On 1 July 2012 the Mackay Hospital and Health Service commenced operation as an independent statutory body overseen by the Mackay Hospital and Health Board (Mackay HHB).
The Mackay HHB sets the strategic direction and oversees the management of the Mackay Hospital and Health Service. This provides an opportunity to have enhanced local decision making and accountability for the delivery of local health services. The Board is committed to developing ways to involve the community in designing local health service delivery into the future.
The Mackay HHB reports to the Minister for Health and Minister for Ambulance Services and consists of nine independent non-executive Directors, selected by the Governor-in-Council. There are four Committees in place to assist with monitoring the health service’s systems of internal control, financial reporting and clinical safety and quality.
Mr Timothy Mulherin
Chair and Board Member
Mackay Hospital and Health Service 
Mr Tim Mulherin was born and raised in Mackay, where he lives with his wife, Erin, and his three teenage children.
Prior to entering politics, Tim was an administration officer in the electricity supply industry in Mackay. After resigning from the electricity supply industry in 1994, he was appointed state organiser with the Australian Labor Party. In 1995, he was elected to the Queensland Parliament as the Labor member for Mackay.
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Following the 2012 election, Tim was appointed as Deputy Opposition Leader. After twenty years in politics he retired from politics in 2015 to spend more time with his family.
Tim’s interests include travel, reading historical and political novels; following his children’s sporting endeavours. He is a member of a local school board and Mackay Harrup Park Country Club Board.
Mr Darryl Camilleri
Deputy Chair and Board Member
Mackay Hospital and Health Service 
Mr Darryl Camilleri is the former Deputy Mayor of the Mackay Regional Council and has served as Chairman for a number of community organisations. He is also a Chartered Accountant and has extensive experience in tax planning, finance and audits.
Darryl has been a Chartered Accountant and Managing Partner of Bennett Partners Chartered Accountants since 1987. He is responsible for a large business service portfolio specialising in business acquisitions and taxation services in mining services industries, rural industries and small to large business clients. He was also the Deputy Mayor of the Mackay Regional Council from 2008 to April 2012.
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Darryl’s professional qualifications are:
- Fellow—Institute of Chartered Accountants
- Fellow —Tax Institute of Australia
- Registered Tax Agent
- Registered Company Auditor
- Member—Institute of Company Directors
Mr David Aprile
Board Member
Mackay Hospital and Health Service 
Mr David Aprile is well known in Mackay as the Founding Partner of Mackay Day and Night Pharmacy Group. He has served on many local community and government based boards in Mackay and the surrounding area. He also has extensive management knowledge of management and was recognised as Queensland Manager of the Year (owner operator) from the Australian Institute of Management.
Born and bred in Mackay, David, a qualified pharmacist since 1973, is the founding partner of Mackay Day and Night Pharmacy Group established in 1981. Following the groups expansion into cities out of Mackay he was appointed the Managing Director of Healthpoint Chemist Holdings which operates the Healthpoint Chemist Group of pharmacies. Healthpoint Chemist Group operates six pharmacies in Mackay.
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David is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and the Australian Institute of Pharmacy Management. He received the Medal of Management Excellence Award by the Mackay Branch of the Australian Institute of Management in 2010.
David has served on numerous local community and government based boards over the years including the Central Queensland University Advisory Board and Mackay Chamber of Commerce.
He has a Bachelor of Business from the University of Southern Queensland and is a Certified Practicing Accountant and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Professor Richard Murray
Board Member
Mackay Hospital and Health Service
Professor Richard Murray is the Dean of the College of Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University. His career focus has been in rural and remote medicine, Aboriginal health, public health, tropical medicine, health professional education and the healthcare needs of underserved populations. He has a national and international profile in rural medical education and rural medicine and has held a range of leadership positions.
Professor Murray is also President of Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand and a past President of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine.
Prior to joining James Cook University as Planning Director of the Rural Clinical School in 2005, Professor Murray spent 14 years in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia, including 12 years as the Medical Director of the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council, a position in which he had broad-ranging clinical, population health, teaching, research and medical leadership, and management roles.
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Dr Helen Archibald
Board Member
Mackay Hospital and Health Service
Dr Helen Archibald is a general practitioner at Plaza Medical Mackay as well as an associate senior lecturer at James Cook University’s School of Medicine.
