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Content last updated 22/11/2022

Gold Coast Primary Health Network Senior Leadership Team

Gold Coast Primary Health Network (GCPHN) senior leadership team is led by a diverse team with significant experience in primary healthcare and community sectors, and broad ranging skills.

CEO: Matt Carrodus, B. Soc Sc (Major HR Dev)
Career Highlights:

  • Chief Executive Officer, Primary Care Gold Coast (2011 – current)
  • Chief Executive Officer, General Practice Gold Coast (2006 – 2011)
  • General Manager, Disability Services Queensland in Uniting Care
  • Business Manager and HR Manager, Blue Care
  • Graduate, Royal Military College Duntroon
Significant Achievements:

  • Successful tender and establishment of Gold Coast Primary Health Network
  • Established Primary Care Gold Coast as a new company in 2011
  • Established the Primary Care Partnership Council to improve integration in the sector
  • Development of hospital integration initiatives that increased GP satisfaction with integrated system and patient outcomes
  • Amalgamation of United Care Disability Services
  • Managed a major building program for residential aged care facilities at Blue Care
  • Inaugural Human Resource Manager for Blue Care Gold Coast during transition to corporate structure
Director of Commissioning Programs: Libby Carr
Career Highlights:

  • Director of Adult Community Health Services (Gold Coast Health)
  • Acting Executive Director Community, Aged Care & Rehabilitation (Gold Coast Health)
  • Acting Allied Health Advisor (Queensland Health)
  • Director of Disability Support Services (Ministry of Health NZ)
  • Ministerial Advisor (Office of Minister of Health NZ)
  • Contract/Service Manager (Health Funding Authority NZ)
Significant Achievements:

  • Leadership and implementation of GCPHN commissioning framework with specific focus on service design and procurement
  • Leadership and management of range of programs/service areas driving transformational change across multidisciplinary teams
  • Supporting & implementing a range of workforce strategies and programs to build allied health capability across Queensland
  • Leadership of implementation of NZ Whole of Government Disability Strategy
Director of Commissioning Systems: Dr Alyson Ross, EdD, PostGradDipEd, B.A, Dip Bus, GAICD, Certified Scrum Master
Career Highlights:

  • Executive Manager Business Improvement Civil Aviation Safety Authority
  • Director/Executive Manager, Standards and Quality, Health Quality and Complaints Commission
  • Senior Program Manager, Gold Coast City Council
  • Director of Modernisation, Gt Yarmouth and Waveney PCT
Significant Achievements:

  • Led the development and implementation of a five year commissioning capability maturity plan including the successful overhaul of the quality system, redevelopment of the intranet and HealthyGC websites and roll out of a corporate performance reporting framework
  • Led the development of the primary care e-decision support and population health management toolset Primary SenseTM, now being adopted nationally.
  • Led the full review of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority’s Aviation medicine capability
  • Led the full review of Health Quality and Complaints Commission’s regulated standards and organisational realignment program
  • Led a multi-award winning complex strategic program to develop 30 year social, economic and environmental vision for the Gold Coast which looked at all aspects of planning the strategic direction and development of the city
  • Established the General Practice Commissioning Partnership for Waveney Primary Care Trust
  • Led the development of clinical governance and care pathways including CVD, COPD and cancers
Assistant Director Health Intelligence Planning and Engagement: Kellie Trigger, LLB, B.A. (Modern Asian Studies), APB (Accredited Partnership Broker), Grad Dip (Health Economics and Policy)
Career Highlights:

  • Board Member, Gold Coast Institute of TAFE
  • Board Member, OnQ Human Resources
  • Executive Officer, South East Region Department of Communities
  • Parliamentary Services Mudgeeraba Electorate
  • Associate Lawyer, Streeting Haney Lawyers
Significant Achievements:

  • Lead the consumer and community awareness campaign for My Health Record expansion locally and across Queensland
  • Established GCPHN Community Advisory Council and had related article published in Australian Journal of Primary Health Care
  • Played key role in establishment of GC Medicare Local, tender for GCPHN and the development and embedding of strategic planning for the organisation
  • Oversaw the development and implementation of the award winning gr8 start program supporting developmental screening and Early Childhod Education and Care Centres
  • Lead Department of Communities contribution to Northern Growth Corridor Social Infrastructure Plan which won the PIA (Qld) Award for Excellence
Primary Health Care Program Manager: Beverley Korn,
Career Highlights:

  • Primary Health Care Program Manager, Primary Care Gold Coast (2015 – current)
  • Program Manager, General Practice Gold Coast (2011 – 2015)
  • Community Clinical Placements Officer, General Practice Gold Coast
  • Clinical Educator Critical Care Services, Hunter New England Area Health Services
  • Clinical Nurse Specialist (Critical Care), Hunter New England Area Health Services
Significant Achievements:

  • Leadership and management of the COVID-19 pandemic response and COVID-19 vaccine program in primary care for Gold Coast PHN
  • Managed the general practice Quality Improvement program increasing general practice participation in data informed quality improvement initiatives to 93 per cent
  • Inaugural Chair of the PHN National Improvement Network Collaborative (NINCo). NINCo provides leadership and coordinated development of Primary Health Network Primary Care and General Practice Quality Improvement
  • Established the medical and nursing student placement program in Gold Coast General Practice
  • Established the clinical facilitator role Graduate Certificate Critical Care Hunter New England Area Health Service – Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital
Commissioned Primary Health Care Program Manager: Jacqui Greig

Bachelor of Applied Science (Physiotherapy) – (B.App.Sci (Physiotherapy), Certificate of Conciliation & Mediation, Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training
Career Highlights:

  • Registered physiotherapist with over 25 years’ experience in working in a diverse range of health services including public hospital, research, private practice, vocational rehabilitation, injury management, injury prevention, mental health, alcohol and other drugs
  • Clinical Excellence Program Manager – Lives Lived Well
  • Operations and Performance Manager – Lives Lived Well
  • SEQ Regional Manager – Mental Illness Fellowship QLD
  • National Learning and Development Manager – CRS Australia
  • Assistant Director for Greater Gold Coast region – CRS Australia
  • Assistant Professor – Bond University Physiotherapy School
  • Sessional Lecturer/Tutor – Griffith University
Significant Achievements:

  •  Leadership of organisation-wide learning and development initiatives within disability, mental health and alcohol and other drugs service sectors
  •  Leadership in the development and implementation of new client management systems
  •  Organisation award for for Excellence in Project and Program Management – Lives Lived Well
  •  Organisation award for Excellence in development of Partnerships and Stakeholder Relationships – Mental Illness Fellowship QLD
  •  National award for Excellence in Knowledge Management – CRS Australia