Grampian & Orkney

We champion local issues for RCN members working in Grampian & Orkney. Get involved with the branch today and help our work. RCN Grampian and Orkney Branches were officially merged at an AGM in September 2019. The merger was designed to ensure the RCN could continue to best serve the needs of RCN members in both areas.

Your branch team

Chair: Jane Gibson
Treasurer: Dawn Marr
Secretary: Jackie Leith

Get in touch

Call: 0345 772 6100
Email: Scotland.Office@rcn.org.uk

21 Mar 2024
Impact of the pandemic on nursing staff shared with the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry

Senior RCN Scotland staff have told the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry that nursing staff carried the heavy burden of the COVID-19 pandemic as they worked in hospitals, care homes, general practice, the community and beyond.
18 Mar 2024
Ambitious and funded actions required from the Nursing and Midwifery Taskforce

RCN Scotland has pressed the new Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care to ensure the Nursing and Midwifery Taskforce recommendations reflect our priorities for action.
15 Mar 2024
RCN Scotland calls for better support and compensation for nursing staff who remain impacted by long COVID

Ahead of a Holyrood debate this week to mark International long COVID awareness day, we briefed MSPs on the devastating impact of long COVID and are calling for nursing staff who contracted COVID at work, and whose lives are still affected, to be better supported.
1 Mar 2024
Agenda for Change review’s recommendations to be fully implemented

Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care Neil Gray MSP gave the green light for implementation to begin from 1 April in a letter to the joint health trade unions and NHS employers.
22 Feb 2024
RCN Scotland responds to Auditor General’s NHS in Scotland report

This year’s version of the annual report states that the NHS is ‘unable to meet the growing demand for health services’.
15 Feb 2024
UCAS figures showing applicants to nursing courses in Scotland down by 8.3%

There are still several months left in this year’s application cycle, but these figures are a worrying snapshot following on from the fall in acceptances onto undergraduate nursing courses at Scottish universities in 2023 by 11% compared to the year before.
7 Feb 2024
RCN Scotland sounds warning over cost of living impact

Scotland’s nursing staff are continuing to struggle to make ends meet during the ongoing cost of living crisis.
16 Jan 2024
Less than a week left to nominate your winner

Entries for Scotland’s Nurse of the Year Awards close in five days time (22 January). With 13 categories to nominate in and the title of RCN Scotland Nurse of the Year 2024 up for grabs, do you know someone who deserves to be recognised and celebrated for their nursing contribution?
21 Dec 2023
COVID JN.1 variant: RCN seeks assurance on new PPE advice

We’ve contacted chief nursing officers in all 4 UK countries and the UKHSA to find out what action will be taken in response to WHO’s statement on a new COVID-19 variant of interest.
19 Dec 2023
RCN Scotland calls Scottish government budget statement a 'missed opportunity'

Today's (19 December) Scottish government budget statement is light on detail and leaves nursing staff no wiser about the government's commitment to the Agenda for Change review.