Helen is chair of the Medical Services Committee for the Mater Hospital Mackay and a member of its Medical Advisory Committee.
She is also the clinical director for BreastScreen Queensland Mackay Service.
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- Member, Good Shepherd Lodge Council
- Chair, Medical Records and Information Management Committee, Mater Hospital Mackay
- Chair, Mackay Connecting Healthcare in Communities and the Primary Health Care Partnership
- Member and Chair, Rural Palliative Care Project Advisory Committee.
Helen has admitting rights for the Mater Hospital Mackay for General Practice.
Mr John Nugent
Board Member
Mackay Hospital and Health Service
Mr John Nugent has a strong and extensive background in hospital and health care management with over 35 years’ experience in that field. He has been closely involved in local community organisations having lived in Mackay since 1988.
Until his retirement on 12 December 2012, John held the position of the Executive Officer of Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Mackay being appointed to that position in 1996. He oversaw the redevelopment of that 105 bed, not for profit private hospital on a Greenfield site at North Mackay and has been closely involved in the recruitment of many new medical specialists to the Mackay region.
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John and his family moved to Mackay in 1988 when he commenced as Manager of Mackay Base Hospital. John is married to Joan and has 3 children and 7 grandchildren.
He has been a member of the Centacare council for the Catholic Diocese of Rockhampton since 1996. Centacare is a social welfare organisation providing a range of counselling and other services. John has also served on school and day care centre boards of management. He is a Director of the North Queensland Primary Healthcare Network which supports primary health care from Sarina to Cape York and the Torres Strait Islands. He was a member of the Mackay Regional Economic Development Board for several years until 2006. He was the president of City Brothers Football Club for 9 years until 2012 and is a life member of that soccer club.
John was awarded a Bachelor of Business (Health Administration) with Distinction in 1988 by the Queensland Institute of Technology. During his studies he was awarded the Duncan Palmer Memorial award for Health Management and the Conrad and Gargett Award for the Health Care Facilities subject.
John is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Mrs Suzanne Brown
Board Member
Mackay Hospital and Health Service
Mrs Suzanne Brown is a Principal and leading Commercial Solicitor at McKays Solicitors.
She is Mackay’s only Queensland Law Society Business Law Accredited Specialist and one of only 23 in Queensland. When Suzanne completed the course in 2014, she achieved the highest marks in the State and was honoured with a special award by the Chief Justice.
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In 2015, Suzanne was named next to the likes of Darren Lockyer and Bindi Irwin as one of the Courier Mail’s 20 under 40 Business Leaders in Queensland.
From 2012-2015, Suzanne sat as a director of North Queensland Bulk Ports, the leading port authority responsible for the ports of Mackay, Hay Point, Weipa and Abbot Point.
Ms Karla Steen
Board Member
Mackay Hospital and Health Service 
Ms Karla Steen is a communications and media strategist with more than 17 years’ experience in radio and television journalism, corporate communications, and marketing.
Her former roles include Senior Media Advisor to various Queensland Government Ministers including Child Safety, Communities, Disabilities Services and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships.
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Karla has a passion for enhancing the rights of women and children and in 2015, co-launched The Life Approach – a strategic business consultancy and career-mentoring firm created to support girls and women in regional areas.
In 2010 began her own health journey when she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer.
Karla has a BArts, GradCert Business (Marketing), and a Cert IV Small Business.
Ms Leeanne Heaton
Board Member
Mackay Hospital and Health Service 
Ms Leeanne Heaton has a diverse range of experience working in healthcare as a registered nurse, registered midwife and paramedic. Leeanne also has experience working in rural and remote parts of Australia as a flight nurse with the Royal Flying Doctor Service. She is a successful author having written three chapters about rural, regional and remote health and legal aspects of healthcare in Australian nursing textbooks. Leeanne has recently co-authored a journal article about the delivery of a transnational nursing education program and presented at conferences nationally and internationally about simulation based learning in healthcare.
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Leeanne has been an academic panel member for the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC) in addition to being co-lead in the successful application and approval of a new Bachelor of Nursing curriculum. She is a member of the Australian College of Nursing (ACN).
Leeanne has a BN, BClinPrac (Paramedic) and MSci (Midwifery). She is currently completing her PhD.
