Ministers have placed the region’s beleaguered health board under direct oversight amid leadership concerns - with one MSP claiming existing management are in the “last chance saloon”.
NHS Forth Valley was placed on Stage 4 of the National Performance Framework for Governance, Leadership and Culture following concerns that the health board’s leadership have failed to make improvements in a “number of key areas”.
It follows consistent poor performances in areas such as accident and emergency waiting times and long delays for desperate young people waiting to receive vital mental health support from CAMHS - the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.
