AdsTalk23 With Dr Ruth Northway

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Healthcare: Moving beyond the policy to embedding in practice’ by Professor Ruth Northway

Was held at Horizon Leeds, Leeds, UK on Friday 24th March 2023 and chaired by Rob Webster

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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

Rob Webster CBE is Chief Executive for the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership (Intergrated Care System). This sees him bring 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.

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