In 2021, PAT Cullen was named President of the Royal College of Nursing.
In 2022, the RCN declared the first strikes in the union’s 106-year existence.
Who is Pat Cullen?
Pat Cullen was born in 1965 as the youngest of seven children in Carrickmore, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
Four of her parents’ six daughters went on to become nurses.
She is a unionist and a nurse.
In July 2021, she was appointed General Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal College of Nursing.
What is Pat Cullen’s salary at RCN?
Pat Cullen’s annual salary is estimated to be roughly £197,000.
The Sun revealed that Pat received £100,697 for eight and a half months of labor the year before she became General Secretary.
Pat Cullen’s annual salary is estimated to be roughly £197,000.
The Sun revealed that Pat received £100,697 for eight and a half months of labor the year before she became General Secretary.
In a local trust, she rose to the positions of Assistant Director of Mental Health Services and Professional Head of Nursing.
Pat then became a Nursing Officer with the Department of Health in 2001.
Pat later worked for the Public Health Agency as well as the Health and Social Care Board until joining the RCN in 2016.
After Dame Donna Kinnair stepped down in June 2021, she was named acting General Secretary.
Pat was appointed temporary General Secretary in April 2021 and was appointed permanently in July 2021.
Is Pat Cullen married and does she have children?
Pat is married to Enda, a healthcare practitioner who works as a GP in south Belfast.
The pair married almost 30 years ago.
They have two children, Shane, a son, and Teresa, a girl.
Shane followed in his father’s footsteps and studied to become a doctor.
Pat described her daughter’s free spirit to the Belfast Telegraph.
She said: “She spent two years at Liverpool University doing primary teaching but then left to become a full-time sponsored kite surfer.
“She also bought a van and fitted it out herself and I went travelling with her in it to Sicily recently – it was the most wonderful fun.”
