Program

8:30am Registration

9:00am Official greeting: Dr Norman Swan, Welcome to Country: Aunty Julie Jones and Opening remarks: Andrew Newton, CEO, WentWest 

9:30am Keynote Speaker: Dr Daniel Nour, founder of Street Side Medics

10:00am Community-driven solutions: Health and social priorities: Citizens Assembly members and Dr Coralie
Wales, Relationships to Partnerships lead, WentWest

10:45am Networking morning tea

11:15am Supporting our most vulnerable: adapting traditional approaches to provide culturally appropriate care: Shanthini Seelan, Principal GP at Bridgeview Medical Practice and Leader of Healthy Living Toongabbie and Don Mulholland, Aboriginal Cultural Worker, the Shed, Emerton

12:00pm The time is now; the platform to reform primary care in Australia: Fireside chat with Conjoint Professor Diana O’Halloran, Board Chair, WentWest

12:45pm Networking lunch

1:30pm A roundtable discussion on building a primary care workforce that meets future needs: Dr Rebekah Hoffman, Chair, NSW & ACT Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Karen Booth, President, Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association and Adjunct Professor Steve Morris, CEO, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia

2:15pm The case for change – a multidisciplinary team-based approach to effective care of chronic and complex conditions:  Harry Iles-Mann, Consumer Representative, Dr Jaspreet Saini, Clinical Director of Healthicare and Principal GP, Rosedale Medical Practice and Jasmine Glennan, a Registered Nurse and Senior Manager, Primary Care Development, WentWest

3:00pm Networking afternoon tea

3:15pm Towards 2030: The future of primary care and how Western Sydney can set the standard: Ms Lindsay Cane AM, WentWest and Healthicare Board member, Dr Kean-Seng Lim, Principal GP, Mount Druitt Medical Centre and Board Chair, Healthicare and Dr Jaspreet Saini, Clinical Director of Healthicare and Principal GP, Rosedale Medical Practice

4:15pm Closing remarks: Conjoint Professor Diana O’Halloran, Board Chair, WentWest

4:30pm Networking drinks