Independent Chair

Prof Andrew Hornblow CNZM, MA, Dip Clin Psych, PhD, FNZPsS

Iwi

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Suzanne Clarke 

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Wendy Dallas-Katoa Comp RN, BA, Dip Public Health

Wendy has more than 20 years' experience working in Maori health. She has worked in hospitals as a practice nurse and public health nurse. She has also worked for a national programme with the Maori Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) prevention team, coordinating Te Waipounamu and training Maori providers in Tamariki Ora best practice models.

Wendy spent seven years at Pegasus Health as the manager/advisor for Maori Health, working with general practice teams. She is now working part-time at both Pegasus Health and the Maori Indigenous Health Institute, Otago, Christchurch School of Medicine, where she is part of the teaching team and a Research Fellow on an international collaborative project on indigenous health workforce networks.

Wendy represents Onuku Runaka on Manawhenua ki Waitaha. She is also working towards a Masters degree in Public Health at Otago University.

Pacific Island Representative

Lincoln Papali'i

Lincoln has a varied background in local and regional government. He has worked in areas of finance, internal audit, water and drainage services, business and enterprise development, property and infrastructure services, as well as community, recreation, leisure and arts services.

Lincoln has maintained an interest in the health sector since undertaking specific projects with the former Auckland Area Health Board while undertaking his accounting studies, and, more latterly, with the Counties Manukau District Health Board where he established projects such as the National Pacific Diabetes Framework and Capacity Building Programmes for Providers. He has worked closely with Pacific providers such as TaPasifika Health Trust, the first Pacific PHO in the country, and other Pacific providers across the health sector. Lincoln joined the PHO Board in June 2008.

Territorial Local Authorities 

Sally Buck

Sally Buck has been a City Councillor and Community Board member since 1998 .

Sally is a very active Councillor. She chairs the regional landfill committee as well as the regional waste minimisation committee and the CCC Audit and Risk Committee.  Sally initiated the sustainability and climate change working part and she  serves on the regulatory and planning committee, funding committees,  sister city committees, creative communities committee and is also  the council representative on the Transwaste Board, the Chch/West Melton zone water committee and various other organisations.  

She  is a strong advocate for waste minimisation, sustainability,  greening businesses and protecting the aquifer water supply for Christchurch and Canterbury.

She is a qualified RMA commissioner , has a teaching degree and a masters degree in education but has worked in a variety of jobs including teaching  advocacy, employment consultancy, event organising and managing a business.

In her spare time Sally does some volunteer work, gives talks to community groups and is  also an artist working mostly in glass, fabric  and mixed media.

Peter Hill

Peter is newly elected as a Councillor in the Selwyn District having spent most of his life in the area.  He has a post-graduate degree in Industrial Psychology and has had a twenty year career in the Personnel/HR field with specialist roles in industrial safety, industrial relations and HR management.  Peter has seven years of service as a Rolleston Volunteer Fire Fighter. He has also been a strong advocate for the local Selwyn community when the Dunsandel water supply became polluted with ruminant sourced e-coli H0157 and is active in pushing for the application of the Precautionary Principle in regard to water and land use.  Fairly applied, he believes that this Principle can go a long way towards mitigating  the sorts of problems that Canterbury water users are beginning to experience.

His world view is that everyone, regardless of who they are, has a right to basic necessities and these must include, clean air and water and the right to an affordable and effective health system.

Consumer/Community Organisations

Julie Lowe

Julie has worked in most areas of the health services, including primary health care. She is professionally qualified in social work, health management and social policy. This background has enabled her to move from clinical practice to management and policy adviser at regional and national levels. Throughout her career Julie has always been involved with and worked alongside community groups, recognising their important contribution to a society's wellbeing.

Since her retirement and return to Canterbury, Julie has become involved with Caring for Carers. This is a community organisation that supports people who provide unwaged care for families and friends with a long-term mental, intellectual or physical illness or disability.

Julie's involvement with community groups ranges from local to national level and includes Age Concern, the AIDS foundation, Ryder Cheshire, Carers NZ and the development of a community health council.

Sam Yau

I was born in Malaysia and came to New Zealand to further my study in 1985.
Graduated with Bachelor of Commerce and majoring in Marketing from University of Canterbury. Since graduating in early 1990s, I have been involved in a number of industries. From running a production operation in Deer Velvet processing to exporting all sort of deer products, from selling properties to property development. About 3 years ago, I have been giving advise to migrant businesses how to deal with New Zealand business culture and now I own 2 convenience stores myself.

I hope to promote our New Zealand health system through our migrants’ networks so that every resident can maximise the benefits that the system has designed for all of us in the first place.

Finally, I am looking forward to get involve with Partnership Health Canterbury and to learn more about the system myself so that I can assist our communities in Canterbury to access health services and stay well.

