Golden Jubilee Foundation

Welcome

The Golden Jubilee Foundation was conceived as a beacon of innovation in Scottish healthcare. Established in 2002, the Golden Jubilee Foundation has four key parts – the Golden Jubilee National Hospital, the Golden Jubilee Innovation Centre, the Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel and the Golden Jubilee Research Institute.

A track record of improving healthcare, Innovation is at the heart of how the Golden Jubilee works which is reflected in their approach to medical practice and healthcare. The range of treatments continues to grow alongside efforts to continually improve the quality of delivery. Today the Golden Jubilee can credibly claim to offer a level of specialty that competes with the very best internationally.

The Golden Jubilee National Hospital

The Golden Jubilee National Hospital is the home of regional and national heart and lung services, a major centre for orthopaedics and one of the largest providers of cataract surgery in the UK, in addition to providing an award winning Diagnostic Imaging service and reducing waiting times in key specialities for Boards throughout Scotland.

The Golden Jubilee National Hospital manages regional and national heart and lung services such as:

All heart and lung surgery for the West of Scotland, including all bypasses, heart valve surgery and other complex procedures;
Interventional cardiology services, including angioplasty, angiography, electrophysiology and complex pacemakers;
The Scottish National Advanced Heart Failure Service, including the heart transplant unit;
The Scottish Pulmonary Vascular Unit; and
The Scottish Adult Congenital Cardiac Service.

The hospital is also one of only two specialist centres in the West of Scotland that provides the Optimal Reperfusion service. This service means that patients, whose heart attack is due to a blocked artery, will be transferred directly to a specialist centre leading to better outcomes.

The Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel

The four star Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel has been an integral part of the Foundation since 2002 and is currently working on a strategy that allows them to build on the foundations of being the NHS and public sector conference and training venue of choice.

The culmination of this work identifies an optimal and innovative future for hotel and conference centre as a more enhanced, active and productive part of the Foundation whilst maximising its potential as a national resource.

Put simply, by 2020 the Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel will be recognised as a pivotal meeting and hospitality element of an internationally renowned innovation campus – the Golden Jubilee Foundation - a global centre of excellence for quality, research and innovation in medicine and health care.

The Golden Jubilee Research Institute

Opened in May 2011, The Golden Jubilee Research Institute is a world class research and clinical skills centre supporting our Board vision on Leading Quality, Research and Innovation. It is a crucial element of the Golden Jubilee Foundation. It will continue to:

increase the number of trials hosted by the Golden Jubilee National Hospital;
enhance the experience of patients participating in clinical trials;
enhance the clinical skills training experience for all health care professionals;
provide simulation areas to support the training, development, and evaluation of healthcare professionals;
enhance surgical skills training through the provision of a purpose built area with the ability to live stream surgical procedures from the hospital;
help promote innovation across the organisation.

In 2015/16, The Golden Jubilee Research Institute continued to undertake ground-breaking research across all of our hospital specialties including interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, pulmonary vascular disease, advanced heart failure, orthopaedics and anaesthetics.

The Golden Jubilee Innovation Centre

The newest part of the Foundation - the Golden Jubilee Innovation Centre - is a focal point for driving forward innovations.

The Golden Jubilee has a track record for getting things done. This success can be attributed to a committed and entrepreneurial staff working alongside an accessible and imaginative management team, where aspirational thinking is encouraged. This 'can do' attitude enables Golden Jubilee to be a catalyst for change and innovation.

Both, a physical space and a source of passion and energy, the Golden Jubilee Innovation Centre will ensure NHS Scotland continues to meet expectations and provide quality care for patients across the country.

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Foundation fast facts

About the Golden Jubilee Foundation

Four distinct parts – a hospital, a research institute, an innovation centre and a hotel.
Foundation’s 2020 vision is to lead Quality, Research and Innovation for the NHS in Scotland.
Beacon of innovation in Scottish healthcare by introducing new ways of working.
Approximately 1800 staff and over 100 volunteers and lay members.
Top health and social care organisation in Stonewall Workplace Equality Index 2015
Investor in Volunteer accreditation.
Gold award – Healthy Working Lives.
Mentally Healthy Workplace.
Positive Engagement Score of 98%. Our unique reputation score by collating all interactions, reviews and feedback from Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Patient Opinion as well as emails and media coverage.

Golden Jubilee National Hospital

Major centre for national and regional heart and lung services; fastest ‘door to balloon’ time for STEMI heart attacks, busiest lung centre in UK, and all cardiac surgery performed in under nine weeks.
One of the largest elective orthopaedic centres in Europe, carrying out more than 25% of all hip and knee replacements for NHSScotland.
Scotland’s largest provider of cataract procedures, carrying out more than 15% of all activity.
94% of patients rated the Golden Jubilee between eight and 10 out of 10 in the most recent Inpatient Survey.

Golden Jubilee Research Institute

Purpose-built research facility: consulting rooms, lab and dedicated research hub.
Undertake ground-breaking research across all of our hospital specialties, including interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, pulmonary vascular disease, advanced heart failure, orthopaedics and anaesthetics.
Pioneering stem cell therapy for patients having a STEMI heart attack.
Lead NHS organisation for several national and international interventional cardiology research projects.
Undertake Computer Assisted Hip Arthroplasty, which could increase accuracy by over 20%.
Part of UK’s first gene therapy trials for heart failure.
Preventative angioplasty trial for heart attack patients proves putting stents in other narrowed arteries could save thousands of lives per year.

Golden Jubilee Innovation Centre

Establishing philanthropic programme for NHSScotland.
Focal point for driving forward innovation for NHSScotland.
Working with industry, academia and NHS. Testing proof of concept for proactive fundraising.
Purpose-built space to support and channel innovations.
Unique Quality Framework and innovative mobile dashboard app.
Pioneers of Medical Devices Alpha Test (MDαT), a unique review process which connects inventors, funders and clinicians.
Responsible for the Health and Social Care Innovation Fund.

Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel

Four star residential training and conference venue.
Supports the Foundation as a pivotal meeting and hospitality element of our internationally renowned innovation campus.
Supports Golden Jubilee National Hospital by providing accommodation to assist with access for patients and their relatives from all over Scotland.
Member of Conference Centre of Excellence and International Association of Conference Centres.
State-of-the-art AV links to the hospital’s theatres, Cath Labs and imaging suites.
Top 10 UK hotel in the Simply the Guest Awards.
TripAdvisor Hall of Fame.
Investors in People Gold Award.