Heart and Lung

The West of Scotland Regional Heart and Lung Centre is fully operational at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank.

The centre of excellence delivers high quality patient care and an improved patient experience through good management and the concentration of resources, skills and expertise.

What services are provided at the new centre?

All adult heart and lung surgery for the west of Scotland – including all bypasses, heart valve surgery and other complex procedures.

Three of the country’s national services – the Scottish Advanced Heart Failure Service ( including the heart transplant unit), the Scottish Pulmonary Vascular Unit and the Scottish Adult Congenital Cardiac Service.

Interventional cardiology services, including angioplasty, angiography, electrophysiology and complex pacemakers, will be done at the new centre.
- Angioplasty is when a balloon and/or a small metal coil (stent) is used to open narrowed areas in the arteries of your heart.
- Angiography involves passing a fine tube via the artery, (large blood vessel) in your leg or wrist, directly to your heart.
- Electrophysiology uses electrical currents to check for, and diagnose, heart disease.

The West of Scotland Regional Heart and Lung Centres brought together services at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital with cardiothoracic (heart and lung) services from Glasgow’s Western and Royal infirmaries, as well as thoracic (lung) services from Hairmyres Hospital in Lanarkshire.

Spread over three inpatient floors of the Golden Jubilee, facilities at the modern, purpose-built centre include seven theatres and four cardiac catheterisation (cath) labs – special x-ray rooms for diagnosis and treatment of blood vessel blockages around the heart.

Key benefits for patients

Being on one site, the West of Scotland Regional Heart and Lung Centre provides a number of benefits to patients:

An integrated heart and lung centre where patients can access a wide range of specialist services.

Concentration of expertise, also enabling medical staff to specialise in a number of areas.

Excellent accommodation and environment in a modern, purpose-built facility.

Access to £4m of new equipment.

Equal access for all patients in the West of Scotland.

Research and development and academic activity will lead to innovation and improvements in patient care.

Ongoing service redesign to improve patient care and patient experience.

Free car parking.

Access to the adjoining Beardmore Hotel and Conference Centre to ensure relatives and/or carers are close to you during your stay in hospital.*

*Available free of charge to patients travelling from a distance to the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank.

The new centre has:

37 critical care beds
- 19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds
- 18 High Dependency Unit (HDU) beds

14 cardiology day beds

eight coronary care beds

eight cardiology ward beds

87 heart and lung ward beds

nine beds for national services

500 staff including over 300 nurses and access to over 60 consultants as well as additional medical staff, physiotherapists, radiologists, cardiac physiologists, support and admin staff.

We anticipate that each year the new centre will undertake:

1500 heart operations, including 50 adult congenital surgical procedures

2500 lung and oesophageal operations

120 cardiac resynchronisation therapy procedures

7500 cardiology procedures

15 transplants

250 advanced heart failure procedures.

The new regional centre serves the residents of all six West of Scotland health boards:

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

NHS Lanarkshire

NHS Ayrshire and Arran

NHS Dumfries and Galloway

NHS Forth Valley

NHS Western Isles.

As is currently the case, you will continue to be treated in your local hospital in the first instance. If you need to have a planned or urgent surgical or interventional cardiology procedure, you will be referred for treatment at the new West of Scotland Regional Heart and Lung Centre.

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