I’d like to take this opportunity in my first newsletter column of the year to welcome everyone back for 2023. I am so excited about all the great things planned for our district this year, and we are already off to a wonderful start. In the last couple of weeks, it has been a great pleasure to visit staff working across our sites at Mona Vale Hospital, Brookvale Community Health Centre and Dalwood. I also enjoyed welcoming some of the 92 intern doctors who have started their medical careers at Northern Sydney Local Health District. Most recently I met some of our newest doctors at Mona Vale Hospital who will spend their first term working across the Assessment and Rehabilitation Unit and Beachside Rehabilitation Unit. It was very pleasing to meet every one of you, and I hope the education, training and wellbeing support we provide as a district can provide a great foundation for all of your careers. Soon we will also welcome the first intake of the 2023 cohort of graduate nurses and midwives who will be starting with us next week. Twenty graduate nurses will have their orientation before they commence their roles working across Royal North Shore Hospital’s intensive care unit, perioperative and neonatal intensive care units. This is an exciting time for our newest nurses and medical staff as they embark on their careers with us. It was great to have the opportunity to attend the first Kolling Institute Town Hall for the year and to hear about the high-quality research underway, particularly focusing on kidney disease, diabetes and obesity. Kolling Academic Director Professor Jim Elliott outlined the key priorities for the year, while Professor Robyn Ward, the Executive Dean and
Pro Vice-Chancellor of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney discussed the broader Northern Health Precinct and Camperdown plans. Last year we ran our People Matter Employee Survey (PMES) and received some extremely valuable feedback from our staff. I am pleased to report that the district has developed site and service-specific action plans based on your feedback at each of our hospitals and services across the district. You can read more about these plans and how they will benefit staff on page six of this newsletter. I would like to thank everyone who took the time to complete this important survey. The Exceptional People Awards is coming up very soon on 9 March, and I am very much looking forward to attending this important event. I would like to pass on my best wishes to the 46 individual nominations and 19 team nominations that we received across the district. It is so pleasing to have received so many fantastic nominations and it makes me incredibly proud to work as part of an organisation that acknowledges the wonderful work of staff across the district.
Lee Gregory I/Chief Executive Northern Sydney Local Health District
NSLHDNEWS | ISSUE 2| 17 FEBRUARY 2023
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