Friday 7 April 2006
8.15am - 9.00am	Registration & Arrival Tea & Coffee
9.00am - 9.10am	Welcome and Introduction Assoc Prof Stuart Schneider, President, NSW Branch ACHSE
9.10am	Session 1 - Leadership in Health Reform
	There is a wide range of Health Reforms being addressed such as clinical redesign, mental health, support services, organisational restructure. The opening session will explore the development and implementation of the reforms, including getting community and clinical involvement and one of the "crunch" issues, workforce.
	The NSW Health Reform agenda Dr Richard Matthews, Deputy Director General, Strategic Development Opportunities for Workforce reform Prof Judy Lumby, Emeritus Professor of Nursing, UTS and Executive Director, The College of Nursing Making Health Reforms a Reality Terry Clout, Chief Executive, Hunter New England AHS Facilitator: A/Prof Jeffrey Braithwaite, Director, Centre for Clinical Governance Research, UNSW
10.30am	Morning Tea and Exhibition viewing
11.00am	Session 2 - Leadership in Clinical Governance
	Patient quality and safety issues from the Bristol Inquiry to Bundaberg have driven Health Reforms. Clinical governance is one of the changes to emerge from these inquiries but how is it performing?
	Implications for Clinical Governance from the Queensland Inquiry Peter Forster, Director of Inquiry into the Queensland Health System following the Bundaberg Inquiry Clinical Reform in NSW Prof Cliff Hughes AO, CEO, NSW Clinical Excellence Commission Clinical Governance: top down, bottom up and everything in between Dr Christine Jorm, Anaesthetist, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Clinical Governance Research, UNSW Facilitator: A/Prof Jeffrey Braithwaite, Director, Centre for Clinical Governance Research, UNSW
12.30pm	Lunch & Exhibition Viewing
1.30pm	Session 3 - Leadership in Rural, Aged Care and Aboriginal Health Reforms
	Health Reforms are needed in some specific areas which require action to ensure equity and health improvements. The rural workforce has some special needs, Aged Care is experiencing significant growth but with a workforce that needs many changes. Aboriginal Health continues to be impacted by societal and other issues that are still holding back health improvements.
	Rural Health Workforce Reforms Dr Sue Page, Chair, North Coast AHS Advisory Council and Immediate Past President, Rural Doctors Association Aged Care Reforms and Workforce Issues Jill Pretty, Deputy CEO, Aged & Community Services Association NSW Getting the Societal Issues Right in Addressing Aboriginal Health Reforms Marjorie Anderson, Manager, Executive Services, NSW Department of Juvenile Justice
3.00pm	Afternoon Tea & Exhibition Viewing
3.30pm	Session 4 - Leadership in Developing Professional & Organisational Learning
	Leadership is needed to achieve Health Reforms. Leaders need to be developed and organisations need to learn and grow from their experiences to be able to achieve change. It can be hard going being a leader in an organisation needing change. What does it take and what does it take out of you? How is the UK NHS facing this challenge? How do you provide leadership in a "virtual" organisation where the structure is informal and "fluid"?
	Providing Leadership to Achieve Clinical and Organisational Change Adj Prof Michael Moodie, former CEO, King Edward Hospital Perth, when the Hospital went through a Royal Commission into its clinical governance issues. Leadership in a "Virtual" Organisation Garry Druitt, Chief Information Officer, South Western Alliance of Rural Hospitals Victoria Developing Leaders in the UK NHS Penny Humphris CBE, former Director, UK NHS Leadership Centre
5.00-6.00pm	Cocktail Party & Exhibition Viewing
6.00pm	Conference & Exhibition close