Bruce Shaw Email & Phone Number

Canberra, Australia

COTA is the primary peak body representing, and advocating for, older people in Australia.

Canberra

Bruce Shaw provided leadership for FECCA and demonstrated conceptual, analytical and critical thinking skills in its representation on key implementation advisory groups across the national aged care reform agenda to ensure that culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) issues are appropriately reflected in the aged care reform agenda.He coordinated FECCA's involvement in all the aged care reform consultative and advisory committees, and represented FECCA on the Ageing Expert Advisory Committee which had an oversight role for the implementation of the aged care reform agenda.Bruce successfully managed the national consultations which assisted the Government’s development of the National CALD Aged Care Strategy for people from CALD backgrounds, whose aim is.to ensure that all future aged care policy is culturally and linguistically inclusive.Bruce managed the establishment of FECCA’s Healthy Ageing reference committee to advise and provide oversight to FECCA’s strategic activities and to provide a major consultative forum towards ensuring that Australians from CALD backgrounds have equal access to quality aged care.

Canberra

ACAA (now renamed Leading Age Services Australia – LASA) is a national peak body representing aged care providers. Bruce represented ACAA at meetings, and worked on ACAA submissions to the Productivity Commission inquiry into Caring for Older Australians, input to a draft Advance Care Directives framework, and on the aged care and health reform agendas.

Canberra, Australia

Bruce's primary task was to advocate for change to the prevailing paradigm where terminal conditions were isolated and disregarded as an integral part of health and care systems. His applied research, policy development work, and advocacy positioned PCA to raise awareness of the importance of enhancing support for palliative care as a vital and integral part of the health and aged care systems. His advocacy positioned PCA to take advantage of the national health reform agenda to achieve significant breakthroughs, particularly for older Australians.Bruce developed and drove PCA’s policy agenda, successfully started the process of creating a credible policy base. He related effectively to a wide range of stakeholders – PCA members, other stakeholders within the broad health/aged care/palliative care sectors, government advisers and officers, politicians and political parties, the media, consumers and the broad community.Bruce succeeded in bringing to the forefront the issue of preventable pain as a key component of end of life care. The Government’s advisory and consultative Palliative Care Medicines Working Group agreed on strategies to advance the issues raised by the joint National Prescribing Service Limited (NPS) and Palliative Care Australia (PCA) applied research report Achieving quality use of medicines in the community for palliative and end of life care. This report, which Bruce drove from the PCA side, identifies issues, makes findings, and suggests a number of ways forward towards achieving the goals of access to enhanced access to palliative medicines in the community within a quality use of medicines (QUM) environment.

Canberra, Australia

Bruce managed and led the Medication Management Review (MMR, also called Home Medication Review or HMR) Facilitator Program - a vital element of quality use of medicines in Australia, particularly for older Australians.

This was a 3 day-per-week appointment to set up a national office to advocate on behalf of people with Parkinson's disease. Bruce developed and led strategic initiatives to raise awareness of Parkinson's in the community, and with decision-makers at a national level.

Canberra, Australia

This was a short-term "on-nomination" appointment to manage the national Australian Research Council (ARC)/National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Research Network in Ageing Well. Bruce managed this program and established and developed liaison with key ageing and aged care sector stakeholders.

Canberra, Australia

Bruce's job with the AMA involved successfully identifying opportunities, and having the self-motivation – not to mention the courage, skills and resilience – to act on them. He managed the AMA’s strategic analyses, policy development, and advocacy in aged care and therapeutics, dealing directly with government and stakeholders at a senior level. He established good working relationships with the Government and the Opposition, senior departmental officers, industry and sector groups, academia, other key stakeholders, and the media.• Bruce helped the AMA, and the Australian Government, strategically address the shortage of medical services in residential aged care. I helped the AMA achieve an environment where the issue of the disincentives to doctors providing services in residential aged care homes is now being seriously addressed.• He effectively placed AMA and medical profession issues on the public policy agenda, including raising awareness of the integral links between health and aged care, negotiating ways of overcoming the disincentives to the provision of medical services in residential aged care, and in highlighting public policy issues in therapeutics, such as the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), the Free Trade Agreement with the US (AUSFTA), and the role of the Therapeutic Goods Administration.• He organised and convened the AMA/NACA National Aged Care Summit in February 2004, bringing together most national stakeholders in the aged care and health paradigm, including the federal Minister and Shadow Minister. This summit agreed that aged care is fundamentally a health care issue, and that better integration of services for older people can be achieved through a cooperative, multidisciplinary approach wherever older people are living and receiving care: in the community, an aged care home, and hospital.

