Welcome to Older People’s Services (OPS) and the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH). We are a large department providing specialist care for older adults in the South and North West of Glasgow with services based on three sites. Our acute receiving and acute assessment wards are based on the QEUH site. We provide specialist geriatric orthopaedic rehabilitation (GORU) and general rehabilitation at the Gartnavel General Hospital (GGH) campus and general rehabilitation wards on the New Victoria Hospital ACH Site. We also have a small number of hospital based complex care beds in St Margaret’s Hospice (Clydebank). Our range of services covers.

• Acute receiving for older people in ARU4
• Acute Assessment wards
• Acute stroke and stroke rehabilitation
• Orthopaedic liaison and geriatric orthopaedic rehabilitation (GORU)
• Medical and Surgical Liaison
• General Rehabilitation
• Delirium and dementia joint assessment ward with old age psychiatry (ward 52)
• Outpatient clinics including movement disorders, falls, syncope, TIA and general day hospital clinics.

We hope you enjoy your time training in our department. The education faculty and chief residents along with the senior medical team are here to support your training and education and can be contacted throughout your post if you need any help or support.

We are very proud to be Geriatricians and consider it a privilege to serve and provide care for the older adults of South Glasgow. Working closely with our nursing, AHP and social work community colleagues, this department strongly supports improving patient services. We have a strong vision for how services should develop in the coming years. Providing care closer to patients’ homes, with ready access to community support and our expertise when needed, is at the heart of this vision; the so called principle of ‘Home First’. You as trainees play a key role in this vision and can make a real difference to the experience of patients and carers (e.g. a timely prepared IDL can influence whether a patient gets home or not that day). This work is delivered through several work-streams as shown below. 

We are also very focused on the experience of work for our staff. As such Quality Improvement and robust Clinical Governance is strongly supported in DME. We have developed our own team logo reflecting our principles with everyone encouraged to live up to these values. We’re always interested to hear your views whilst you are in DME, so please join in with our improvement discussions. Everyone’s wellbeing is important to us.

Management Team

In Older People's services we have the following management team in place who you will meet when working in the wards:

Mr Stuart Gaw

General Manager, Managerially responsible for all DME staff, including all grades of medical staff

Mrs Joan Edge

Clinical Service Manager, responsible for the GGH site

Mrs Collette Kilpatrick

Clinical Service Manager, responsible for QEUH and NVH sites

Ms Claire MacDonald

Service Support Manager, supporting the operational running of the department

Ms Rebecca Fulton

Lead Nurse QEUH OPS

Ms Emma MacDonald

Lead Nurse QEUH OPS

Ms Lisa Main

Lead Nurse for OPS GGH

Clinical Directors

Prof Keith Muir

Clinical Director for Stroke services.

Dr Tricia Moylan

Clinical Director for Older People's services.

Dr Liz Burleigh

Deputy Clinical Director for Older People's services

The Clinical Directors are managerially responsible for all grades of medical staff. Educational and Clinical supervisors will be your first point of contact.

Clinical Leads

Dr Lesley Anderton

Dr Steven Wishart

Lead Clinicians for Older People’s services

The Lead Clinicians support the Clinical Directors deliver their departmental objectives and take a lead role in our Quality Improvement and Clinical Governance agendas.

Our management team are here to support all our staff, working with you to optimise the service we provide to our patients.

Welcome!