Sessions
(A) Healthcare Neighbourhoods - a local health and care ecosystem
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Wed
Diana is the longstanding Chair of WentWest – Western Sydney Primary Health Network (WSPHN), with background in general practice, medical education, strategic planning, policy development and health system redesign. She is also a member of the RACGP NSW&ACT Faculty Council and the NSW&ACT PHN Council and has recently concluded a three-year term on the GP Synergy Board and a ten-year term on the Western Sydney Local Health District Board. Diana is a Conjoint Professor in the Department of General Practice, University of Western Sydney, and former Chair of the NSW&ACT PHN Council, the Agency for Clinical Innovation’s General Practice Advisory Group and NSW Health’s General Practice Advisory Council. She is also a past member of the RACGP, GPET and AMLA Boards.
Diana has had a long involvement in reform initiatives intended to build strong, integrated and equitable primary health care, having led two RACGP Presidential Task Forces on Health System Reform, worked closely with NSW Health on the development of the statewide HealthOne, Chronic Care, Integrated Care and related policy initiatives, and through WentWest contributed to a wide range of reform initiatives, culminating in the development of Healthicare. In 2018, Diana was awarded an AO Award for ‘distinguished services to medicine in the field of general practice through policy development, health system reform and the establishment of new models of service and care’.