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Thank you for donating your milk for research. We appreciate your consideration at this difficult time and would be grateful if you could complete the record form: 

Donation for Research Purposes Following Loss Form

We want to make the screening process as easy as possible. The healthcare team caring for you and your baby, can talk you through this and answer any questions you may have. You can also speak to the milk bank staff directly on 0141 232 7973. 

All families who donate after loss, can have their baby’s name added to the tree. We also gift a Memory Milk Pebble with the baby’s name to remember their precious gift to others. These are available at any time during the donation journey or afterwards by filling out the Memory Tree Consent Form further below. Families are also welcome to visit the Memory Milk Tree by calling 0141 232 7973 or emailing donor.milkbank@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

You can check if you meet the full criteria for donation, please complete the Screening Form for Donation in the Screening Process section below. 

Sometimes your milk cannot be used to feed other babies. For example, if you smoke or vape or are on certain medication. Your healthcare team or the milk bank can advise you.  

If you would still like to donate milk, we can accept up to two litres for research or other purposes like testing equipment in the milk bank. Please complete the Consent for Research Donations form in the Screening Process section below. 

You can also request a collection of your stored milk by using the Collection Form in the Screening Process section. 

You can download our information leaflet “Breast care after loss” here. We hope this information will help you make decisions about your care and your breastmilk which are right for you. There are also links to organisations and resources that can help you and your family think about options for remembrance as well as to find help and support.

Screening Process

We want to make the screening process as simple as possible. The healthcare team caring for you and your baby can talk you through this and answer any questions you may have. Sometimes your milk cannot be used directly to feed other babies. For example, if you smoke, vape or are on certain medications. In these circumstances, we offer you the choice to donate your milk for research and other purposes like ensuring best practice in the milk bank. You can get the link to both of the consent forms below.

We may also need to have a blood sample from you. These can be taken prior to discharge or by your GP and posted back to us. We provide a special kit for this.

Consent Form for Research Donation
Screening Form for Donation

If you have milk stored at home, we can arrange to collect your milk at a convenient time for you. Simply complete the collection form below.  

Collection Form
Continuing to express

Although milk donation does not suit everyone, some families find comfort in continuing to express and donating. We would encourage you to discuss this with the healthcare team caring for you to help make a decision that feels right for you. They can also give you advice about expressing, including how soon to start and how often to express. 

To support you to express your breastmilk, we have organised a free pump loan and set for you to use whilst donating.

Your healthcare team or the Milk Bank will be able to give you the special code for this. Simply add the code when completing the form.

Pump Loan

A pump will be delivered to you as soon as possible, usually the next working day. You will have to use a Debit or Credit Card to place the order which will be charged 30p. This will be refunded once the order is processed. If this is not an option for you, please get in touch with the milk bank on 0141 232 7973 or email donor.milkbank@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

Please use these links for instructions on how to use the pump.

How to start the medela pump
How to assemble the set

We also have dedicated Instagram and twitter accounts for bereaved families where, if you would like, we can share your baby’s story on our Instagram or Twitter

We want to make sure your baby’s name is correct when we paint it on the tree and pebble. We also need to get your consent for it to be included in any media we may use. Can you complete the form using the Consent for Memory Milk Tree and Pebble Contact Form below. 

Consent for Memory Milk Tree and Pebble Contact Form

Use this zone to check your symptoms and get some simple and straightforward advice that might help you to improve your symptoms and take back control over your life. 

You should always seek medical advice from your GP or other Medical Professional if you notice any of the following:

  • Blood in your urine or stool
  • A need to urinate more frequently than normal
  • Sudden urge to urinate
  • Pain when passing urine or stool
  • A persistent change in bowel habit
  • Abdominal pain, discomfort or bloating always brought on by eating

Self Help for Men

Do you visit the toilet too often during the day (more than 7 times) to pass urine? or Do you find it difficult to hold off using the toilet, even for a few minutes?

