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One Hundred Years Young

Ward 5 at Stirling Community Hospital pushed the boat out to celebrate the 100th birthday of one of their patients. Mary Robertson, grandmother of...

Outstanding Mentors

Final semester nursing students at the University of Stirling have been able to say thank you to NHS Forth Valley staff for helping them...

New Dementia Champions

Five members of staff from NHS Forth Valley were among the latest 100 health and social services professionals to graduate as Dementia Champions. The...

Super Support

Huge congratulations are in order for NHS Forth Valley’s Carol Whitfield, winner of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Maternity Support Worker of the...

Instrumental Success

It’s a mammoth task – sterilising around 2.8 million instruments a year!  But the excellent work carried out at the central decontamination unit at...

Stepping Up to Leadership

‘Positive’ and ‘enlightening’ that’s how the latest graduates who took part in the Introduction to Leadership Programme summed up their experience.  Other comments included: "I...

Hear Hear for Improved Audiology Service

Staff in our Audiology Department have been working hard to find solutions to reduce waiting lists and patients are now seen at a one...

Getting It Right for Patients

How to achieve the best care possible for patients was the theme of a two day event attended by more than 100 staff and...

Fantastic Response to New Staff Awards

The compassion showed by the intensive care unit team to a colleague diagnosed with a serious medical condition, has earned them the Chairman’s Special...

EBOLA Mission for Forth Valley Consultant

There’ll definitely be no snow this festive season for Emergency Medicine Consultant Dr Roger Alcock, who will be working in temperatures of 30°C, treating...
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...