Role
We established the Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Reference Group (NMSRG) to allow nursing and midwifery experts to provide comment and advice on:
- relevant nursing and midwifery policy and strategy issues
- education and workforce planning
- nursing measures we are responsible for.
In 2015, the committee moved its education and workforce objectives to the National Nursing and Midwifery Education Advisory Group (NNMEAN). This allowed the NMSRG to focus on stakeholder engagement about strategic policy initiatives and issues that affect nursing and midwifery.
Since 2020, the NMSRG has provided critical, timely strategic advice to the Australian Government about the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination rollout.
Members
|
Member |
Organisation |
|
Adjunct Professor (Practice) Alison McMillan (Chair) |
Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer, Department of Health |
|
Derek Dittrich |
Aged and Community Services Australia |
|
Adjunct Professor Tanya Farrell |
Australian and New Zealand Council of Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officers |
|
Adjunct Professor Shelley Nowlan |
Australian and New Zealand Council of Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officers |
|
Conjoint Professor Michael Hazelton |
Australian College of Mental Health Nurses |
|
Luke Williamson |
Australian College of Midwives |
|
Leanne Boase |
Australian College of Nurse Practitioners |
|
Adjunct Professor Kylie Ward |
Australian College of Nursing |
|
Clinical Professor Fiona Stoker |
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council |
|
Annie Butler |
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation |
|
Karen Booth |
Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association |
|
Karen Guillick |
Australian Private Hospitals Association |
|
Dani Meinema |
Catholic Health Australia |
|
Professor Roianne West |
Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives |
|
Joanne Muller |
Consumers Health Forum |
|
Professor Karen Strickland |
Council of Deans of Nursing and Midwifery (Australia and New Zealand) |
|
Katherine Isbister |
CRANAPlus |
|
Lieutenant Colonel Serena Lawlor |
Defence Force Nursing |
|
Jane Gallagher |
Department of Veterans’ Affairs – Nursing |
|
Marlene Eggert |
Leading Aged Services Australia |
|
Tanya Vogt |
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia |
|
Debbie Blow |
Vocational Education Sector – Nursing |
Meetings
The NMSRG meets a minimum of 4 times per year, either face-to-face or by videoconference. NMSRG will post any public communiques here.
Contact
The Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer Division provide the secretariat for the NMSRG.
