RCN Greater Bristol Branch
If you're an RCN member working in Greater Bristol, you're automatically a member of our Greater Bristol branch. Welcome to your nursing community.
Our branch includes members who work in acute care, mental health, community, primary care, commissioning, hospices, education and social care including care homes. Our members work in the NHS, local authorities, charity and independent sector organisations.
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.
We're looking for new executive committee members to join our branch team at our AGM. These members could include:
- Chair
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Vice Chair
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Lead
- Activist Organiser
- Global Majority Lead
- Communications Officer
- Social Media Lead
- Wellbeing Officer
- Student Liaison Officer
- Nursing Support Worker Lead
- Weston Lead
- NBT Lead
- UHB Lead
- Independent Sector Lead
Please note the first three roles are compulsory - the rest are ideas.
Contact us
Your branch team
- Chair: Andrea Bennett
- Secretary: Fiona King
- Treasurer: Karen McGlone
Join our Bristol Facebook group
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 12 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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25 Jun 2024
Developing a successful programme for new starters in primary care
Jenny Bowen, Legacy Nurse for Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire Primary Care, explains how she set up a programme for new starters which has helped nearly 80 nurses find their feet.
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20 Sep 2023
Get active – what does that even mean?
I became ‘RCN active’ in about 2013 but what does ‘get active’ even mean? Well, for me it's been a rollercoaster of a journey. A journey through which I have made life-long friends and made a difference to colleagues in my workplace and across the profession.
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18 Sep 2023
Job evaluation raises pay and reward for nursing support workers in Bristol
In 2021 new job profiles were agreed by Staff Council, which includes the RCN and NHS Employers. The new profiles say that Band 2 staff should be undertaking tasks such as feeding, bathing, toileting, recording fluid balance and nutrition while any staff undertaking patient observations and clinical care such as monitoring heart and blood pressure rates, taking bloods, wound observation and urine analysis should be job evaluated to Band 3. This meant that many staff were entitled to a re-band.
Elections and appointments
Put forward an agenda item for Council
Page last updated - 22/07/2025
