Navigating To The Future
Colleagues from across Forth Valley met up to say farewell to Dr Mark Holliday, who has retired from his post as Consultant Chemical Pathologist...
Celebrating 3000 Years Of Service
Around 120 of our staff, with a total of 3070 years service between them, recently received a Long Service Award after achieving 20, 30...
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...
Curling Champion Turns Commentator – Vicky Makes BBC debut
Many of us who watched the recent Winter Olympics may have spotted local nurse and Olympic Gold Medallist Vicky Wright (now Drummond) as part...
Robert Digs in for Retirement
After 41 years of working for the NHS, Robert Clark is looking forward to a well-earned retirement. However, unlike many people, instead of putting...
Plans to Introduce Robotic Assisted Surgery
Having secured £2.5 million of Scottish Government funding, NHS Forth Valley has approved plans to introduce Robotic Assisted Surgery (RAS), a development that has...
