Ruth Chambers

Dr Ruth was a general practitioner for 40+ years. She is a Visiting Professor at Staffordshire University and also Honorary Professor at Keele University. Ruth's interests focus on aiding people to self-care, evolving effective ways of working and many other health related themes - most recently the adoption of technology enabled care services in the NHS. She is a co-director of Raparu Consult CIC.

 

Ruth has worked with the Royal College of General Practitioners, Department of Health/NHS England, the Human Fertilisation Authority and other healthcare organisations on various projects over the last three decades. She has been Clinical chair of Stoke-on-Trent Clinical Commissioning Group, Director of General Practice Postgraduate Education for the West Midlands, Director of the Stoke-on-Trent Teaching Primary Care Trust, Technology Implementation Lead for the Staffordshire Sustainability and Transformation Partnership.

 

Fifteen years ago, Ruth led on establishing a Quality Improvement Framework across Stoke-on-Trent general practices which has raised standards at scale on a wide range of measures - improved clinical practice and patients’ health outcomes (her reward was getting an OBE!).

 

Ruth has now written 84 books, mainly for health professionals, but eight have been for the general public on stress, heart disease, back pain and how technology can empower people to self-care; four of her books have been translated into other languages - Japanese, Italian and Korean.