2010 Presentations

Approval from AGPN National Forum speakers is being confirmed and presentations will be uploaded by Wednesday 10 November.

Presentations for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are available in the members only section.

Thursday 4 November

Opening Plenary
The Hon Nicola Roxon, Minister for Health and Ageing.
Opportunities and Challenges for Divisions of General Practice from Health Reform.

Plenary 2
Mr David Butt, Chief Executive Officer, Australian General Practice Network. Where are we up to with health reform?
Professor Christopher Ham, Chief Executive, The King’s Fund. England’s Primary Health Care reforms and the lessons for Australia.
Dr Clement Malau, Secretary for Health, Department of Health, Papua New Guinea, and Chair, WHO Western Pacific Regional Committee. Health system strengthening and Primary Health Care in Papua New Guinea.

1A Strategic leadership
Ms Olivia Wood, Chief Executive Officer, WentWest. Greater Western Sydney PHCO.
Dr Helena Williams, Chief Executive Officer, General Practice Network South. Framing the Future. Seeking permission to release PowerPoint presentation
Mrs Alison Faigniez, Chief Executive Officer, General Practice Network Northern Territory. A PHCO for the Northern Territory: the case for partnerships.
Mr Matthew Carrodus, Chief Executive Officer, General Practice Gold Coast. GOLD Cost PHCO – A population health planning and commissioning organisation.

1B Health service design, delivery and integration
Ms Lorraine Powell, Deputy Chairperson, Health Consumers’ Council of Western Australia. Nothing about me, without me.
Mr Raff DiBartolomeo, Fremantle headspace. Leadership - the headspace experience.
Mrs Julianne Badenoch, President, Australian Practice Nurses Association. The Role of the practice nurse in linking and joining practice teams.

1C Workforce planning and culture
Professor Christopher Ham, Chief Executive, The King’s Fund. Leading change: lessons from England.
Dr Lachlan Henderson, Group Director Medical Services and Strategy, St John of God Health Care. On leadership and culture. Seeking permission to release PowerPoint presentation
Dr Peter Crow, Board Member, Peninsula Division of General Practice. Working in teams: a personal comparison of the United Kingdom and Australian experience.

1D Population health and community development
Table top presentations. Please refer to the program page for copies of the presenters abstracts.

1E Building skills and capacity
Mr Andrew Hollo, Director and Principal Consultant, Workwell Consulting.

Plenary 3

Hesta Primary Health Care Awards
Ms Anne-Marie Corboy, Chief Executive Officer, HESTA Super Fund and Dr Emil Djakic, Chair, Australian General Practice Network.
Hon. Mark Butler MP, Minister for Mental Health and Ageing.
 Dr Andrew Southcott MP, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Primary Healthcare.

Friday 5 November
Citizens’ Juries in PHCOs

Plenary 4

Mr Sam Walsh, Chief Executive, Iron Ore and Australia, Rio Tinto. Investment in the community and working with the Network.
Professor Ian Hickie, Bupa Medical Advisory Panel Member and 2010 grant recipient of Bupa Health Foundation; Board Member, headspace and Executive Director, Brain and Mind Research, University of Sydney. The mental wealth of Australia. 

Plenary 5

Q&A session without PowerPoint presentations.

 Panel members

  • Dr Mary Foley, National Health Practice Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers.
  • Ms Rosemary Huxtable, Deputy Secretary, Department of Health and Ageing.
  • Dr Jenny May, Chair, National Rural Health Alliance.
  • Mr Kos Sclavos, National President, Pharmacy Guild of Australia.
  • Professor Gavin Mooney, Health Economist and Honorary Professor, University of Sydney and University of Cape Town.

2A Strategic leadership

Professor Diane O’Halloran, Chair, WentWest. PHCO governance: Changing in line with roles and responsibilities?

Dr Christine Phillips, Senior Lecturer, Academic Unit of General Practice and Community Health, Australian National University Medical School. Improving quality through clinical governance in primary health care.

Ms Alison Brown, Clinical Governance Consultant, Australian Centre for Healthcare Governance. Strengthening Clinical Governance in the Community Health Sector.

2B Health service design, delivery and integration

Professor Gavin Mooney, Health Economist and Honorary Professor, University of Sydney and University of Cape Town. The role of citizens’ juries in reforming health care.

2C Workforce planning and culture

Hon. Jim McGinty, Chair, Health Workforce Australia. Australian workforce for the future. No presentation available.

Associate Professor Stephanie Fox-Young, President, Royal College of Nursing, Australia. Interprofessional education -  a necessary precursor to interprofessional practice.

Mr Brett McPherson, National President, Australian Association of Practice Managers. Practice Managers – agents of change. No presentation available.

2D Population health and community development

Mr Craig Smith, Partner Consulting - National eHealth Practice Lead, Deloitte. The impact ehealth has in progressing the national health reform agenda. 

