Shaping Services for the Future

NHS Forth Valley’s healthcare strategy sets out our strategic plans and priorities to develop and improve health services across Forth Valley.  As our current...

Nursing Today

The rise of the ‘selfie’ – a self-portrait photograph typically taken with a smart phone or hand held digital camera and sometimes uploaded on...

Win A Years Free Gym Membership! (Closed)

Open to NHS Forth Valley staff only!  Sunshine or no sunshine, it’s officially Summer, and that means the Commonwealth Games are coming to Scotland! With...

Meet Our New Family Nurse Team

Our new Family Nurse team, based in Clackmannanshire Community Healthcare Centre, is pictured at the start up of this important new service which aims...

West Highland Way – In a Day

The West Highland Way is a 96 mile route that starts at Milngavie, passes through Mugdock Country Park, follows the shores of Loch Lomond,...

Louise is Rising Star

Many congratulations to associate audiologist Louise Whitelaw, who has won a Rising Star Award at the Advancing Healthcare Awards. These UK wide awards recognise and...

Video Stars

As if it were needed – proof that our staff are superstars! Colleagues recently took part in shooting for a film about Person Centred Visiting...

Patient Management System Moves Forward

The Single Patient Management System (PMS) has moved a step closer with the recent move of waiting list and inpatients for acute specialities from...

Coffee Time

Another coffee addict, Assistant Finance Director Derrick Douglas has also retired. His farewell gifts included an apron and cap, courtesy of the coffee van...

Spain Here I Come!

November 20th 1972 was an auspicious date for Estates Services Manager Conrad Binnie, who has recently retired after more than 40 years service. That...

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...