A few things you could try:

  • Gradually reduce your caffeine intake
  • Double voiding – when you stop urinating sit down (if you normally stand to pass urine) or stand up (if you normally stand to pass urine), count slowly to 20 and sit back down or stand back up and attempt to urinate again
  • Make sure you’re drinking 6-8 glasses of fluid each day
  • Do daily pelvic floor exercises
  • Try not to go to the toilet “just in case”
  • Check your bowel habit, could you be constipated?
  • Ask your GP for advice as this might be related to your prostate
Do you have a small urine leak after your main flow that results in wet or stained trousers?

A few things you could try:

  • Double voiding – sit down (if you normally stand to pass urine) or stand up (if you normally stand to pass urine), count slowly to 20 and sit back down or stand back up and attempt to urinate again
  • “Milking” – pushing the last few drops of urine from the penis with your fingers before the final shake
  • Ask your GP for advice as this might be related to your prostate
Do you have to get up twice or more to pass urine during the night? Are you sure the need to pass urine is what’s waking you?

A few things you could try:

  • Gradually reduce your caffeine intake, especially during the afternoon and evening.
  • Stop drinking 2-3 hours before going to bed but make sure you still drink 6-8 glasses of fluid each day.
  • You might prefer to sip small amounts of fluid rather than stop all fluids after a set time in the evening. (Try sucking ice cubes or ice lollies).
  • Make time to ensure you have fully emptied your bladder and double void before going to bed.
  • Always double void when you get up during the night.
  • Only change one thing at a time so you can identify what is working for you.
Review the medicine you are taking

Many tablets and medications can cause bladder and bowel symptoms or make the symptoms you have worse.  If you have noticed any changes in your bladder and/or bowel habits since starting new medication you may want to discuss this with your doctor.

Self-Management Booklets

Self Help for Women

Do you leak urine if you cough, laugh, sneeze or on exercising? or Do you visit the toilet too often during the day (more than 7 times) to pass urine? and Do you find it difficult to hold off using the toilet, even for a few minutes?

A few things you could try:

  • Gradually reduce your caffeine intake
  • Double voiding – when you stop urinating stand up, count slowly to 20 and sit back down and attempt to urinate again
  • Make sure you’re drinking 6-8 glasses of fluid each day
  • Do daily pelvic floor exercises
  • Try not to go to the toilet “just in case”
  • Check your bowel habit, could you be constipated?
Do you have to get up twice or more to pass urine during the night? and Are you sure the need to pass urine is what’s waking you?

A few things you could try:

  • Gradually reduce your caffeine intake, especially during the afternoon and evening.
  • Stop drinking 2-3 hours before going to bed but make sure you still drink 6-8 glasses of fluid each day.
  • You might prefer to sip small amounts of fluid rather than stop all fluids after a set time in the evening. (Try sucking ice cubes or ice lollies.)
  • Make time to ensure you have fully emptied your bladder and double void before going to bed.
  • Always double void when you get up during the night.
  • Only change one thing at a time so you can identify what is working for you.
Review the medicine you are taking

Many tablets and medications can cause bladder and bowel symptoms or make the symptoms you have worse.  If you have noticed any changes in your bladder and/or bowel habits since starting new medication you may want to discuss this with your doctor.

Self-Management Booklets

This zone is intended to provide information, advice and education for all Health and Social Care professionals to support them in providing the best bladder and bowel care to their patients and service users.

SPHERE Ordering Paperwork for Incontinence Pads

PRF (Patient Requirement Form) – This form must be completed for any patient you complete a pad assessment or re-assessment for.

Statement of Case Form should be completed for a patient that there is a clinical requirement for a product which is not on the NHSGGC Adult Community Core Product List. 

All completed paperwork should be submitted via email to NHSGGC.SphereBBService@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

Tools to Support Assessment
Medication
Guidelines
Products & Formularies
Can’t find what you are looking for?
Training/Education

Regular training and education will be advertised here for all health and social care staff to join and access.

