The West Midlands Regional Board

About the board

The Regional Board is the democratically-elected governing body of the RCN in the West Midlands.

The Board works with the Regional Director to set the RCN's regional strategic objectives and priorities, helps to advance and influence policy, and represents the interests of and influences on behalf of West Midlands members.

It also advances the RCN's aims and objectives, namely to:

  • promote the art and science of nursing and the better education and training of nurses and their efficiency in the profession of nursing
  • promote the advancement of nursing as a profession in all or any of its branches
  • promote the professional standing and interests of members of the nursing profession
  • assist nurses who, by reason of adversity, ill health or otherwise are in need of assistance of some nature
     

West Midlands Regional Board members

  • Sue Fern - Board Chair and RCN Council Member
  • Sue Warner - RCN Council Member
  • Chris Barber - Birmingham East & North and Solihull branch
  • Linda Pascall - Birmingham West and Sandwell branch
  • Lisa Evans-Dimmock - Black Country branch
  • Merry Pearcey - Worcestershire branch
  • Constance Johnson - Coventry and Warwickshire branch
  • Simon Cadman - North Staffordshire branch
  • Colin Burgess - North Staffordshire branch
  • Tracey Budding - South Birmingham branch
  • Juliana Benjamin - South Birmingham branch
  • John Kelsall - South Staffordshire branch
  • Mitzi Wilson - UK Safety Representatives' Committee
  • Pauline Pearsall - UK Learning Representatives' Committee


In order to help keep members and activists up to date on the strategic work of both the Board and the region, each branch representative will act as a Board link member, disseminating information to their branch and feeding back news and views from branch members to the Board.

Because no-one from the Herefordshire and Shropshire branches stood for election, Juliana Benjamin and Colin Burgess were elected to the Regional Board as they had received the highest number of votes from branches that had already had their places on the Board filled.

As a result, they will act as Board link members to the following branches:

  • Juliana Benjamin - Herefordshire branch link
  • Colin Burgess - Shropshire branch link