
Tees valley
If you're an RCN member working in Tees Valley, you're automatically a member of our Tees Valley branch. Welcome to your nursing community.
Our branch includes members at major acute NHS trusts covering Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust. It also includes members at NHS mental health and community trusts, independent sector providers and care homes.
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
- northern.region@rcn.org.uk
- 0191 511 5801
Your branch team
- President: Gordon Lees
- Chair: Roaqah Shaher
- Secretary: Lovemore Mahachi
- Treasurer: Kate Ollis
- Executive member: Andrea Walters
- Executive member: Anne Marie Cowens
All branch events
Our branch annual general meeting (AGM)
Every year, our branch holds its AGM, where we:
- review our branch activity over the past twelve months
- map out what we want to achieve over the next year
- elect the branch committee for the coming year
- discuss with your fellow branch members the issues which are most important to you right now
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 RCN Congress
All members can attend RCN 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 RCN 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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18 Jun 2025
The campaign continues at the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Staff and patients alike find onsite parking at the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust not only frustrating but it also adds significant stress and unnecessary worry to their day.
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3 Mar 2025
Help fight for fair parking at South Tees
Staff at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are concerned about the trust’s recent decision to implement a new car parking system from this summer, changing providers to ParkingEye, removing barriers from car parks and installing an automatic numberplate recognition (ANPR) system.
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18 Feb 2025
Independent sector update: What’s coming up and how you can stay engaged
Leanne Hume, Lead Nurse - Independent Health and Social Care (Northern Region), shares what’s coming up and how you can stay engaged.
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2 Dec 2024
Seasons Greetings!
Sarah Dodsworth, Regional Director for Northern and Yorkshire & the Humber reflects on 2024 and the year ahead.
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5 Nov 2024
Autumn budget will not fix the nursing workforce crisis
The chancellor's autumn budget will not fix the nursing crisis, says Yorkshire and the Humber's Regional Director Sarah Dodsworth
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21 Oct 2024
A recap of our regional Independent Health and Social Care Conference
Leanne Hume and Michelle Raddings, our Lead Nurses for Independent Health and Social Care (IHSC) in the Northern and Yorkshire and the Humber regions respectively, discuss the recent success of a joint regional IHSC conference.
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1 May 2024
Meet your new RCN Students Committee member
I am Faith Aidamoisa, new representative member for the Northern region on the RCN’s Students Committee.
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19 Jan 2024
Bringing me joy
Although I’m counting down the days until I retire, I have to say as I look back over my career, there are some achievements I’m really proud of.
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19 Jan 2024
The new year has started with some good news
Firstly, Happy New Year! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and managed to get some much-needed rest and recuperation.
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18 Sep 2023
Pushing for a cultural shift
I’ve always been an RCN member, but it’s only as a staff member that I’ve realised the true extent of what we do for our members.
Elections and appointments

Put forward an agenda item for Council

Page last updated - 16/07/2025