News

8 Jul 2022

Fuel costs driving health care staff out of caring roles

Nursing staff in Northumbria are being asked to effectively subsidise patient care as their employer fails to pay national rates for mileage.

6 Jun 2022

Durham nurse receives prestigious award

Janet Mortimer, a clinical nurse specialist at Darlington Memorial Hospital, has received the Royal College of Nursing’s prestigious Steward of the Year award.

1 Jun 2022

Nominations open for the RCN Northern and Yorkshire and the Humber Black History Month Awards

RCN Northern and Yorkshire and the Humber regions are proud to announce our Black History Month (BHM) Awards as part of our 2022 celebrations.

31 Jan 2022

New Regional Director in the RCN Northern and Yorkshire and the Humber regions

Sarah Dodsworth has taken up post this week as the new regional director for the Royal College of Nursing’s Northern and Yorkshire and the Humber regions.

25 Jan 2022

Unsustainable pressures: a long time in the making

RCN Northern Board Vice-Chair Janet Mortimer has written to regional newspapers about the pressures nursing staff are currently experiencing.

10 Jan 2022

Goodbye to Ella Cullen

It is with great sadness that the Cumbria Branch announced that its long-serving and much-loved President, Ellen Cullen, affectionately known as Ella, died on 3 January 2022 aged 89.

13 Sep 2021