Focus Area
Strategic Advisory
Good strategy is about making distinct choices that navigate risks and seize opportunities. More than that, good strategy engages stakeholders and excites staff to deliver the vision.
Strategic
Advisory
We work side by side with Boards, CEO, and Executive teams to build strategies that don’t just sit on the shelf but drive real change. Together we will define a clear vision, set priorities, uncover critical insights, and co-design strategies with key stakeholders.
What sets us apart is working with you to respond to a very challenging environment:
- Changing demographics,
- Workforce pressures,
- Health equity, including, First Nation’s health priorities
- Digital and technology, and
- Financial viability.
Create Health is unmatched in turning system pressures and complexity into your advantage.
The result is a future-ready strategy your Board will back, your Executives can deliver with confidence, and your community will unite behind.
What Sets Our Corporate Strategy Approach Apart
Our tailored implementation approach, powered by implementation science, delivers measurable results even in the most complex settings. Beyond execution, we focus on what sustains success: capability uplift and continuous evaluation, ensuring your organisation adapts, excels, and leads change.
The result? Strategies that unlock opportunities, deliver sustained impact, and drive innovative & responsive reform. All of this is achieved through our proven four-phased methodology, refined through the strategies we have developed with State health departments and health services, Primary Health Networks (PHNs), research institutes, Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Organisations, private hospitals and the non-government sector.
Organisational Foundations
We start by anchoring your strategy in a deep understanding of your core strengths including service capabilities, size and reach, reputation, partnerships and track record. We make sure your strategy builds on these unique strengths, ensuring these foundations build enduring organisational advantage.
Environment Insight
We cut through complexity to deliver a clear, actionable analysis of the forces reshaping Australian health and social care system. From demographic shifts and workforce challenges to digital acceleration, equity priorities, and NHRA reform, we reveal not only the risks that could derail your strategy, but the opportunities that others in the system will overlook, turning uncertainty into advantage.
Strategic Direction
We transform insights into a bold yet achievable strategic path that is prioritised, transparent, and aligned with your organisation and community. The result? A strategy that inspires leadership, accelerates execution, and brings your community behind a shared vision.Supporting clients to align their strategic and cost drivers and gain a detailed understanding of their cost base.
Policy and Evaluation
We help health leaders design policy, evaluate programs and turn evidence into sustainable system reforms. Our team includes system leaders who have run State departments, national reform tables and bilateral agreements. We have a deep understanding of how the Australasian health system works across Commonwealth funding, State service delivery, PHN commissioning, ACCHO leadership and the private sector.
At Create Health Advisory, we aim to connect the system. We identify where systems align, where gaps limit progress and what solutions work in real practice. We prepare strategic policy advice, conduct rigorous evaluations and support clients to develop initiatives that are practical, funded and ready to implement.
Bring Strategy to Life
A strategy without ownership is just words on a page.
Create Health Advisory will activate your strategy through high energy and impactful engagements including immersive gallery walk throughs, interactive digital tools, town halls that energise staff, consumers and partners, and co-design sprints that reflect your communities’ expectations.
The result is a living strategy that people believe in, own, and deliver from day one.
What sets us apart
We have led major reforms and understand how decisions made in Canberra can influence a remote clinic in South Australia or a metropolitan ED in Melbourne. We translate these impacts into clear advice for implementation, funding, workforce and digital readiness.
- We have led major reforms and understand how decisions made in Canberra can influence a remote clinic in South Australia or a metropolitan ED in Melbourne. We translate these impacts into clear advice for implementation, funding, workforce and digital readiness.
- Our policy work has informed Ministerial decisions, Treasury negotiations and national strategies.
- We use proven evaluation approaches grounded in mixed-method program logic and system analysis. This helps us show how funding flows, workforce capability, digital systems and service models interact and provide evidence that decision makers trust.
- We work with clients to convert insights into investment-ready proposals, scalable programs and practical implementation. We also help build internal capability so continuous improvement and evaluation become routine practice, not one-off exercises.
Policy Strategy and Reform
We provide evidence-based policy advice to support Cabinet processes, regulatory reforms, intergovernmental negotiations. Drawing on our system leadership experience, we help clients set policy direction across funding reform, rural and remote health, First Nations priorities, aged care and integrated models of care. Our work is practical, costed and implementation-ready, supporting change at local, State and National levels.
Evaluation and system impact
We use realist and mixed-method evaluation approaches supported by clear program logic and robust qualitative and quantitative inquiry. Our evaluation work spans national programs, statewide reforms and equity-focused initiatives ensuring that effectiveness, implementation quality and context.
Implementation and evidence translation
We translate findings into budget briefs, funding proposals, program schedules and implementation roadmaps. We help clients embed evaluation, redesign and continuous improvement into internal systems, strengthening capability and supporting sustained performance beyond the engagement.
Industry Experience
Create Health performs a structured approach to improving patient flow in two phases: initially we Analyse the existing pathway for each gate (entry points, delays, capacity), then Engage key representatives from the health service to identify opportunities.
Our team have deep experience in policy, strategy and evaluation across the health and social care eco-system. We have recent experience connecting different elements of the system whether that be at the service interface or aligning policy, funding and performance levers to deliver a better outcome for the system.
The team have experience advising central and line agencies across both the Commonwealth and state and territory governments. We have also advised public and private providers, research institutes, and the non-government sector seeking to navigate a complex environment.