfeeding, post-birth and lifestyle

In this video, we will be discussing breastfeeding, the benefits of breastfeeding, what will happen after your baby is born and general lifestyle changes.

Video 5: Frequently asked questions, links and contacts

In this video, we will answer some frequently asked questions, share useful links to access further information, and provide the best contact details for the NHSGGC Diabetes Dietitians.

Information in other languages

The Gestational Diabetes patient education videos were created by NHSGGC Diabetes Dietitians and have been translated into 5 languages. Each of the 5 videos will automatically play in sequence. They focus on healthy eating with Gestational Diabetes. Patients can contact or be referred to the Diabetes Dietitians for more detailed advice, if required

Videos 1-5, in Arabic

VIdeos 1-5 In Urdu

On this page, you’ll find a collection of our newsletters, including our general Mental Health Snippet and our Aye Mind newsletter which looks at digital wellbeing and online safety for children and young people.

Mental Health Snippets

Our team produces and circulates a monthly mental health snippet that provides a range of information across the life course, including resources, research articles, reports, events, and learning opportunities. If you would like to sign up for our snippet, please contact ggc.mhead@nhs.scot.

Latest Snippet

October 2025 (World Mental Health Day)

Previous Editions

Aye Mind Newsletters

A monthly newsletter that provides information, resources, and events related to digital wellbeing and online safety for children and young people as part of our Aye Mind project. If you would like to sign up, please contact ggc.mhead@nhs.scot.

Latest Newsletter

Issue 18 – International Youth Day (August 2025)

Previous Newsletters

Social Media Series

The WestMARC Wheelchair and Seating Service provides wheelchairs (manual and powered) and children’s buggies, with postural supports if required, to people requiring wheeled mobility that are living in the West of Scotland. Services provided include:

Clinical assessments
Provision of equipment (wheelchairs, buggies, seating systems) tailored to patient’s needs
Equipment repairs

Our team consists of administrative staff, technical staff, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, clinical scientists (bioengineers), nursing/medical staff and clinical psychology staff.

Making A Referral

New Service Users

Important Information

For anyone who has not used our service before, a referral form needs to be submitted by a healthcare professional or social worker registered with one of the following bodies:

Nursing and Midwifery Council
Health and Care Professions Council
General Medical Council
Scottish Social Work Council.

Wheelchair eligibility criteria

Please refer to the following information before making a referral.

Rehabilitation Technology Information Service (ReTIS) (scot.nhs.uk)

Referral Guidance

Please review the relevant guidance document prior to making a referral.

Manual referral guidance

Power referral guidance

Referral Forms

Please ensure you have read the guidance above before completing a referral form.

Manual Referral Form

Power Referral Form

Paediatric Referral Form

Current or Previous Service Users

Anyone who has used the wheelchair service before can self-refer if their conditions and/or requirements change by contacting the service directly for reassessment or advice.

Alternatively a healthcare professional can refer on their behalf by submitting a reporting form.

Adult Reporting Form

Paediatric Reporting Form

When the service receives a new referral it will be assessed by a clinician. The clinician will review the information and decide whether you require an assessment, or whether a chair can be issued from the information that has been provided. If an assessment is required, you will be added to the waiting list for a clinic appointment.

Clinic Locations

Clinics are conducted within the centre and at many satellite locations across the West of Scotland. Your appointment letter will specify the location of your appointment.

West of Scotland Mobility and Rehabilitation Centre

Queen Elizabeth University Hospital
1345 Govan Road
Glasgow
G51 4TF

There is also a depot where the service’s equipment store, repair facility and technicians are located.

Drop in repairs available Monday to Friday 9.00am to 3.45pm.

The Motherwell hub is a smaller unit and we are unable to hold all parts, so please call 0300 790 0129 in advance to confirm parts are in stock to complete the repair.

