Gita Prasad is the new Deputy Director of Business and Partnerships at the East of England Ambulance Trust. She also chairs the Housing LIN in the Eastern Region.

Her background is predominantly in health and social care, within CCGs, primary and community organisations and with Norfolk County Council, where she researched and authored their Extra Care Strategy. She has also delivered business consultancy with a social enterprise consultancy based in London, where she provided expertise in integrated care and also evaluated one of the early social investment models in the UK.

More recently she completed a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship, researching intergenerational living in Denmark and the Netherlands and is the joint Chair of the Eastern Region Housing Learning Improvement Network. She has just been nominated for a HSJ Award for System Leadership Initiative of the Year, implementing ReSPECT (Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment) in Norfolk and Waveney including significant public engagement.

Gita has two sons at university and enjoys singing and playing music, chairing an award winning choir in Norfolk.