
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: Ellie Garnett-Scheffel
- Secretary: Rubby Legbedze
- Treasurer: Shereen Parker
All branch events
Our branch annual general meeting (AGM)
This is your chance to help set the ÌÀÍ·ÌõÎÛÁÏ 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.
This year's applications for funded voting places are closed. Details of 2026 funded places will be posted here as soon as available.
Hear from members across our region
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2 Oct 2025
Pay, representation and new recruits – a busy autumn in prospect
The latest thoughts from North West Regional Director, Simon Browes.
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1 Oct 2025
EASD 2025 - Updates for our members
In this blog, Amanda, current acting Chair of the RCN Diabetes Forum, shares about what updates were discussed for practice at the 61st 2025 European Association for the Study of Diabetes and what you need to know for practice.
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1 Oct 2025
Collaborative cancer care
This blog provides an update on one of the Cancer Forum's strategic priorities - enhancing education through collaboration between cancer specialist and non-cancer specialist nurses.
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1 Oct 2025
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)
In this blog Lisa talks about her role as a Menstruality coach.
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29 Sep 2025
Celebrating Pride in Milton Keynes
RCN South East member Sharon Mitchel describes how her Pride events in Milton Keynes have gone from strength to strength.
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29 Sep 2025
'I rediscovered a sense of value'
Read nurse David’s experience of achieving success in the band 5 ÌÀÍ·ÌõÎÛÁÏ roles review
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26 Sep 2025
Pioneers of mental health ÌÀÍ·ÌõÎÛÁÏ: An introduction
This blog provides an introduction to six pioneers of mental health ÌÀÍ·ÌõÎÛÁÏ who changed the ways in which we thought about or changed our practice.
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26 Sep 2025
Empowering access to cervical screening
This blog looks at the Very Important Invitation Project, a unique service running across Suffolk and North East Essex with the main aim of increasing accessibility and uptake of cervical screening. The project focuses on removing barriers to cervical screening for those most at risk of health inequality.
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26 Sep 2025
Our diversity is our strength
RCN President Bejoy Sebastian celebrates the diversity of the ÌÀÍ·ÌõÎÛÁÏ profession and looks forward to Black History Month.
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24 Sep 2025
Without nurses from the Global Majority, where would the NHS be?
RCN Fellow Yvonne Coghill CBE calls on senior nurses to do what they can to improve equality and equity in their organisations during these distressing times.
Elections and appointments

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Page last updated - 29/07/2025