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
Join our Suffolk Facebook group
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Be the first to know about meetings and connect with your fellow branch members
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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blog posts
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5 Sep 2025
Learning from Lives and Deaths: A wake-up call about learning disability nursing
The recent publication of the delayed LeDeR review shows that people with learning disabilities continue to experience catastrophic health inequalities. Commitment to address inequalities needs real commitment to registered nurses in learning disabilities.
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5 Sep 2025
From Class Clown to District Nurse ANP: My Dyslexia Journey
At school, I was the funny one, always causing a distraction. But behind the laughter was a young girl quietly struggling to keep up in the classroom. I wasn’t naturally academic, far from it, but I had a talent for covering my tracks. Humour became my shield, my way of masking the reality: I couldn’t grasp the basics like the others did.
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2 Sep 2025
My experience at the RCN Congress in Liverpool
This blog represents my reflections on attending RCN Congress 2025 as a voting member for the Perioperative Forum.
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1 Sep 2025
Building a Society of Health
Luke Evans, Chair of the Public Health Forum and host of the podcast 'Society of Health' discusses why all nurses should have an understanding of system barriers to ill health.
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29 Aug 2025
Raising Our Voices: Why I Chose to Get Involved in Activism as an Early Career Nurse
When I started my journey into nursing, I thought I’d be making a difference through care, compassion, and clinical skill. And I am. But what I didn’t expect was how deeply I’d be pulled into something bigger, activism. Advocacy. Speaking up not just for my patients, but for my peers and my profession.
Elections and appointments
Put forward an agenda item for Council
Page last updated - 29/07/2025
