Lorrae Allford

Term: 2009 - 2013

Positions held on Council

Council Member South West
Member of Membership and Representation Committee
Member of Audit Committee
Member of Trade Union Governance Group

Prevous RCN appointments

Member of the Pensions Committee

Lorrae (Lors) Allford has been a member of the RCN since her nurse training began in 1976. She is currently a Senior Sister/ ENP in emergency care and is also a part time sexual health adviser at the same trust. Her areas of expertise, as well as emergency care and sexual health, include reducing alcohol misuse in young adults. She also has an interest in 24 hour delivery of care and supporting informed patient choice. Lors networks widely with others working in the emergency care setting across the UK.

Lors is an active member of the RCN and is an RCN safety representative and RCN convenor at her hospital. This keeps her in the front line and in close contact with RCN members. She currently represents the Bath Branch on the South West Regional Board which has involved meetings with the Strategic Health Authority to discuss the development of social partnership working and improving staff and management relationships to improve working conditions.

As an activist Lors has developed to face the challenges that the health care system presents all nurses and will use this experience within her role as an RCN council member within the South West.