Midland Regional Projects 2011

The Midland Regional Network is supporting a number of projects that have been identified from the Midland Regional Forums strategic planning days.

Midland Clinical Governance Project

The Midland Clinical Govenance Project Report Sept 2011 has been completed following consultation with the exsiting Midland Clinical Leadership forum.  Following discussion with the Project Sponsers an Implementation Plan will be developed to assist with moving into the recommended model of clinical governenace.

Project Consultant - Deirdre Mulligan

Deirdre Mulligan is a Director of DMHL Consultancy and has worked as an independent contractor for a number of District Health Boards and Non Government Organisations. She has a clinical background, and also worked in a range of areas including operational management, service development & planning, contract management, funding & planning and project management for more than 20 years.

Relevant Qualifications include:

• Diploma in Occupational Therapy (Central Institute of Technology)

• Masters in Health Science (University of South Australia)

• Graduate Diploma in Business (Auckland University – Executive Studies)

Relevant Previous Experience includes:

• Identifying the development agenda for national, regional and local projects

• Led development and implementation of several key strategies and reviews in health, education & regional council environments (Workforce development, Quality Monitoring and Evaluation, Purchasing and Negotiation Framework, Support Services design and review, Residential services review, Regional Procurement strategy, Communication & Information strategies, National Standards Development, Implementation and Evaluation, Regional Forensic Strategy, Older persons strategy, Local, regional and national stakeholder network establishment)

• Collaborative and professional working relationships established with Boards, National, regional and local planners, funders, service providers, policy makers and the community

• Consultant on a number of national and regional projects that will influence service development and delivery in both health and transport

• Responsible for budget in excess of 150 million dollars per annum

• Successful completion of significant and complex contract negotiations

• Headed large annual tender processes

• Accessed additional funding from traditional and non traditional revenue streams (health, education & transport)

Over the last 3 years, Consultancy Contracts/Projects have included

Northern Regional District Health Boards Projects

o Supra-regional Eating Disorders Services Continuum of Care Project

o Eating Disorders Service Level Agreement Project

o Northern Regional Forensic Strategy

o Supra Regional Prison Model of Care

o Waitemata District Health Board

o Prioritisation Projects

o Mental Health and Addictions Strategic Plan

Auckland District Health Board

o Workforce Development Strategy

o Across all Ages Rehabilitation Strategy

o Review of Maori Mental Health Services

o Counties Manukau District Health Board

o Workforce Development Projects

o AOD collaboration Project

Midland District Health Boards

o Regionalisation project (Mental Health and Addictions)

Taranaki District Health Board

o Adult Mental Health & Addictions Continuum Project

Lakes District Health Board

o Adult Mental Health & Addictions Continuum Project

Odyssey House (NGO)

o Workforce Development Projects

o Induction and orientation training

o Administration review

o Walsh Trust – Packages of Care service review (NGO)

o Equip – Outcomes Framework & Strategic Plan (NGO)

o Richmond Fellowship – Service Reviews and Reconfiguration projects (NGO)

o South Australia Mental Health Unit – Development of a Statewide model for Eating Disorder Services

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The objective is to deliver, by 30 June 2011 clear options for the establishment of a Midland Regional Clinical Governance forum that will lead and influence:

Managers, Planners and Funders – regional and local:

Service managers and clinical leaders (provider arm and NGOs)

Family/Whanau

Policy makers at the local, regional and national level

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Project Reference Group

Dr Luis Villa, BSC, MPH

Luis started his career as an A&E physician and later in International Public Health in Africa and Latin America, the last two years working for the World Health Organisation in the Caribbean. Luis has been in New Zealand for the past two years working in Primary Care as Public Health Advisor for the Midlands Health Network. Luis is also a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland (School of Population Health).

Luis brings a Public Health and Health Systems approach perspective to Mental Health and Addictions (MHA). The knowledge and experience of other systems and strategies, with a strong focus on integration of MHA services into primary care

 

 

 

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Anne Ridgway – Clinical Services Manager MH&A, Taranaki DHB

Credentials
MHSc (Health Service Management), BN, Dip MHN, PG Cert Health Service Management,  Dip Counselling, Cert IV Work Place Training & Assessment, Cert Managing Cultural Diversity in Mental Health , NZQA Cert Supervision

Seventeen years after my initial training as a general nurse, I consciously changed career path and completed a hospital-based diploma in Mental Health Nursing in 1991. The diploma initiated a fundamental change in my views of nursing, as I understood the importance of theory and research to underpin my clinical practice. This stimulated my desire to undertake further study at undergraduate and postgraduate level and in 2002 I was awarded a Masters of Health Science (Health Service Management).  This qualification allowed me to diversify my management roles from  Adult Mental Health and MH Services for  the Older Person to quality and risk manager, coordinator of general and surgical services and management of  Mental Health, Eating disorders and  Detox beds within the private sector.  I was actively involved in developing an organisational cultural audit tool and presented papers on this process.  

