Our speakers

Janet Anderson PSM

Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner

Topic

The work of the Commission - Driving quality care outcomes through consumer engagement. The dynamic between the Quality Standards, aged care providers and the regulator.

Bio

Janet Anderson brings to her position as Commissioner for the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission over 20 years of experience in health and aged care as a public servant at Commonwealth, State and regional levels. Janet will outline the important role of the Commission in helping to raise the quality of dementia care.

After stints in the NSW Department of Health, the Commonwealth Department of Veterans’ Affairs and the Commonwealth Department of Health, Janet took up the position of Deputy CEO, and then acting CEO, of the Northern Territory Department of Health. While in the Northern Territory, she was also in charge of leading the government’s response to the Royal Commission into child protection and youth justice.

In 2009, Janet was awarded a Public Service Medal for her contributions to health system policy.