The NRU houses a number of multidisciplinary inpatient and outpatient services aimed at supporting people recover from an acute neurological illness, after sustaining major trauma and /or live with long term neurological conditions.
We are an interdisciplinary group of NHS healthcare providers working across physical and mental health settings.
We offer Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction for patients and staff.
The main focus of mindfulness provision in NHSGGC is for people suffering recurrent depression, but we also offer courses for people with chronic pain, anxiety and other conditions.
Our mindfulness app contains audio recordings of guided practices as well as links to online resources. The GG&C Mindfulness app is available to download for free from the Google play store for Android, and the App store for iOS.
We will soon update this website with more resources for patients and staff.
Glasgow has two specialist rehabilitation centres located at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital & Inverclyde Royal Hospital.
Our unit was previously called Physically Disabled Rehabilitation Unit (PDRU) but was rebranded in early 2022.
The Glasgow Safe Haven woks on hundreds of innovative, data-driven research projects since it was created over nearly a decade.
Our NHS datasets foster better care for patients in Glasgow and beyond. Projects include large-scale partnerships between NHS, academia and industry partners. We work to help students at the earliest stage of their research career, .
The Safe Haven provides a Secure Data Environment (SDE) to let researchers link their datasets to the health histories of NHS GGC patient populations. We have a delegated ethics route to approve projects. The service uses advanced anonymisation methods to preserve patient privacy. Data is hosted on a secure analytics platform provided in partnership with the Robertson Centre for Biostatistics.
If you have questions about our data services, see the Glasgow Safe Haven FAQ.
Safe Haven data staff facilitate the import, description and secure re-use of novel NHS and research datasets from a wide-range of sources.
Datasets are tiered according to re-use permissions, with Tier 1 for general research use, Tier 2 for research use only with specific permissions from data owners, and Tier 3 for restricted or no re-use.
Our governance and security standards create a safe method to create new value from existing data sources.
If you have a Glasgow-centric dataset you may like to add to the Safe Haven’s collection, contact the Safe Haven team.
Learn more about the data services the West of Scotland Safe Haven provides by checking out our Glasgow Safe Haven User Guide and Safe Haven FAQ.
The West of Scotland Safe Haven can help you safely link your existing studies to rich NHS datasets held in our secure environment.
By data linkage, you can interrogate large, diverse, de-identified datasets to test hypotheses and create longitudinal cohorts.
Interested in developing a study using West of Scotland Safe Haven datasets? Not sure if the data is there to secure the funding you need? The West of Scotland Safe Haven can scope concepts and provide feasibility reports to support your next research project.
For clinical trials in the Glasgow and West of Scotland region, the Safe Haven can create cohort reports to your own specifications and provide patient group output to support your next CTIMP and more.
The West of Scotland Safe Haven works closely with the West of Scotland Innovation Hub to provide professional support for exciting, novel NHS projects. Whether it’s Big Data machine learning, designing new patient support algorithms, or brand new service improvement initiatives, our NHS datasets and experienced data analysts help bring NHS GGC innovation projects to life.
If you have more questions before contacting us, see the Glasgow Safe Haven FAQ.
The West of Scotland Safe Haven, like the other Safe Havens in Scotland, provides an approved governance route and secure environment for trusted research partners to access and link to our anonymised NHS datasets.
Learn more by reading the Safe Haven User Guide
Researchers must be employed by, or have some professional affiliation with, an approved public sector institution, whilst industry partners are bound by data sharing agreements that stipulate the strict terms under which we may confer access to Safe Haven datasets.
Anyone accessing Safe Haven data will have completed an approved information governance course, will agree to follow the strict rules for using the Safe Haven datasets, and are bound by both their professional and ethical standards, and by existing UK and EU data protection laws.
Routes to gain access to Safe Haven datasets are accredited by the Scottish Government. The West of Scotland Safe Haven has a Local Privacy and Advisory Committee (LPAC) of experienced NHS, academic and public stakeholders who scrutinise applications and offer guidance on data protection.
Datasets held by Safe Haven, depending on their origin, may have additional data controller safeguards in place, that will require further permissions to be sought before they can be linked and re-used.
