Memories of working in the A&E departments of the former Falkirk and Stirling Royal infirmaries were the topic of conversation when former nurses met at Forth Valley Royal Hospital to celebrate 50 years of emergency medicine as a speciality.
They recalled when A & E was staffed by just one nurse and one doctor and the role of the so-called Casualty Night Runner who, when a patient arrived, would check whether the emergency doctor should be woken!
All spoke about their pride in their NHS uniforms with long sleeves and starched cuffs and fondly remembered caring for one another as part of an extended family.