TEAM’s Community Continence Assessment for nurses with CNIS access

TEAM’s Incontinence Pad Training Dates

Provides links and information to SPHERE assessment and product ordering documentation. As well as other useful information.

SPHERE Assessment and Ordering Paperwork

Care Home Monthly Resident and Stock Level Returns Forms, MUST be completed each month & submitted before your run number deadline to ensure you receive your pad order in time.

Assessment paperwork must be completed for any new resident who is deemed incontinent and requiring pads, or for any existing resident whose current products are no longer suitable and require re-assessment.  

Initial assessments must be completed by a trained nurse; this should be the care home nurse or the local community nurse if the care home has no trained nurse.  Care Home documents/ paperwork can be found below.

Statement of Case Forms should only be completed for a resident if you feel there is a clinical requirement for a product which is not on the NHSGGC Adult Community Core Formulary. In this instance, you are required to complete and submit all 4 parts of the standard assessment paperwork as well as the Statement of Case Form and the Aide Memoir.

PLEASE SEND ORDERS FOR STOCK AND ASSESSMENT PAPERWORK VIA SEPERATE EMAILS to

 nhsggc.spherebbservice@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

Relevant Documents

Tools to Support Assessment
NHSGGC Product Formulary
Useful Information
Contact SPHERE Bladder and Bowel Service
Staff Training /Education

Face to face staff training can also be arranged with in your care home. Please contact SPHERE for further details.

TEAM’s Incontinence Pad Training Dates

Ontex Knowledge Hub Use password: UKhub1234 to access product information (please be aware not all products are available via the NHS) fitting guides and videos.

Department Overview

Nuclear Medicine tests are used to make a diagnosis or monitor the progress of treatment and this involves the use of radiation. We make sure that the benefits from making the right diagnosis or providing the correct treatment outweigh the low risk involved with small exposures to radiation.

If you have been referred for a PET-CT (Positron Emission Tomography) scan at the Beatson Cancer Centre or a Molecular Radiotherapy procedure at Gartnavel please click the relevant link in the “Other Useful Links” section at the bottom of this page.

Patients attending Nuclear Medicine at Gartnavel

If you have been referred for a Nuclear Medicine scan or investigation, we will post you an appointment letter, patient information leaflet (also found below) and directions to the department. These should provide all the necessary information regarding:

  • Where and when to attend
  • What preparation is required
  • And answer many other questions you may have.

If you have any further queries regarding your scan or investigation, please call the department on the telephone number provided on your appointment letter and staff will be happy to help.

General information about your Nuclear Medicine test
Test specific patient information leaflets

Opening Times

  • Monday to Friday, 8.30am – 5.00pm
  • (Closed Public Holidays and weekends)

Contact

  • Main department number – 0141 301 7900

Change / Cancel Appointment

If for any reason you are unable to attend your appointment, please inform us by telephoning 0141 301 7900 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 located on the upper ground floor of Gartnavel General Hospital. Enter via the main entrance and head through the foyer, to take the lift (signposted “Lifts to all floors”) to the upper ground level, passing admissions on your left, and Deco Coffee on your right. From the lift bay on the upper ground floor proceed towards the kitchen area where you will see a sign directing you down the first corridor on the right. Nuclear Medicine is located at the end of this corridor.

Information for Staff
Molecular Radiotherapy
Nuclear Medicine in Glasgow
Patient Feedback
PET (Positron Emission Tomography) at The Beatson Cancer Centre

The Clyde Sector breast service is comprised of an expert Multi disciplinary team; Including Consultant Surgeons, Oncologists, Radiologists, Breast Care Nurses, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, and Secretarial staff. Here are some of our team, who you may meet at your appointment:

Surgical Team

Caroluce Musyoka
Consultant Breast Surgeon
Miss Jen Campbell
Miss Laura Arthur
Mr Mike McKirdy

Breast Care Nurse Specialists

Fiona Irvine
Allyson Ross
Pamela Eady
Alison Mitchell

Breast Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Nicola Day
Rachel Meney

Oncology Team

Dr Abdulla Alhasso
Consultant Oncologist
Dr Iffat Rabnawaz
Consultant Oncologist
Dr Claire MacAulay
Specialty Oncology Doctor

Secreterial Staff

Jackie Montgomery
Breast Team
Co-ordinator
Louise Harttrup
Medical Secretary
Caroline MacLean
Medical Secretary

Welcome to Clyde Sector Breast Service.

