Advance Care Planning, Future Care Planning

Advance Care Planning (ACP) is essential to living well, yet too often it’s left until it’s too late. This session brings together leading voices in palliative care to explore how we can shift from reactive to proactive care by embedding future care planning into everyday practice.

Attending an inquest to give evidence

Practical advice for RCN members who have been asked to give evidence at an Coroner's inquest.

Cornwall Branch AGM talks on finance, assisted dying and resilience-based clinical supervision

This is a chance not only to increase your knowledge on an eclectic range of topics but also to support your local RCN activists by attending your branch AGM in person. Influence your branch's future - elect or join your branch executive team for next year, and ratify your local RCN reps.

UK Representative Committees elections

Information on the election of members to seats on the RCN UK Representative Committees. Access the election procedure and the online nomination form.

Annual General Meeting 2025: Questions and responses

This document includes questions asked at the Royal College of Nursing’s 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM), as well as responses provided at the meeting, together with supplementary information where helpful. It also includes responses to questions which were received before, during, and after the AGM, and which were not answered at the meeting itself. Questions are grouped by topic.

Supporting patients through secondary infertility: Causes, guidance & emotional impact

Secondary infertility can be a deeply distressing and often misunderstood journey for patients who struggle to conceive after a previous pregnancy. This webinar equips fertility nurses with essential knowledge on the causes of secondary infertility, the latest approaches to guiding patients through investigations and treatment options, and the emotional toll it can take. Through expert insights and practical strategies from Freda Cuffe, attendees will gain confidence in supporting and empowering patients facing this difficult fertility challenge.

Your continued professional development

Report on the Forums and Networks Review Recommendations

In 2021, a review of RCN forums and networks was undertaken to explore and recommend specific actions required to improve the support available to forums and raise their profile in the organisation. The report that followed included 15 recommendations, which were accepted by RCN Council in May 2022. Each recommendation was considered at length and a plan of work agreed in collaboration with members of the forums. This report provides a summary of the actions taken to implement and conclude the delivery of those recommendations.

Greater Liverpool and Knowsley Branch Meeting

The September meeting for local members.

RCN Council

The governing body of the Royal College of Nursing