Message from the chief executive Adjunct Professor Anthony M. Schembri AM
Dear colleagues, It was a pleasure to attend the 2025 Innovation Pitch Program event, where I also had the privilege of sitting on the judging panel. This event is always a highlight for me, and I was blown away again by the ideas and creativity our staff members have to improve patient and staff experiences across our health services. Congratulations to winners of this round, RNSH Endocrinology, RNSH Site Operations & Corporate Services, and Primary and Community Health. I look forward to following the progress of these projects and seeing the impacts they make in real time. I also look forward to attending the NSLHD Quality and Improvement Awards on Thursday 26 June 2025 from 9:30 to 10:30am. You can join in person at the Kolling Auditorium, RNSH, or watch the ceremony live online via MS Teams: https:// bit.ly/4e1W64f. We recently launched the 2025 Patient Safety Culture Survey. This important survey is open to everyone working in both clinical and non-clinical roles. It seeks honest feedback on how patient safety is perceived and experienced across our district by our workforce. These insights will help identify what is working well and where improvements can be made to support a safer, more positive environment for patients and staff alike. The questions of this survey are informed by the Australian National Quality and Safety Standards and district priorities, and the results will be used as part of our district’s continual improvement of patient safety. If you are a staff member of NSLHD, I
encourage to have your say by completing the survey using this link: https://bit.ly/ PSCS-2025. Flu season is well underway and our vaccination effort across the district has been superb again this year. Over 70 per cent of category A staff received their influenza this year. Thank you to everyone who has played a role in keeping our sites and services safe for the community throughout this effort. A special thank you as well to our teams who delivered more than 80 vaccination clinics across different sites in the district over the seven-week program. I was pleased to help launch NSW Health’s first Net Zero Roadmap recently on the back of our own planetary health efforts as a district. The roadmap sets out how the NSW public health system plans to reach zero emissions by 2050 while delivering quality, value, innovation and equity. Northern Sydney Local Health District is aiming for net zero emissions by 2035 in areas it can directly control, with strong, innovative and focused progress already underway. It is a privilege to work for a district that is leading the way in public health in this space, and I would like to thank you to all the staff members and partners who are working to help us get there. Warm regards, Adjunct Professor Anthony M. Schembri AM Chief Executive Northern Sydney Local Health District
NSLHDNEWS | ISSUE 10| 13 JUNE 2025
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