About

Our service is a long-established specialist unit for the diagnosis and treatment of benign breast disorders and breast cancer. It was established in 2007 with the merge of three sites: Royal Alexandra Hospital, Inverclyde Royal Hospital and the Vale of Leven Hospital. Today it serves a population of approximately 440 000, which encompasses the likes of Appin and as far as Campbeltown. The map below highlights the population serviced.

Our team of specialists includes breast surgeons, radiologists, oncologists, pathologists, breast care nurses, advanced nurse practitioners and many other allied professionals and secretarial staff.

Further Information

Meet the Team
View our Department
Clinics
Breast Cancer
Patient Information
Family History
Benign Breast Disease

Here you will find useful resources and links to other sources of support.

KIDS

KIDS is NHSGGC Specialist Children’s Services online resource supporting children, young people, their families and those working with them. KIDS helps children and young people to live meaningful, healthy, independent lives. Information from NHS staff for young people, families and professionals.

NHSGGC KIDS Website
Mental Health and Wellbeing Resources

Keep a lookout for new publications, links and general information about health and wellbeing for children and young people. Have a look at the range of resources available to all children, young people and their families/carers.

Mental Health Telephone Supports

  • Childline – Mental health charity for children and young people. They have a free telephone helpline (0800 1111) and message boards where young people are encouraged to share experiences and support each other in a positive way.
  • FRANK – Provides support around drugs. Call 0300 123 6600, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week or Text 82111 with a question and FRANK will text you back. For people with hearing impairments, you can Textphone FRANK on 0300 123 1099. If you call when your friends are around we may ask you to call back when you’re on your own. Calls from a landline cost no more than a normal national call (to an 01 or 02 number). The calls may show up on the bill. Calls from a mobile phone vary in cost depending on what network you’re on. The call may show up on the bill. You can talk to FRANK in 120 languages – just call the same number and an interpreter will be there if you want.
  • NHS Living Life – Free phone service for those aged 16+ experiencing anxiety, low mood and mild to moderate depression. Guided self-help and cognitive behavioural therapy (0800 328 9655).
  • PETAL – Telephone and face to face counselling and support for families and friends of murder and suicide victims including support for children and young people. Contact 0168 324 502.
  • Rosey Project – Support for girls aged 13-25 who have experienced sexual violence. Call freephone helpline 08088 00 00 14, 7 days a week 11.00am – 2.00pm Mon to Thurs , 5.30pm – 7.30pm.
  • Sandyford – Sandyford is the specialist sexual health service for Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Young people clinics are open Tues and Thurs evenings from 4.00pm – 4.00pm at Sandyford Central. These are not drop-in clinics and young people must book an appointment online or phone 0141 211 8130.
  • Shout – Crisis Text service available 24/7 Text YM to 85258.

For Children & Young People

  • Cove – This app helps people to capture their mood and express it by making music. Note: you do not need to know how to play an instrument to use this app.
  • Childline – Mental health charity for children and young people that has a wide variety of helpful videos, games and articles. They have a free telephone helpline (0800 1111) and message boards where young people are encouraged to share experiences and support each other in a positive way.
  • Chill Panda – This free app is for children and adults who want to learn how to manage stress and worry, and feel better.
  • Clear Fear – This free app aims to help children and teenagers manage anxiety. The app helps to reduce physical responses to threats and change thoughts and behaviours through distraction and helpful activities.
  • Coping Skills for Kids – A website that provides free resources for teaching children about healthy ways to cope with stress, anxiety and anger.
  • HospiChill – An app designed to help young people prepare for hospital and clinic appointments. The app provides helpful relaxation and visualisation exercises.
  • Kooth – Free mental health support from online counsellors. A free sign up service with discussion boards, helpful tips, articles written by young people, and the option to write mood journals and set positive goals.
  • NHSGGC Child and Youth Mental Health Resource – A further wide range of resources are available here.

