
RCN Suffolk Branch
Our branch includes members working at NHS, independent, higher education and care home employers, as well as students.
Getting involved in our branch means more than attending meetings. Whether you’re organising for better conditions, supporting a colleague or pushing for systemic change, your involvement helps turn shared concerns into collective action.
Contact us
Your branch team
- Chair: Laura Bird
- Vice chair: Vacant
- Treasurer: Vacant
- Secretary: Tracey Risebrow
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All branch events
Our branch annual general meeting (AGM)
Every year, our branch holds its AGM, where we:
- review our branch activity over the past twelve months
- map out what we want to achieve over the next year
- elect the branch committee for the coming year
- discuss with your fellow branch members the issues which are most important to you right now
Our branch and RCN Congress
All members can attend RCN Congress for free. There are also fully funded voting places for members, where travel, accommodation and food are provided. Voting members are there to listen, participate and vote on resolutions that are proposed by RCN branches, forums and committees across the UK.
This year's applications for funded voting places are closed. Details of 2026 funded places will be posted here as soon as available.
Hear from members across our region
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29 Sep 2025
'I rediscovered a sense of value'
Read nurse David’s experience of achieving success in the band 5 ÌÀÍ·ÌõÎÛÁÏ roles review
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26 Sep 2025
Pioneers of mental health ÌÀÍ·ÌõÎÛÁÏ: An introduction
This blog provides an introduction to six pioneers of mental health ÌÀÍ·ÌõÎÛÁÏ who changed the ways in which we thought about or changed our practice.
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26 Sep 2025
Empowering access to cervical screening
This blog looks at the Very Important Invitation Project, a unique service running across Suffolk and North East Essex with the main aim of increasing accessibility and uptake of cervical screening. The project focuses on removing barriers to cervical screening for those most at risk of health inequality.
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26 Sep 2025
Our diversity is our strength
RCN President Bejoy Sebastian celebrates the diversity of the ÌÀÍ·ÌõÎÛÁÏ profession and looks forward to Black History Month.
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24 Sep 2025
Without nurses from the Global Majority, where would the NHS be?
RCN Fellow Yvonne Coghill CBE calls on senior nurses to do what they can to improve equality and equity in their organisations during these distressing times.
Elections and appointments

Put forward an agenda item for Council

Page last updated - 29/07/2025