Northern Territory Clinical Senate

The key focus of the Department of Health is to achieve the best health and wellbeing for all Territorians through the development, management and performance of the public health system.

The Northern Territory Clinical Senate has been established to provide the chief executive officer with advice about improving patient safety and the clinical quality of health services across the Northern Territory (NT).

Northern Territory Clinical Senate meeting communique

• Communique Meeting 1 PDF (172.5 KB)
• Communique Meeting 2 PDF (475.7 KB)
• Communique Meeting 3 PDF (498.3 KB)
• Communique Meeting 4 PDF (458.9 KB)
• Communique Meeting 5 PDF (513.5 KB)
• Communique Meeting 6 PDF (610.3 KB)
• Communique Meeting 7 PDF (108.0 KB)
• Communique Meeting 8 PDF (480.0 KB)
• Communique Meeting 9 PDF (43.6 KB)
• Communique Meeting 10-11 PDF (112.2 KB)

About the Northern Territory Clinical Senate

The NT Clinical Senate provides expert advice, information and recommendations to the chief executive officer in consideration of:

• the department’s clinical governance strategy and its implementation
• the department’s clinical quality and patient safety programs, standards, guidelines and indicators and the implementation of these
• evidence-based strategies in relation to system integration
• evidence-based strategies in relation to the management of consumers with complex or chronic conditions
• clinical quality and patient safety issues regarding the Northern Territory health system, including access to health services by people living in remote communities.

• NT Clinical Senate terms of reference DOCX (82.1 KB)
• NT Clinical Senate travel and entitlements policy

Northern Territory Clinical Senate members

NT Clinical Senate members include 45 non-representational multi-disciplinary clinicians and consumers with appropriate skills and experience in clinical quality and patient safety systems and processes from across the broader NT health system to ensure there is both an internal and external perspective in improving quality and safety of health care delivery. The senate will be provided the strategic and policy advice and support of the NT Health chief professional officers.

The Acting chair of the NT Clinical Senate is Professor Alan Cass.

Alan is the Director of Menzies School of Health Research (Menzies). A nephrologist, his research on the prevention and management of chronic disease has focused on developing, implementing and evaluating strategies to improve access to care, health service delivery, the patient journey and health outcomes. He was President of the ANZ Society of Nephrology (2014-16), a Board Director for the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (2012-17) and of Top End Health and Hospital Services (2015-17), and Chair of the MBS Review Renal Medicine Clinical Committee (2017-2018). He is Chair of the Advisory Committee and Executive Member for the Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry and a member of the Management Committee for the Central Australia Academic Health Science Network.

View the NT Clinical Senate - members bios DOCX (132.3 KB).

Contact

Northern Territory Clinical Senate
Fiona Wake - Senior Director Clinical Excellence and Patient Safety
Phone: 08 8999 2835
clinicalsenate.doh@nt.gov.au

We thank Victoria Department of Health Victorian Clinical Council, for its assistance in the development of the documents on this website.