AUCKLAND BRANCH - 23 September 2008
"Out of the Fire into the Frying Pan. Is it really easier in the Private Sector as opposed to the Public Sector, will there be any Nursing Homes for the Baby Boomers?"
Presented by:
Dwayne Crombie has been CEO since 2006 of Guardian Health Care, NZ's largest aged residential care provider group. Employs around 3200 staff and has 46 facilities nationally. A range of care is provided including rest home care, dementia, hospital, psycho geriatric, mental health respite and rehabilitation. Other services include medical home alarms and the provision of 16 retirement villages. (Guardian Health Care is a wholly owned subsidiary of BUPA, a not for profit UK entity with NZ$11 billion of revenue per annum and a major provider of aged care and private health insurance). Previously Dwayne was CEO of Waitemata Health and then the Waitemata District Health Board from 2001 onwards. Responsible for the funding and provision of hospital and community health services covering the North Shore, Waitakere and Rodney areas with a catchment of 505,000 people.
Dwayne holds MBCHB, D Com H both from the University of Otago, FAFPHM - faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He holds a current annual practicing certificate and is on the Specialist Register in Public Health and also holds an Executive MBA from the University of Auckland.
AUCKLAND BRANCH 28 August 2008
How is the Ministry of Health going to provide for health and disability needs in the future?
Can we plan more than 1-2 years out?
New Zealand’s health system is performing well in comparison to other OECD countries. But we need to do better. While evaluations of the system are positive some stresses and strains are evident and future challenges are significant. The Ministry is working with the sector to ensure the health system is able to meet these challenges in a planned, coordinated and sustained way.
Presented by: Stephen McKernan - the Director General of Health and Chief Executive of the Ministry of Health, a role he has held since 31 July 2006. As Director General he is the Government’s principal advisor on health and disability matters. The Director General has the key strategic role in leading the development and performance of the New Zealand health system. This includes the negotiation of, and allocation of $12 billion of health expenditure and the monitoring of this through the 21 District Health Boards. Stephen has held senior executive roles in the New Zealand Health system for the past 18 years. He has been a Chief Executive since 1998 with his first Chief Executive appointment being Hutt Valley Health and subsequently Chief Executive of Hutt Valley DHB in 2000. In 2002 he was appointed Chief Executive of Counties Manukau District Health Board (DHB). Counties Manukau DHB is one of the country’s largest DHBs serving a high needs population with an annual budget of $950m and which employs some 5500 staff. Stephen has a Bachelor of Business Studies from Massey University and a Diploma in Public Health from the Royal Society of Health. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian College of Health Service Executives
AUCKLAND BRANCH - 30 July 2008
Can the New Zealand health organisations evolve and change to meet the future challenges?
As we know nothing stands still and everything is evolving and changing at faster rates than before. The New Zealand health system like other health systems world wide is currently facing pressures related to sustainability, workforce capacity, increases in chronic disease and longevity; assurance of quality service provision that is efficient and effective across the continuum of care; and the ability to constantly meet patient demand and their expectations. In New Zealand often change at an organisational and structural level in healthcare has been undertaken in short sharp bursts often focusing on only on structural change while leadership has focused on technical rather than transformational change and problem solving. Is there another way to tackle this?
This presentation will address this issue by posing some questions for discussion as well as reporting on organisational transformational change that she has visited overseas.
Presented by: Anthea Penny
Anthea Penny RGON, Adv. Dip. Nursing, (Distinction), DHM, (Massey), MHealthMgt, (Hons) FCHSE.
Anthea is a qualified health professional, an experienced Chief Executive in the New Zealand health and aged care sector, a management consultant, Director of R H Penny Ltd and a facilitator of health leadership development in New Zealand and Australia and internationally. She is the inaugural recipient of the 2004 New Zealand Institute of Health Management Silver Fern Award for Excellence in Health Service Management.
Since 1993 Anthea has developed national and international leadership programs and Masterclasses for senior managers and clinicians in health and aged care in New Zealand and Australia and run these in partnership with national industry bodies and Universities. Anthea is a Fellow of Australian College of Health Service Executives, and has presented a number of papers at national forums and conferences, published in national and international magazines/ journals and written numerous unpublished reports for national policy makers and funders as well as service provider boards. She also has input into postgraduate health system papers for the University of Alberta, Canada.
AUCKLAND BRANCH
17 June 2008
How is your sector going to provide for health needs in the future? Can you plan more than 1 – 2 years out?
