{"id":9498,"date":"2025-03-31T14:41:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T04:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/?p=9498"},"modified":"2025-03-25T09:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T23:31:35","slug":"new-clinical-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/news\/new-clinical-council","title":{"rendered":"Following four years as Chair of Redcliffe Hospital&#8217;s clinical council, Dr Alan Yan takes the lead for Metro North."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:89.44rem;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1>Following four years as Chair of Redcliffe Hospital&#8217;s clinical council, Dr Alan Yan takes the lead for Metro North.<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_9499\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9499\" class=\"wp-image-9499 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/alan-yan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/alan-yan-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/alan-yan-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/alan-yan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/alan-yan-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/03\/alan-yan.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/400;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Alan Yan is the new Chair of Metro North&#8217;s Clinical Council<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>Dr Alan Yan is a familiar face at Redcliffe Hospital. He\u2019s been a valuable part of the hospital community since 2014 and currently holds the critical role of Director of Emergency.<\/h4>\n<p>He\u2019s also the new face of Metro North Health\u2019s Clinical Council. As the first point of contact with many patients, Alan recognises the importance of emergency medicine in the overall success of the hospital. \u201cWe regularly treat patients at the worst moments in their lives,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s important we have the systems, processes and workforce in place to provide quality care to the community.\u201d \u201cEmergency medicine is an ever-evolving area, and we work to keep up to date with best practice.\u201d In addition to his role in emergency, Alan has been Chair of the Redcliffe Hospital Clinical Council for four years before being appointed the Chair of Metro North\u2019s Clinical Council. \u201cEssentially, the Clinical Council is a voice for all staff,\u201d Alan said. \u201cWe meet regularly with hospital and Metro North executives and board members to discuss matters relating to workforce, culture, training and more.\u201d Alan recognises the importance of staff having a say in what happens at the hospital. \u201cFrontline staff know better than anyone what\u2019s working well in caring for patients and areas where there are challenges,\u201d he said. \u201cThe clinical council seeks input from staff and presents it to senior leaders to consider as part of planning, delivering and improving hospital services.\u201d During his time as a member of the Clinical Council, Alan has seen the scope increase. \u201cOriginally a voice for medical staff, the group has expanded over the years to represent all staff at Redcliffe Hospital,\u201d he added. \u201cRegardless of role, everyone plays an important part in our hospital community, and deserve to have their say. \u201cI\u2019m honoured to have been asked to take up the role of Chair in the Metro North Clinical Council &#8211; I\u2019m looking forward to continuing to work with council members to make Metro North an even better place for our staff.\u201d Away from work, Alan has a young family with primary school age children. He\u2019s also a keen runner and has worked to grow the annual Redcliffe Hospital fun run, in which he won the inaugural event. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following four years as Chair of Redcliffe Hospital&#8217;s clinical council, Dr Alan Yan takes the lead for Metro North.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":9499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9508,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions\/9508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}