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13 blog posts
  • Carmel O'Boyle Carmel O'Boyle 10 Apr 2023

    Respect is a two-way street

    NW Regional Board Chair, Carmel O'Boyle, on the importance of treating each other with respect. 

  • Estephanie Dunn Estephanie Dunn 6 Apr 2023

    Navigating unchartered territory

    NW Regional Director Estephanie Dunn's thoughts on the response to the pay consultation. 

  • Bernadette Miller Bernadette Miller 5 Apr 2023

    Introducing your new NW rep on the RCN Stewards Committee

    My name is Bernie Miller and I took up the post of North West representative on the RCN Stewards’ Committee earlier this year.

  • Melissa Stanton Melissa Stanton 22 Feb 2023

    Introducing our new Lead Nurse for Independent Health and Social Care in the North West

    Melissa Stanton describes her journey through nursing to her new role representing our independent sector members in the North West. 

  • Estephanie Dunn Estephanie Dunn 23 Dec 2022

    A Momentous Year

    RCN North West Regional Director reflects on another challenging year for the profession. 

  • Carmel O'Boyle Carmel O'Boyle 25 Oct 2022

    Enough is enough

    Regional Board Chair Carmel O'Boyle says enough is enough. Patient care is suffering because our members are suffering! 

  • Estephanie Dunn Estephanie Dunn 20 Oct 2022

    The time to stand up and be counted is now.

    Estephanie Dunn, Regional Director of RCN North West, on the importance of using your vote. 

  • Estephanie Dunn Estephanie Dunn 23 Jun 2020

    A new dawn

    This newsletter coincides with 100 days since WHO declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic. When we issued our last newsletter in March, coronavirus was not part of our daily lives but was simmering away in the background.

  • Dave Dawes Dave Dawes 22 Jun 2020

    A time of sacrifice but great pride

    I grow increasingly proud of the regions’ nursing family in how you continue to tackle and respond to the ongoing pandemic. Each sector has had its challenges and I’m acutely aware of how much lobbying the RCN has been doing on your behalf to improve the situation around PPE, the Immigration Health Surcharge and for appropriate working rights for agency workers, students and those in private settings such as care homes.

  • Dave Dawes Dave Dawes 7 May 2020

    A Jack of many trades and a master of them all.

    It is 40 years since Mike Travis began his career as a nurse. In an age when the job for life is a distant memory for the majority of the nation’s workforce, to achieve 40 years with a single employer would be an achievement worthy of comment. To do so whilst simultaneously fulfilling the many demands of a supplementary position is truly remarkable.