Canowindra welcomes our new Primary and Community Health Manager, Alison Stoker. Alison would like to take this opportunity to introduce herself to the community.
Hello my name is Alison Stoker and I am the new Primary and Community Health Manager for Canowindra and Eugowra. I commenced work in May of this year.
I am the daughter of a naval officer so I was never far from water until I met a farmer and moved an hour north west of Warren where I lived for 27 years and raised a family of four daughters. My husband and I now live in Cargo and raise beef cattle.
I commenced my health journey in 1985 at Sydney University and worked as a registered nurse at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney before undertaking my midwifery training at Nepean Hospital.
On moving to Warren I worked at Warren Multi-Purpose Health Service for 27 years undertaking a number of roles both clinical and management. Midwifery, Child and Family Health, Karitane mothercraft, Acute Care Certificate Rural and Remote and a Parkinson’s Care Certificate have all been part of my educational health journey so far. I did undertake a couple of secondments to Eugowra MPS in 2017.
I then worked for the Primary Health Network for 3 years, overseeing a strategic palliative approach to care project and a movement disorder project.
I am so impressed with the quality of staff and their dedication to their community that the Canowindra and Eugowra Community Health centre staff have shown.
Please don’t hesitate to come over to the community health centre and say hello and share ideas for improving health in our community.