Branches

Local RCN representatives

When you need to talk to someone face to face, or when you want a mediator between yourself and your employer (for example), your local representative is the best person to contact. Even if they can't help you themselves, they will know someone in the RCN who can.

NHS employees

The RCN is active in its support for nursing in all the major NHS employment sites. Wherever you work, you can be sure that your local RCN branch can support you.

Nurses working in the independent sector

The RCN branch is often the first point of contact for nurses working in the independent sector. We are here to help you deliver the best care for your patients and clients, and to ensure that you are supported and guided on a personal level.

Branch funds

If you have any queries regarding branch funds then please contact:

  • Jenny Meehan on 0345 456 7832 if you are a branch in the South Central region (served by the Newbury regional office)
  • Fiona Soule on 0345 456 7249 if you are a branch in the South East Coast region (serviced by the Croydon regional office).

Which branch do I belong to?

Branches will be allocated by workplace address. This will be the address of your current work base. Members who are retired or not currently working will be allocated a branch according to their home address.

You can find out which primary care trust your workplace sits in (where appropriate) by entering your workplace postcode on the NHS Choices website.

Branches

Each branch is allocated a link officer who provides help and support to the branch:

  • each branch has an elected committee
  • branches are expected to meet formally twice a year. Constitutionally, one of these meetings must be an annual general meeting.

South East Coast SHA

Brighton and Hove branch executive

  • Chair: Kathy Doughty
  • Secretary: John Aylward
  • Treasurer: Bronwen Partridge.

East Sussex branch executive

  • Chair: Jan Humber
  • Secretary: Maurice Lawlor
  • Treasurer: Anthea Richardson.

Eastern and Coastal Kent branch executive

  • Chair: Karen Bisset 
  • Secretary: Mary Chigoma 
  • Treasurer: Ann Martin.

Medway branch executive

  • Chair: David Wilkinson
  • Secretary: Glyn Scott
  • Treasurer: Stephanie Stanford.

Surrey branch executive

  • Chair: Anna Burrows
  • Secretary: Meriel Flex
  • Treasurer: Malachy Ujam.

West Kent branch executive

  • Chair: Sue Symmons
  • Secretary: Diane Gambrell
  • Treasurer: Sarah Jones.

West Sussex branch executive

  • Chair: Zuben Montgomery
  • Secretary: Ngaire Cox
  • Treasurer: Chris McKrill.

South Central SHA

Berkshire West branch executive

  • Chair: Jennifer Newman
  • Secretary: Sue Adams
  • Treasurer: Stephen Abbley.

Broadmoor and Berkshire East branch executive

  • Chair: Evans Muswibe
  • Secretary: Marie O'Brien
  • Treasurer: Stella Zengwa.

Buckinghamshire branch executive

  • Chair: Trish Pullen
  • Secretary: Janet Petty
  • Treasurer: Ann Barber.

Hampshire branch executive

  • Chair: Kate Henning
  • Secretary: Jenny Redman
  • Treasurer: Lorna Evans.

Isle of Wight branch executive

  • Chair: Paul Green
  • Secretary: Joanne Ballington
  • Treasurer: Esther Toogood.

Milton Keynes branch executive

  • Chair: Jenny Sturtivant
  • Secretary: Andy Brogan (acting)
  • Treasurer: Christina Sosseh.

Oxfordshire branch executive

  • Chair: Paul Irving
  • Secretary: Debbie Pearman
  • Treasurer: Mary Morris.

Portsmouth branch executive

  • Chair: Susan Morris
  • Secretary: Bernadette Medcalf
  • Treasurer: Stuart Ho.

Southampton branch executive

  • Chair: Claire Higginson
  • Secretary: Linda Burgess
  • Treasurer: Valerie Davill.

Channel Islands

Jersey branch executive

  • Chair: Kenny McNeil
  • Secretary: Kathleen Hawksworth
  • Treasurer: Gloria Le Lievre.

Guernsey branch executive

  • Chair: Kenny Lloyd  
  • Secretary: Ron O'Rouke 
  • Treasurer: Patricia McDermott.

The branch is expected to run in accordance with the Standard Branch Constitution. A copy of this is available in standard RCN branch constitution.