About the Board

SWSLHD Board members tour Campbelltown Hospital's new clinical services building, hosted by District and Hospital Executives

SWSLHD Board Meeting Dates & Minutes

By-Laws

Board Committee Structure

Corporate Governance Attestation Statement 2024

Corporate Governance Attestation Statement 2023

Corporate Governance Attestation Statement 2022

Corporate Governance Attestation Statement 2021

Corporate Governance Attestation Statement 2020

Corporate Governance Attestation Statement 2019

Corporate Governance Attestation Statement 2018

Corporate Governance Attestation Statement 2017

Corporate Governance Attestation Statement 2016

Corporate Governance Attestation Statement 2015

Corporate Governance Attestation Statement 2014

The South Western Sydney Local Health District Board members bring a wealth of experience and local knowledge to the management of the Local Health District. Together, the Board and the Chief Executive are responsible for:

  • Improving local patient outcomes and responding to issues that arise throughout our Local Health District.
  • Monitoring the performance of our Local Health District against performance measures in the LHD Service Agreement.
  • Delivering services and performance standards within an agreed budget, based on annual strategic and operating plans. This forms the basis of our Local Health District Service Agreement.
  • Ensuring services are provided efficiently and accountably. Production of Annual Reports that are subject to State financial accountability and audit frameworks.
  • Maintaining effective communication with local and State public health stakeholders.

SWSLHD Board Communique

Our Board
Health Care Quality & Safety
Audit & Risk
Introducing the Finance & Assets Committee
Framework for the future
Research, Teaching & Innovation Committee
Aboriginal Health Committee
Strategic Priorities Update
Workforce, Wellbeing and Culture Committee
Celebrating our achievements
Board and Committees Overview
Thank you and farewell

 

E-Mail: SWSLHD-Board@health.nsw.gov.au

Billie Sankovic

Adjunct Associate Professor Billie Sankovic
A/Chair

Adjunct Associate Professor Billie Sankovic has extensive leadership experience spanning the government, community and academic sectors. Her work has focused on driving equitable services and outcomes for communities across the spectrum of priorities impacting wellbeing, from health, child protection, ageing, violence, and social cohesion, to housing, services and infrastructure.

As the current CEO of Western Sydney's social development council, Billie leads and shapes service delivery and social policy across a region of 2.6 million people and an industry investment of more than 3 billion. Recently as City Commissioner, she led whole of government planning for the delivery of housing, services and infrastructure for the Western Parkland City of South Western Sydney and Nepean Blue Mountains. Previously as a senior executive in local government and for the NSW Government, Billie led transformational and whole government strategies and programs to improve accessible baseline services and quality of life.

South western Sydney is Billie's home. She grew up, raised her family and lives in the district. She has a deep connection and commitment to the area and its people and lived experience as a resident and health consumer.

Billie holds a Master of Human Services Management and Policy with distinction and a Bachelor of Social Work (Honours). Her research interests centre on public policy and service systems for equity, inclusion and cohesion as enablers of prevention and early intervention.


 Mr John Roach

Mr John Roach


John has had over 41 years of experience working within the NSW Public Service. Throughout his career his interest has been in improving financial management at an operational and executive level and developing commercially focused approaches to the delivery of corporate services and public infrastructure. John has held senior financial positions across NSW Government in transport agencies and as Financial Controller of the 2000 Olympic Coordination Authority. Most recently, John held the position as Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Secretary, Financial Services and Asset Management for NSW Health before his retirement in 2018. Along with his appointment to the ABMDR Management Board, John’s other governance roles including Chair, HealthShare NSW, and board member of Health Infrastructure NSW.


Jill White

Professor Jill White AM, RN, RM, MEd, PhD, MHPol


Professor White is a Professor Emerita of the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Sydney. Professor White has held the role of Dean of the Faculty and prior to that Dean of Faculty of Nursing Midwifery and Health at the University of Technology, Sydney. Retiring in 2018, she is now an independent consultant in the areas of health education, regulation and policy. She has worked globally in nursing including at World Health Organisation and International Council of Nurses in Geneva. She was a Fellow of the University Senate of the University of Sydney, and a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Other board roles have included inaugural Chair of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council, Nursing Now! Campaign and the Nursing Now Challenge.


Deepak Bhonagiri

Associate Professor Deepak Bhonagiri


Associate Professor Deepak Bhonagiri is a Senior Specialist in Intensive Care and the District’s Critical Care Clinical Stream Director, providing leadership across Anaesthetics, Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care, chronic pain, and organ and tissue donation. He led the District’s COVID-19 Clinical Advisory Group, providing expert clinical and network advice through the pandemic. Associate Professor Bhonagiri is a researcher with a keen interest in virtual models of care to provide consistent value-based care to outer metropolitan, rural and regional populations.


Vince Roche

Associate Professor Vince Roche


Associate Professor Vince Roche has served as a rural general practitioner for nearly four decades, particularly in the Southern Highlands and has been a visiting medical officer at Bowral & District Hospital for over thirty years. A passionate advocate for equity in healthcare, he also has just finished seven years on the Board of the South Western Sydney Primary Health Network and is Chair of the Southern Highlands Division of General Practice, a role he has held for the past sixteen years.




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