Robert Andrew Johnstone

Robert Johnstone is chair of Access Matters, a pan disability consultancy working on the premise that encouraging accessible environments and culture enhances the workplace for employees and improves service delivery to customers. Robert Johnstone, a wheelchair user, is an informed and committed patient advocate with a strong international interest. He is an active Board Member of the International Alliance of Patient Organisations (IAPO). IAPO has 250 member patient organisations across 67 countries & 47 disease areas. He is also a Board Member of the European Patients' Forum (EPF), an umbrella organisation that works with patients' groups in public health and health advocacy across Europe. It currently represents 65 member organisations which are chronic disease-specific patient organisations working at European level, and national coalitions of patients' organisations. EPF's vision for the future is high quality, patient-centred, equitable healthcare throughout the European Union. Having had Rheumatoid Arthritis for 59 years from the age of three, he has a wealth of experience as a user of health services. Since 1990 Robert has voluntarily represented people with disabilities & chronic conditions locally, nationally &internationally.