Sandy Thomson
Email: aaqhc@aaqhc.org.au
Sandy is the Director of GovernancePlus, established in 2006 to provide accreditation support and education to the health, aged care, community and disability sectors. She is a lead assessor for the Australian Council on Health Care Standards with over 12 years of surveying experience covering organisations providing acute public, acute private, community, not for profit, prison health, mental health, regional and remote health services.
She is also a member of the ACHS Improvement Academy including designing and delivering workshops, member of the Australian Hospitals and HealthCare Association, member of Standards Australia committees for medical device and member of ACHS WA State Advisory Council.
Sandy has co-authored a Masters in Health Management Quality and Leadership at Murdoch University and a Masters in Clinical Governance at Edith Cowan University.
Her previous positions include Assistant Auditor General Strategy Policy and Innovation Office of Auditor General Director Accreditation WA Country Health, General Manager Peel and Rockingham Kwinana Health Service and National President Australasian Association for Quality in Health Care.
Sandy holds a Masters in Health Service Management, is a Fellow of the Australasian Association Quality in Health Care, the Governance Institute of Australia and Australian Organisation for Quality. In addition, she has NDIS certification/verification assessment qualifications.