Moving Forward With Patient Flow
The summer issue of Staff News highlighted a new three year patient flow project which we are taking forward in partnership with the Boston-based...
New Regional Endoscopy Unit Opens
The new regional Endoscopy Unit at Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline was officially opened recently by Alex Neil, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing.
As well...
Lanarkshire Beatson Ground Breaking
Work on the Lanarkshire Beatson a new £22m radiotherapy centre for the West of Scotland is now underway and to celebrate the start of...
Spread Fun Not Flu
Hundreds of brightly-coloured posters have been appearing in buildings across Forth Valley including schools, health centres, community pharmacies and libraries, to highlight the start...
New Campaign Highlights Silent Disease
Staff and patients joined together to urge people who think they may have been at risk of contracting Hep C to come forward and...
Transforming the Lives of Diabetes Patients
Community dietitians have been working with patients with diabetes and have reported big successes in weight management. A pilot project has seen individuals shed...
Take it Right Outside
Health promotion staff were on hand in the atrium at Forth Valley Royal Hospital to support a campaign designed to drive home the harm...
Electronic Prescribing
NHS Forth Valley is moving ahead to implement electronic prescribing (HEPMA) across all hospitals in Forth Valley. This is an exciting development and the...
Best for Bowels
GPs are now able to see bowel screening results electronically, thanks to improved communication between the Scottish Bowel Screening Programme and primary care.
In the...
You Have Been Warned!
Fairwarning is an automated audit system which checks across clinical systems and reports any misuse, for example password sharing or breaches of the Data...
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...
