RCN Nottinghamshire Branch
Our branch includes members working at NHS, independent, higher education and care home employers, as well as students.
Getting involved in our branch means more than attending meetings. Whether you’re organising for better conditions, supporting a colleague or pushing for systemic change, your involvement helps turn shared concerns into collective action.
Contact us
- 0345 772 6100
- Email: eastmidlands.region@rcn.org.uk
Your branch team
- Chair: Eleanor Garnett-Scheffel
- Secretary: Vacant
- Treasurer: Sophie McKay
All branch events
Our branch annual general meeting (AGM)
This is your chance to help set the nursing agenda. Details of the next AGM will be posted in the events section as soon as available.
Our branch and RCN Congress
All members can attend RCN Congress for free. There are also fully funded voting places for members, where travel, accommodation and food are provided. Voting members are there to listen, participate and vote on resolutions that are proposed by RCN branches, forums and committees across the UK.
Applications for funded voting places at Congress 2026 are open until 7 December 2025. To find out more, including how to apply, explore our Congress webpages.
Hear from members across our region
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20 Mar 2026
COVID-19 Inquiry: Nursing will never forget
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger reflects on the findings of Module 3 of the COVID-19 Inquiry and the lasting impact on our profession.
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20 Mar 2026
Overtime, Bank Shifts and Next Steps at East Cheshire Trust
An update on the position from Regional Officer, Paul O'Keefe.
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20 Mar 2026
Turning your lived experiences into data, into evidence, into action
Director of the RCN Institute of Nursing Excellence, Professor Jane Ball encourages students, nurses and health care support workers to tell us what their last shift was like to help us grow the evidence bank needed for change.
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20 Mar 2026
Voices for safety: A movement only nursing can lead
RCN Deputy President Professor Alison Leary on why every shift and every story helps build the evidence that will reshape the future of nursing.
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18 Mar 2026
Rising from the fire: How Myanmar’s Nursing Students Reached Graduation Against the Odds
Marcus Wootton, Associate Director of the RCN International Nursing Academy, recounts yesterday’s extraordinary graduation ceremony of student nurses in Myanmar who have, against all odds, completed their nursing degrees while Myanmar’s civil war continues. The programme, which the RCN has supported, is the first of its kind worldwide to provide a viable pathway to a new, high quality nursing workforce in a conflict zone.
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18 Mar 2026
Walking my Mum home: reflections on care, loss, and a new chapter
The last week of my Mum’s life was both the hardest and the most profound experience I’ve ever lived through. It was a week where time slowed, where every breath mattered, and where the boundaries between being a daughter and being a nurse blurred into something deeply human. I had always known that the fundamental skills I learned during my training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and beyond would shape my career, but I never imagined how much they would shape this final chapter with her.
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17 Mar 2026
Navigating organisational change in staff-side roles within an ICB
Organisational change is a constant in the NHS, and while it can bring important opportunities for reflection, collaboration, and growth, it also creates uncertainty for the humans involved.
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16 Mar 2026
Where science meets compassion: the power of Clinical Nurse Specialists in cancer care
This National Cancer CNS Day, Gynaecological Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Anouska Kuta reflects on how CNS connect science, compassion and leadership in modern cancer care.
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13 Mar 2026
Hot off the press: Updated NICE NG28 Guidelines for Type 2 Diabetes
Great news for everyone supporting people living with type 2 diabetes — the updated NICE NG28 guidelines landed in February, following the previous review in 2022, and they bring some genuinely positive changes.
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13 Mar 2026
World Kidney Day: caring for people, protecting the planet
To mark World Kidney Day which took place this week, Linda Nazarko reflects on early detection and the risks of chronic kidney disease.
Elections and appointments
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Page last updated - 16/01/2026