How Does Your Garden Grow

Enjoying the fruits of their labours, the Gardening Group at Livilands Resource Centre in Stirling celebrated three years of digging and weeding with a...

Flamingo Surprise for Mental Health Unit

Despite heavy rain outside, the taste of summer and ‘cocktails’ was sampled by patients in the mental health unit at Forth Valley Royal Hospital...

Kind Hearted Gesture

Thanks to the kindness of Larbert Rotarians, Ward 4 in Forth Valley Royal Hospital has been able to buy a chair, which folds down...

What Matters To You

It was a day of cheery smiles all round as volunteers, staff and patients posed for the camera to mark What Matters to You...

Win First Class Tickets For The Caledonian Sleeper (Closed)

Staff News has teamed up with Serco to offer one lucky staff member the chance to win a pair of return journeys on the...

Please Get Screened – Ann’s Story

It’s a fact. Around 4,600 women in Scotland are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. Health Promotion Officer Ann McArthur has just undergone the...

Sandra Scopes Pastures New

Following a 37 year career which involved care of the elderly, working in theatres, looking after adults with learning difficulties and finally as Senior...

Wendy’s 38 Years of Caring

After 38 and half years of caring for babies, senior midwife Wendy Moncrieff has retired from the Neonatal Unit at Forth Valley Royal Hospital. Wendy...

A Century and A Half of Service!

Four members of staff who worked in NHS Forth Valley’s Physiotherapy Department recently retired, after notching up a total of 150 years of service...

Farewell To The Big Apple

Colleagues and friends gathered to say farewell to Dr Pete Bramley, Consultant Gastroenterologist who has retired after 23 years with NHS Forth Valley. Pete started...

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...