Stobhillto services HospitalChanges at from March 2011 KEY CHANGES AFFECTING SERVICES AT STOBHILL StbGuide_ARTWORK.indd 1 10/2/11 09:43:35 INTRODUCTION Inpatient services will transfer on a phased basis between Friday 11th and Friday 18th March 2011, when the wards in the main hospital will close. Most Stobhill inpatient beds At this time, Stobhill’s Casualty are moving to Glasgow Royal Department will also shut. Infirmary as part of a long-term plan to concentrate inpatient The following guide has been hospital services on three sites prepared to explain these in the city. changes and to provide information on Glasgow Inpatient services will transfer Royal Infirmary. on a phased basis between Friday 11th and Friday 18th March 2011, Please take a few minutes to when the wards in the main read it and find out how the Stobhill Hospital will close. changes will affect you. Every year, hundreds of thousands Many thousands of operations will CHANGES TO of people attend Stobhill Hospital also continue to be provided locally INPATIENT SERVICES for diagnosis and treatment. The in the purpose-built day surgery vast majority of attendances are on unit at New Stobhill Hospital. Some an outpatient or day case basis and patients who only need to stay a brand-new £100 million hospital one night after a planned operation opened two years ago on the will continue to be admitted to Stobhill campus to provide a brand new short stay unit state-of-the-art accommodation at Stobhill. for these services. Patients who need to be admitted More than 400,000 outpatients and as an inpatient, however, will go day patients attend New Stobhill to Glasgow Royal Infirmary. This Hospital each year and this multiple will include anyone admitted to award-winning facility will continue hospital for planned surgery and to provide services to the local those admitted as an emergency. community for many years to come. Older people who need to stay A much smaller number of patients for a longer period of rehabilitation need to be admitted to hospital in hospital will be transferred from overnight for investigation and/or Glasgow Royal Infirmary to a treatment of a health problem. brand new rehabilitation unit Around 13000 patients a year are at Stobhill Hospital. currently admitted to Stobhill’s wards. Senior medical staff will work From 18th March, patients who between the New Stobhill Hospital would have been admitted to and Glasgow Royal Infirmary so Stobhill will be admitted instead the consultant who diagnoses to Glasgow Royal Infirmary. your condition, in most cases, will be the one who looks after The vast majority of patients will you as an inpatient too. not be affected by these changes. All outpatient services will continue to be provided locally, including pre-operative assessment and post-operative follow-up care. 1 Key Changes Affecting Services At Stobhill StbGuide_ARTWORK.indd 2 10/2/11 09:44:00 CHANGES TO Stobhill’s Casualty will close at 5.00pm EMERGENCY on Friday 18th March. SERVICES After that date, patients requiring They do not treat patients who emergency treatment for a serious become unwell suddenly nor injury or illness will go instead do they provide treatment for to the Emergency Department gynaecological or pregnancy at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, problems, alcohol or drug issues, which is located on the ground severe allergic reactions,chest floor of the Jubilee Building (on pain, breathing problems or the corner of Alexandra Parade treat people who have collapsed. and Castle Street). The MIU opens from 9.00am Patients requiring urgent care for to 9.00pm every day. Outwith a minor injury should continue to these times, you should attend attend the Minor Injury Unit (MIU) the Emergency Department at based at New Stobhill Hospital. Glasgow Royal Infirmary. The MIU is run by highly experienced Emergency Nurse Practitioners who will assess and either treat a minor Children aged one to five injury or, if they find a more serious with minor injuries, serious problem, arrange for you to be injuries or illnesses should transferred elsewhere. be taken to the nearest adult A&E or the Royal Hospital They can treat a range of injuries for Sick Children, Yorkhill. including sprains, burns and Children under one should simple fractures. always be taken to Yorkhill. WHAT’S STAYING • All outpatient departments • Therapy Services and clinics e.g. Physiotherapy, AT STOBHILL? • Cardiac Rehabilitation Occupational Therapy, • Day Hospital Speech and Language • Day Surgery Therapy, Dietetics and • Dental Podiatry services. • Endoscopy • GP Out-of-Hours Emergency Service The elderly rehabilitation • Imaging (X-ray, CT, MRI, wards at Stobhill are Ultrasound) unaffected by these • Minor Injuries Unit changes and will also • Nuclear Medicine remain on site at Stobhill. • Renal Dialysis WHAT’S MOVING TO GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY? • Casualty Orthopaedics • Coronary Care Unit Respiratory medicine • Inpatient Services: Rheumatology