The Clinical Board is a multidisciplinary clinical forum, whose membership includes representatives from the primary, secondary and community sectors. There are 29 members on the Clinical Board, four of whom are elected. The Chairman and Deputy Chairman are elected annually.
Members of the Board support and influence the Canterbury District Health Board's vision and values, and play an important clinical leadership role. They are responsible for the clinical governance of services provided by the District Health Board.
The Clinical Board:
All members (except ex officio) have a term of three years from and including February 2020 with right of renewal).
Name/Position | Representative area |
Dr Helen Skinner, Chief Medical Officer |
Chief Executive Nominee from the Executive Management Team |
Dr Ramon Pink, Medical Officer of Health |
Clinical Director, Community and Public Health |
Professor David Murdoch, Dean University of Otago, Christchurch |
– |
Jacqui Lunday Johnstone, Executive Director Allied Health |
Interim nominee of the CDHB Clinical Governance Committee |
Dr Isabel Jamieson |
Nominee of the Ara Institute |
Susan Wood, CDHB Manager, Quality and Patient Safety |
Quality and Patient Safety, Canterbury DHB |
Name/Position | Representative area |
Dr Ben Hudson, General Practitioner |
Nominee of Pegasus Health |
TBA |
Nominee of Waitaha Primary Health |
Dr Tearlach MacLean, General Practitioner and Deputy Director of Health Centre |
Nominee of the University of Canterbury and Christchurch PHO |
Aarti Patel |
Nominee of Canterbury Pharmacy Group |
Annette Finlay |
Nominee of Nurse Maude |
Violet Clapham |
Nominee of the NZ College of Midwives |
Name/Position | Representative area |
Michelle Turrall |
Nominee of Manawhenua ki Waitaha |
Name/Position | Representative area |
Emma Jeffery |
Nominee of Canterbury Clinical Network |
Christine Leleifenika |
Nominee of CCN Transalpine Oral Health Service Development Group |
Page last updated: 5 July 2021
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