Program Steering Committee

The Program Owner for the Sustainable Health Review is the Director General of WA Health. The members of the Program Steering Committee of the Sustainable Health Review are the Directors General of WA Health and the Chief Executives of the Health Service Provider Organisations.  As at 19th October 2020, including current allocation of Executive Sponsor of SHR Recommendations:

Assistant Directors General, WA Department of Health

James Williamson, Assistant Director General, Clinical Excellence Division

  • 4 – Citizen & Community Engagement
  • 9 – Last 1000 Days
  • 12 – Coordination for Country Patients
  • 16 – High Value Healthcare Partnership
  • 25 – Contemporary workforce roles and scope of practice
  • 28 – Statewide network of innovation units
  • 29 – Research and Health

Nicole O’Keefe, System Strategy and Governance

  • 15- Improve interface with aged care, disability, health
  • 20- Planning Health Services (Co-Executive Sponsor with Rob Anderson)
  • 22 – Digital Health – 10 year plan
  • 24 – Culture and Accountability (Co-Sponsor with Director General)
  • 26- Workforce partnerships with Universities, Vocational Education
  • 30- SHR Implementation

Denise Sullivan, A/Assistant Director General, Public and Aboriginal Health Division

  • 1 – Public Health Prevention Spend
  • 2a – Halt the rise in obesity
  • 2b – Reduce harmful alcohol use
  • 3b – Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities
  • 3c – Low socio-economic conditions
  • 5 – Reduce Environmental Footprint

Rob Anderson Assistant Director General, Purchasing and System Performance

  • 17 – Funding – High Value Health Care
  • 18 – Treasury and Health agreement
  • 19 – Federal – fair share of funding (Co-Sponsor with Jeff Moffett)
  • 20- Planning Health Services (Co-Executive Sponsor with Nicole O’Keefe)
  • 21 – Data analysis and real time reporting

Chief Executives of Health Service Providers:

Child and Adolescent Health: Aresh Anwar.

  • 2 – Culture of courage, innovation and accountability
  • 8 – First 1000 Days (Co-Executive Sponsor with Jeff Moffet)

East Metropolitan Health: Liz Macleod.

  • 6a, 6b and 6c – Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drugs (Co-Executive Sponsor with Mental Health Commissioner Jennifer McGrath)
  • Recommendation 11 – Frequent Presenters to ED

North Metropolitan Health: (Acting) Tony Dolan

  • 10 – WAPHA an WA Health Partnership

South Metropolitan Health: Paul Forden

  • 11a&b –Outpatients

WA Country Health Service: Jeff Moffet.

  • 2a – Equity – Aboriginal patients
  • 8 – First 1000 Days (Co-Executive Sponsor with Aresh Anwar)
  • 12 – Coordination for Country Patients (Co-Executive Sponsor with James Williamson)
  • 19- Federal – fair share of funding (Co-Executive Sponsor with Rob Anderson)

Mental Health Commissioner: Jennifer McGrath

  • 6a, 6b and 6c – Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drugs (Co-Executive Sponsor with Liz MacLeod)