News

Celebrating 3000 Years Of Service

Around 120 of our staff, with a total of 3070 years service between them, recently received a Long Service Award after achieving 20, 30...

Prestigious Award For Oncology Unit

The Oncology Unit in Forth Valley Royal Hospital has been recognised by Macmillan Cancer Support for the high-quality environment it offers to patients. Following a...

Shining Example

The work carried out by Sandra Campbell, our local Macmillan Nurse Consultant for Cancer and Palliative Care, has been singled out for praise by...

Queen’s Nurse Title Returns To Forth Valley

One of our senior community nurses has been selected to take part in a special professional development programme to become a Queen’s Nurse. Joan Gracie,...

Accolade For Janet

Congratulations to Senior Midwife and Clinical Co-ordinator Janett Sneddon who was shortlisted for a Members’ Champion Award at the recent Royal College of Midwives...

Prescription For Success

NHS Forth Valley’s hospital pharmacy team once again did us proud, by reaching the finals of the annual Scottish Pharmacist Awards .The event offers...

Better Every Day

Work is underway across the organisation to help make NHS Forth Valley one of the safest and caring organisations in the NHS. That’s the...

‘We Care’ – Our New Nursing & Midwifery Strategy

What makes a nurse or midwife extra special when caring for patients? A new Nursing and Midwifery Strategy has just been launched which sets...

Smiles All Round

In the last issue of Staff News we featured the role of a ‘virtual clinic’ which is being trialled in arthroplasty as part of...

WARP-IT – Look How Far We Have Come!

Big savings have already been achieved thanks to a new system known as Warp It, which was introduced in NHS Forth Valley in September...

Balfron Health Centre Team Attend Royal Garden Party

Staff from Balfron Health Centre were honoured to be invited to this year’s Royal Garden Party at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. The Garden Party is...

Inspiring the Next Generation of Healthcare Professionals

Staff from across NHS Forth Valley attended a Healthcare Careers Event for senior secondary pupils at Forth Valley College’s Falkirk Campus. Nurses, doctors and AHPs...

Tackling the Kiltwalk for Claire

A team of nurses from Forth Valley Royal Hospital will be lacing up their walking boots this September to take part in the Mighty...