Canberra

Bruce was responsible for managing policy development and advocacy in aged care, health, and disability policies for UA, the peak community services agency of the Uniting Church in Australia.He identified and developed policy opportunities for UA to advance its policy agenda for an improved funding environment for aged care, health, and disability services, in consultation with US's Advisory Committees on Ageing and Disability, and National Reference Committee.He established good working relationships with the Government, senior departmental officers, and the Opposition, and with key stakeholders.He represented UA on a range of sector and government bodies including the National Liaison Group for the Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency, the government's consultation group the Aged Care Working Group, and the National Aged Care Alliance.

Sydney And Canberra

Bruce strategically applied his concept of social insurance (briefly explained later under Education) to develop a strategy to enhance access to pharmaceutical medicines in Australia, involving a strategic economic analysis of the disincentives of an economic monopsony such as the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), and public policy avenues for improving the PBS as an economically viable safety net.He contributed to furthering MSDA's relationships with the federal Health Minister's office, with the federal Opposition and minor parties, and with a range of stakeholders.He initiated and facilitated liaison with leading academics towards the establishment of academic partnerships for MSDA.He contributed to the international policy environment with a briefing paper Access to Pharmaceuticals for Australian delegates to the 53rd World Health Assembly.

Bruce directed statistical research, secretariat, and policy units.He promoted and educated public service departments and agencies in the importance and techniques of benchmarking as a performance measuring tool.He initiated, undertook, and coordinated research, effectively leading my team in analysing and presenting statistics in an easily understood manner which enhances their usability.He coordinated the development of policy strategies to address accountability in Commonwealth employment, and undertook decision reviews, as Senior Adviser to the former Merit Protection and Review Agency.He promoted equal employment opportunity (EEO) principles such as diversity and ethics as an integral aspect of corporate management, as the Commonwealth's Senior Adviser in EEO.

Canberra

As the CHF’s chief executive officer and spokesperson, Bruce firmed up the place of health consumers/patients as partners in the health continuum. He established effective working relations with a wide range of partners and stakeholders (including traditional adversaries). He built partnerships and common ground for CHF with all jurisdictions of government, political parties, parliamentary committees, industry, medical schools, health professional bodies, the media, and the community.He raised awareness of consumers' rights and responsibilities in the community on important health issues including health consumers' rights and responsibilities such as informed consent, and the rational prescribing of pharmaceuticals (now called quality use of medicines or QUM). He successfully coordinated joint policy action with both member organisations and other stakeholders.To advance improved awareness of rational prescribing of pharmaceutical medicines among both health professionals and consumers, Bruce obtained Commonwealth funding for, and co-convened (with the Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists) the Rational Prescribing: the challenge for medical educators conference with a highly knowledgeable, prestigious and influential range of international speakers. This was the “watershed” event in advancing awareness of the quality use of medicines, placing QUM firmly on the public policy agenda.

Canberra

Bruce was responsible for managing the Library and the Information and Statistics subsection; worked on promoting, advancing and implementing areas of program budgeting and the financial management improvement program; and the corporate plan and other strategic planning accountabilities.He demonstrated excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills; program management skills; analytical skills; and management and coordination skills by editing the award-winning 1989 DAA Annual Report. This provides strong evidence of his self-motivation in managing major reporting projects, and in effectively communicating a strategic vision in a demanding environment of change.

Canberra

Bruce made significant contributions to effective public policy development including:• preventive strategies for substance abuse;• a national education/training program to reduce diabetes, heart disease and other lifestyle diseases;• communicable disease strategies including the Aboriginal children’s hepatitis B vaccination program and eye health;• improved Medicare coverage for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people;• educational support for Aboriginal medical students;• an early role in action to help redress the issue of the stolen generations; and• member of the 1986 national measles control interdepartmental committee, the Interdepartmental Working Party on Aboriginal Health, and the National Trachoma and Eye Health Committee.

Master Of Public Administration - Mpa, Visiting Fellow Anu Medical School

I was awarded a part time, salaried postgraduate Primary Health Care Research, Evaluation and Development research scholarship.

Master Of Public Policy, Economics, Health Policy, Ethics

I focused on developing, analysing and managing public policy in the most effective way, with articles published in refereed journals. I.

Bachelor Of Arts, History, Political Scence/Government

Afs Exchange Student

Queensland Senior Certificate