Midwife Lucy is an Inspiration

Congratulations to Lucy Craighead, one of our wonderful NHS Forth Valley Midwives, who has been awarded the Gillian McMillan Inspirational Midwife of the Year...

Thanking our Macmillan Healthcare Support Workers

The superb work carried out by Macmillan Healthcare Support Workers at home has been rewarded recently by two grateful families of loved ones, who...

Pharmacy Team Praised For Can-Do Attitude

The pharmacy team at Forth Valley Royal Hospital have been praised for their ‘can-do’ attitude in making sure that patients with Covid-19 who require...

Highlighting the Work of GP Practice Teams

Health Secretary, Humza Yousaf, recently visited Dunblane Health Centre to meet some of the local healthcare professionals who are part of the wider GP...

Revamped Nutrition Site Is A Big Hit

Staff are now able to access and signpost patients to a new Community Nutrition website which has recently been revamped with information, tips and...

Erostering is on the Way!

Work has started to introduce a new electronic rostering system in NHS Forth Valley. The system, which will cover all agenda for change staff and...

The Art of Motion

The latest art to grace the walls of Forth Valley Royal Hospital has been curated by students from Larbert High School together with Artlink...

Consultant Anaesthetist Takes On New Digital Role

Consultant Anaesthetist, Sri Lakshminarayan, has taken on a new role as Clinical Director for eHealth – one of a number of new Clinical Director...

Tackling the Climate Emergency

Big changes to the way healthcare is delivered are being introduced by the Scottish Government, in a bid to tackle climate change and make...

Meet Our New Speak Up Advocates

We highlighted in the last issue of Staff News that a Speak Up service had been introduced in NHS Forth Valley to help encourage...

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...