 A nomination for the Western Australian Nursing Excellence award and the completion of a Certificate in Managing Cultural Diversity in Mental Health from the Queensland Government whilst the Chair of the Mental Health Cultural Forum for practitioners, prompted me to  apply for the position of Associate Director of Nursing Mental Health and Addictions at TDHB. Thus in 2005, I was able to achieve the goal of working within a bi cultural health setting by migrating to NZ.  I remained as the ADON for 18 months providing nursing expertise across the Taranaki Region including the NGO sector. I was accepted as a Doctoral Student at AUT. However,  the desire to return to management was too strong and I  moved into  the position of Community Mental Health  Manager in 2007.  In 2010,  I was appointed as the Clinical Services Manager Mental Health and Addictions.

Firmly believing that to ensure service delivery is maintained in rural areas, I  have  taken a lead role in developing partnerships with the NGO Sector and currently  manage seconded TDHB staff within Maori Mental Health Services. Additionally, I have been  the management lead for the Better Sooner More Convenient  TDHB demonstration project and have had a lead role in the CAMHS Continuum of Care project to integrate CAMHS and Maori NGO CAMHS service provision. I  have  a special interest in outcomes for Mental Health and Addiction Services thus have  championed for  the use of HONOS as part of clinical utility, introduced Knowing the People Planning and taken a  lead role in promoting key performance indicators for MH.

Skills that I Bring to the Project

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David Benton -  Clinical Director of Hanmer Clinic Tauranga, which is an NGO providing outpatient alcohol and drug addiction treatment services

After training in the United States, he held positions as an Alcohol and Drug Counsellor for Founders Hall Outpatient Service in Vermont, USA, as well as a counsellor and tutor at Lyndon State College, part of the University of Vermont.  Returning to New Zealand, he was Programme Director for the Salvation Army Bridge Programme on Rotoroa Island, a well known Treatment Centre for Alcohol and Drug Abuse.

His next position was as Manager of the Auckland Methadone Service - the largest in New Zealand. Here he was responsible for initiating and setting in place the first training programme for GP’s prescribing Methadone.  Moving to Tauranga, he worked with the Community Alcohol and Drug Service for a year, and then began and co-ordinated the Lakes Methadone Programme in Taupo and Rotorua for ten years

He was a member of the Trust Board set up by the Goodfellow Unit, Auckland University, to oversee Training for Opioid Treatment by General Practitioners, and was the Northern Region Facilitator for that project for the seven years of its existence.  He was the founder and elected Chair of the National Association of Opioid Treatment Providers for ten years, and has served on the Organising Committee of the Cutting Edge Conference for the last eight years.

He has been a key note speaker at the Dual Diagnosis Seminar in Tauranga (2002), and at the Cutting Edge Conference (2003), and has presented papers at International Methadone Conferences in New York and San Francisco, the New Zealand Association of Counsellors Conference, and the Cutting Edge Conferences in Wellington (1998), Rotorua (2000), and Napier (2001), and Palmerston North (2004), and Auckland (2007).

He has been involved in Programme Development, Staff Training and Supervision, developing and maintaining Quality of Service, the development of Training Packages for GP’s, and of course, delivery of services to clients.  As well, he has conducted numerous educational and training groups on all aspects of Alcohol and Drug work for GP’s, alcohol and drug workers, community support workers,  Workplace training, etc, and has been a tutor for the Central Institute of Technology's Dual Diagnosis Training Programme, and for the Alcohol and Drug and Drug studies Post Graduate Certificate of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Auckland University.

David is a member of the Drug and Alcohol Practitioners’ Association Aotearoa New Zealand (DAPAANZ), with whom he is a Registered Competent Practitioner. He is also a member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychodramatists (ANZPA).

He has a Masters degree in Health Science, endorsed in Mental Health, awarded by the Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago.

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Dr Rees Tapsell - Executive Clinical Director Waikato DHB/Forensic Consultant Psychiatrist - (MB, ChB, Diploma of Clinical Teaching, FRANZCP)

 Dr Tapsell was born and raised in Rotorua and hails from the Arawa tribe of that region. He attended the University of Otago where he graduated MB ChB in 1988. He spent several years working in family medicine and the field of alcohol and drug work and after a period of travelling he began his postgraduate training in psychiatry, gaining his fellowship to the Royal Australia & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) in 1998.

Dr Tapsell is a forensic psychiatrist and is currently the Executive Clinical Director of PUAWAI: The Midland Regional Forensic Psychiatric Service; a joint initiative between the Health Waikato and Hauora Waikato. He is a partner in PSYLAW, a private forensic psychiatric consultancy; a psychiatrist deputy member on the Mental Health Review Tribunal and a clinical lecturer with the Auckland School of Medicine.

