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Pat Cullen (born 1965) is a Northern Irish nurse and trade unionist. Since July 2021, she has been General secretary of the Royal College of Nursing.


Cullen

Cullen was born in
Carrickmore Carrickmore () is a village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Omagh East, the civil parish of Termonmaguirk and the Roman Catholic Parish of Termonmaguirc between Cookstown, Dungannon and Omagh. It ha ...
,
County Tyrone County Tyrone (; ) is one of the six Counties of Northern Ireland, counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional Counties of Ireland, counties of Ireland. It is no longer used as an admini ...
and was youngest of seven children.


Career

Cullen worked as a community nurse in West Belfast during
the Troubles The Troubles ( ga, Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it is sometimes described as an "i ...
. Cullen went on to hold roles at the Public Health Agency and the
Health and Social Care Board The Health and Social Care Board is an organisation responsible for the commissioning of health services for the people of Northern Ireland. Its current chief executive is Ms. Valerie Watts. Creation The Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Nor ...
, before joining the Royal College of Nursing in 2016. In May 2019, she became director of the Northern Irish branch of the RCN. She started acting as General Secretary & Chief Executive in April 2021, and was appointed as interim General Secretary and Chief Executive of the national RCN in July 2021. In late 2022, she led the National Health Service strikes in which English and Welsh nurses striked for the first time in the nursing union's 106-year history.


References

1965 births Living people People from County Tyrone Royal College of Nursing 21st-century women from Northern Ireland British trade union leaders {{DEFAULTSORT:Cullen, Pat Women trade union leaders Trade unionists from Northern Ireland British nurses