The Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN) Clinical Councils provide the NQPHN Clinical Governance sub-committee of the Board with contemporary advice on local health needs and priorities ensuring that there is an appropriate evidence base to regional commissioning, specifically, planning and design of services, stakeholder engagement, and continuing development and refinement of the Health Needs Assessment (HNA).
The regional clinical councils provide a critical overview of the NQPHN regions to ensure that overall investment is in line with the regional HNA.
The councils act in an advisory capacity to the NQPHN Clinical Governance Committee which has the delegated responsibility of the NQPHN Board.
Membership of the councils is comprised of GPs, allied health professionals, mental health clinicians, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health professionals, community/practice nurses, and public health/health promotion representatives. They meet four times a year.
Cairns, Cape York, and Torres Strait region
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Name
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Position
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| Loretta Rigby | Interim Cairns, Cape, and Torres Executive Director, NQPHN | ||||||||
| Dr Vladislav Matic | General Practitioner | ||||||||
| Dr Rod Catton | General Practitioner | ||||||||
| Dr Lynne Reid | General Practitioner and JCU Educator | ||||||||
| Michael Delaney | Community Pharmacist | ||||||||
| Ingrid Hagne | Community Nurse and Diabetes Educator | ||||||||
| Dr Jason King | Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Representative | ||||||||
| Dr Eddy Strivens | Local HHS Representative | ||||||||
| Dr Tony Brown | Local HHS Representative | ||||||||
| Gail Rogers | Speech Language Pathologist |
Townsville region
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Name
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Position
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melissa Freestun | Townsville Executive Director, NQPHN | ||||||||
| Grant Collins | Audiologist | ||||||||
| Dr Chris Daniel | General Practitioner | ||||||||
| Sue Devine | Public health | ||||||||
| Dianne Graham | Community Pharmacist | ||||||||
| Dr Theunis Kotzee | Senior Medical Officer | ||||||||
| Shane MacDonald | Community Pharmacist | ||||||||
| Dr Christine O’Connor | Clinical Psychologist | ||||||||
| Paul Parker | Physiotherapist | ||||||||
| Michelle Ramm | Occupational Therapist | ||||||||
| Professor Gracelyn Smallwood | Nurse/Midwife and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representative | ||||||||
| Dr Toni Weller | GP and GPLO | ||||||||
| Cate Whalan | Community Pharmacist |
Mackay region
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Name
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Position
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karin Barron (Chair) | Mackay Executive Director, NQPHN | ||||||||
| Dr Richard Malone | General Practitioner | ||||||||
| Allannah Munro | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Representative | ||||||||
| Anna Croce | Psychologist | ||||||||
| Debra Brown | Dentist | ||||||||
| Dr Konrad Kangru | General Practitioner | ||||||||
| Karalyn Huxhagen | Pharmacist | ||||||||
| Kath O’Brien | Registered Nurse | ||||||||
| Dr Pieter Nel | Local HHS representative | ||||||||
| Tom McMillan | Physiotherapist | ||||||||
| Tracey Eastwick | Queensland Ambulance Service |
16 October 2020
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