The Sub Regional Clinical leadership Group was formed by Wairarapa,
Hutt Valley and Capital and Coast DHBs in 2010with the aim of working
more closely together to provide better and more sustainable services
for our combined population.
It's members are (from each of the three DHBs)
Chief Medical Officers (CMO)
Directors of Nursing (DoN)
Directors of Allied Health, Scientific and Technical (DAHST)
Primary Care Liaisons (PCL)
Clinical Leaders
Chief Executives
Chairs
Chief Operating Officers (COO)
General Managers of Planning and Funding (GM P&F)
In addition, the group is supported by the DHBs Communications Managers, and
secretarial support is provided from Hutt Valley DHB.
In June, a Clinical Lead, Dr Kenneth Clark, was appointed part-time
to support the '3 DHB Health Service Development' programme. At the same
time, a fulltime Programme Director, Sam Kemp-Milham was appointed.
Ken Clark
The
Clinical Lead (part time) for the 3D initiative is Dr Kenneth Clark,
MBChB(Otago) FRANZCOG FRCOG FRTCOG(Hon).
He currently works and lives in Palmerston
North with his wife. They have four adult children.
Ken has been the Chief Medical Officer for
MidCentral DHB for eight years. He participates in high-level management
and strategic direction setting for the DHB and has substantial
involvement in regional service development.
Ken’s clinical leadership is well known and
respected in the Central Region (the six DHBs in the lower North Island)
through chairing the Regional Service Programme Leadership Committee. He
also undertakes specialist obstetric and gynaecological clinical work.
Ken contributes to professional College
activities including being the Chair of the Asia-Pacific Committee of
RANZCOG and Chair of the Ethics Advisory Committee of RANZCOG. He was
President of RANZCOG from 2004 to 2006 and was the Australasian
representative on the Executive of FIGO (the world body for O & G
societies and colleges) from 2006 until 2009.
Sam Kemp-Milham
The
Programme Director (full time) is Sam Kemp-Milham.
Sam has been a project manager and registered
nurse for over twenty years, and has a career spanning nursing, change
and project management, and consultancy services in the health sector in
both New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Most recently, she has been
working as Senior Project Manager within the Ministry of Health’s
Electives team, leading the clinical programme to develop referral
guidelines and prioritisation tools for managing bariatric surgery in
New Zealand.
Prior to moving to New Zealand in 2010, she
was based in London where she ran her own consulting practice primarily
supporting the NHS to develop and implement a change programme looking
at delivering care out of hours for the largest acute Trust in the UK,
serving a population of over seven hundred thousand people. A key area
focus was in working with operational services from a range of sites to
improve patient pathways and access to emergency care. She has worked on
a variety of national and local projects, including implementing the
hospital@ night model of care in several trusts in the UK. .One of the
major national projects she worked on was the introduction of the
48-hour working week for doctors in training. This project looked at
redesigning doctors rosters, ensuring all educational needs were met
whilst still maintaining the service demand. It also looked at enhanced
roles for nursing and allied health workers to support this change.
As a Registered Nurse in the NHS, she worked
in a range of services including medical and surgical wards and the
emergency department. As a senior bed manager, she undertook a range of
projects including capacity and demand management assessment,
development of models of care to manage regional demand, and leadership
of associated process and systems redesign and implementation.
She is married with three children, and is
enjoying living in Paremata and the lifestyle that New Zealand offers.