Ruth Chambers DM FRCGP

Ruth is a general practitioner in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent. She is also Professor of Health Care at Staffordshire University, and the national education lead for the NHS Alliance.

As well as being Clinical Lead for Continuing Professional Development and for Reaccreditation at the Royal College of General Practitioners, she also chairs the Department of Health’s revalidation working party on Clinical Governance, and acts in a consultant capacity advising Stoke-on-Trent Primary Care Trust.

Ruth’s academic work has focused on doctors’ well being and enabling doctors and others in primary care to work effectively. This has encompassed writing books for health professionals (more than 60), devising University awards, undertaking research, designing educational programmes most recently the Working in Partnership Programme’s training to promote and support self care; and serving on national committees – for instance the Children’s National Service Framework and DH Children’s Taskforce in 2003/5.

Recent innovative work has included working with patients and other lay people to enable them to be involved in NHS development and service improvement, and in teaching health professionals.