Rob Dempsey
Name: Rob Dempsey
E-mail: info@hoi.com.au
Qualifications:
• Bachelor of Business (Accounting), Charles Sturt University, New South Wales
• Master of Business Administration (MBA), Charles Sturt University, New South Wales (in progress)
• Associate Fellow of the Australian College of Health Service Executives (AFCHSE) and Certified Health Executive (CHE)
Specific Competence:
Rob has thirty plus years experience in the health care sector with the last twenty years being at senior executive level across the public, not-for-profit and private health care sectors. He has previously been Chief Executive Officer of the Memorial Hospital, and North Eastern Hospital in Adelaide. He has served on numerous industry and consumer advocacy committees and been requested to advise both state and federal politicians in various aspects of healthcare. Rob has also participated in a number of academic studies ranging from urban and affordable housing issues to Workforce. Rob was invited to participate on the Minister for Ageing’s task force to develop an aged care specific annexe to the Commonwealth’s Australian Management Plan for Pandemic Influenza and he subsequently developed a Pandemic Business Continuation Plan. More recently Rob has undertaken or been involved with the following projects:
- Impact analysis of the evidence based guideline for Autism Spectrum Disorder in New Zealand;
- A review of psychiatric triage services for Southern Health in Victoria;
- A review of Western Australia’s needle and syringe exchange program;
- A review of the processes associated with prescribing drugs of dependence in South Australian;
- Evaluation of the implementation of the Positive Futures legislation for people with severe and challenging behaviours in Queensland and an outcomes evaluation for those people affected by the legislation;
- A state-wide evaluation of Drug and Alcohol Consultation Liaison Services in New South Wales;
- Research and evaluation of the perceived needs of the ageing Croatian, Ukrainian and Belarusian communities in South Australia;
- Development of a client participation framework for Mind SA;
- Evaluation of a demonstration project on improving access to primary health care services for people with serious mental illness.
Rob has specialised in the area of health care finance and economics with a particular focus on aged care, disability services and mental health and has presented more than twenty papers to various conferences. In 2006 Rob participated in a study tour of British Columbia and Alberta provinces in Canada where he studied and compared the relationships between community and residential care services, consumer access, funding and the regulatory environment.