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NHS Professionals supplies clinical and non-clinical temporary staff to the NHS and provides workforce services to health and care organisations. It operates a membership base of healthcare professionals (known as 'Bank Members') who work flexible shifts and longer-term placements at more than 130 acute and community NHS Trusts and other health and care organisations across the UK and the ...
NHS Forth Valley is one of 14 regional health boards [4] and serves a population of around 300,000 in a diverse geographical area which covers the heart of Scotland. The Health Board controls an annual budget of £570 million, and employs around 8000 staff.
After many of the services were transferred to the Forth Valley Royal Hospital, the Falkirk Royal Infirmary was downgraded to the status of community hospital in 2010. [2] The minor injury unit, which treated emergency cases of a non life-threatening nature, closed in July 2011. [3]
Approximately 160,000 staff work across 14 regional NHS Boards, seven Special NHS Boards and one public health body, [10] More than 12,000 of these healthcare staff are engaged under independent contractor arrangements. Descriptions of staff numbers can be expressed as headcount and by Whole-Time Equivalent (WTE) which is an estimate that helps ...
After many of the services transferred to the Forth Valley Royal Hospital in 2010, [2] the Stirling Royal Infirmary was downgraded to the status of a community hospital. [1] The site has since been redeveloped as the Stirling Health and Care Village. [3] [4]
A pilot of the ReSPECT process in NHS Forth Valley conducted in 2017–19, found that it led to multiple improvements. Patients and carers felt more involved in decision-making and rated the process positively (80% rating their experience as excellent and 20% as good), and staff were better able to access the information to inform decision ...
The hospital used to house the headquarters and western call-centre for NHS 24, the telephone helpline until the lease was terminated and NHS 24 moved to Aurora House in Clydebank. [ 9 ] On 13 April 2022, after the hospital was awarded university status by the University of Strathclyde, the hospital was renamed the Golden Jubilee University ...
Across NHS Scotland, much of the learning that staff undertake is completed in the workplace. [5] It maintains the Knowledge Network, a digital library service that allows NHS staff to search for and share information. [6] The Knowledge Network also contains educational resources and was a further development of the NHS Scotland e-Library.