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Visit Our Winter Zone For Health Info & Advice

A new Winter Zone has been created on the NHS Forth Valley website with information on local health services, including details of pharmacy opening...

Jan and Duffy’s Climbing Challenge

Climbing 101 times up Dumyat is no mean feat. But when healthcare support worker Jan Palmer took up the challenge to raise money for...

Roslyn’s Life in Pictures

When Roslyn Grant retired recently her life was recorded in a series of slides, each picture representing a stage in her career or a...

Willie Waves A Final Farewell

Colleagues asked if we could wave a final farewell to Willie McLean who moved on from his role as a Staff Nurse in Livilands...

New Clinical Leads For Realistic Medicine

Two new clinical leads have been appointed for realistic medicine, a local GP and a paediatric consultant. Dr Martin Norve, GP “I have been working as...

Staff Get into the Festive Spirit

There was a fine display of Christmas jumpers from the Practice Development Team who are supporting young carers in Stirling. Thanking them on social media,...

Tiptoe Through The New Podiatry Website

Patients in Forth Valley are being urged to put their feet up and spend a few minutes checking out a new Podiatry website developed...

Fantastic Response To Yarn Bomb Request

Regular readers of Staff News will recall in our last issue an invitation to help “yarn bomb” trees outside Stirling Health and Care Village...

Reducing Our Carbon Footprint

Figures just released show that NHS Forth Valley is making good progress with cutting back its carbon footprint. The Board’s Climate Change Report for 2021/22...

W&C’s Garden Supports Growth & Recovery

Staff from the Women and Children’s Unit have been working with our Public Health Nutrition Team to transform an underused and unappealing space within...
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...