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RCN Nottinghamshire Branch



If you're Â鶹ÊÓƵ member working in Nottinghamshire, you're automatically a member of our Nottinghamshire branch. Welcome to your nursing community.

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.

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Your branch team

  • Chair: Eleanor Garnett-Scheffel
  • Secretary: Vacant
  • Treasurer: Sophie McKay

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Our branch annual general meeting (AGM)

Every year, our branch holds its annual general meeting (AGM). We review our branch activity over the past twelve months, before mapping out what we want to achieve over the next year. It's also a chance to discuss with your fellow branch members the issues which are most important to you right now.

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

Branches play a key role in RCN Congress. Our members can submit debate topics for the annual conference, which are then discussed and voted on by the wider membership, influencing the RCN's future work.

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.

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Hear from members across our region



467 blog posts
  • Bejoy Sebastian Bejoy Sebastian 23 Jan 2026

    Raising our voice and fighting for change

    RCN President Bejoy Sebastian reflects on our continued pressure to end corridor care, the achievements of the RCN Institute in its first full year and looks ahead to 2026.

  • Professor Jane Ball Professor Jane Ball 23 Jan 2026

    One year on: how the Insititute of Nursing Excellence is powering change

    Director of the RCN Institute of Nursing Excellence, Professor Jane Ball, reflects on the Institute’s first year as a growing movement for excellence, influence and unity in nursing.

  • Ruth Oshikanlu Ruth Oshikanlu 22 Jan 2026

    Nursing skills: an untapped engine of entrepreneurship

    When do nursing skills become entrepreneurial strengths? RCN Fellow Ruth Oshikanlu MBE explains. 

  • Janet Hargreaves Janet Hargreaves 21 Jan 2026

    From the Archives: Are nursing textbooks useful or wise?

    This blog series will delve into the oldest of the RCN’s historical book collection, exploring the ways in which nursing was taught in the past. Herbert E Cuff’s 1896 ‘Lectures on Medicine to Nurses’ is one such example.

  • Sue Campbell Sue Campbell 21 Jan 2026

    Wikipedia as a platform for engagement: widening public knowledge of Scottish nurses

    In this blog Sue shares fascinating examples of some of the nurses she has ‘met’ through the ‘Nurses in Red’ project, with a focus on Scottish nurses. 

  • Samten Chodon Samten Chodon 19 Jan 2026

    Menopause A nurse’s lived experience

    Samten’s blog is a powerful account of her peri-menopause experience as a woman of colour, and as a nurse herself. 89% of nurses in the UK are female, so it is vital to continue to raise awareness around menopause.

  • Anne Crockett Anne Crockett 19 Jan 2026

    A partnership approach to grief literacy

    To mark National Grief Awareness Week, Queen's University Belfast united 11 bereavement organisations to equip nursing students with essential grief literacy - for supporting bereaved individuals and maintaining professional wellbeing. 

  • Kendal Andreason Kendal Andreason 14 Jan 2026

    Reflecting on Our Foundations: A Recent Review of the NRN Handbook

    As the Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Professional Lead for Acute and Emergency Care and Defence Nursing—and as the lead for our Early Career Nurses Network—I am pleased to share reflections following a recent review of our Newly Registered Nurses (NRN) Handbook, a resource that continues to play a central role in supporting nurses at the start of their professional journey.

  • Amanda Williams Amanda Williams 12 Jan 2026

    Reflecting on another remarkable year for the RCN Diabetes Forum: A Chair’s perspective

    In her first blog as official Chair of the RCN Diabetes Forum, Amanda Williams reflects on the work of the Diabetes Forum over 2025 highlighting what hard work and determination can do to champion the voice of nursing.

  • Dr Ruth Oshikanlu MBE FRCN, Dr Cecilia Anim CBE FRCN and Dr Lola Oni OBE FRCN Dr Ruth Oshikanlu MBE FRCN, Dr Cecilia Anim CBE FRCN and Dr Lola Oni OBE FRCN 12 Jan 2026

    The cost of courage and the call for cultural change at the RCN

    Dr Ruth Oshikanlu, Dr Cecilia Anim and Dr Lola Oni, members of the RCN Anti-Racism Subgroup, lay out the context of racism in nursing and what an anti-racist RCN would look like.

Elections and appointments

Get more involved by putting yourself forward as a candidate for Council, a board, a committee or a forum. You can also make your voice heard by voting in our current elections.
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Members can submit an agenda item for Council to discuss at one of their meetings. If your submission is accepted, you can present it to Council during the meeting, either remotely or in person.
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