For Young People

  • Ayemind – Website aimed at improving the mental wellbeing of young people. Includes resources for young people and professionals. Ayemind also signposts to lots of other useful websites.
  • Calm – A mindfulness app that includes various relaxing sounds to listen to, visualisations to help relaxation, “sleep stories”, and guided meditations.
  • Calm Harm – An app to help teenagers manage or resist the urge to self-harm by providing a wide range of distraction techniques.
  • Papyrus – Mental health charity dedicated to preventing young suicide by providing support and resources for young people and their families. The “Hopeline” (Call: 0800 068 4141/ Text: 07860 039 967 / E-mail pat@papyrus-uk.org) is for children and young people experiencing thoughts of suicide, or for anyone concerned for a young person.
  • SafeSpot – An app designed in Glasgow to help young people improve their coping skills and promote positive mental health and wellbeing.
  • Smiling Mind – A free app for encouraging mindfulness, meditation and positive wellbeing.
  • Young Minds – Young Minds provides a range of mental health help and advice for young people. This charity also encourages young people to get involved in raising awareness about children’s and young people’s mental health.
  • YoungMinds Crisis Messenger – Provides free, 24/7 mental health crisis support across the UK. If you need urgent help text YM at 85258. All texts are answered by trained volunteers, with support from experienced clinical supervisors.
  • Young Scot – If your young person is feeling a bit overwhelmed or scared right now (Coronavirus), this site has information for young people about what’s happening and the simple steps everyone can take to help keep healthy.
  • Body Image – Having a poor body image has been found to have a negative impact on self-esteem and wellbeing. It is a good idea to start to build a positive sense of your body and celebrate all the amazing things your body can do rather than being critical of it. You have a long life ahead of you, look after and enjoy your body, be kind to it and yourself. If you are struggling with your body image start your journey towards body confidence and acceptance now. Have a look at the following websites and resources BeReal and Beat (try breaking free and think resilience) Is your social media use making your body image worse? Have a look at this research, is it time to cleanse your social media?

For All the Family

  • NHSGGC KIDS – A website that helps children and young people to live meaningful, healthy, independent lives. Information from NHS staff for young people, families and professionals.
  • NHS Every Mind Matters – Advice about general mental health and Mental Wellbeing while Staying at Home. Also Your Mind Plan, which is an interactive quiz designed to help you feel more in control of your emotional and mental wellbeing.
  • Children with Exceptional Healthcare Needs – Children with Exceptional Healthcare Needs (CEN), is a National Managed Clinical Network (NMCN) with the aim of strengthening specialist services for children with complex and exceptional healthcare needs in Scotland. The CEN Network is one of a range of specialist networks within the National Network Management Service (NNMS), which is part of NHS National Services Scotland, a national board operating at the heart of NHS Scotland.
  • Child Bereavement UK – A site with resources for children and young people who are grieving, as well as providing information and advice to families/professionals on how to best support someone who is bereaved. A helpline is also available on 0800 028 840.
  • Combined Minds – This app provides parents, families and friends with practical advice on how to support children and young people with their mental health.
  • Headspace – A mindfulness app that has more of a “podcast feel” to it with various talks, guided meditations and helpful videos available.
  • Living Life to the Full – Free online courses covering low mood, stress and resilience – more adult-orientated.
  • MindShift CBT – A free app designed to help adults and teens cope with anxiety. Also provides strategies for adults to help their children with anxiety.
  • Samaritans – A charity that offers mental health support and information online for everyone. Their helpline is free and available to all ages. Call 116 123 or e-mail jo@samaritans.org (24/7).
  • Stress and Anxiety Companion – A free app to help handle stress and anxiety. The app includes breathing exercises, relaxing music and games.
  • Togetherall – Togetherall is a safe, online community where people support each other anonymously to improve mental health and wellbeing. Millions of people in the UK have access via their participating employer, university, college, NHS provider or local council.
  • Winston’s Wish – Giving hope to grieving children and young people.
  • NHS Inform – Latest coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance from NHS Scotland and the Scottish Government. The website will give you all the advice you need to keep yourself safe.
  • Staying Safe Website – If you’re struggling and you’re not sure if you want to live or die, can you, just for now hold off making this decision and keep reading the information and watching the videos for some ideas about how to get through. There may be things that you – and other people – can do to make things better.
  • FRANK – Honest information about drugs.
  • I Am Me Scotland – Changing attitudes and behaviours so that disabled and vulnerable people can feel safe within their communities.
  • Asthma UK – Speak to an asthma expert nurse on their helpline 0300 222 5800. Also, visit their website which is providing updated information on COVID-19 as they receive it.
  • Epilepsy Scotland – Provides a free confidential helpline that provides information and emotional support to anyone affected by epilepsy. Call 0808 800 2200, Monday to Friday, 9.30am – 4.30pm. The website hosts a range of information and resources
  • Body Image – Negative body image can seriously impact children’s and young people’s mental health. This report by the mental health foundation highlights the issues and gives good advice and the Dove website has useful resources for parents. In addition for young people, 16+ years parents could consider working through this resource with your young person.

