Peter Sidebotham is a retired paediatrician and emeritus professor of child health at the University of Warwick. As an academic paediatrician he specialised in child protection and was the designated doctor for child protection and for child death review in Warwickshire.

Peter’s research includes studies on unexpected child deaths including sudden infant death syndrome, and work on child death review and child maltreatment. He has worked with Professor Marian Brandon from UEA on several national analyses of Serious Case Reviews. He is the author/editor of three books and several book chapters and has published extensively on child abuse and child death review.

Peter is a member of the National Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.

Rob Webster is Chief Executive of South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and is responsible for leading the organisation and its 4200 staff. Rob is also Lead Chief Executive for the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership [Integrated Care System]. This sees him bringing together West Yorkshire and Harrogate health and care leaders, organisations and communities to deliver ambitious plans for improved health, care and finances for 2.7 million people. Rob is an active member of the NHS Assembly and contributes to a number of national programmes.

Rob has worked in healthcare since 1990, taking on national leadership roles in the Department of Health on policy, transformation and delivery. He has been a director for both the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit in the Cabinet Office and a national public/private partnership. He was Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation between 2014 and 2016, having proven to be a successful Chief Executive in the NHS since 2007, running a number of commissioning organisations and providers of NHS services. He has chaired formal cancer, primary care, community trust and learning disability networks.

Rob is defined by a values based approach to leadership. He is a visiting Professor at Leeds Beckett University and was proud to be made a Fellow of the Queen’s Nursing Institute in 2014. In May 2016, Rob became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. In 2020 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

You can follow Rob on Twitter @NHS_RobW

Due to the continuing pressures on the NHS and the uncertainty created by COVID19, AdsTalk22 will be held on on-line via zoom. As with AdsTalk21 we will aim to replicate the opportunities for networking and discussion associated with earlier AdsTalks.

The programme for #AdsTalk22 will be as follows:

12.00 – Event opens with opportunity for delegates to network in zoom break out rooms before talk begins.

12.30 – Dr Peter Sidebotham’s Talk

13.30-14.30 – Discussion of the issues raised and questions chaired by Rob Webster

A zoom link for the event will be circulated to all registered delegates on the day before the event and also again on the morning of the event.

Use #AdsTalk22 to follow & join the discussion on Twitter.