Role Call - People on the move and getting recognition in the health sector

Public health medicine specialist Dale Bramley (Ngā Puhi) has this month moved from interim national director hospital and specialist services at Te Whatu Ora to a permanent post at the agency: national director improvement and innovation.

Dr Bramley was the Waitematā DHB’s chief executive for over 10 years. He chairs the Health Quality & Safety Commission and is an adjunct professor of health at AUT. He was a member of the Māori review group advising on the health and disability system reforms.

Following the departure of Martin Hefford as localities and commissioning workstream lead at Te Whatu Ora, four appointments have been announced covering off his role.

Rachel Haggerty is the new interim director transformation and enablers, on secondment from her role as director, strategy, planning and performance at Te Whatu Ora Capital Coast and Hutt Valley. She formerly held senior executive positions in South Canterbury, Tairāwhiti, Auckland and Waitematā health districts.

The other appointees are: Jason Power, interim director funding and investment; Emma Foster, interim director system planning; and Kylie Ormrod, interim co-director localities.

Barrister Sarah Eyre is the Human Rights Review Tribunal’s new chair. The tribunal hears and determines appeals lodged under the Human Rights Act 1983, the Privacy Act 2020 and the Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994.

Ms Eyre was formerly the deputy chair (since 2019) and prior to that was a disputes tribunal referee. She has held a statutory warrant as a visiting justice for four years.

A member of the Pacific Lawyers Association, Ms Eyre is of Tongan and Pākehā descent.

Ben Hudson is the Pegasus Health medical director, a new position bringing “the voice of general practice” to the Pegasus strategic leadership team, says a media release from the PHO.

Dr Hudson is a specialist GP in Lyttelton, where he has worked for the past 16 years, and head of the department of primary care and clinical simulation at the University of Otago, Christchurch.

He is stepping down from Pegasus governance roles.