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Dr Jack Havill honoured by Waikato DHB
A former Waikato Hospital Intensive Care Unit clinical director and board member is the latest member of the elite Waikato District Health Board emeritus consultants club.
Dr Jack Havill is one of only five other Waikato DHB clinical staff since 2005 appointed an emeritus consultant..
Appointment as an emeritus consultant is an opportunity to recognise retired specialists who have given exceptional service to the Waikato community over an extended period (more than 15 years’ continuous service).
Criteria for appointment include such qualities
as:
• Significant contribution to the maintenance of
clinical excellence and standards of teaching and research
at Waikato DHB
• Active commitment to committees or
other groups involved in the organisational/ administrative
structure of the hospital
• Leadership in innovation,
particularly in improving services to patients
• Held
in high esteem by his/her clinical colleagues
“I am honoured to have received emeritus consultant status with Waikato District Health Board,” said Dr Havill.
“Waikato Hospital is a facility of which I am extremely proud of and proud to be associated with.”
Dr Havill arrived in Hamilton in 1975, having completed medical specialist training in both anaesthesia and intensive care medicine, before taking on the Waikato Hospital Intensive Care Unit director role for 27 years.
From 2002 to 2004, he was head of Waikato Clinical School, where medical students do clinical training, after which he retired from clinical medicine.
He has been on many hospital and national committees, including the Australian and New Zealand Board responsible for training intensive care specialists, and was dean for a period of two years.
Dr Havill is particularly interested in the virtues of a strong public health system and was a member of the Coalition for Public Health and an elected member on the Waikato District Health Board for six years.
He joins Hugh Spencer (Anaesthetics), Peter Rothwell (General Medicine), Denis Friedlander (Cardiology), the late David Clews (Orthopaedics) and Peter Stokes (Gastroenterology) in reaching emeritus consultant status.
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Benefits of emeritus
status
• Access to library and other facilities at
Waikato Hospital for research or other purposes.
• May be appointed to locum positions
• May be
consulted (unpaid) in relation to clinical matters
• Access to the senior staff lounge
• Presented
with a commemorative plate which includes a brass plaque
detailing their status and years of service to the DHB
Once emeritus consultant status is approved, the
consultant concerned would be invited to provide a photo,
and to complete a biographical questionnaire, to create an
archive. These would be recorded in a dedicated volume and
included on an emeritus web
page.
ENDS
Waikato District Health Board
Healthy People. Excellent Care
Waikato District Health Board (DHB) employs over 6500 people and plans, funds and provides hospital and health services to more than 391,770 people in a region covering eight per cent of New Zealand.
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