Specialist Children's Services

Services for children and young people in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde are provided by Health Care Professionals in a number of areas.

• The Community Paediatric Service sits within Specialist Community Paediatric Teams (SCPT) and is a child-led provision with a focus on effective partnership working and an integrated approach to meeting the needs of children and young people. Children and Young People are referred to Community Paediatrics services by a variety of sources across health, social work, education and families themselves. Referrals are received either on a uni-professional basis or within the context of a multi-professional team which includes Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Paediatricians, Physiotherapists, Speech and Language Therapists and others as required.
• The Acute Service is based at the Royal Hospital for Children working in both ward and out-patient settings.
• The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) provides community-based and inpatient support to children and young people in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde who have significant difficulties with their mental health and wellbeing that impact on their day to day activities in a number of areas of their lives.  The service accepts referrals from staff who work with children and young people across agencies and provides care and support from mental health nurses, clinical psychologists, child and adolescent psychiatrists, family therapists, psychotherapists, occupational therapists and speech and language therapists as required.  The service works to deliver the care only CAMHS can provide in partnership and guided by children, young people and their families and with other services that can best help the child or young person in their family context  to be safe, healthy, active, nurtured, achieving, respected, responsible and included.

Child Development Centres within Greater Glasgow & Clyde (GG&C)

There are 4 sectors within GG&C:

• North West Sector which includes West Dunbartonshire and parts of East Dunbartonshire
• North East Sector which includes parts of East Dunbartonshire
• South Sector which includes East Renfrewshire 
• Inverclyde and Renfrewshire Sector

Please find below all addresses and telephone numbers for your specific area within GG&C:

Please see below for contact details of your local Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS):

Attend Anywhere  

Attend Anywhere is a web-based platform that helps health and social care providers offer video call access to their services as part of their ‘business as usual’, day-to-day operations.

Apart from internet access, all people need to use Attend Anywhere is the Chrome or Safari web browsers on a computer or mobile device. Computer users will also need a web camera (usually built into laptops) and a headset or speakers.

Near Me is the service names developed following consultation with members of the public. Near Me services use the Attend Anywhere platform to deliver their video consulting service.

Click here to access clinical waiting areas of Specialist Children's Services in your area.