For Parents and Carers

We invite you to read our Healthy Minds Reading List for primary and secondary-aged school children.

Please click on the link below to access the Healthy Minds Leaflets

The Safe Havens in Scotland meet the national need for rapid access to high quality health data for research purposes. The programme created a Scotland-wide research platform for the collation, management, dissemination and analysis of anonymised Electronic Patient Records (EPRs).

NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, in collaboration with the Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, began an ambitious itinerary of work in 2011 to develop a Safe Haven to complement this national programme and create a Trusted Research Environment (TRE) that provides the required levels of security to support access to local healthcare data for service and research purposes. The NHS collects vast amounts of data every day; this could be about you, your family, or people that you know, but most of this information belongs to people you are never likely to meet. The NHS is the custodian of this information, not the owner. As custodians we are responsible for the safe keeping and security of all information that we collect. All the personal health information we hold meetds our legal and ethical obligations of confidentiality.

A Safe Haven is a secure physical location and agreed set of administrative arrangements designed to safely store NHS data for research. The service safeguards confidential information used for research purposes. Any researchers applying for access to health data must adhere to the Safe Haven principles.

The unique patient identifier (CHI number) links to the patient record. Prior to release, data is de-identified. Researchers are responsible for ensuring that they handle information with care and respect. Researchers take responsibility to protect this information. They must ensure that whilst in their care they have done everything possible to protect this information, and comply with the Caldicott Principles and Data Protection requirements (see Caldicott Principles section).

Laws and rules governing patient data include:

  • statute law, e.g. the Data Protection Act 2018 & 1998, the Human Rights Act 1998, the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act 1889, Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000, the Abortion Act 1967, and many others;
  • the common law in Scotland on privacy and confidentiality (which requires either consent or a legal or public interest requirement for disclosure);
  • professional standards; and
  • the policies and organisational standards of the Scottish Executive Health Department (SEHD) and NHS Scotland
    Accurate and secure personal health information is an essential part of patient health care.

The NHSGGC Safe Haven provides a service that:

  1. Protects the confidentiality of patient information;
  2. Commands the support and confidence of public, patients and all staff, students, volunteers and contractors working in or with NHS Scotland;
  3. Complies with best practice;
  4. Conforms with the law;
  5. Promotes patient care, the running of care organisations, and the improvement of health and care through knowledge; and
  6. Works in partnership with other organisations and has clearly established and communicated protocols for sharing information.