Rukshana Kapasi has been announced as the Unite-CPHVA Annual Professional Conference 2024 keynote speaker.
Rukshana is Barnardo’s first Director of Health and has worked in the NHS and charitable sector for the last 30 years as a provider, commissioner, board member and senior leader.
During her time at Barnardo’s Rukshana has lead the transformation of the largest children’s charity in the UK to enable it to become a health and social care provider.
She has been instrumental in driving the infrastructure to improve health inequalities in the NHS, leading the first pilot of ethnicity monitoring in primary care for the Department of Health and designing the national roll-out for all HS Trusts.
‘Families today are facing more challenges than ever before to stay well and healthy,’ says Rukshana. ‘Great support for children and families begins close to home – and that means from within the community, with the people on the ground who know them the best.’
Rukshana says that she is ‘looking forward to exploring how, by joining forces and collaborating across systems, we can work together to support prevention, encourage early intervention and promote child health and wellbeing for now and future generations.’
Rukshana’s conference session, Facing the future: supporting child and family health through collaboration and innovation, will be the Nick Robin Memorial Lecture. This prestigious lecture is given in memory of a former editor of Community Practitioner, Nick Robin, and honours the significant contribution he made to the sector. Nick championed social issues in health.
To find out more, and to book your place at this year’s conference, visit the conference website.
