About | Raparu

About Raparu Consult CIC

Our objectives are to influence and strengthen:

patient empowerment in relation to the self-management of their health and wellbeing.
care digitisation – trusted apps and devices such as those to measure blood pressure or heart rate etc.
the health of the population, including various ethnicities, age groups and levels of deprivation.
services available to assist with self-management of health and wellbeing conditions.
digital capability and linked innovations.
digital inclusion and upskilling to alleviate or minimise digital exclusion.

Our vision is to promote:

A seamless digital gateway to health and care settings.
Digitally enabled and integrated clinically related processes.
Equality for all, regardless of their place of care and digital literacy.
The availability of digitally enabled self-care.

Read about the community and NHS based projects that we have completed in the last three years since we created our CIC here.

Meet the Raparu team

Dr Ruth Chambers OBE

Ruth is an honorary professor at the University of Staffordshire and also Keele University. She has recently retired as a practising GP after 46 years in frontline medical practice.

Ruth has been clinical lead for digital primary care transformation in general practices across Staffordshire; and involved with digital upskilling of general practice nurses via action learning to create more than 300 digital nurse champions across England.

Ruth sees digital delivery of care as a great catalyst in modernising usual service in the NHS and social care; so encouraging the public to take more responsibility for their own health and wellbeing.

Paul Edden

Paul helped to establish the UK-wide domiciliary care provider ‘Home Instead’ since it first began operations in the UK in 2005. Paul helped to recruit, train and support the first 23 franchise businesses across the UK and takes pride that the organisation has extended to over 250 national offices from humble (and challenging) beginnings.

Paul opened his own office in 2009 in North Staffordshire, seeing how Home Instead can make a real difference to people’s lives in their own homes. Paul has recently sold the business and retired but continues to be involved in the ‘care scene’ through his connections with many local organisations.

Paul previously worked in telecoms and IT, with various companies, and enjoyed working in global roles for many years prior to becoming involved in social and community care.