Southern NSW Local Health District Board

BA Bus Acctg Ec, CPA

Beth Hoskins joined the Southern NSW Local Health District board in 2017. She is Chair of its Performance Committee and a board representative on the Goulburn Community Consultation Committee.

Beth has had a long term executive career in accountancy and business advisory services and extensive involvement in the not-for-profit sector with honorary roles that focus on governance, strategy and implementing financial control systems. Not-for-profit organisations that Beth has worked with include the Country Education Foundation of Australia, the Country Education Foundation of Goulburn & District, Country Universities Centre, and Beyond the Orphanage.

PhD (Accounting), GradDipApp Corporate Governance, GradCert Public Sector Mgmt, GradDip Info Sys,
M Ec, B Bus, FCA, CIA, CRMA, PMllA, GAICD, AGIA, ICSA, MCSE

Ken is a highly skilled senior manager in governance, finance, audit and risk in the public and for-purpose sectors. He has had extensive involvement in board and non-executive director positions.

Ken has been a member of eight audit, risk or finance committees, chairing three. Specific industry experience includes an Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) regulated credit union, community housing, and public sector boards and committees. Ken is a member of the Southern NSW Local Health District Performance Committee, and Audit and Risk Committee.

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Geoff was appointed to the Southern NSW Local Health District Board in 2015 and is its representative on the Goulburn Community Consultation Committee.

A self-employed community and stakeholder engagement consultant, he is proactive in the local community. Geoff is a former mayor of Goulburn Mulwaree Council, a member of the Goulburn Chamber of Commerce, the International Police Association, and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is chair of the board of Endeavour Industries Goulburn.

MM, Grad Dip in Public Administration, Grad Dip Community Nursing, RN, MAICD

Narelle was appointed to the Board in January 2019. She is a board representative for the Bombala and Delegate Community Consultation Committees.

Narelle worked for NSW Health for 35 year across a variety of Health Service Management roles in regional and rural NSW and is highly experienced in leading health facility redevelopments.

Margaret lives in Braidwood and joined the Board in January 2019. A lawyer by profession, she spent 20 years in the Northern Territory where she headed the Attorney General’s Department. She was Head of Corporate and Government at Austrade, followed by ten years in the Commonwealth Department of Health, five as COO.

Margaret has extensive experience and skills in strategic and corporate planning, audit, risk and financial management, compliance and governance. Margaret is currently Chair of the Braidwood MPS Community Committee.

BA (UoW), Cert. IR, FAICD, FGRCI, FACHSM, FRMIA, CPRM, JP

Terry was appointed to the SNSWLHD Board in January 2022. Terry was awarded the Public Service Medal for Outstanding Public Service to NSW Health in the 2021 Australian Day Honours list. He is an experienced Board Chair/Director in the Public, Private and Not-for-Profit sectors.

Terry established Terry Clout Corporate Consulting in 2015 after a 30-year career leading major NSW Public Organisations. For fifteen of those years he held CEO positions in Area Health Services/Local Health Districts.

He is Chair of Mary MacKillop Place Board, Independent Chair NSW SES Audit and Risk Committee, and Chair of his local Parish Finance and Audit Committee.

OAM, PSM

Leanne was appointed to the SNSWLHD Board in January 2022. Leanne was the General Manager of Bega Valley Shire Council until July 2021 a position she held for the past eight years, leading the Council’s work with community and the region in interagency prevention, planning, response and recovery. Leanne has worked in local government and state government agencies since 1978, including with the Canberra Regional Joint Organisation where she is currently supporting work on the development of a South East Resilience Blueprint.. Leanne is also supporting LGNSW in rolling out their induction and governance programs for new Councillors elected in 2021.

She has held positions on a number of Boards, where her focus has been on corporate governance, forward planning and culture. A previous National team player and Board member with Water Polo Australia (WPA) , Leanne also has a key role working with their elite programs having lead the successful inclusion of the women’s program into the Olympic Games culminating in the 2000 Olympic Gold.

Dr Duncan MacKinnon was appointed to the SNSWLHD Board in January 2022. Duncan has been a GP in Bega for more than 20 years. He works at the Bega Valley Medical Practice and provides anaesthetic services at South East Regional Hospital in Bega. Duncan is the GP Liaison Officer for South East Regional Hospital.

In 2020 Duncan was named NSW/ACT GP of the Year and subsequently awarded the RACGP Australian GP of the Year 2020.

Duncan is also a Senior Lecturer with the Australian National University (ANU) Rural Clinical School, and he regularly participates in primary care research with both ANU and University of Wollongong.

Ms Gordon has had extensive involvement in health administration as a leader and manager in multiple settings. Ms Gordon’s experience in the Aboriginal community sector, community services, aged care, correctional health, and the non-government sector provides broad experience. Ms Gordon is a proud Ngunnawal woman raised in and around Goulburn, on Gundungurra/Ngunnawal Country.

Dr Keaney is a medical practitioner, formerly employed in a senior policy and program management role in the Commonwealth Department of Health. Dr Keaney has a sound understanding of the Australian health care system, policy, regulation, and funding with expertise in the operation of the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) and related programs. Dr Keaney has an ongoing commitment to value-based health care and the policy, funding and health delivery settings that help deliver this. Dr Keaney’s previous board experience includes time as chair of the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (now Cancer Australia).

Dr Wong has a unique skillset, being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and is one of only 500 Indigenous medical practitioners in Australia. Dr Wong works as a clinician providing health services in GP settings including Aboriginal Medical Services and in hospital settings as a GP Anaesthetist/Emergency Visiting Medical Officer and Forensic Sexual Assault Examiner. Her involvement in the Charles Sturt University School of Rural Medicine includes a responsibility for the oversight and delivery of Indigenous Health curriculum. Dr Wong’s passion is rural medicine, with a focus on improving the quality, access, continuity, and context of medical care to her people, particularly women and children.