MRRHAG Members

Ms Jacinta Allan Jacinta was elected as the Member for Bendigo East in September 1999, and is proud to be representing the Bendigo Region in the Victorian Parliament as a member of the Bracks Government. Jacinta believes it is her job to stand up for the community and provide people with assistance. >> more information Mr Peter Craighead Peter has had extensive experience in the management of rural health services with expertise in review, restructuring and change management. Peter is a registered nurse with postgraduate qualifications in health management and has worked at Yarram and District Health Service since 1989 in the combined role of Director of Nursing and Chief Executive Officer. During this time he implemented a comprehensive program of restructure culminating in the piloting of the rural Healthstreams model. Peter is a member of a number of committees and has worked as a consultant to other rural hospitals and for the Department of Human Services. >> more information Dr Nola Maxfield Nola Maxfield is a rural GP, who has been practicing in Wonthaggi, South Gippsland, for the last 16 years. She provides a wide range of medical services to the community, including anaesthetics, obstetrics, Accident and Emergency and Women's health skills, as well as education for medical students, trainee GPs and young doctors. Nola is a board member of both the South Gippsland Division of General Practice and the state-wide organization for Divisions, General Practice Divisions Victoria. She is Chair of the local Primary Care Partnership. For many years she has been involved in the Rural Doctors Association of Victoria and Australia. Nola represents Rural Doctors on the National Rural Health Alliance. Dr Wayne Spring Wayne is a Consultant Physician in Ballarat working in private practice and at both Ballarat Health Services (BHS) and St John of God Hospital. He is the current Chairman of the Division of Medicine at BHS and a past Rural Representative on the State Committee on the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He has an interest in promoting rural and regional health and in particular addressing the disparity of opportunity for medical care between city and country patients. Ms Anne Marie Scully Anne-Marie Scully, a registered nurse and midwife, was Federal Nurse Adviser to the Australian Nursing Federation from 1994 to 1997 when she joined the ANF (Victorian Branch). She has worked in acute care, remote areas, with the International Red Cross in refugee camps, and prior to moving to the ANF, at the Department of Health and Community Services in Victoria, and, as Nurse Adviser involved in the provision of sensitive policy advice on issues such has rural health, critical care, drugs and poisons, and ethical and educational issues.>> more information © Copyright 2001-2002 Last updated 5 July 2002

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