Wards & Visiting

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Department / WardTelephone

Gynaecology - Ward 49 0141 201 2282

Opening hours:

Flexible visiting Monday to Sunday, between 1.30pm and 8.30pm.

General Tel: 0141 201 2282
Location name: Ward 49

Maternity Services - Labour Ward 44 0141 201 2292

Please note there is no waiting area in the labour ward and visitors are not permitted, only arranged birth partners. We encourage birth partners to keep their own families updated as appropriate and request that phone calls to labour ward are kept to a minimum.

Opening hours:

No visiting permitted in labour ward - arranged birth partners only.

Contact Tel: 0141 201 2292
Location name: Maternity Unit

Maternity Services - Special Care Baby Unit/Ward 0141 201 2261

26 special care cots for babies who require extra support and care after birth and four mother and baby rooms with en-suite facilities for babies who are relatively well. These rooms give mothers the opportunity to stay with their baby to establish parenting skills and breast feeding prior to discharge and reduce the need for separation if a baby requires a short-term observation or treatment.
Contact Tel: 0141 201 2261

Maternity Services - Ward 47 0141 201 2268

Opening hours:

Standard postnatal visiting

• Partners - Open visiting for the woman’s partner between the hours of 11.00 am and 9.00 pm
• All Other Visitors - Afternoon 2.00 pm - 4.00  pm 
  Evening  6.30 pm - 8.30 pm
• Children of less than 1 year - Should NOT visit unless they are a sibling of the new baby.
• Children aged 1 to 12 years - must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Visiting children remain the responsibility of the accompanying adult and visitors
• Maximum of 2 visitors per bed at any one time

Contact Tel: 0141 201 2268
Location name: Ward 47

Maternity Services - Ward 48 0141 201 2269

Opening hours:

Standard postnatal visiting

• Partners - Open visiting for the woman’s partner between the hours of 11.00 am and 9.00 pm
• All Other Visitors - Afternoon 2.00 pm - 4.00  pm 
  Evening  6.30 pm - 8.30 pm
• Children of less than 1 year - Should NOT visit unless they are a sibling of the new baby.
• Children aged 1 to 12 years - must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Visiting children remain the responsibility of the accompanying adult and visitors
• Maximum of 2 visitors per bed at any one time

Contact Tel: 0141 201 2269
Location name: Ward 48

Maternity Services - Ward 50 0141 201 4370

Opening hours:

Standard postnatal visiting

• Partners - Open visiting for the woman’s partner between the hours of 11.00 am and 9.00 pm
• All Other Visitors - Afternoon 2.00 pm - 4.00  pm 
  Evening  6.30 pm - 8.30 pm
• Children of less than 1 year - Should NOT visit unless they are a sibling of the new baby.
• Children aged 1 to 12 years - must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Visiting children remain the responsibility of the accompanying adult and visitors
• Maximum of 2 visitors per bed at any one time

Contact Tel: 0141 201 4370
Location name: Ward 50

Neonatal Unit / Ward Click for phone numbers

This is the Neonatal Unit for the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow and the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow 

Contact numbers Level 1:

• Reception 1: 0141 201 2261
• Reception 2:  0141 201 2339

 

 Contact numbers Level 2:

• Reception: 0141 232 4334
• Reception: 0141 232 4335

Contact Name: Neonatal Department
General Tel: Click for phone numbers

Be Ready For Baby! We have a selection of videos showing you around the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Maternity Unit. The videos are in sections showing each of the various locations within the unit that you will see when you come in to have your baby; from the entrance to the post natal ward. You can access the videos in multiple languages at: www.yoube.com/nhsggc

The maternity unit boasts a number of world class maternity facilities for women and babies from across the city and beyond. These include: 

• A foetal medicine unit providing specialist diagnostic facilities and treatment to unborn babies from across Scotland. Equipped with three treatment rooms, scanning facilities, counselling facilities and separate waiting areas 

• Two state-of-the art operating theatres – one equipped with special laser technology used to provide treatment to babies while they are still in the womb (interventional foetal therapy) 

• A purpose-built  labour suite with 12 labour rooms - all with en-suite toilet and bath/shower facilities and two with birthing pools, a four bedded antenatal area, high dependency beds and a five bedded recovery area, counselling rooms, a delivery room for women experiencing a stillbirth or miscarriage, kitchen and waiting facilities for visitors 

• A neonatal intensive care unit.

