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EBOLA – On the Front Line

Staff News interviewed Emergency Consultant Dr Roger Alcock just before he travelled to Sierra Leone to help tackle the Ebola crisis. Now back from...

Molly Tackles Marathon

Among those cheering the runners in this year’s London Marathon will be Consultant Urological Surgeon Mr James Tweedle. Despite being confined to a wheelchair...

Fighting Sepsis

A whopping £1,500 plus was raised by staff from our Acute Assessment Unit and Clinical Assessment Unit at a charity event to help cut...

Remembering Jim

Colleagues from across the organisation attended the funeral of one of NHS Forth Valley’s most popular staff members Jim Sinclair, the former General Manager...

Palliative Care Pioneer Retires

Dr Fiona Downs, a pioneering consultant who helped set up the Palliative Care Team in NHS Forth Valley, recently retired from her role at...

Running in Memory of Tom

For the past few months, NHS Forth Valley Consultant Clinical Psychologist Dr Sally Rankine and her son, Alex, have been struggling to spend time...

New ALFY Service Helps Patients Remain Well at Home

Staff from NHS Forth Valley have been working with colleagues at Falkirk Council to develop a new service in Bo’ness to help support people...

Update on Clinical Services Review

At the end of last year we launched a major review of health services across Forth Valley to help develop a new healthcare strategy...

Everyone Matters – Something Different

We asked for feedback on the quality and value of the current process for conducting KSF Personal Development Planning Reviews (PDPRs) and the recording...

Staff Survey Results

The results of the 2014 NHS Scotland Staff Survey show that 36% of staff in NHS Forth Valley completed the survey, compared with 34%...
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 (Closed)

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...