Ged Kearney, ANF Federal Secretary has been nursing for nearly 30years, nursing in both public and private health in Melbourne.

She has extensive experience in public health and nursing education, having worked for many years as the Coordinator of Clinical Education at Austin Health in Melbourne.

Ged has always been a very active member of the Australian Nursing Federation.  She was Victorian Branch President for five years, ANF Federal President for four years, and ANF Assistant Federal Secretary before taking up her current position as ANF Federal Secretary in April 2008.

With a strong sense of the value of nursing to Australia’s health and of peoples right to universal, quality and affordable health care, Ged Kearney represents a new era in health where reform is on the agenda and health care is not dominated by an antiquated biomedical model of care, rather a multidisciplinary, health promotion approach.

With the population ageing and increasing pressures on the way we care for older Australians, Ged Kearney will discuss the future of aged care and nursing homes and why the current system needs reform now.