‘EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN HEALTHCARE: MOVING BEYOND THE POLICY TO EMBEDDING IN PRACTICE’ by Professor Ruth Northway OBE

Professor Ruth Northway will give the 2023 Adam Bojelian Memorial Talk ‘Equality, diversity and inclusion in healthcare; moving beyond the policy to embedding in practice‘, chaired by Rob Webster.

We will be returning to a face-to-face event in 2023 at AdsPlace, Horizon Centre Leeds.

Anyone interested in health and social care and disability is warmly welcome to this free event. As always with AdsTalks, there will be plentiful opportunity for all delegates, who wish to do so, to discuss the issues raised. Admission will be by ticket only. Click on the Eventbrite link below to book your place.

Timetable

12.00-12.30: Opportunity for delegates to network. A free sandwich lunch will be provided by the Adam Bojelian Foundation CIC.

12.30-13.30: Talk by Professor Ruth Northway.

13.30-14.30: Discussion of issues raised chaired by Rob Webster.

Dr Ruth Northway OBE is Professor of Learning Disabilities at the Faculty of Life Science and Education, University of South Wales, a post she has held for twenty years. A learning disability nurse by background she has worked in a range of residential and community settings before moving to work in nurse education. Her key areas of interest relate to the health and well-being of people with learning disabilities, safeguarding and the use of participatory/inclusive research approaches.

You can follow Ruth on Twitter @NorthwayRuth