Cheshire East branch
Welcome
Welcome to the Cheshire East branch of the RCN. The branch executive comprises of Jean Rogers, Anne Doggart and Rosemary Wheeler and contact details are shown below.
There are lots of experienced representatives covering health and safety and learning, and representatives covering a wide area of specialties such as mental health, oncology, surgery, ITU and community. With such a wide knowledge base and areas of expertise, there is always good peer support from the branch for new and old representatives alike in all areas of work.
The branch is forward thinking and is always looking for new ideas and ways of working and promoting the branch. We are always looking for new representatives with a passion for nursing and supporting nurses in a variety of areas.
We welcome all the family of health care, including health care assistants, assistant practitioners and local authority staff.
Branch executive
- Chair: Jean Rogers
Email: jean.rogers@stockport.nhs.uk - Secretary: Anne Doggart
Email: anne.doggart@nhs.net - Treasurer: Rosemary Wheeler
Email: rosemary.wheeler@nhsstockport.nhs.uk
Regional office support
- Regional RCN Officer: Mary-Anne Parkinson
- Assistant RCN Officer: Tony Millea
- Patch Administrator: Louise Wilkinson
Email: louise.wilkinson@rcn.org.uk
Tel: 01204 552449.
Workplaces covered by the branch
- Cheshire East Community Health
- NHS Stockport
- Cheshire and Wirral Parnership NHS Foundation Trust
- East Cheshire NHS Trust
- Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust
- North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT
- Community Health Stockport
- St Ann's Hospice
- Styal Prison
- Priory
- BMI
- Independent sector.
North West Regional Board link
Each branch has a member of the regional board who links with them to keep them informed about board activities and provides an effective route to enable the branch to feed information back. The board link for the Cheshire East branch is Jean Rogers and she can be contacted by email: jean.rogers@stockport.nhs.uk .
Branch meetings
- Branch meeting - Tuesday, 12 June 2012 from 4.30pm to 6.30pm
Room F17 Pinewood Education Centre, Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport. - Branch event with Andrea Spyropolous, RCN President - Thursday, 12 July 2012 from 6pm to 8pm
Room F17 Pinewood Education Centre, Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport. - Branch meeting/Congress planning - Tuesday, 4 September 2012 from 4.30pm to 6.30pm
Room F17 Pinewood Education Centre, Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport. - Annual General Meeting/Branch meeting - Thursday 11 October 2012 from 4.30pm to 6.30pm
Room F17 Pinewood Education Centre, Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport.
Branch events
- Learning and development events with Mary-Anne Parkinson, RCN Officer
Tuesday, 10 July 2012 from 9.30am to 1pm - capability and performance
Thursday, 4 October 2012 from 9am to 1pm - griefances/dignity at work
All will take place at the Learning and Development Centre, Sycamore House, Lloyd Drive, Cheshire Oaks Business Park, Ellesmere Port
If you would like to attend contact Mary-Anne Parkinson to confirm by phone: 01204 552430 or email: mary-anne.parkinson@rcn.org.uk to ensure enough resources are available on the day. - Recruitment events with Tony Millea, Assistant RCN Officer
Thursday, 24 May from 9.30am to 12.30pm
Thursday, 19 July, Thursday, 20 September and Thursday, 22 November from 12.30pm to 3.30pm
Outside the canteen at Leighton Hospital
If you have any queries/issues you would like to discuss, or want to know more about joining the RCN or becoming an activist, then come along and see what the RCN has to offer.

