Greater Manchester Branch

Welcome

Welcome to the Greater Manchester branch of the RCN. The branch is made up of members from Bury, Bolton, Rochdale, Tameside, Oldham, Glossop, Heywood and Middleton. 

Details of workplaces within the branch are shown below.

Branch Executive

Regional Office Support

Workplaces covered by the Branch

  • Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (PAT)
  • Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
  • NHS Direct
  • Greater Manchester Ambulance Service
  • NHS Bolton
  • NHS Bury
  • NHS Oldham
  • NHS Tameside and Glossop
  • Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT
  • Buckley Hall Prison
  • University of Bolton
  • BMI Beaumont Hospital, Bolton
  • BMI Highfield Hospital, Rochdale
  • All independent sector employers, GP surgeries and nursing homes within this geographical patch.

Regional Board

Each branch has a member of the regional Board who links in to keep the branch informed about Board activity, and to provide an effective route in order for the branch to feed information back. The regional Board link for Greater Manchester is Hamish Kemp and he can be contacted by email at hamish.kemp@manchester.gov.uk

Branch meetings and events

  • Branch meeting - 8 April 2013, 6.30-8pm; St Ann's Hospice, Peel Lane, Little Hulton, Worsley, Manchester M28 0FE.
  • Branch meeting - 3 July 2013, 6.30-8pm; Horton House, Southlink, Oldham
  • Annual General Meeting (AGM) - 16 October 2013, 6.30-8pm; St Ann's Hospice, Peel Lane, Little Hulton, Worsley, Manchester M28 0FE

Workplace surgeries: Come and meet your RCN full-time officer

Do you have any local workplace issues or concerns, want to find out more about the services the RCN offers, or would like to make a difference by getting more active with the RCN?  Then come along and meet your local RCN office at one of the workplace surgeries taking place across the Greater Manchester patch.  For more information or details, please contact Patch Administrators: Sam Kay and Michelle Warburton (job share), email: samantha.kay@rcn.org.uk or michelle.warburton@rcn.org.uk.
Tel: 01204 552452.

Branch minutes

Greater Manchester Branch held their last branch meeting on Wednesday 18 January at the Bolton office and the branch minutes (Word 23KB) are available for branch members to view.