Te Whatu Ora presents Te Tiri Whakāro: Sharing Knowledge, a webinar series to support primary care.
- James Entwhistle and Alex Viner present a practical overview of the new Community Radiology Programme and Regional Hubs, including how these changes aim to streamline access and improve equity of care across Aotearoa.
- Danielle Gerrard overviews the national community radiology referral criteria - an important shift towards standardisation. Danielle will demonstrate how to access and navigate the updated Radiology HealthPathways. While she won’t cover every detail, this session will equip you with the tools and context to confidently refer under the new system.
- Clinical updates with Dr Sue Tutty.
As always, we will answer as many questions as possible during this session.
Presenter
Alexandra Viner
Alex Viner is a programme manager with extensive experience leading large-scale health service redesign across the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Her work focuses on multi-agency initiatives that aim to improve equity in health outcomes through system-wide transformation.
She holds a postgraduate honours degree, two undergraduate degrees, and has completed professional training in PRINCE2 project management, performance management (Chartered Management Institute, London), and medical mediation. Alex has authored and contributed to a range of published healthcare documents and brings a strategic, evidence-based approach to her work
Presenter
James Entwisle
MBBS MRCP FRCR FRANZCR
James trained at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London and qualified in 1990.
He trained initially in medicine and then radiology at Leicester in the UK. Following 11 years as a consultant in Leicester he moved to Wellington in 2010.
Based at Wellington Regional Hospital he is a Radiologist with sub-speciality interests in Chest and Cancer. He is a Clinical Advisor in the National Planning, Funding and Outcomes Team with the present focus of rolling out greater and more consistent primary care community radiology.
He is an advocate for equity and the public radiology services. He has National Lung Cancer and Radiology Roles.
Interests outside work including doing outdoor stuff including running and tramping.
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