ACS is pleased to have a number of leading speakers joining the program for the 2015 Community Forum - Securing Our Place in the Future.
David is a Director in the Aged Care Reform Taskforce of the Commonwealth Department of Health. David has worked on aged care policy and programmes for the last five years, including managing the Aged Care Approvals Round, the introduction of the home care packages programme, and the early development of the Commonwealth Home Support Programme. He is currently managing the reforms to introduce greater choice and flexibility in home care. Previously, David has worked across a number of health-related reforms in primary care and Medicare policy.
Jane Mussared
CEO COTA SA, Chair of NACA HCP/CDC Advisory Group
Jane Mussared is the Chief
Executive of the Council on the Ageing in South Australia (COTA SA), the peak
body promoting the rights, needs and interests of older South Australians.
Jane came to COTA SA in 2015 from ACH Group where
she had been part of their Executive team since 2001, initially managing the
Health and Community Services Division and then heading up People and
Innovation. Prior to that Jane was the Manager of the State Government Office
for the Ageing.
Jane chairs the National Aged Care Alliance Home
Care Committee and is on the Federation of Ethnic Communities Council (FECCA)
Healthy Ageing Reference Committee and the SA Economic Development Board
Healthy Ageing Group. Jane is also the Deputy
Chair of Cirkidz.
In 2008 Jane was the SA Winner of the Innovation
Award in the Telstra Business Women’s Awards and in 2007 she won a Sanicare
Scholarship to visit aged care in Malta and the Netherlands. Jane has a Masters’ Degree in Social Work
(majoring in social policy and research) from the University of Michigan.
David Kay
KPMG
David Kay is a Director in
KPMG’s Health, Ageing and Human Services team. He has worked with
government agencies and not-for-profits in the disability and community care
sectors for more than 10 years, advising them on strategy,
policy and program reform, review and evaluation. His recent work has
focussed on the development and implementation of the National Disability
Insurance Scheme and provider readiness for the Scheme, as well as community
care projects including the Evaluation of the Commonwealth Home Care Packages
program.
Alison Choy-Flannigan
Holman Webb Lawyers
Alison has over
25 years of corporate, commercial and regulatory experience, specialising in
advising health, aged care and life science clients.
Alison was previously General Counsel of Ramsay Health Care Limited (one of Australia's largest private hospital operators, which previously operated an aged care division) and was a partner of a major Australian National law firm.
Advice for aged care and retirement living clients includes advising on corporate advisory, mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure projects, advising on regulatory requirements including the Aged Care Act, reviewing funding agreements, drafting agreements between aged care providers and their clients and advising on issues such as duty of care, consent, security of tenure, guardianship, elder abuse and advance care directives.
In each year since 2008, Alison has been nominated by her peers in Best Lawyers International: Australia and in the Australian Financial Review as one of Australia's 'best lawyers' in the areas of health and aged care and has been named in Australasian Legal Business for mergers and acquisitions.
She
was listed as one of the “50 Women to Watch – Specialist in their Field in
Australia and New Zealand” – Australasian Lawyer 2015.
Sarah Brisbane:
Community Care Northern Beaches
Sarah joined CCNB in June 2014 and leads CCNB’s Executive and Leadership Teams. She brings 25 years’ experience in strategy, change management, stakeholder relations, marketing/communication, professional services and risk management. Sarah leads CCNB’s transformation agenda – remaining strongly connected to the communities in which we operate, focused on our vision and purpose, but being more consumer-centric, contemporary, competitive, sustainable and ‘future proofed’.
She has a Bachelor of Arts in
Organisational Communication, Master of Arts in Communication Management and a
diploma from the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). She is a
fellow of the AICD.
Michelle Newman:
Aged & Community Services NSW & ACT
Michelle has worked in the human services sector for the
past 25 years in a range of positions in local, state and federal government. Michelle
has managed Home and Community Care (HACC) services in local government and has
participated in many community Boards of Management.
Michelle has been working with ACS NSW & ACT
for the past four years managing a number of projects aimed at improving the
capacity of aged care service providers to prepare and position themselves
for the broader reforms in both the aged and disability programs.
Michelle has represented ACSA on a number of national
projects and committees including the NACA Commonwealth Home Support Program
Advisory Group, the Service Group 5 sub group and the CHSP Fees sub group.
Michelle has recently been appointed to the new Home Care Reform Advisory
Group.
Michelle works closely with the sector support
workers and peaks across NSW and chairs the NSW Community Care Forum. Michelle is
passionate about the provision of high quality services across the sector and
the balance of regulation and compliance in a service system that is accessible,
responsive and innovative.
Jenni Allan
Adssi Home Living
Jenni has over thirty years’
experience in the commercial and financial sectors with twenty of those years
in the NFP sector, including roles as Finance Operations Manager and Chief
Executive Officer of Adssi HomeLiving Australia (AHLA). She holds a Master
of Business Administration and a Master of Commerce, Professional Accounting
both from the University of New England. Jenni is focused on the future of
AHLA; on maximising opportunities provided by the Government’s reform agenda to
ensure the business’ ongoing viability and expansion, and is driven by her
passion to make a difference to the daily lives of AHLA’s clients.
Michael Fine: BA (Hons), PhD (Sydney), FAAG.
Macquarie University
Michael Fine is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney and was Head of the Department from 2008 to 2013. He is currently a member of the NSW Ministerial Advisory Committee on Ageing, and of the NSW Carers Advisory Council and a Board Member of Northside Community Forum; Editorial Advisor and Board member for the Australasian Journal of Ageing and a number of other international journals.
He is also Principal Investigator for an
Australian Research Council (ARC) project, undertaken in collaboration with
Macquarie University, University of Wollongong, ACSA (NSW) and a number of
leading community care services, on the development of an Australian Community
Care Outcomes Measure (ACCOM). In September 2015 he was an invited senior
scholar for the University of Vienna’s research laboratory on Practices of Care.