Dr Chris Pearce, Clinical Lead, National eHealth Transition Authority and Director of Research, Melbourne East General Practice Network. eHealth initiators and the pathway to reform.

Professor Michael Georgeff, Chief Executive Officer, Precedence Health. Connecting Care: Chronic Disease Management.

2E Building skills and capacity

Dr Norman Swan, The Health Report, ABC Radio National. Communications: Being an effective communicator through the media.

Ms Donna Cole, Director, Last Say Communications. Working with the media.

Plenary 6

Mr Glen Capelli, author, songwriter, radio and television presenter and creator of the Dynamic Thinking course for Leadership. No presentation available.

Saturday 6 November

Plenary 7

Ms Deena Shiff, Group Managing Director, Telstra Business. 2011 – The digital practice.

Professor Kathy Eagar, Director, Centre for Health Service Development, University of Wollongong. Your integration is my fragmentation.

Professor Vivian Lin, Professor of Public Health, La Trobe University. Organised primary health care to population health: critical contributions. 

3A Strategic leadership

Workshop with Professor Vivian Lin, Professor of Public Health, La Trobe University. 

Dr Michael Moore, Chief Executive Officer, Central Sydney GP Network. Planning by numbers. 

Mr Jon Goodman, Program Manager, General Practice Gold Coast. Population health planning on the Gold Coast: linking population health planning, partnering and project management.

Dr Richard Bills, Executive Medical Officer, Central Highlands General Practice Network. Population health planning in the new PCH environment: a tale of vision, frustration and ultimately, perhaps CHIOCE. 

3B Health service design delivery and integration

Table top presentations. Please refer to the program page for copies of the presenters abstracts.   

3C Workforce culture, capacity and support

Ms Glenda Archer, Peer Facilitator and Consumer Representative, Osborne GP Network. Healthy Friendships Support Group – creating caring connections. No presentation available.

Ms Lee Vinicombe, Team Leader, Chronic Disease and Access Programs, Osborne GP Network, Metropolitan Healthy Lifestyles Program - reflecting successes of a coordinated, collaborative and community based chronic disease care model.

Mrs Gabi Ellis, Project Officer, Wheatbelt GP Network. Communicating with Practices in Rural WA.

3D Population health and community development

Mrs Suzanne Leavesley, Chief Executive Officer and Mrs Clare Valley, Manager of Communities for Children, Great Southern GP Network. Closing the Gap through communities for children.

Professor Cindy Shannon, Director, Institute for Urban Indigenous Health. Leading Primary Health Care Reform in Indigenous communities. Requesting PowerPoint presentation.

Ms Valerie Swift-Otero, Manager Aboriginal Health, South Metropolitan Public Health Unit. Building partnerships to create culturally secure health services.

3E Building skills and capacity

Professor Susan Dann, Professor of Marketing and Deputy Head of Business School, Australian Catholic University, and Board Director, General Practice Queensland. 

Mr David Butt, Chief Executive Officer, Australian General Practice Network.

4A Strategic leadership

Panel discussion without PowerPoint presentations.

Panel members

·         Dr Anthony Hobbs, former Chair, External Reference Group, National Primary Health Care Strategy.

·         Ms Carol Bennett, Executive Director, Consumers Health Forum of Australia.

·         Associate Professor Michael Greco, Director, Client-Focused Evaluations Program Surveys.

·         Mr Robert Wells, Director, Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute and Menzies Centre for Health Policy.

·         Associate Professor Gawaine Powell-Davies, Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity.

·         Professor Claire Jackson, President, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

4B Health service design, delivery and integration

Professor Tom Callaly, Executive Director and Clinical Director of Mental Health, Drugs and Alcohol Services, Barwon Health. Integrating community health with general practice. 

Dr Dan Ewald, Director, General Practice New South Wales; Strategic Advisor, Northern Rivers General Practice Network; GP, Bullinah Aboriginal Medical Service and GP, Lennox Health Medical Centre. Primary mental health remotely.

4C Workforce planning and culture

Table top presentations. Please refer to the program page for copies of the presenters abstracts.   

4D Population health and community development

Dr Dale Ford, Principal Clinical Advisor, Improvement Foundation. Data in general practice.

Dr Jacquie Garton-Smith, Hospital Liaison General Practitioner, Royal Perth Hospital. Electronic Discharge: Hospital to GP communications.

Dr Nathan Pinskier, Clinical Lead, National E-Health and Transition Authority. Making e-Health work in the practice – can you?

Dr Andrew McIntyre, Director, Medical-Objects. Real World Connectivity with Standards.

4E Building skills and capacity

Mr Jim Cavaye, Cavaye Community Development.

Closing Plenary

Father Chris Riley, AM, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Youth off the Streets. How each of us as leaders can change people’s worlds. No presentation available.

 

Presentations are all in Adobe PDF format.