INTRODUCING YOUR NEW HOSPITAL YOUR FREE AT-A-GLANCE HE New Stobhill Hospital Opens Its for the Better
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ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE NEW STOBHILL INTRODUCING YOUR NEW HOSPITAL YOUR FREE AT-A-GLANCE HE New Stobhill Hospital opens its for the better. Services have been GUIDE TO doors to patients for the first redesigned around the needs of the patient SERVICES AND Ttime on Monday 11 May. The to enhance the quality of care and speed new £100 million hospital will be one up diagnosis and treatment. FACILITIES of the most modern and well equipped To help you get to know your hospital, in Scotland. we have prepared this free essential guide. It will provide an attractive and The guide, which is being delivered to welcoming environment for patients and every household in north and east Glasgow Please take the time to read the guide visitors with light, airy public spaces, and East Dunbartonshire, is packed full of and find out how the New Stobhill Hospital comfortable waiting areas and fresh, important information on the range of and its staff will serve you. modern consulting rooms. services provided, opening times, Patients will not only benefit from telephone numbers, floor plans etc. For more information on your modern new facilities. The way care is It also explains how services, such new hospital, you can log provided from the hospital is also changing as the minor injuries unit, will work. on to www.nhsggc.org.uk HOSPITAL GUIDE YOUR HOSPITA HE New Stobhill Road, turn left into Bilsland Hospital will treat Drive. At the traffic lights, go What’s on Tabout 400,000 straight over into Hawthorn patients every year. Street, turn left at the end which level In addition to outpatient of the street into Balgrayhill clinics, day surgery and Road and turn right into diagnostic services, the Belmont Road, which leads Level 0 hospital will provide a into the hospital. number of specialist services Balornock and ● Café such as cardiology, renal Barmulloch – use ● Cardiac rehabilitation dialysis and gynaecology. Broomfield Road and ● Cashier There will also be hospital Balornock Road, turning left ● Day hospital beds available to medics to into the hospital at the end ● Day surgery extend the range of short of Springburn Park. ● Main entrance stay surgical procedures Dennistoun and east end ● Pharmacy offered to patients. of city – use Alexandra ● Renal dialysis The beds, known as Parade, turning right into ● The Sanctuary “23-hour” beds, are for Castle Street at Glasgow ● Therapies (occupational therapy, patients who need a short spell Royal Infirmary and left into physiotherapy, speech and of recovery time following day Baird Street. Take the first currently come through the language therapy, podiatry) treatment such as day surgery. right for Springburn Road hospital. At the time of ● Welcome desk and main And for the first time, A803 until you reach Stobhill printing, these include First waiting area patients requiring an MRI Road and then continue 3 and Henderson Travel scan will be able to have as above. 329. A number of buses Level 1 this performed locally at Bishopbriggs and also stop at Balgrayhill the hospital. Kirkintilloch – use Road, including First 31, 45, ● Cardiology So, what are its opening Kirkintilloch Road A803, 88, but this involves a walk ● Clinics A, B, C, D, E hours, what services are then turn left into Colston into the hospital site of ● Dental provided and, crucially, how Road. Take the right hand approximately 10-15 ● Imaging (X-ray, CT, do you get to it? These lane at the mini-roundabout minutes. There is also a MRI, ultrasound) questions, and more, are into Balgrayhill Road, then First 8 that stops at ● Minor injuries unit answered here in our quick first left into the hospital. Balornock Road. Public ● Nuclear medicine guide to the hospital. transport information, ● GP out-of-hours Basics first then: where BY BUS including bus and train emergency service is the hospital and how A variety of bus services timetables, is available from do I get there? Level 2 The hospital is within the grounds of the existing ● Clinics F, G, H, I, J, K, L Stobhill Hospital. ● Endoscopy Moving in dates ● Ophthalmology BY CAR Cowcaddens and Transferring services into a Royston – use Springburn hospital the size of the New Road A803, go straight Stobhill cannot be through two sets of traffic completed in a single day. lights, proceed for one mile, The logistics of moving turning right after the petrol hundreds of staff and items station into Stobhill Road. of clinical equipment and Then go straight over at emptying 3500 packing traffic lights on to the crates into 1250 rooms takes time. approach road of the Services will therefore be moving into the hospital hospital grounds. on a phased basis as detailed. Maryhill – from Maryhill 2 NEW STOBHILL HOSPITAL GUIDE L AT