WestMARC Yoker Depot

Unit 20
Halley Street
New Albion Industrial Estate
Yoker
Glasgow
G13 4DJ

WestMARC Motherwell

Unit 33 Fern Street
Motherwell
ML1 2AJ

Satellite clinic locations

Douglas Grant Rehabilitation Centre

Ayrshire Central Hospital
Kilwinning Road
Irvine
KA12 8SS

Stirling Community Hospital

Rehabilitation Hub
Livilands Gate
Stirling
FK8 2AU

Dumfries and Galloway

Community Rehabilitation Unit
1st Floor – North Entrance
Mountainhall Treatment Centre
Bankend Road
Dumfries
DG1 4AP

Repairs

If your chair is in need of repair you should contact the service immediately. You might find Standard Wheelchair Parts helpful for explaining what part of the chair requires a repair.

Equipment is repaired free of charge by the service. Our mobile engineer repair service will usually visit and repair equipment at service users home or other suitable setting.

If a complex repair is needed than it may be necessary to bring the equipment into our workshop to carry out the work.

WestMARC Yoker depot and the WestMARC Motherwell Hub are open for drop in repairs Monday to Friday 9.00am to 3.45pm. Please see ‘Clinic Locations’ above for address details. Note, Motherwell hub is a smaller unit and we are unable to hold all parts, please call 0300 790 0129 in advance to confirm parts are in stock to complete the repair.

Equipment is loaned by the service and it is the service user’s responsibility to keep equipment in good condition.

Any accident or adverse incident that occurs with equipment provided from the service should be reported so that the service can record and followed up if necessary. This helps us to improve safety for all service users.

See here for more Information about Repairs and Maintenance and Wheelchair Terms and Conditions.

Resources

Wheelchair Maintenance/Skills

National Wheelchair Managers Forum has created the following video guides to NHS Wheelchairs that you may find instructional.

Part 1 – The Parts Of A Wheelchair

Part 2: Using A Wheelchair

Part 3: Transportation

Part 4: Maintenance

Part 5: Your NHS Wheelchair

Please see video resources created by SMART Centre, Edinburgh on wheelchair demonstration/operation. Adult Manual Wheelchair video demonstrates transporting manual wheelchair into a vehicle.

Adult User Controlled Powered Wheelchair

Children’s User Controlled Powered Wheelchair

Dual Control Powered Wheelchair

Adult Manual Wheelchair

Major Buggy Demonstration

The Wheelchair Skills College provide video resources on wheelchair skills including tutorials on cleaning castor wheels.

Back Up Trust provide information on wheelchair skills courses. Please read Wheelchair Skills College disclaimer before practising skills.

Transportation

This video from 6:09 demonstrates how to disassemble and transport your wheelchair in the boot of a car.

Please see Travel Safe Leaflet produced by Posture and Mobility group on transport of wheelchair seated passengers.

Please see video demonstration produced by Motability on How to use your Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (WAV) Tie Downs or Restraints.

The Motability Scheme helps you get mobile by exchanging your higher rate mobility allowance to lease a new affordable car, wheelchair accessible vehicle, scooter or powered wheelchair.

Power Chair Charging

Please see following advice on charging your electric powered wheelchair:

How to look after your Powerchair battery | Invacare – YouTube

Other

Please see Self Management – NHSGGC toolkit developed by NRU which educates and provides references for conditions, physical activity, getting out and about, psychological wellbeing and other helpful resources.

Patient Information Leaflets

Hundreds of people in Scotland need the help of egg or sperm donors to give them the chance to become parents and the gift of starting a family.

The Scottish Government and NHS Scotland have launched the first national campaign of its kind to encourage people to become egg and sperm donors, with the four NHS tertiary Fertility Centres in Scotland (Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow).

Donating your eggs or sperm is something that requires careful consideration, but if it’s right for you then you have the potential to give the joy of starting a family to those people in Scotland, who need the help of donors to become parents.

Visit the egg and sperm website to find out more.

Egg and Sperm Donation Campaign

Information for patients

NHS inform provides information for the public about sickle cell and thalassaemia disorders. Scroll down the each programme pages for access to translated information, Easy Read, and explanatory videos.