Safe Haven datasets and linked extracts are all secured according to NHS and University of Glasgow IT security standards. Data may not be removed or copied from the Safe Haven environments, and strict controls prevent unauthorised access to anyone other than approved Safe Haven users.
All data extracts are quality checked, and researchers may only ever remove limited and approved aggregated tabular data or charts from the Safe Haven to support publications.
The West of Scotland Safe Haven is based at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in the Imaging Centre of Excellence (ICE) Building (2nd Floor), Langlands Drive, G51 4LP
For map see HERE
To email the Safe Haven team use ggc.safehaven.admin@nhs.scot
The Safe Haven Team includes the West of Scotland Safe Haven Manager, a Project Manager, Data Managers, and several analysts.
The Glasgow Safe Haven has close links with the West of Scotland Innovation Hub.
The Glasgow Safe Haven is part of the Research and Development division of NHSGGC.
Use this form to book resources.
Please note: resources must be collected and returned to our office in West House, Gartnaval Hospital. We will be in touch to arrange suitable times for this.
You may be referred into Orthopaedics by your GP or another specialist service or following attendance at the Emergency Department.
If you have been referred by your GP or another service with an ongoing issue, a clinician in the Orthopaedic Department will look at your referral letter and make a decision about the appropriate clinic for you to attend. This is called vetting.
If you have been referred by Emergency Department following an injury, you will receive a phone call the following day from a member of our specialist nursing staff who will either give you medical advice or ask you to attend an appointment at our Fracture Clinic.
Once your referral has been vetted, your name will be added to the outpatient waiting list under the care of a consultant or extended scope physiotherapy practitioner (ESP).
You will be sent a letter inviting you to call the booking office within 7 days to arrange a clinic appointment. If you fail to call the booking office within 7 days, a reminder letter will be sent to you. If you fail to call the booking office after a further 7 days, your name will be removed from the waiting list and your GP will be informed. If you still wish an appointment after this, you will have to contact your GP to be re-referred.
If appropriate, you may receive a phone call to arrange a telephone or video appointment instead.
To facilitate this process please ensure that your contact information is up-to-date.
If you wish to reschedule your appointment, please call the booking office on 0141 201 3114 or 0141 201 3105. You can also email us at GRI.OrthopaedicOutpatients@ggc.scot.nhs.uk.
If you have been asked to attend the orthopaedic outpatient clinic. There are a number of specialist clinicians in the department who could see you. This will depend on the type of injury/complaint you have.
If you require transport for the upcoming appointment, please arrange this one week in advance, by calling: 0300 123 1236. You will be asked a series of questions about your mobility, this is to assess if you are eligible for ambulance transport.
Outpatient clinics are located in Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Stobhill Hospital.
The clinician will discuss the best course of action for you. There are a number of possible outcomes of this:
At your appointment, the clinician may have a discussion with you about adding you to the waiting list for surgery. If you agree, your name will then be added to the list.
You will receive a letter informing you of this, along with a Patient’s Right Act leaflet
We will offer all patients two reasonable offers of an appointment for treatment. If you do not accept either of these offers we may remove you from our waiting list and return you back to the care of your GP.
A reasonable offer includes an offer, either written or verbal, of treatment in any NHS Greater Glasgow or Clyde (NHSGGC) hospital. We will give you a minimum of 7 days’ notice of this appointment.
The IDDSI (International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative) framework consists of definitions to describe texture modified foods and thickened liquids, where drinks are measured from Levels 0-4, and foods are measured from Levels 3-7.
NHSGGC Dietetics has worked closely with our Speech and Language Therapy colleagues to produce a series of videos about IDDSI and Dysphagia. For more information about Speech and Language Therapy within NHSGGC, please see their website below.
The first 3 videos provide an overview of IDDSI and dysphagia, including all IDDSI levels 0-7, hydration and food fortification. This now includes a video from the Speech and language therapy team on how to assist a resident with eating and drinking.
The videos thereafter show demonstrations by an IDDSI trained chef. This gives insight into how some everyday foods can be modified to the correct recommended textures. The videos are broken down into the different components of the meal for easy accessibility.
NHSGGC Dietetics has worked closely with our Speech and Language Therapy colleagues to produce an IDDSI snack poster, which provides both sweet and savoury snack ideas for diet level 4 through to level 7 ‘easy to chew’.
