Suzanne retired as Chief Nurse at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2019 following a successful career of 38 years. She worked as a general nurse, children’s nurse and health visitor and gained her MBA at Keele University.
Suzanne currently works at a national level in the NHS supporting menopause care in the workplace and within Trusts providing coaching and leadership development for senior nurses.
She is passionate about ensuring the most vulnerable in our community have care provided for them in the most accessible way possible. As a Chief Nurse, she led a programme of work within Nottinghamshire supporting the homeless within a local soup kitchen.
Suzanne was awarded a CBE for services to nursing in the NHS in the Queen’s birthday honours list in 2020.
Suzanne lives on the Shropshire / Staffordshire border with her husband and has two daughters. In her spare time, she enjoys yoga, the gym, walking, needle-craft and going to her local book clubs.