Sydney-based Not For Profit provider of home support services for older people, Your Side, has made new boardroom appointments after several long-standing directors retired and in the context of the changing regulatory environment.
"We are elevating our oversight and governance of clinical care, quality, customer engagement, and technology with the appointments of these four professionals," Your Side said in a statement.
The appointments are as follows.
Andy Calwell is an aged care consultant with Anchor Excellence. Originally trained as a Registered Nurse, she has worked in varied senior leadership roles, with expertise across the acute, residential, home care, and community sectors, including eight years with the Department of Health & Human Services, Victoria, two years with Safer Care Victoria, and four years with Bupa.
Leighton Howard has 25 years' experience leading businesses in the health and aged care sector, and a focus on technology, data and analytics. He was the founder and CEO of Genericsweb, a global SaaS business operating in the pharmaceutical industry. Recently, he was responsible for strategic engagement with governments, healthcare providers and health insurers across Australia and New Zealand on behalf of multinational health technology and data science corporation IQVIA. In this role he established a private health insurance-funded Hospital-In-The-Home service.
Adj Prof John G Kelly AM has worked in the health sector for 40 years and has had broad exposure to public and private healthcare delivery in remote, regional and urban settings, including community-based care delivery, disability and aged care. John was formerly the CEO of Aged & Community Services Australia (ACSA), the former peak body for Not For Profit aged care organisations, and the Heart Foundation.
Sarah Lance is a highly experienced Non-Executive Director and Chair of member based, Profit for Purpose and Commercial organisations with significant experience as an Executive and CEO of large-scale customer focused service organisations in both the health and education sectors. She was with St John Ambulance Australia (NSW) for over a decade, first at Chair of the Board and then for more than five years as CEO.
From 1 December 2023, the requirements of aged care board members have changed, including the new requirement that the majority of board members are independent non-executive directors, that at least one board member has experience providing clinical care, that a quality care advisory board be established, and that a consumer advisory board be established.