 

Skills that I bring to the project:

Dr Tapsell’s particular professional and research interests are the:

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Professor Graham Mellsop - Professor of Psychiatry - (MD, FRANZCP)

 

More than four decades of clinical psychiatry, always also involved in teaching and research.  Two decades as Professor of Psychiatry. Three decades as Professor of Psychiatry at several Universities.

Skills I bring to the project:

Global experience and short sentences.

 

 

 

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Marita Ranclaud - Lakes Mental Health Portfolio Manager

Marita is Rotorua born and bred and has a background in mental health nursing with post graduate qualifications in Maori & Pacific Development and Health Science (C & A Psychiatry). Marita is passionate about mental health and has a particular interest in workforce development, youth & Maori mental health issues.

 

 

 

 

 

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Belinda Walker - Midland Regional PRIMHD Technical Support - (BAASc Psychology Major)

 

Belinda has worked in the Midland disability, mental health and addiction sectors for over ten years. She has experience working across the age continuum and high and complex needs. Belinda has been employed in a variety of roles including community support work, team leadership and senior management. She also is qualified Health & Disability Auditor and has been involved in a number of projects.

Belinda will be providing a Project Support role to Deirdre as we progress the work.

 

Skills that I bring to the project:

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Dr Sue Mackersey, Clinical Director of Mental Health and Addiction Services for the Bay of Plenty District Health Board, Director of Area Mental Health Services for the Bay of Plenty District Health Board and Consultant Psychiatrist.

 Credentials - 

• Senior Consultant Psychiatrist and FRANZCP (Fellow of Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists)

• Extensive clinical experience in Mental Health and Addiction Services in the public and private sectors in New Zealand and Australia

• Track record of achievement in senior clinical leadership roles

• Participation in governance in a range of health systems

• Track record of contribution to Midland and National mental health projects

• Achievement in quality improvement in service delivery

Sue has worked for the BOP DHB for 5 years as the clinical leader of the Mental Health and Addiction Service. During this time she has led the service through significant change in the model of care with integration of the service across the Western and Eastern BOP (the Tauranga and Whakatane based services), integration of teams within the service and developments of collaborations between the secondary services and primary care/NGO sector. I am active in the governance of the BOP DHB and have contributed to regional and national initiatives. Sue brings a strong family perspective to mental health service delivery and have promoted consumer participation in local services.

Prior to her current role Sue was working as a psychiatrist in Australia where she had an established community and inpatient practice with a subspecialty interest in adolescent and maternal mental health. In addition she held various roles in the public mental health system in Consultation Liaison, Rehabilitation and Acute Response Psychiatry. Before training in psychiatry Sue worked in Emergency Medicine and General Practice in rural and urban communities.

Sue grew up in rural Bay of Plenty. This is her home. Her family live here. As a consequence of this background Sue has well developed knowledge of the communities, history, geography and culture of much of the Midland area

Sue is interested in participating in the reference group as she has an interest in effective governance and have experience and skills which will enable her to make a useful contribution. This expression of interest is consistent with Sue's previous commitment and contribution to Midland projects. She has an understanding of the challenges which regional governance models will need to address.

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Michael O'Connell, Clinical Nurse Director, RN (RGON, RPN), BA, MA (Applied) Cert AT, JP, Member of College of Mental Health Nurses, TEC, NZIM

35 years nursing and teaching health / wellness.  Reference Group Member in many Mental Health & Educational change processes.  National Governance Group in Tertiary Education (10years).  Regional Governance for ‘Supporting Families’.  Currently in Clinical Governance for MH & A Service and Lakes DHB Governance Team

Skills I Bring

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 Midland Addictions Clinician Qualifications Project

September 2011 Update

Following consultation the feedback was discussed at the Midland Regional Addiction Forum on the 18th August.  Click here to see the Collated Feedback Table.

The final drafte Midland Addictions Clinical Qualifications Guidelines is currently going through its final stages of consultation and sign off.  Click here to read the MR Addictions Clinical Qualifications Guidelines 2011.

 

July 2011 Update

The draft discussion paper is currently out for consultation across the Midland sector.  Feedback closes on Wednesday 20 July 2011.  To have your say:

Draft Midland Addictions Clinical Qualifications Discussion Paper

Addictions Clinical Qualifications Feedback Form

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The objectives of this project is to establish a list of qualifications that staff employed in clinical alcohol and other drug positions must have to meet the requirements of clinical across Midland

To clarify the following:

Confirm how the three levels of DAPAANZ fit within the National service specification purchasing framework and in particular which category fits the requirements of clinical

Clarify the qualifications that may be held by allied heath staff for the person to be recognised as a clinical

Clarify what Maori qualifications (if any) may be held by staff for the person to be recognised as a clinical

That the proposed list of qualifications is:

Final Midland Addictions Clinician Qualifications Project Scope

Pam Armstrong has been contracted to lead this project on behalf of the Midland region.  Pam comes to the project with an extensive background in Addictions.  The Midland Regional Addictions Forum will provide a project Reference Group role to Pam.

Project Report April 2011