Petrina Turner-Benny is currently the Chair of Allied Health Aotearoa and the Chief Executive Officer of Dietitians NZ. Having trained as a registered nurse and working with many allied health professionals in that role she has spent the past 15 years advocating strongly on behalf of her allied health professional colleagues, particularly in ACC where she spent 3 years managing brain injury and mental health provider contracts. Petrina has a special interest in quality assurance and business improvement systems which ultimately have a positive impact on provider performance and the experience of the patient.
Petrina also spent 8 years in the aged care sector assisting residential care facilities and retirement villages to become compliant with the Health and Disability Sector Standards and the Retirement Villages Code of Practice.
| Mobilising the Allied Forces
Concurrent Workshop |
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| Saturday, 16 August 2014 | Start 4:30pm | Duration: 60mins | Room 10 |
| Ask not what your patient can do for allied health, but what allied health can do for your patient and your general practice. This interactive and thought-provoking session led by Petrina Turner-Benny, Chair of Allied Health Aotearoa New Zealand, which represents the collective interests of some 20,000 allied health professionals across New Zealand, will seek to dispel some of the misconceptions around allied health. Delegates will be taken on an outcome focused journey through real-life case studies highlighting how allied health professionals have been mobilised as part of primary care based inter-professional teams to improve patient experience, strengthen patient outcomes and reduce hospital admissions.
Petrina will be joined by Health Workforce New Zealand and Clare McCann from the New Zealand Speech-Language Therapists' Association and will amaze you with the extent of different allied health services on offer which can add significant value to your practice. |
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