Presented by: Fiona Ritsma
Fiona Ritsma was appointed to the position of Chief Executive of the New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) in October 2007. NZBS is a national service established in 1998 as a Crown Entity to provide the nation with blood and related blood products and services. With the changing demand for product – in particular a move away from plasma derived Biostate to treat people with Haemophilia and increasing use of other products, NZBS faces a number of challenges over the next few years. Fiona will provide an overview of NZBS the organisation, outline the challenges and explain what the NZBS Team is doing to address them. Fiona’s career started as a radiotherapy radiographer in Christchurch. She moved to Auckland in the late 80’s to take up the role of Charge Radiographer in the Oncology Centre at Auckland Hospital. She held a variety of management roles at the Auckland District Health Board over the following 18 years and was General Manager for Clinical Specialty Services for her final 6 years prior to joining NZBS. Her management philosophy hinges strongly on teamwork and leadership development. Fiona has been a member of NZIHM since 1990 is currently on the National Council and Auckland Branch Committee and was National President from 2001 – 2004.
AUCKLAND BRANCH
5 May 2008
How is your sector going to provide for health needs in the future? Can you plan more than 1 – 2 years out?
Presented by: Geraint Martin
Geraint Martin was appointed to the position of Chief Executive Officer of Counties Manukau DHB, from December 2006. CMDHB is one of the largest District Health Boards in New Zealand and services a population of over 450,000 with a high level of deprivation, diverse ethnic mix and young population. Geraint came to CMDHB from the Welsh Assembly Government where his role was Director of Health and Social Care Strategy. He has significant experience managing many levels of service provision in both primary and secondary care including more than twenty years experience in health management. He held the Chief Executive role at Kettering General Hospital in Northamptonshire and senior executive positions in London and Birmingham hospitals. In his most recent position as Director of Health and Social Care Strategy Geraint has authored a radical ten year strategy which is leading a total re-configuration of Welsh Health and Social Care. Included in this plan are reforms of workforce planning, capital investment and finance which will underpin performance improvement leading to the better delivery of health care to the consumer. As a hospital chief executive, he developed the ‘see and treat’ system which has improved emergency department efficiency and has been adopted by the English National Health Service and hospitals in the United States and Australia. He has also worked closely with clinicians in improving clinical standards and improving patient safety. His work with primary care has included chronic disease management strategies and managing acute care to reduce the need for in-patient beds. Geraint has a Masters Degree of Management in Health policy and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Health Economics. In 2005 he was elected as a Companion of the Institute of Healthcare Management in the UK.
AUCKLAND BRANCH
6 March 2008
"Kids in Care" The Lost Generation.
Presented by: Dr David Rankin
Dr Rankin graduated obtained his medical degree from Otago University in 1982. Having worked in rural General Practice in Victoria for four years, he completed both a Masters in Health Administration and Master in Public Health at Loma Linda University in Southern California before returning to Australia and then moving to New Zealand. David was the CEO of the Auckland Adventist Hospital – a private surgical hospital, for 6 years before moving to Wellington as the General Manager – Health Service Purchasing with the Accident Compensation Corporation. For the past 18 months he has been Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Social Development, providing medical leadership in the ministry’s major reform of the Sickness and Invalid’s Benefit system. He is now leading a project aimed at providing health assessments to all children and young people coming into the care of the state. David is Chairman of the New Zealand Health Information Standards Organisation, a member of the Health Information Strategic Action Group and member of the Council of Medical Colleges. He is President of the New Zealand Institute of Health Management, and Vice President of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators.
WELLINGTON BRANCH
13 March 2008
“Setting up a free hospital”
A presentation from Dr Phil Bagshaw. Many will know of Dr Bagshaw’s efforts to establish the first free community hospital to be established in New Zealand for many years. Dr Bagshaw and his team have fought long and hard to establish their venture in Canterbury. Dr Bagshaw will present a picture of a free community hospital in the 21st Century, the need for such a service; and his experiences of what it has taken to get the door open.
CHRISTCHURCH BRANCH 2008
18th March, 2008
INNOVATION IS THE NAME OF THE GAME
Presented by: Dr George Downward,
George’s long standing interest in quality and patient safety saw him resign from his position as Clinical Director of Intensive Care in order to accept the new part time CDHB position of Medical Director Patient Safety. In addition to this role George continues to be involved clinically as a Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine and is also a Medical Advisor to the Medical and Surgical Services Division of the CDHB.
2007
Auckland Branch Seminar
"Toyota DHB - Fitting management fads(?) into the health care organisation" - Link to Presentation
Recently, strategic documents in healthcare have used buzzwords such as knowledge transfer, whole systems improvement, learning organisation, innovation acceleration, etc. Associated management strategies include lean thinking, the Baldrige Quality Framework, total quality management, knowledge management, and system thinking and modelling. What may or may not be so obvious is that many of these management approaches are based on work in the manufacturing sector. The car manufacturing context in particular. This presents a challenge when trying to apply such approaches within a healthcare context.
