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.
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.
More dates coming soon!
Continence Educations Days
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.
Opening Times
- Monday to Friday, 8.30am – 5.00pm
- (Closed Public Holidays and weekends)
- 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.
Other Useful Links
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
Breast Care Nurse Specialists
Breast Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Oncology Team
Secreterial Staff
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.
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.
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:
- Protects the confidentiality of patient information;
- Commands the support and confidence of public, patients and all staff, students, volunteers and contractors working in or with NHS Scotland;
- Complies with best practice;
- Conforms with the law;
- Promotes patient care, the running of care organisations, and the improvement of health and care through knowledge; and
- Works in partnership with other organisations and has clearly established and communicated protocols for sharing information.
The Glasgow Safe Haven is a partnership between NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and the University of Glasgow, providing secure access and research support service to large NHS health datasets relating to citizens in the Glasgow region.
To learn more about the service we offer, read the Glasgow Safe Haven User Guide.
The Glasgow Safe Haven can:
- facilitate researcher access to pseudonymised health datasets
- offer a secure ISO-accredited data analytics platform
- deliver expert support to enable data-driven discovery with de-identified NHS data
The Glasgow Safe Haven is accredited by the Scottish Government under the Safe Haven Charter, and is one of four regional Safe Havens across Scotland.
Safe Havens are designed to provide secure access to NHS and other health datasets derived from diverse sources across the health service.
By enabling researchers to link data from difference sources, Safe Havens encourage data-driven health research to improve health services, design better treatments, and to create innovative new health products to support better health in Scotland.
For more information and to contact the Safe Haven Team see here.
Other Scottish NHS Safe Haven services include:
This is information for Non-NHSGGC referrers only. If you have access to NHSGGC TrakCare OR NHSGGC GPOCS you MUST use it.
