PiC sponsors the RCN student bus

Released 02/11/2009

To date we have had 2,205 student nurses and HCW’s visiting the bus, including 453 so far this week in London and the South East.

The official launch of the bus was on the 10 November and during that week we went to Canterbury Christchurch University, seeing more than 200 students.

From Tuesday 1 December the bus is at The University of Southampton in Southampton and then Buckinghamshire new University, and then to The Dene on the 3rd December where selected members of staff will give brief seminars to students based on patient and treatment types specific to the South East Service. 

The bus will finish the first leg of its tour on the 11th December 2009 at The Conquest Hospital on the South Coast. By this time the bus driver will have deserved some time off and Christmas cheer.

The bus will start touring the country again on 11th January 2010, with visits to:

Calverton Hill – 2nd February 2010
Oktree Manor – 17th February 2010
St Johns House – 18th February 2010

The RCN student bus attracted 2,468 visitors in the first part of the tour. Initially it was thought that around 1000 students would visit the bus, so this is a fantastic outcome.

We will have access to a data base of all students who have visited the bus and completed an evaluation form designed to give feedback on the bus, and opportunities on offer.

For further information, please contact:

Lorna Hamblin, Corporate Communications Manager, Partnerships in Care

lhamblin@partnershipsincare.co.uk, 020 8327 1818

Jae Jones, Recruitment Manager, Partnerships in Care

(jeanette.jones@partnershipsincare.co.uk)

Or contact the RCN Media Office on 020 7647 3633, press.office@rcn.org.uk, or visit http://www.rcn.org.uk/newsevents/media