Donald Pettitt

Donald Pettitt has been involved as a social worker in the community since 2000, in both statutory and community settings. He is very active in agencies involved in caring for men and boys and is becoming well known as an advocate for men’s health.

Donald has been an active force in the recent creation of the Canterbury Men’s Centre and is currently employed by them four days per week as Manager. He is also a Board member of the CDHB’s Consumer Panel (Men’s Sector representative), the Council of Social Services (Men’s Sector representative), and the Father and Child Trust for which he is both Secretary and Treasurer.

General Practice Group

Shelley Frost

Shelley is the Director of Nursing for Pegasus Health, with more than 25 years of practice nursing behind her. She is vice chair of both the General Practice Nursing Alliance and the Canterbury General Practice Group, a member of the CDHB divisional Nursing Advisory Committee, the Health Services Planning Reference Group and the CDHB Quality and Patient Safety Council.

She is deputy chair of the IPA Council of New Zealand and a director of Pegasus Health (Charitable) Ltd and of Pegasus 24 Hours Surgery.

She was the inaugural postgraduate tutor in practice nursing at the Christchurch School of Medicine and published "New Zealand Practice Nurse" and "Primary Health Care New Zealand" journals of continuing education from 1991-97. She represents primary care on the CPIT Nursing Advisory Group.

Prof. Les Toop

Les Toop has been in General Practice in Phillipstown, South East Christchurch, since 1986. He trained in Bristol and Edinburgh and first came to New Zealand in 1978.

Les is also Professor of General Practice and Head of the Department of Public Health and General Practice at the Medical School (University of Otago, Christchurch). He is actively involved in Undergraduate and Postgraduate Education, with a particular emphasis on promoting evidence based clinical practice, and in community based clinical research.

Les is a Director of Pegasus Health and is on the Council of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. He is a strong advocate for collaborative teamwork in General Practice and of the importance of professional education. He continues to campaign for greater provision of independent consumer health information.

Jacky Percy

Jacky has a doctorate in mathematics, and is a chartered accountant with both NZ and UK qualifications with 22 years experience in professional services environments in client service, senior management and governance roles.

On arriving in New Zealand in 1991 Jacky worked in a business advisory capacity for one of the Big 4 Chartered Accountancy firms, where she rose to a senior role with a portfolio including many primary care clients and where she contributed to the practice’s health sector strategy group.  Jacky joined Pegasus Health (Charitable) Ltd as Chief Financial Officer in May 2006 following a role as Chief Financial Officer of a trans-Tasman intellectual property firm.

Jacky’s professional interests include strategic planning, governance, financial management, risk management and business structuring.

Dr Alison Wooding

Dr Alison Wooding  MB BS, DRCOG, DCH, FRNZCGP

Alison has been a GP in Christchurch since 1996 working at the Union and Community medical centre which is a not for profit primary health care service in Eastern Christchurch. She trained and worked as a GP in the UK prior to this. She has interests that include working with high needs groups, refugee health and population health. She was previously a board member of the Christchurch Community PHO and now serves as a staff representative on the Union and Community Health service board; and  is a member of St Peter's School Board of Trustees. She is a fellow of the Royal New Zealand College of GP's

Non-Contracted Provider Representatives

Jim Magee MBA, BA (HONS)

Jim is the Chief Executive of the Nurse Maude Association, which provides a wide range of community nursing and home care services in Canterbury and beyond. He has worked as a self-employed business consultant and has spent 14 years in high profile health sector roles with the Canterbury District Health Board, Healthcare Otago and the Otago Area Health Board.

As General Manager of Christchurch Hospital (2001–4), he was responsible for an annual budget of $240M and a staff of almost 3000 people. He led innovative programmes resulting in cost savings of more than $10M per annum and verifiable improvements in all significant efficiency indicators. He particularly focussed on bringing clinicians into the management process at all levels throughout the hospital.

As General Manager of the CDHB Women's Health Division, he led the process to achieve first time accreditation and negotiated improved service contracts, also improving communication and reducing costs.

Helen McLeod

With more than 30 years experience in medical laboratory science in primary and secondary care, Helen has networked with a wide range of health professionals in New Zealand, Australia and parts of Asia. In her current role as Business Development Manager at Medlab South, she combines her business and scientific skills in ethical marketing, promotion and education related to health services.

Helen has an interest in effective governance and serves on the local committee of the Canterbury Branch of the Institute of Directors. She is a director of the Astro-tourism businesss Earth and Sky, is a member of the St Georges Hospital Soc and a past member of the Executive of the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation.

With a passion for service improvement through the innovative use of science and technology, Helen has led projects undertaking telemedicine for NZDF troops in Bosnia and electronic ordering of laboratory tests with intuitive best practice recommendations for GPs from the mid 1990s.