Kim Sykes resigns as CEO of Bendigo Community Health Services

Bendigo Community Health Services chief executive officer Kim Sykes has resigned to take up a position in Melbourne closer to family.

“It’s always been my intention to return to Melbourne at some stage because that’s where my son and daughter live and this opportunity has made that possible sooner than I anticipated,” Ms Sykes said.

“My eight years at Bendigo Community Health Services have been enormously rewarding and I’m proud of the work our great staff and the organisation do for the Bendigo community. It’s been a privilege to be part of that.

“Now it’s time for the next CEO to take BCHS forward and continue that great work.”

Ms Sykes said the support of staff, partner organisations and community had been wonderful since joining BCHS in July 2010.

Run For Dad Bendigo - all the times. Where did you finish?

What a great day!

The 2018 Run For Dad Bendigo was a huge success with record entries and $6000 raised for men's health and prostate cancer.

There was a great atmosphere with children, families and plenty of superheroes turning out with Superman, Batman, Spiderman and Thor popular.

A massive thanks to everyone who supported the event.

In further great news from Sunday the fun run's new major sponsor Barry Plant Bendigo signed on for next year.

The Run For Dad on Father's Day at Bendigo Racecourse supports our men's health clinic and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia. 

So, where did you finish? To find out click on this link: pdf Run For Dad Bendigo - all the finishing times (142 KB)

#standwithcommunityhealth campaign to raise awareness of value to Bendigo

Bendigo Community Health Services is supporting a Victorian Healthcare Association campaign called ‘We Stand With Community Health’ in the lead up to the Victorian election in November.

The #standwithcommunityhealth campaign was launched at Star Health in Melbourne today.

The focus will be raising awareness of the role community health services play in Victoria and getting all political parties to pledge support for a number of ‘asks’ in the lead up to the election, including:

• New community health centres where the public need them.
• $60 million every year to improve outdated facilities.
• Increased funding to enable community health services to keep pace with a growing population.
• Better leveraging community health to reduce pressure on Victoria’s public hospital emergency departments.
• Support for community health services to provide an even stronger health safety net for vulnerable Victorians.
• Increased public dental funding, so people can access care when they need it.

These ‘asks’ were chosen after VHA consulted with community health services to determine the biggest needs across all platforms and for this reason do not just reflect our priorities alone.

We have raised the importance of prevention and the need for a workforce strategy to attract health professionals to regional areas and these will be included in our local discussions with our sitting members and candidates.

We have written to Bendigo MPs, candidates and large organisations seeking campaign support.