Our Team

KPI Programme Lead

• sima.clarke@mhakpi.health.nz

After six years supporting the Data, Information and Research team at Te Pou, I took a fixed term role as Workforce Consultant Mental Health and Addictions (MHA) Service at Waikato DHB. This experience informs my priorities for the KPI Programme – to enable the workforce to improve their practice to deliver better services for tāngata whai ora, whānau and their communities.

Using data, information more effectively, and benchmarking performance against indicators are tools that can aid our workforce to achieve this.

I bring an existing knowledge of the MHA data and information landscape to the KPI Programme. Along with the ability to effectively coordinate diverse stakeholder groups locally and internationally, organise large scale events, and build strong working relationships across the New Zealand public sector, including DHBs and NGOs.

KPI Programme Coordinator

• amy.simmons@tepou.co.nz

Kia ora, I’m Amy.

I was born and raised in Taranaki, and after moving around a lot I now call Kemureti (Cambridge) home. I am passionate about continuous improvement and supporting collaboration to uncover solutions that achieve better outcomes for tāngata whai ora. I love that access to data means we can ask why things are going well in certain areas and how can we use these lessons to make improvements in other areas.

Before joining the KPI Programme team, I spent two years with Te Whāriki o te Ara Oranga (Whāriki) and played a key part in the start-up of the knowledge exchange programme. This saw me involved in the build of the Whāriki web platform and facilitating the functions critical to enabling our mental health and addiction sector to share ideas and stories about what works to improve equity for Māori.

I am thrilled to be able to bring background in business analysis and my learnings from Whāriki to the KPI Programme and progressing action that opens doors to mātauranga Māori in our continuous improvement practices to drive equity for Māori in all spaces.

In my free time, I enjoy the cinema, catching up with friends, gardening, and playing squash. I look forward to continuing to grow and learn with the KPI Programme.