Trauma National Clinical Network
Improving the outcomes for those who experience major trauma.
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The Trauma National Clinical Network was established in 2023 as part of Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora’s National Clinical Network programme.
The Network expands on the National Trauma Network which operated from 2015 with the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) acting as funder and lead agency.
Members
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Name |
Position / Role |
Location |
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Dr James Moore |
National Trauma Network Co-Lead; intensive care physician and anaesthetist |
Wellington Hospital |
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Dr Max Raos |
National Trauma Co-lead; Emergency Physician |
Middlemore Hospital |
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Arie Bates-Hermans |
Data Analyst |
Te Tāhū Hauora |
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Dr Christine Howard-Brown |
Chief Executive Health and Wellbeing at Evolution Healthcare Representative: · National Rehabilitation Providers Group · NZ Spinal Cord Injury Registry |
Evolution Healthcare Proactive Rehabilitation Evolution Healthcare |
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Dr Chris Harmston |
Northern Region Trauma Lead Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon |
Whangarei Hospital |
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Claire Hitchcock |
Trauma Nurse Coordinator |
Nelson Hospital |
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Mr Grant Christey |
Te Mana Taki Region Trauma Lead Trauma Specialist
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Waikato Hospital |
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Dr James McKay |
Te Waipounamu Region Trauma Lead Specialist General, Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgeon |
Canterbury Hospital |
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Julie Wilson |
Health Partner |
ACC |
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Kat Quick |
Clinical Lead – Trauma Rehabilitation |
Te Tāhū Hauora |
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Kevin Henshall |
CNS Trauma |
Counties Manukau |
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Dr Louise Venter |
Rural Hospital Medicine Specialist & FACEM |
Queenstown Lakes Hospital |
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Mary Gorton |
Occupational Therapist ICU Educator |
Christchurch Hospital |
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Dr Osman Mansoor
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Medical Officer of Health / PHM Specialist |
Gisborne Hospital |
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Dr Ryan Salter |
Central Region Trauma Lead Anaesthetist & Intensive Care Specialist |
Wellington Hospital |
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Sarah Shannon |
Clinical Lead, Trauma Service Allied Health |
Tauranga Hospital |
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Dr Tawa Hunter |
Strategic Adviser, Māori Health |
ACC |
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Dr Tony Smith |
Deputy Clinical Director
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Hato Hone St John |
Rōpū Rangatira
Supporting the activities of the National Clinical Network there are five expert reference groups/ Rōpū Rangatira. The Co-chairs of these rōpū are:
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Rōpū Rangatira |
Name |
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Injury Prevention |
Dr Oz Mansoor Health NZ |
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Paul Kennedy ACC
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Acute Care and Out of Hospital
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Dr Tony Smith Hato Hone St John |
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Dr Chris Duncan Health NZ
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Rehabilitation & transitions of care
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Kat Quick Te Tāhū Hauora |
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Caroline Juniot ACC
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NZ Trauma Registry, Data and Insights
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Chris Harmston Health NZ |
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Prof Ian Civil Health NZ |
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Trauma Quality Improvement |
Mr Grant Christey Health NZ |
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Jessica Lockett Te Tāhū Hauora |
Download: Terms of reference - DOCX, 343 KB
For the Trauma National Clinical Network
Network strategic objectives
- Right time, right place, right person: All patients receive high quality, time critical trauma care throughout their trauma journey from the point of injury and throughout their recovery
- Partnership: Partner with consumers and their whānau to co-design services to create better outcomes and patient and whānau experiences.
- Excellence for Māori through equity: Work with Te Tiriti partners and communities to explore how to provide excellent trauma care and improve trauma prevention.
- Workforce: Establish trauma and associated rehabilitation as speciality skillsets in order to increase the capacity & capability of the trauma healthcare workforce.
- Prevention: Engage with all interested parties, highlighting the impact of trauma on the population, to ensure that trauma prevention is prioritised.
- Networking: Practice an ethos of connection and collaboration, supported by pathways of care so patients and their whanāu experience high quality seamless services. Aligned to strategic imperatives locally, regionally and nationally.
Meet the Network Co-leads
James Moore
James Moore
Rangitāne, Ngāti Kahungunu, Whānau-ā-Apanui
James is a Consultant Anaesthetist and Intensive Care Physician based in Wellington with subspeciality interests in trauma, cardiothoracic anaesthesia, intensive care, and pre-hospital medicine.
He is currently the head of Trauma Services at Wellington Hospital, the Clinical Lead for the Central Regional Trauma Network.
James is an active clinical researcher, particularly in the fields of trauma, haemorrhage and coagulopathy, traumatic brain injury, health equity and intensive care medicine. He is an honorary senior research fellow at the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand.
A graduate of the University of Otago Medical School, he completed his specialist medical training in New Zealand with further subspecialty training in cardiac anaesthesia and intensive care at Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom. James also holds a Master of Science with Distinction in Trauma Sciences from Queen Mary University of London.
James originally trained as a paramedic and worked in frontline ambulance roles with both St John and Wellington Free Ambulance. He continues to support St John as a medical advisor.
Max Raos
Max Raos
Te Atiawa
Max has been a doctor in hospitals in Aotearoa and Australia since 2009. He currently works as an Emergency Physician at Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital.
Max has a particular interest in Indigenous Health and in systems to improve health outcomes for Māori. He is current co-chair of the Indigenous Health Committee at the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine - the not-for-profit organisation responsible for training emergency physicians and advancement of professional standards in emergency medicine in Australia and New Zealand.
His skillset spans advocacy, complex patient assessment, diagnostic/therapeutic procedures, result interpretation, collaborative care coordination and teaching.
Max’s ideal working environment is with a diverse group of health professionals whose ambition is to generate excellent health outcomes for all people in a system where clinical data informs evidence-based solutions.
Max holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Auckland University Medical School and was a fellow of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine in 2017.
Links
Major Trauma Network (Hosted by e Tāhū Hauora )
National Clinical Networks home page
National Services
Renal National Clinical Network
National Stroke Network
Contact us
If you have any questions about the Trauma National Clinical Network, please email: NationalTraumaNetwork@TeWhatuOra.govt.nz and one of the team will be in touch.