About us
RCNi is the premier provider of innovative and creative information solutions for the whole nursing team and associated health professionals
We produce 11 journals, including Nursing Standard, to provide health professionals with the latest developments impacting nursing, including changes in policy, practice and research.
We also offer a range of digital products including RCNi Decision Support, designed to support decision making and standardise care across organisations, RCNi Learning, an interactive online resource of CPD training modules, and the RCNi Revalidation Portfolio, an online store and tracking system to help you with revalidation.
We celebrate exceptional care in the profession through the RCN Nursing Awards, and help to develop careers and enhance practice with events such as the popular Nursing and Careers Jobs Fair, and revalidation seminars.
Journals
Each of our journals provide authoritative coverage of their specialist fields, including peer-reviewed clinical content and continuing professional development (CPD) articles.
Find out how you can subscribe to an RCNi journal by clicking here, or register to read daily nurse news updates for free.
Quick links
Click the links below to access our individual titles or click here to discover more about our journals.
Editorial advisory board
Each journal has an editorial advisory board of clinical experts who help to guide the scope of our content. The RCNi editorial advisory board consists of the following members:
| Alison Dinning (Chair) |
International recruitment manager, Nursing Directorate, Midlands Region, NHS England and Improvement | Winnie George | Retention lead, National retention programme NHSEI, NHS England & Improvement |
| Sandra Aitcheson | Assistant director nursing adult services, Public Health Agency, Northern Ireland | Emma Hotston |
Nursing student, University Hospital, Southampton |
| Beverley Baker | Matron, Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham | Lorraine Hicking-Woodison | Healthcare support worker adviser, Kent and Medway GP practices |
| Joanne Bosanquet | Chief executive, Foundation of Nursing Studies | Paul Jebb | Associate director, nursing, experience & engagement, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust |
| Professor James Buchan | Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh | Professor Daniel Kelly | RCN chair of nursing research, Cardiff University |
| Professor Clare Cable | Chief executive and nurse director, Queen's Nursing Institute, Scotland | Group Captain Di Lamb | Defence professor of nursing, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine |
| Professor Dave Clarke |
Head of the Royal College of Nursing Prince of Wales Cadet Scheme, Cardiff; Visiting Pofessor: Cardiff University/University of Leicester |
Manyara Mushore | Course director, BSc mental health nursing; senior lecturer, London South Bank University |
| Natalie Elliott | Staff nurse, Glasgow Royal Infirmary | Yana Richens | Director of midwifery, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust |
| Professor Tonks Fawcett | Professor of student learning (nurse education), University of Edinburgh |
Products and services
We are continuously improving and adding to our range of digital products to help guide you through your studies and continuing professional development (CPD), to develop your career, and to help you to deliver outstanding patient care.
We aim to inform and inspire nurses at every step of their career. With over thirty years at the forefront of nurse education, and as part of the Royal College of Nursing Group, we are a trusted provider of expert nursing information.
Click here to find out more about how our products and services can enhance your practice.
Events
We hold many popular events throughout the year, including the RCN Nursing Awards, the UK’s biggest ceremony for celebrating innovative practice and exceptional patient care in the nursing profession.
Picture: Barney Newman
We also organise the Nursing and Careers Jobs Fair, the largest nursing recruitment event in the UK. Our jobs fairs are held across the country and provide nurses with the opportunity to meet employers face to face, and to attend free seminars that offer insight into everything from revalidation and preceptorship, to improving interview skills.
The Nursing and Careers Jobs Fair is free to attend, simply register on the website.
Click here to view our calendar of upcoming events, or click here to discover more about the RCN Nursing Awards.
Our organisation
Founded in 1987 and formerly known as RCN Publishing, RCNi is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal College of Nursing.
The RCN's Royal Charter, standing orders, regulations, policies and processes ensure good governance of the organisation. Click here to read more about these governance documents.
Board of Directors
Executive directors
- Rachel Armitage (Managing Director)
- Gary Bell (Editorial Director)
- Phil Smithers (Sales and Marketing Director)
Non-executive directors
Tim Brooks
Chair
Tim Brooks has led many famous and diverse media brands, ranging from Health Service Journal to the Guardian; and from New Musical Express to the BMJ. He is chair of the Advisory Council of the British Library, and of Public Digital, a digital transformation consultancy. He is also a director of Sedex, a global ethical trading organisation, and an adviser to Pharmaceutical Press, publishers of the British National Formulary.
Sophie Wybrew-Bond
Non-executive director and adviser on audience engagement and digital skills
Sophie Wybrew-Bond has 25 years' experience in media and information services (B2C and B2B) starting out as a marketer, then progressing from publisher through to managing director at Bauer Media's Entertainment portfolio. Most recently Sophie has been head of brand (creative & content) for Marks and Spencer, where she developed a publishing/content operation and oversaw every visual and written expression of M&S (from shop windows to advertising).
Dr Caroline Shuldham OBE
Non-executive director
Caroline joined the board of RCNi in November 2019. She is a registered nurse with a background in critical care and cardiac nursing, and chaired the RCNi editorial advisory board in 2015-2019.
Caroline is an independent consultant with experience in clinical governance, management, research and teaching. Among her roles, she is non-executive director at community care provider CSH Surrey and also chairs its quality and safety governance committee. Caroline is also an adviser on care matters to the trustees of a charity providing independent living accommodation and a care home for older residents. Previously she was executive director of nursing and clinical governance at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.
In all her roles, Caroline has a strong commitment to the well-being and safety of patients.
Susan Sinclair
Non-executive director
Susan joined the board of RCNi in May 2020. She is a registered nurse with a background in Haemato-Oncology, who undertook her return to Practice in 2012. In 2018 she completed an MBA.
Susan has held Board level roles in the acute sector, where she was the Director of Strategy at West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, in Primary Care and where she was the CEO of AT Medics, an at scale provider of NHS Primary Care services. She has recently commenced as Managing Director of the RM Partners Cancer Alliance.
Her nursing and care interests are focused around integrating care, oncology and end of life care and training and development of the nursing workforce.