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Prestigious Award For Oncology Unit

The Oncology Unit in Forth Valley Royal Hospital has been recognised by Macmillan Cancer Support for the high-quality environment it offers to patients. Following a...

Shining Example

The work carried out by Sandra Campbell, our local Macmillan Nurse Consultant for Cancer and Palliative Care, has been singled out for praise by...

Queen’s Nurse Title Returns To Forth Valley

One of our senior community nurses has been selected to take part in a special professional development programme to become a Queen’s Nurse. Joan Gracie,...

Accolade For Janet

Congratulations to Senior Midwife and Clinical Co-ordinator Janett Sneddon who was shortlisted for a Members’ Champion Award at the recent Royal College of Midwives...

Prescription For Success

NHS Forth Valley’s hospital pharmacy team once again did us proud, by reaching the finals of the annual Scottish Pharmacist Awards .The event offers...

Better Every Day

Work is underway across the organisation to help make NHS Forth Valley one of the safest and caring organisations in the NHS. That’s the...

‘We Care’ – Our New Nursing & Midwifery Strategy

What makes a nurse or midwife extra special when caring for patients? A new Nursing and Midwifery Strategy has just been launched which sets...

Smiles All Round

In the last issue of Staff News we featured the role of a ‘virtual clinic’ which is being trialled in arthroplasty as part of...

WARP-IT – Look How Far We Have Come!

Big savings have already been achieved thanks to a new system known as Warp It, which was introduced in NHS Forth Valley in September...

HePMA Roll Out Keeps On Moving

HePMA – the new electronic prescribing system - has now moved to community hospitals. Stirling and Falkirk Community Hospitals are now live, which enables...
Friends holding banner

Friends raise £21,000 for Strathcarron Hospice in London to Paris Cycle

Four life-long friends have completed 309 miles cycling from London to Paris raising an incredible £21,000 for Strathcarron Hospice in memory of loved ones. Siblings...
Staff from the Endoscopy Unit at Forth Valley Royal Hospital

Endoscopy’s Mighty Hike for Macmillan

Staff from the Endoscopy Unit at Forth Valley Royal Hospital laced up their boots to take on the Rob Roy Mighty Hike full marathon,...
staff at Loch View Celebrating Learning Disability Nursing

Celebrating Learning Disability Nursing

As part of this year’s Learning Disability Nurses Day celebrations, staff at Loch View created a collaborative visual collage highlighting what their roles mean...