In The Spotlight

Caroline Bruce – Advanced Nurse Practitioner, District Nursing Team.

Caroline Bruce – Advanced Nurse Practitioner, District Nursing Team

What inspired you to become a nurse and how did you get to be in the role you are in now? I originally started in...
Julie Booth, Specialist Nurse For Organ Donation

Julie Booth, Specialist Nurse For Organ Donation

Tell us a little about your job I work as a Specialist Nurse Organ Donation (SNOD for short) – based within the Critical Care Department...

Fiona Murray, Head of Service for Emergency and Inpatient Services

Tell us a little about your role and what attracted you to it? The Head of Service role provides an opportunity to help shape and...

Sharon McPhee, Health and Social Care Chaplain

Sharon McPhee, Health and Social Care Chaplain, Spiritual Care Centre, Forth Valley Royal Hospital How did you get involved with chaplaincy? Well I was called to...

Scott Burton – Health Improvement Officer

How did you get involved with this role? I feel really lucky to be involved in health improvement and have a role for improving physical...

Viktoria Kallai, Assistant Production Manager, Area Sterilisation & Disinfection Unit (ASDU)

What attracted you to apply for a job in instrument sterilisation? I had been working in the private sector in sterile services management as a...

Prof Frances Dodd, Executive Nurse Director

How do you feel about taking on a role with such huge responsibilities? I have been working my whole career as a Nurse and this...

Morven Dunn, Quality and Safety Lead

Tell us a little about your role? I have recently started as the Quality and Patient Safety lead within NHS Forth Valley. This is an...

Sarah Hughes-Jones, Head of Information Governance

What made you apply for this job? There was no reason not to! It’s a great new challenge, right up my alley. Before joining NHS...

Derek Jarvie, Environmental and Sustainability Manager

Tell us a little about your job My role is wide and varied; I can be working with contractors installing LED lighting or surveying a...
Photo from left to right: Andrea Davidson, Lead General Practice Nurse (GPN), NHS Forth Valley, June Straight, GPN, Carronbank Medical Practice, Lesley Hamilton, Practice Manager, Carronbank Medical Practice, Beverley Birnie, Lead GPN, Carronbank Medical Practice, Jane Harris, Head of Programme, Workforce Education and Career Development, NHS Education for Health and Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care Neil Gray MSP.

Cabinet Secretary launches New Practice Nurse Publications at Carronbank

Neil Gray, the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care Neil Gray, formally launched two important publications at Carronbank Medical Practice. These publications focus...

Big Thanks for Generous Donations to Local Food Pantry

Huge thanks to local NHS staff and Serco colleagues who have donated food to the local KLSB (Keep Larbert and Stenhousemuir Beautiful) food pantry. There...

Win a Kindle 16Gb

This issue’s fantastic competition prize of a black 16Gb Kindle comes courtesy of staffbenefits.co.uk The Kindle 16 GB is Amazon's entry-level e-reader, offering a balance between...