Ruth ten Hove
Ruth ten Hove is a physiotherapist, Assistant Director at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and visiting lecturer in community rehabilitation at Winchester University. Her passion is to transform community rehab so that it meets the needs of the people who require it. There is currently too much unwarranted variation in both provision and quality, people are driven towards the most expensive parts of the health and social care system, A&E and secondary care. Traditional models of rehabilitation and workforce configuration based on a single condition and/or diagnosis are no longer appropriate, given the current context of an ageing population with increasingly complex needs including multiple long-term conditions (LTCs). Ruth has led the delivery of the standards of community rehabilitation, which set out what ‘good looks like’