Helping you deliver safe, effective, sustainable care while finding joy in your work.
We are a boutique management consulting team with extensive experience reviewing operational effectiveness and efficiency of programs, improving engagement and collaboration, plus helping you reduce clinical and business risks in your organisation.
“We want to make a difference in the care for you and the community your healthcare business serves. Care with empathy which is focussed on value not volume”
Who we are
Bollen Health is a boutique management consulting company which delivers education and mentoring for health professionals across Australia in a wide variety of areas from clinical topics such as healthy ageing, dementia and frailty to leadership training, team-based care and systems for chronic disease care.
We also have extensive experience reviewing operational effectiveness and efficiency of programs, improving engagement and collaboration, plus helping you reduce clinical and business risks in your organisation. A topical current risk is the issue of burnout in your team which impacts workforce retention, recruitment and clinical care. We aim to help you improve your practice systems to reduce the risk of burnout and deliver on the Quadruple Aim.
Why choose Bollen Health
Your patients can find it very difficult to rate their experience of your practice as 5 stars when your team is rating the workday experience as 2 stars!
Rather than focus on cost cutting as a survival strategy for healthcare business, we aim to help you discover new income streams, and revitalise your team by reducing the friction in a workday.
Our focus is on sustainable delivery of healthcare, where the emphasis is on care. Care of the people in the community you serve as well as care of the people in the teams providing the care.
What Bollen Health does at its core is to connect with our clients and focus on the care they wish to provide. This all leads back to; Helping you deliver safe, effective care, while finding joy in your work.
This is how Bollen Health aims to make a difference.
Our Team
Dr. Chris Bollen
MBBS MBA FRACGP FACHSM MAICD
A GP and experienced healthcare leader with clinical and consulting expertise in chronic disease management, doctors’ health, care of older people, the primary health care/community/hospital interfaces, quality improvement and change leadership. Chris is Director of Bollen Health after having previously been a CEO of a Division of General Practice and Director of GP Training Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Jane Bollen
RN Cert(CritCare) CertIVTAE DipAcct GAICD
With a background of nursing and accounting, plus a focus on systems and organisation, Jane is a great believer in data driven improvement for your healthcare business. She is also passionate about nurses working to their full scope of practice in primary care. This passion resulted in Jane serving as a board Director with the Australian Primary Health Care Nurse Association (APNA) 2016-18.
Jane loves to explore strategies for general practices to keep improving, as well as discuss the challenges they find implementing chronic disease management into their systems and processes. She coaches and supports nurses to improve the care of their patients and is a data queen - helping people make a difference by making data matter to them.
Rod Buchecker
MAICD AMI CPM
Rod Buchecker is Chair of TEC 30 for The Executive Connection and an active member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He holds a variety of Board directorships and is Chair of the Burnside Hospital Foundation.
After 15 years as a Director of Clemenger BBDO Adelaide and eight years with Young and Rubicam and USP (DDB) Needham in Melbourne, Rod established his Adelaide based consulting practice in early 2009. Drawing on his experience he specialises in strategic brand management, consumer insight and leadership development and is one of Australia’s most highly regarded CEO coaches and business strategists.
Rod is an accredited facilitator for Patrick Lencioni’s “Five Behaviours of Cohesive Teams” and Wiley Publishing’s “Everything DiSC” personality profiling, and regularly presents to business leaders and teams all over Australia on these subjects.
He is a published author, releasing his first book “Perspectives on Focus- and why nothing happens without it” in early 2019 and publishing it again in 2020. He regularly posts on various business topics via LinkedIn and is currently working on volume two of “perspectives” set to be released in mid 2024.
Bollen Health and Rod Buchecker partner in the delivery of the Practice Leadership Advantage programs.
Working with over 450 General Practices across Australia, we have delivered results by engaging and supporting clinicians to improve leadership within their practices and ultimately deliver better care.
