Our people

Director, Professional Services Review

The PSR Scheme is managed by the Director, an independent statutory officer appointed by the Minister for Health under section 83 of the Health Insurance Act 1973. The Director must be a medical practitioner, and the Australian Medical Association (AMA) must agree to the appointment.

As head of the PSR Agency, the Director conducts reviews and ensures support is available for the PSR Committees and Determining Authority. The Director also acts as the agency’s accountable authority as described in the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

The Director manages PSR staff as set out in our organisation chart.

Executive and Management Committee

The PSR’s Executive and Management Committee consists of the Director, Executive Officer and Unit Managers. As PSR is a small agency, this committee performs several support and monitoring roles that might be performed by specialist committees in a larger organisation. It meets every month and advises the Director on:

• planning
• budgeting
• financial management
• performance monitoring
• privacy, security and information management
• corporate governance, including human resources and work health and safety.

The committee enables PSR to work across organisational boundaries to achieve its corporate objectives. It promotes the core principles of good public sector governance, such as leadership, accountability, transparency, integrity, efficiency and risk management.

Key decision-makers

The PSR Scheme relies on key decision-makers to do its work. All are statutory appointments made by the Minister of Health after consultation with the AMA or other relevant professional bodies as set out in the Health Insurance Act 1973:

• PSR Director
  • independent statutory officer and medical practitioner (section 83)
• PSR Panel
  • medical and other health care practitioners who may sit on peer review Committees (section 84) or provide assistance to the Director (section 90)
• Deputy Directors
  • Panel members who chair PSR Committees (section 85)
• Determining Authority
  • comprises a permanent chair (medical practitioner), a permanent lay person and a member who represents the profession of the practitioner being reviewed (section 106ZPB).

Our full list of current appointees includes appointment start and end dates.