• A Special Care Baby Unit with 26 special care cots for babies who require extra support and care after birth and four mother-and-baby rooms with en-suite facilities for babies who are relatively well. These rooms give mothers the opportunity to stay with their baby to establish parenting skills and breast feeding prior to discharge and will also reduce the need for separation if the baby requires short-term observation or treatment 

• A refurbished ultrasound department including a waiting area as well scanning and counselling rooms. 

• Two milk expression rooms allowing nursing mothers to express and store breast milk for feeding to their babies in intensive care and special care. 

• Four staff rest rooms within the new buildings with staff lockers, food preparation area and TV for essential relaxation. 

• Site map & directions
• Patient information
• Glasgow City Evening Visitor Transport Service
  

A new multi-storey car park has now opened on the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus site.   The facility offers 266 spaces including 30 disabled bays.  Parking is free to all patients and visitors.  On entering the hospital from Govan Road, drive straight ahead and the facility is situated on the left hand side of the road.

Find out if you can use the free Evening Visitor's bus service

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Services

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ServiceTel

Foetal Medicine Unit

The unit provides specialist diagnostic facilities and treatment to unborn babies from across Scotland. Equipped with three treatment rooms, scanning facilities, counselling facilities and separate waiting areas.

We have a telephone number for women to make an appointment with a midwife as soon as they know they are pregnant.

The number is 0141 347 8422

We urge all mums-to-be, even those with children already, to book into your local maternity services by week 12 of your pregnancy.

Gynaecology Outpatients Tel: Appointments – 0141 201 2252

Gynaecology Outpatients 

General Tel: Appointments – 0141 201 2252
Location name: Ward 49

Imaging (X-ray, Ultrasound, CT Scanning, MRI Scanning) Tel: 0141 201 1540

Patient information on imaging tests and procedures across NHSGGC is available here.

Contact Tel: 0141 201 1540

Maternity Services - Labour Suite Tel: 0141 201 2292/2250

A purpose-built labour suite with 12 labour rooms - all with en-suite toilet and bath/shower facilities and two with birthing pools, a four bedded antenatal area, high dependency beds and a five bedded recovery area, counselling rooms, a delivery room for women experiencing a stillbirth or miscarriage, kitchen and waiting facilities for visitors.

We have a telephone number for women to make an appointment with a midwife as soon as they know they are pregnant.

The number is 0141 347 8422

We urge all mums-to-be, even those with children already, to book into your local maternity services by week 12 of your pregnancy.

Contact Tel: 0141 201 2292/2250

Perinatal Mental Health Service, now at Leverndale Hospital Tel: 0141 211 6500

The Perinatal Mental Health Service  provides services to women and families affected by severe mental illness during pregnancy and the first year after childbirth. The service has 4 different elements:-

1.) A 6 bed / 6 cot regional Mother and Baby Mental Health Unit which provides suitable facilities for a woman with severe acute mental illness to be admitted for treatment, where it’s also in the best interests of her baby to come into hospital with her. The unit accepts admissions of women living in Glasgow and adjacent NHS Board areas Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Arran, Dumfries and Galloway, Western Isles and the former Argyll and Clyde boundary areas. Referral is through local psychiatric services in the NHS Board area or via any health or social care professional if the woman lives in Glasgow.

2.) Community Outreach Service for women living within the former NHS Greater Glasgow boundary area.

3.) Out patient clinics at 3 sites around the city.

4.) Psychiatric liaison services to the Southern General Maternity Unit and the Princess Royal Maternity Unit.

Opening hours:

Community Outreach Team: Monday - Friday 9.00am-5.00pm (except public holidays)

Mother and Baby Mental Health Unit: 24hr service.

Visiting hours:

• Monday - Friday 2.30pm-4.30pm; 6.00pm-8.00pm;
• Saturday - Sunday 2.00pm-4.00pm; 6.00pm-8.00pm

General Tel: 0141 211 6500
Location name: Department of Psychiatry