Congratulations to the five finalists from NHS Forth Valley who have been shortlisted for the upcoming Scottish Health Awards! Caroline Gill and the Learning Disability Nursing Team – Nurses Award Dr Daniel Beckett, Consultant Acute Physician – Innovation Award Debbie… read more →
Congratulations to the Falkirk Falls Management Project – a joint venture between Falkirk Council’s Mobile Emergency Care Service and NHS Forth Valley’s REACH Falkirk Team – who recently won the ‘Working Better, Working Together’ award at the SSSC Care Accolades,… read more →
Well done to Dr Dan Beckett, Acute Physician at Forth Valley Royal Hospital,who recently cycled from Holyrood to Westminster to raise awareness of the symptoms of sepsis. Dan, and his partner Dr Claire Gordon – an acute physician at NHS… read more →
Trailblazing work by a team at Forth Valley Royal Hospital is saving lives. Figures published recently show that the number of patients suffering cardiac arrest in the Acute Assessment Unit (AAU) at Forth Valley Royal Hospital has fallen dramatically, thanks… read more →
Congratulations to orthotist John Smith who received the ‘Rising Star’ award at the recent Advancing Healthcare Awards. The category was open to people within five years of qualification who already stand out from the crowd and show potential for their future careers.
Congratulations to the NHS Forth Valley staff who won accolades at the recent awards ceremony held on 12th June 2013 at Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh. Learning Disabilities Charge Nurses Theresa Connor and Billy Pate won the award for Person Centred… read more →
Congratulations to all the staff involved in presenting posters at this year’s NHS Scotland event. Our cardiology team was the overall winner of the ‘effective’ category for highlighting how the use of the heart failure bundle is saving lives. Dr… read more →
Community nursing staff who share a total of 461 years of service to the NHS received long service awards at a special ceremony held at Stirling Community Hospital. The annual award scheme, presented by the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNIS) is… read more →
Babies in the neonatal unit at Forth Valley Royal Hospital are benefitting from new infection control procedures which have gained international recognition. The new measures have resulted in no hospital-related blood borne infections (Staph Auerus bacteria or SABs for short)… read more →
NHS Forth Valley is the top Health Board in Scotland for vaccinating young girls against the human papilloma (HPV) virus which can cause cervical cancer. An uptake in excess of 94% for the first vaccine has made it the country’s… read more →