Michelle McKay

Michelle began her health career in emergency nursing.  Over the last 20 years, Michelle has held a range of executive roles in health and aged care across Queensland (QLD), South Australia (S.A.) and the Northern Territory (N.T.), in public, faith-based and not-for-profit sectors and in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service.  This includes leading hospital and health services, including a District of 17 geographically dispersed hospitals across South West Queensland and a large hospital in Adelaide, South Australia, the Executive Director of Performance and Planning of a very large health service in South Australia, which had a budget of over $2.5B and five years Executive experience in aged, community and disability services, leading services across regional Queensland and the Northern Territory, including approximately 2400 residents in residential aged care services, 60 community service centres and 1000 home care package clients with 5000 staff.

She was the CEO of an Acute Hospitals N.H.S. Trust in England, consisting of three hospitals with 6000 staff serving a population of over 500,000 with a budget of £400M, and led Top End Health Services in the Northern Territory, responsible for all public health services for approximately 80% of the Territory’s population, over 25% of whom are Aboriginal people, accountable for a budget of over $1B and approximately 5000 staff, across four hospitals and over 25 remote primary clinics.  Michelle is currently the CEO of the Adelaide Primary Health Network.