A GLANCE operate seven days a week Will I be able to find from 9am until 9pm. my way easily around The Glasgow Emergency the hospital? Medical Service (GEMS), which Our aim is to keep all signage provides an out-of-hours GP as simple as possible. We have service, will have a primary chosen to only sign in English; care emergency centre at the however, wherever possible, hospital. This will operate the use of a single letter will be between 6pm and 8am used to orientate people to a Monday to Friday, and 24 hours particular clinic. a day Saturday and Sunday. Regardless of language or Are there canteen/ literacy, the simple matching café facilities? of the shape “A” with a large On the ground floor of the “A” over a particular clinic hospital there is an easily reception should allow a accessible café which will open very easy way of finding on Monday to Friday between your way around. 7.30am and 5pm. The Aroma Is there anywhere in the café will provide a range of hot building that visitors and cold snacks and beverages. can get travel information All profits made by the café – or health promotion wholly owned by the NHS – information? will be reinvested in the NHS At the main entrance of each and the café will be staffed by building there is a staffed NHS employees. help desk where people will be Is there a chapel or guided to where to get the multi-faith room? information they are looking for. Traveline: 0870 608 2608 main entrances. Disabled car The hospital has a multi-faith Also within the main entrance (www.traveline.org.uk) or parking spaces will be located at area, called the Sanctuary, we will have patient information Transport Direct each of the entrances. which anyone can use for points which will give travel (www.transportdirect.info). What are the hospital’s prayer or contemplation. The information, health promotion What are the car parking opening hours? Sanctuary is situated on the and other advice. arrangements? The core hospital opening ground floor near the main Patients will also be given All car parking will be on surface hours are from 8am till 9pm. entrance and will be open to all travel information in their ground level beside the hospital’s The minor injuries unit will staff, patients and visitors. outpatient appointment pack. THE DATES FROM WHICH KEY SERVICES ● Dental services ● Ophthalmology ● Respiratory ● Physiotherapy WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE NEW ● Medical day ● Podiatry HOSPITAL ARE AS FOLLOWS: Monday 18 May ● Speech and language ● Dermatology therapy Monday 11 May ● Laboratories ● Nuclear medicine ● Urology ● Audiology ● Medical records ● Orthotics Thursday 21 May ● Café ● Orthopaedics ● Renal dialysis ● GP out-of-hours ● Diabetes ● Pain service Tuesday 19 May emergency service ● General outpatients ● Pharmacy ● Day hospital Tuesday 26 May ● Gynaecology Tuesday 12 May ● Dietetics ● Day surgery ● Imaging services ● Cardiac rehabilitation ● Imaging services (MRI) ● Endoscopy (CT, X-ray, ultrasound) ● Cardiology ● Occupational therapy ● Minor injuries unit. NEW STOBHILL 3 SERVICES MODERN CARE I MODERN SETTIN YOUR new hospital is not just a brand-new You’ll find a lot has changed as you begin to same day – in building. It has been specifically designed to use the New Stobhill, from new services that close to one an help us deliver new improved models of care were never previously available locally to Over the nex to make sure that your condition can be “one-stop” care where you will have a three example diagnosed and treated as quickly as possible. number of appointments scheduled all on the that will help m WHO CAN BE TREATED AT THE MIU? The minor injuries unit will tre adults and children aged five years old and over for a range of minor injuries. An injury is damage caused the body by something physic (for example, following a fall). The minor injuries unit will: ● arrange X-rays for suspecte broken bones. For example, shoulder, upper arm, elbow, forearm, wrist, hand (includin fingers), knee, lower leg, ankle foot and toes ● treat and apply plaster to broken bones ● treat back, shoulder and rib injuries ● treat minor head and neck injuries Rapid access to specialist ● treat cuts/grazes as well as close (stitch) and dress woun ● treat sprains of ankles, kne care for minor injuries wrists and elbows ● treat infected wounds ● treat eye and ear injuries THE minor injuries unit in your patients with minor or less currently attend A&E ● treat minor burns and scald new hospital has its own serious injuries. departments can be more ● assess a minor injury and r dedicated entrance for rapid The minor injuries unit (MIU) appropriately seen at a minor to a specialist if required. access to a highly skilled at the New Stobhill is one injuries unit – so by creating clinical team. of a network of similar MIUs separate MIUs, the more WHO SHOULD NOT This unit will be open seven across the city.