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Prudence Walker starts next month in the new role of kaihautū tika hauātanga disability rights commissioner, leading Te Kāhui Tika Tangata – the Human Rights Commission’s work in disability rights. Ms Walker has been chief executive of the Disabled Persons Assembly New Zealand for nearly four years. As a disabled and queer woman, she comes from a strong social justice perspective, says a Ministry of Justice media release. Ms Walker spent 11 years in a variety of roles with CCS Disability Action and, as a young person living with cancer, was national president of CanTeen.
A specialist GP since 2008, Caroline Christie will become the RNZCGP’s newest board member at the annual general meeting on 22 July.
Dr Christie, deputy chair of Pegasus Health, has worked for the past four years at St Martins Medical Practice in Christchurch and has had over 10 years in clinical leadership.
Between 2012 and 2019, she was a GP at The Doctors on Riccarton. She was elected to the board last month when standing against specialist GP Aniva Lawrence.
Qualified social worker Tania Pritchard (Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa, Ngāpuhi) has joined Te Aka Whai Ora as general manager, whānau voice within the mātauranga Māori team, charged with ensuring whānau and consumers’ voices are elevated in the agency’s work and that of Te Whatu Ora, iwi Māori partnership boards and providers.
Ms Pritchard was clinical services manager and chief executive for the then Manaia Health PHO.
She later held senior management roles with the Ngāti Hine Health Trust and Toitū te Waiora, the Community, Health, Education and Social Services Workforce Development Council.
Specialist GP Letava Tafuna’i has joined WellSouth PHO as senior clinical advisor, Pasifika.
Dr Tafuna’i, who was born and raised in Samoa and also has Fijian heritage, is working with Pacific health providers in Dunedin, Invercargill and Oamaru, as well as general practices across the region to improve care and long-term health for Pacific aiga.
Appointed associate dean Pacific at Dunedin School of Medicine since July 2021, she also worked as a GP at Broadway Medical Centre for three years following a decade in Australia training and working in primary and secondary care.
James Allison (Ngāpuhi, Karetu) has left his role as Te Whatu Ora’s interim regional data and digital lead for Te Waipounamu to become the national agency’s director ICT.
Mr Allison held senior executive positions in the likes of ASB Bank, Telecom and Spark and was for seven years general manager, information services at The Warehouse.
He has more recently worked as chief digital officer for Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury and Te Tai o Poutini West Coast, chief information officer with health Alliance, and contracts and programmes manager with Mahitahi Hauora.
While still seconded from her position as director, strategy, planning and performance at the then Capital & Coast and Hutt Valley DHBs (now Te Whatu Ora Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley), Rachel Haggerty has a new role at Te Whatu Ora as director, service strategy, planning and purchasing.
Ms Haggerty has held senior executive positions in health in South Canterbury, Tairāwhiti, Auckland and Waitematā.
She has chaired, and co-chaired, private providers, forums and advisory groups for the Ministry of Health and the DHBs nationally.
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