Outpatient Services

• Minor Injuries Unit - which provides treatment for a wide range of common injuries such as sprains, cuts, burns and suspected broken bones (open 9am - 9pm)
• GP out-of-hours services
• X-ray and ultrasound
• Dermatology
• Audiology
• Rehabilitation Services (including appliance and orthotics, speech and language therapy and wheelchair clinics)
• Women's health - including obstetrics scanning and booking, and gynaecology
• Children and Young People's Services (including medical clinics, therapy services and mental health services)
• Physiotherapy
• Speech and language Therapy
• Dietetics
• Sexual health clinics
• Diabetes Services (including Diabetic Retinal Screening)
• Outreach clinics from Forth Valley Royal Hospital (including rheumatology, neurology, endocrinology and specialist nurse clinics)

Inpatient Services

Inpatient services are due to transfer from Bannockburn Hospital to Stirling Community Hospital in May 2012, as planned. This will ensure that many people who require palliative, continuing care and rehabilitation can continue to be cared for closer to home.

Accommodation

As part of an organisational wide savings programme, there are plans to maximise the use of existing accommodation and facilities across Forth Valley, including those on the Falkirk and Stirling Community Hospital sites.

As a result, although a wide range of health services which will continue to be delivered locally in Falkirk and Stirling, these will be delivered from existing buildings and accommodation on the Stirling and Falkirk Community Hospital sites on an interim basis.

Following a detailed review of accommodation to identify which facilities will be required to best meet the future needs of patients and staff, a number of buildings on the Stirling Community Hospital site will be demolished, including the former mortuary, laboratory block, theatre block and The Queen Elizabeth Wing. This work is already underway and demolition of The Queen Elizabeth Wing is due to start in February 2012.

Discussions are also underway with Stirling Council to explore the potential to create a 'care village' on the Stirling Community Hospital site which could lead to the creation of new care homes and sheltered housing.