A Warm Liverpool Welcome For Nursing Live
Liverpool nurses, local nursing leaders, and other Liverpool influencers, have this week warmly welcomed the news that the city has been selected to host the UK’s inaugural Nursing Live event.
Taking place at Exhibition Centre Liverpool on November 10th-11th (part of the ACC Liverpool complex which together with the M&S Bank Arena recently hosted the Eurovision Song Contest), up to 10,000 nurses are expected to attend, generating a potential economic impact of over £1.4m for the Liverpool City Region.
Commenting on the news that Liverpool will be home to the first Nursing Live, Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, said: "Nurses are the beating heart of our healthcare system and, as the husband of a frontline worker, I know first-hand the pressure that our NHS heroes have been under over the past few years.
“Their bravery and selflessness during the COVID-19 pandemic will never be forgotten by the people of our region and I'm sure they will receive the warmest of welcomes from our residents when Nursing Live arrives in our area later this year.”
As part of the lead up to the event, Nursing Live spoke to nurses across the UK - including staff from Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and The Walton Centre in Fazakerley - about what they thought about the event.
The Walton Centre’s Chief Executive Jan Ross, who started her nursing career at The Royal Liverpool Hospital in the early 1990s, said: “Before becoming CEO of The Walton Centre I worked for over 30 years as a surgical nurse, a Matron and a Divisional Nurse Director. In that time, I’ve always put an incredibly high value on events which bring nurses together, especially from different backgrounds. That’s because there’s always something new to learn, fresh ideas to share, and challenges to overcome by working together.
“Nursing Live is a fantastic example of this type of peer-to-peer collaboration on a national scale, and I’m delighted that The Walton Centre and its staff has been able to support it. It’s also great that the first ever Nursing Live event will be held here in Liverpool, and I know our nurses are really looking forward to it. ”
ACC Liverpool has also welcomed RCNi’s announcement. Adrian Evans, ACC Liverpool’s Director of Conference and Exhibition Sales, said: “While we’ve hosted many healthcare events at our ACC Liverpool campus over the years, this is the first time we have held a nursing exhibition on this scale, and in this format, in our exhibition centre. We are delighted to be providing a flexible venue where nursing professionals can join together to learn, share knowledge, and to network.”
Reflecting on the RCNI’s decision to host the event in Liverpool, Rachel Armitage, Managing Director of RCNi, said: “It’s fitting that 160 years on from when the Liverpool Training School for Nurses first opened its doors on Dover Street, the inaugural Nursing Live is set to be hosted in the city. Liverpool’s tradition of nursing innovation and outstanding practice is matched by the caring and compassionate spirit of its people; values which are also shared across the nursing profession.
“That, combined with the amazing support we’ve already had from ACC Liverpool, the Mayor’s Office, and hospitals like Alder Hey and The Walton Centre, only reinforces why it just had to be Liverpool for our first ever Nursing Live event.”
Tickets were made available last week, and have proved hugely popular. For tickets, which are free to registered nurses, student nurses and other registered healthcare workers, click here.