This presentation draws on international and New Zealand specific applied research. It examines how to effectively adopt the above management strategies for a New Zealand healthcare context. In doing so it challenges many of the commonly used approaches for improving healthcare organisation performance. It provides essential information for managers trying to accelerate innovation, knowledge transfer, and quality improvement within their organisations.
PRESENTER - Dr Peter Carswell
Is a lecturer in health management at the University of Auckland. For the past 6 years he has been using an action research approach to help healthcare organisations effectively create and share innovations, and build structures for knowledge transfer. Prior to that Dr Carswell worked as an organisational psychologist for both private and public organisations in creating sustainable organisation development interventions.
AUCKLAND BRANCH SEMINAR - 9 August 2007
" FROM THERE TO HERE "
Presented by: Elisabeth Harding
We know that people change their careers much more than they did in the past. What advantages might there be in changing career, what motivates, what obstacles exist and how do you overcome them? Elisabeth Harding will share her story, from direct patient care to developing strategic health policy in Dubai. She trained and worked as a nurse for 17 years before becoming a lawyer and spent four years working for the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner then worked in private practice before joining a District Health Board in 2000. Her roles have enabled her to bring the pragmatism of nursing and the analysis of legal issues together. Elisabeth was the Legal Adviser, Privacy Officer and Board Secretary at Counties Manukau District Health Board for seven years leaving this role in February 2007 to start up her own business, Elisabeth Harding and Associates Limited. Her clients include the First Foundation, a charitable trust connecting academically talented and financially disadvantaged New Zealand students with business, and Dubai Healthcare City. She is the past Chair of the Health Research Council's Ethics Committee, a member of the National Ethics Advisory Committee and has recently been co-opted to join the Health Information Strategy Action Committee’s national collections subcommittee and invited to become a member of the Injury Surveillance Ministerial Advisory Panel. She is also a trustee for the Centre for Clinical Research and Effective Practice and Lifeline New Zealand.
AUCKLAND BRANCH SEMINAR - 9 May 2007
Do Not Resuscitate” An Ongoing Debate
A simple statement with so many questions. To begin: What does it mean for me? What does it mean for you? When would you want me to follow your request? Why did you make the request? And why should I follow your wishes?
Presented by: Stephen Chalcroft
Stephen Chalcroft, MBChB, FRACP, is the Clinical Director, Home and Older Adult Services at Waitemata DHB and an Honorary Lecturer in the School of Medicine at the University of Auckland. Stephen has a keen practical interest in this issue
AUCKLAND BRANCH SEMINAR - 28 March 2007
Presented by: Dr Jeffrey Braithwaite is Professor in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine and Director of the Centre for Clinical Governance Research in the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales. Other current positions held include Consultant, World Health Organisation and Assessor for the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council and member of numerous research and policy bodies and think tanks. Professor Braithwaite is the recipient of research grants totalling in excess of $15 million. He has published over a hundred and seventy books, book chapters and articles on health services management, policy and strategy in the national and international literature, and has presented over 100 papers at national and international conferences, symposia and workshops in the past ten years. He has long been interested in the culture and structure of health services, and the use of strategic management techniques to enhance health care. Most recently his research interests have centred on the social structure of clinical services, particularly in terms of quality and safety, the interests and concerns of clinician managers and time constraints and other influences on health sector managerial performance.
He is the recipient of a gold medal from the Uniting Church “For Services to Older People” and the President’s Award for contributions to the Australian College of Health Service Executives (NSW Branch). Professor Braithwaite’s international teaching, research and consulting experience includes work in the United States of America, Great Britain, Canada, The People’s Republic of China, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, East Timor and Papua New Guinea.
CHRISTCHURCH BRANCH SEMINAR - 21 Feb 2007
"DEMAND MANAGEMENT: LESSONS LEARNT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH LEADERS STUDY TOUR"
Presented by: STUART FRANCIS, DIRECTOR, FRANCIS GROUP CONSULTANTS and
GERALD MINNEE, PRINCIPAL ADVISOR, HEALTH SECTOR, NEW ZEALAND TREASURY, WELLINGTON
Stuart Francis works at senior levels within the public sector in New Zealand, particularly facilitating multi-agency initiatives and national programmes. His health experience includes work with more than 17 District Health Boards in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health and the Accident Compensation Corporation.
Gerald Minnee, in his role as principal advisor, has been mainly focusing on the long-term funding and performance of the health sector. He currently leads Treasury’s engagement on the high-level Expenditure Review of the health sector announced by the Government earlier this year.
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