Facilitated Panel Session : Mind your Ps (and Qs) Policy update. Facilitator: Dr Andrew Kirke
Tracks
Grand 1-4 (Plenary)
| Friday, October 20, 2017 |
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Grand 1-4 |
Overview
The past few years have seen the introduction of several major health Policy initiatives, including the MBS Review, Health Care Homes, PHNs, the Integrated Training Pipeline and other workforce programs and arrangements that can potentially change the face of rural health. Join us for an update on these health initiatives followed by Questions from the floor.
Facilitator: Dr Andrew Kirke, RDAA. Panel: Janet Quigley, Assistant Secretary, Primary Health Care Reform and Implementation Branch, Health Systems Policy, Commonwealth Department ogf Health; Dr Michael Coglin, MBS Review Taskforce; Marianne Shearer, CEO, Gippsland PHN. (60 mins)
Speaker
Dr Michael Coglin
MBS Review Taskforce
Ms Fay Holden
Assistant Secretary
Department Of Health
Dr Andrew Kirke
Board Member
RDAA Board
Facilitator : Mind you Ps (and Qs) : Policy Update
Biography
Andrew Kirke is a GP practicing family medicine and obstetrics. In addition to clinical work he is involved in teaching and research through the Rural Clinical School of WA. He has worked as a rural GP for seventeen years in Kalgoorlie, Derby and most recently, Bunbury. Special interests include rural obstetrics, junior doctor rural training and medical education. Andrew is the current President of Rural Doctors Association of WA.
Janet Quigley
Department of Health
Marianne Shearer
CEO
Gippsland PHN
