Clinical Psychiatry Taskforce

​​​​​​​​​​​​​The Clinical Psychiatry Taskforce brings together Psychiatrists and Psychiatry Registrars from across NSW Health to help improve the sustainability and quality of public mental health services in NSW. 

The Taskforce provides a forum for frontline clinicians to contribute to statewide leadership, share expertise and experience, and help inform priorities for psychiatry workforce reform and system improvement across NSW.

Vision​

A strengthened psychiatry workforce embedded in system leadership and decision-making, driving improved outcomes, enhanced workforce attraction and retention, and the long-term sustainability and quality of NSW's public mental health system.

Over the next 18 months, the Taskforce's primary aim is to:

• Improve Psychiatry Workforce Attraction and Retention

• ​Enhancing the desirability of public psychiatrist positions
• Innovative models for on-call and after-hours care
• Risk frameworks to support clinical decision-making
• Models for secondary consultation for psychiatrists

​Further information about the Taskforce's purpose, functions and membership is available in the Terms of Reference​ 

Taskforce membership

• Elizabeth Wood -  Co-Chair: Deputy Secretary, Health System Strategy and Patient Experience, NSW Ministry of Health 
  
• Brendan Flynn  - Co-Chair: Executive Director, Mental Health Branch, NSW Ministry of Health 
  
• Adith Mohan  -  Clinical Director, Eastern Suburbs Mental Health Service; Chair SESLHD Mental Health MSC; Chair SESLHD Medical Staff Executive Council (MSEC); Senior Staff Specialist Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Director, Neuropsychiatric Institute, POW Hospital, SESLHD
  
• Adrianna Thomas  -  Psychiatry Registrar, NSLHD
  
• Akshay Kulkarni -  Psychiatry Registrar, ISLHD 
  
• Ashna Basu  -  Psychiatry Registrar, SESLHD 
  
• Claire Tindale -  Staff Specialist Psychiatrist, SLHD 
  
• Duncan George  -  Visiting Medical Officer Psychiatrist, WNSWLHD; Senior Staff Specialist Psychiatrist, SESLHD 
  
• Emma Cullen -  Psychiatry Registrar, NSLHD
  
• Henry Davies  -  Staff Specialist Psychiatrist, HNELHD
  
• Jacqueline Huber -  Staff Specialist Psychiatrist, SVHN 
  
• Jacqueline Kaelle  -  Clinical Director (Illawarra/Shoalhaven Community Mental Health); Staff Specialist Psychiatrist, ISLHD
  
• James Lawler  -  Visiting Medical Officer Psychiatrist, NBMLHD/WSLHD
  
• Lachlan Johns  -  Staff Specialist Psychiatrist, NBMLHD 
  
• Lauren Amor  -  Visiting Medical Officer Psychiatrist, WSLHD 
  
• Radha Srikanth  -  Senior Staff Specialist Psychiatrist, Clinical Director, Infant, Child Youth and Family Mental Health services, WNSWLHD 
  
• Rajeev Jairam  -  Senior Staff Specialist Psychiatrist, Clinical Director Infant Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, SWSLHD
  
• Sam Khadra  -  Psychiatry Registrar, SLHD 
  

Ministry of Health Ex Officio

• ​​​Michael Bowden  -  Acting NSW Chief Psychiatrist, NSW Ministry of Health 

Secretariat

• Chrissie Crawford, Principal Policy and Project Officer, Office of the Deputy Secretary, Health System Strategy and Patient Experience, NSW Ministry of Health 
  
• Meredith Sims, Project Officer, Mental Health Branch, NSW Ministry of Health 

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