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The West of Scotland Trauma Network is a collaboration of 6 NHS Boards and the Scottish Ambulance Service. The Boards which participate in the regional network are:
The ethos of the network is Saving Lives, Giving Life Back. The network delivers all aspects of trauma care, from the point of injury to rehabilitation from Day 1, in the region.
At the heart of the West Network is the Major Trauma Centre based in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Children. The MTC provides 24/7 access to a consultant led multidisciplinary specialist team for patients who have experienced major trauma. This team, in addition to nurses and doctors includes a range of specialist Allied Health Professionals, Psychology, Psychiatry and Rehabilitation Medicine Consultants. Patients admitted to the MTC will either be treated within the 24 bed specialist rehabilitation major trauma ward or in the most appropriate specialist area including Department of Clinical Neurosciences and National Spinal Injuries Unit. Patients will be seen by a Major Trauma/Rehabilitation Coordinator who will be responsible for coordinating their care and supporting their discharge.
The MTC is supported by 6 Trauma Units and a number of Local Emergency and Community Hospitals. Trauma Units provide most of the care and treatment for those trauma patients who do not require the services of the major trauma centre, but who do require highly skilled specialists offering immediate care and treatment 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital
1345 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 4TF
A number of clinical working groups are in place to support the network to develop its improvement plan going forward that will support redesign of patient pathways to deliver the Scottish Trauma Network requirements. Key priorities include:
• Further development of the specialist rehabilitation model to ensure all patients in West receive an equitable and high standard of care
• Improving compliance against the Scottish Trauma Network Key Performance Indicators
• Continuing to review major trauma protocols and guidelines
• Continuing to develop and support the education and training requirements for staff working within major trauma
• Continuing to work with colleagues across health and social care to improve patient pathways and outcomes following major trauma
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Queen Elizabeth University Hospital
1345 Govan Rd, Glasgow G51 4TF
Royal Hospital for Children
1345 Govan Rd, Glasgow G51 4TF
Brian Digby, Regional Clinical Lead
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, 1 Carnegie Road, Hillington, Glasgow G52 4NY
Brian.Digby@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Helen Dorrance, MTC Clinical Lead
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, 1345 Govan Rd, Glasgow G51 4TF
Helen.Dorrance@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Heather McVey, Senior Planning Manager
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, 1 Carnegie Road, Hillington, Glasgow G52 4NY
Heather.McVey@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Latest updates related to the West of Scotland
24/03/2023 | Paediatrics
A major trauma patient has thanked staff at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow for saving her life, with a unique brain surgery which involved part of her skull being removed and stored in her stomach. Chelsey Smith was 15 when she was left with life-threatening injuries, following a road traffic accident in […]
Read more13/01/2023 | Rehabilitation
The development of the Major Trauma Service in the West of Scotland came with significant resource to provide rehabilitation in order to achieve the Scottish Trauma Networks stated aim of: Saving Lives. Giving Life Back. The rehabilitation team within the Major Trauma ward in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital are delivering early, intensive, multidisciplinary rehabilitation […]
Read more19/12/2022 | Education
What is it? HECTOR began as the Heartlands Elderly Care Trauma and Ongoing Recovery course that was established to develop a training programme for clinicians and independent practitioners who are responsible for looking after older people who have injuries. These injuries that an individual sustains often play second fiddle to the complex comorbidities, frailty, […]
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