
ÍâÍøÌìÌà 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 nursing agenda. Details of the next AGM will be posted in the events section as soon as available.
Our branch and ÍâÍøÌìÌà Congress
All members can attend ÍâÍøÌìÌà 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 ÍâÍøÌìÌà 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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12 Mar 2025
Responding to raised concerns
ÍâÍøÌìÌà South East's Rian Gleave considers the most positive ways managers can respond to raised concerns.
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12 Mar 2025
Effective leadership
South East Council member Sally Bassett on how we can learn and develop into effective leaders.
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11 Mar 2025
ÍâÍøÌìÌà South East Council member - reflections on my first meeting
Sally Bassett, ÍâÍøÌìÌà South East Council member reflects on her first Council meeting of 2025.
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11 Mar 2025
South East Board update Spring 2025
An update on the first South East Board meeting of 2025.
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11 Mar 2025
Matron Florence Birkin: one nurse's untold history
The Royal Berkshire Medical Museum Reading, holds the archive of Wallingford and Crowmarsh Joint Isolation Hospital (WCJIH) from its inception in 1899 to 1948. The archive provides a valuable insight into what a nurse’s duties consisted of prior to the establishment of the NHS in 1948. This blog looks at the untold story of Matron Florence Birkin.
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10 Mar 2025
A day in the life of a Swan End of Life Care Facilitator
My name is Jules Lewis and I am a Swan End of Life Care Facilitator/Lead Nurse in an acute hospital in Shropshire.
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8 Mar 2025
Celebrating and protecting our international workforce
ÍâÍøÌìÌà General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger celebrates International Women’s Day 2025 and supporting internationally educated nursing staff.
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7 Mar 2025
NHS Overseas Workers Day: 'diversity is our strength'
Jennifer Caguioa, ÍâÍøÌìÌà London Council Member, marks NHS Overseas Workers Day by writing about the importance of international nursing staff.
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6 Mar 2025
The Role of an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Acute Pain
Watch our interview with Shailen Soobhug, Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Post-Anaesthesia Nursing.
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4 Mar 2025
Independent Health and Social Care in Yorkshire & The Humber: Spring update
Find out what's happending in the IHSC sector across Yorkshire & The Humber this spring.
Elections and appointments

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Page last updated - 29/07/2025