Winning Posters

NHS Forth Valley won two of the six poster categories at the recent NHS Scotland Event at the SECC in Glasgow and was also...

AAU Switches to HePMA

The Acute Assessment Unit at Forth Valley Royal Hospital has become the latest area to successfully introduce HePMA, a new electronic prescribing system. HePMA (Hospital...

Investing In New Equipment

A new state-of-the-art CT scanner is to be provided at Forth Valley Royal Hospital as part of a five year capital plan to improve...

Recognising Our Local Healthcare Heroes

NHS Forth Valley is gearing up for its Annual Review on Tuesday 30th August 2016 and a separate Staff Awards ceremony which will also...

Fighting Extremism

Recent terrorist events have highlighted the need for people to be constantly on their guard against extremists. The UK Government has placed a statutory...

Coming to a Place Near You

With the flu season approaching, the NHS Forth Valley immunisation team will be visiting wards and community hospitals offering flu jags to staff. This...

Flu Vaccination Pilot Results Published

Details of a pilot project to vaccinate school children across Forth Valley at weekends and after school, have been published in the British Journal...

Listening to Staff

Issues raised by staff are to be given a higher profile at the Area Partnership Forum (APF). Until now the emphasis at the Forum, which...

Going for Gold

With an Investors in People Silver Award already under our belt, NHS Forth Valley is now going for gold. This will involve the Investors in...

Customer Service Champions

Twenty staff members are part of the first cohort of two new customer services programmes, which includes acting as ‘learning buddies’ for participants. As part...

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...