The NHS Retirement Fellowship provides friendship, fellowship and fun to retired NHS and social care staff and their friends and families, along with access to a great range of discounts and benefits. Join us to make new friends, rediscover past friendships and socialise with like minded people in one of our many branches. Alternatively you could become a National member to be kept informed of our activities and to take advantage of the discounts and benefits, without attending branch meetings. For media enquiries, please contact Lucia Hiden, Head of Communications, on 07739 138 954 or email comms@nhsrf.org.uk
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The Government issued revised guidelines for meeting with others in England on 09.09.20. This may affect activities branches have been planning. Please click on the headline which will take you to the Gov.UK website for more information. Guidelines in Wales and Scotland differ, please see local guidance.
Following on from the changes introduced on Monday, we are currently looking carefully at the guidance and information provided to see if, and how we can support branches to hold meetings in Covid secure venues. As soon as we have some definitive answers, we will share them here, on the Facebook page and through direct communications with branch committees.
A number of free talks are being broadcast live especially for NHS RF members Around 450 of our members watched the last talk and thoroughly enjoyed it. Register at http://www.mirthy.co.uk/NHSRF If you have any problems registering, please contact Sally Bundock at london.eastanglia@nhsrf.org.uk Talks will be fortnightly during lockdown – here are details of the next […]
The online September edition of the NHS Retirement Fellowship Newsletter is now available Newsletter September 2020
The funeral of our patron Ethel Armstrong MBE, took place on 26th August 2020, in Lanchester, County Durham. In these strange times, only 30 people were allowed to attend the service but the Fellowship was well represented by Ken Jarrold, Margaret and Tony Moffat, Cynthia and Bruce Matthews, Pam and Keith Holroyd, John Rostill, Audrey […]
NHS Retirement Fellowship member, Isobel Tough, was featured in the national and local press in Scotland as part of the joint celebrations for the 70th Anniversary of the start of the NHS and the 40th Anniversary of the founding of the NHS Retirement Fellowship.
I walked into a crisis as soon as I joined the NHS in 1980 as head of public relations in the Oxford region.
"Playing with the fire hose is a sackable offence," my new boss says and points to a heavy-looking fabric snake coiled in a glass case on the wall.