Webinar: Driving Healthcare and Aged Care Success Through Effective Governance

What's in it for you? 

• Establish clear roles and responsibilities
• Lead with confidence in navigating complex regulatory challenges
• Mitigate risks and ensure compliance with industry standards
• Achieve sustainable, long-term success in healthcare management

Learning aims and objectives:

• Understand the key principles of effective governance in healthcare
• Gain insights into risk management and accountability frameworks in healthcare
• Develop strategies to navigate complex regulatory and compliance environments
• Explore methods to enhance transparency and foster trust among stakeholders
• Examine the role of governance in maintaining ethical practices and patient safety
• Apply governance principles to real-world healthcare challenges and scenarios

Want more on Health Care?

Governance Institute offers two in-house training courses to further your knowledge in the field. 

• Governance Essentials in Health Care
• Clinical Governance and Risk Management in Health Care - A practical approach

Speaker Highlights:

Fi Mercer, CEO, GovernWith 

Fi is a governance review and development specialist, governance data and IT expert and successful entrepreneur, with 30 years leadership experience, both executive and governance, in the health, primary care, human services, education, not for profit and business sectors. She is a highly sought-after Chair, Director, Governance facilitator, Guest speaker, and project manager.

Fi has significant skills, expertise, and experience in supporting boards and executives to review and develop their corporate, sector, structural, constitutional, culture, behavioural and individual director governance roles and responsibilities for being effective and resilient.

Fi has developed an award-winning online Portal that over 700 Boards and 7,000 Directors have participated in for their review and development programs. Producing powerful governance data insights for decision making, actions, development, trending and benchmarking it is now widely used across Australia in many sectors.

She is a transformational leader in her current and past Chair and director roles, as well as her roles as a founding director, CEO and executive manager.

She has completed entrepreneurship, innovation and venture capital studies, Haas Business School at Berkley (Silicon Valley, California). She is also engaged in the Runway Geelong accelerator and mentoring program for governance in start-up businesses.

Fi’s most recent roles have been with Wesley Mission QLD, Dairy Foods Safety Victoria, Bendigo Health, Barwon Health, Baptcare VIC, BaptistCare NSW, Southwest Sydney Primary Health Network and National Heart Foundation.

Carrie Marr, Managing Director, CG Marr Associates Ltd 

Carrie has over 30 years of experience providing strategic leadership to large scale change programs across healthcare. She has a background in public sector people engagement and working with health care systems to support their ambition to create a positive culture that give everyone the opportunity to thrive. She is passionate about patient safety, improvement and innovation and the vital link between this and organisational and Board effectiveness.

Originally trained in Scotland and working across NHS Scotland in several executive positions, Carrie worked latterly in Australia as the Chief Executive of the NSW Clinical Excellence Commission, the Ministry of Health lead agency for safety and quality for the State of New South Wales.

Carrie now works independently and provides expert advice and coaching to health and social care systems, Boards and Executives supporting their ambition and intent to lift and strengthen their leadership and governance practice of safety and quality.

Chair: Catherine Maxwell FGIA FCG, General Manager, Policy and Advocacy, Governance Insitute of Australia

Catherine has a strong background in governance and policy gained at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, the ASX Corporate Governance Council, ASX, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Financial Services Council. Qualified as a lawyer, she has also held roles as a company secretary with The Cancer Council NSW, NPP Australia Limited and Father Chris Riley’s Youth off the Streets Limited. She has been at Governance Institute since 2017.