Acute medical receiving Urology Acute surgical receiving • Inpatient Theatres Cardiology • Intensive Therapy Gastroenterology Unit (ITU) and General medicine High Dependency General surgery Unit (HDU) Geriatric assessment 2 Key Changes Affecting Services At Stobhill StbGuide_ARTWORK.indd 3 10/2/11 09:44:12 YOUR GUIDE TO GLASGOW ROYAL M8 Motorway INFIRMARY Pedestrian Entrance to A&E & Wards 43 – 53 Ambulance/Emergency ALE XAN Entrance DRA PAR Entrance by ADE Macewen Bus Stop car to Building s Drop-off area 3 1 4 5 2 Jubilee Princess 3 Building Queen T Multi-storey Royal E Accident & Elizabeth E Car Park Emergency Maternity R Building T Firpark St. S E L T S A Plastics St. Mungo C Lister & Burns Building Building NO ENTRY Pay & Bus Stops Parking only in Glasgow Royal Infirmary is a major Display Warnock Street WISHART STREET evenings and teaching hospital and provides a Surgical Block Walton Building at weekends comprehensive range of clinical services, including regional and Entrance by car for Pay & Goods Entrance national services. £35million has Display Disabled parking been invested in the Royal to only enhance and expand the hospital Building in preparation for the transfer of Gatehouse Stobhill services. £6million alone Bus & Taxi lane has been invested in extending the Centre Block T Emergency Department and creating E an assessment unit and dedicated E R X-ray facilities. T S Medical Block T A further £13million has been spent R Parking only in CATHEDRAL ST A upgrading 16 wards within the evenings and H Cathedral S at weekends hospital and the Intensive Therapy I Unit has benefitted from a £4million W extension to accommodate the Pay & T E John additional activity from Stobhill. The Display E Kn ox St R re preparations for accommodating et T S Stobhill inpatient services have been completed by various improvements H G to the hospital’s heating system, lifts, I water and medical gas infrastructure. H Glasgow Royal Infirmary 84 Castle Street Glasgow DUKE STREET G4 0SF Pay & Tel: 0141 211 4000 Display 3 Key Changes Affecting Services At Stobhill StbGuide_ARTWORK.indd 4 10/2/11 09:44:20 M8 Motorway Pedestrian Entrance to A&E & Wards 43 – 53 Ambulance/Emergency Route from ALEX Entrance AND West End & City Centre RA P ARA Entrance by DE Route from Macewen Bus Stop car to Building s High St. /Duke St. and Drop-off area East End of Glasgow 3 1 Route from Old 4 5 Accident & Emergency 2 Jubilee Princess Site on Castle Street 3 Building Queen T Multi-storey Royal E Accident & Elizabeth Fracture Clinic E Car Park Emergency Maternity R Building T Firpark St. S E L T S A Plastics St. Mungo C Lister 1 & Burns Building Building NO ENTRY Pay & Bus Stops Parking only in Display Warnock Street WISHART STREET evenings and Surgical Block Walton Building at weekends Entrance by car for Pay & Goods Entrance Display Disabled parking only Building Entrance to A&E within the Jubilee Building Gatehouse Bus & Taxi lane Centre Block T 4 E E R T S Medical Block T R Parking only in CATHEDRAL ST A evenings and H Cathedral S at weekends I 2 W Pay & T E John Display E Kn ox St ITU within the Queen Elizabeth Building R re et T S H G I 5 H Multi-storey Car Park DUKE STREET Pay & Display Public Entrance to Princess Royal Maternity 4 Key Changes Affecting Services At Stobhill StbGuide_ARTWORK.indd 5 10/2/11 09:44:43 GETTING THERE Located close to Junction 15 of the M8 motorway, Glasgow Royal Infirmary is easy to access by car. If you are approaching from the east, take the exit toward Kirkintillock/A803 then turn left at Castle Street. Approaching from the west, take the Townhead turnoff. The main car park for the hospital is located next to the Emergency Department. Designated car parking spaces are available for Blue Badge holders in the multi-storey car park and within the grounds of the hospital. Parking charges are applied at the car park, which is open 24 hours a day. The hospital also has good public transport links. The following bus services* go to the hospital: First 11: First X11: From/to - Robroyston - Parkhall From/to - Newmains - Buchanan First 12: Bus Station From/to - Auchinairn, Woodhill First X15/15A: - Rutherglen From/to - Livingston - Buchanan First 31/C: Bus Station From/to - Milton - Stobhill - Castlemilk First X37: - East Kilbride From/to - Falkirk - Buchanan First 36: Bus Station From/to - Cumbernauld, Abronhill/ First X39: Chryston - Buchanan Bus Station From/to - Stirling - Buchanan Bus Station First 38A/C: From/to - Easterhouse/Gartcosh First X85: - Newton Mearns/Eastwood From/to - Campsie Glen - Buchanan Toll/Woodfarm Bus Station First 42: First X87: From/to - Barlanark - Drumchapel From/to - Kirkintilloch, Waterside - Buchanan Bus Station First 56/A: From/to - Auchinairn, Woodhill Stagecoach X19: - Glasgow City Centre - Darnley From/to - Easterhouse - West George Street First 89/90: Inner Circle Stagecoach X25: From/to - Cumbernauld, Abronhill First 213: - Buchanan Bus Station From/to - Bargeddie - Buchanan Bus Station Stagecoach X24/X26: From/to - St.