Centre for
Healthcare, Knowledge & Innovation (CHKI)
Healthy North Coast, delivering the North Coast Primary Health Network , established the Centre for Healthcare Knowledge & Innovation (CHKI) to create space for learning and reflection beyond day-to-day service delivery. It’s proudly supported by a growing network of partners who recognise that reform doesn’t happen in isolation. These include:
✔️ Primary Health Networks working to improve system integration, data-driven planning, workforce innovation, and health equity
✔️ Universities committed to translational research, workforce development, and public value
✔️ Community service organisations focused on co-design, service innovation, and community-led impact
Through the work of CHKI, Healthy North Coast brings people together to spark fresh thinking on system response and reform. The urgency is growing, especially in a region like North Coast NSW, where some of Australia’s most intense and compounding climate risks are already being felt. At CHKI, we recognise environment as a cross-cutting determinant in every health conversation and believe environmental resilience must become core business for health. That’s why it’s embedded in every CHKI conversation, not as a standalone theme, but as part of the complex reality shaping health systems today.
With our partners, we invite health professionals, researchers, policymakers, and community leaders to explore real-world reform – through online conversations, learning journeys, and face-to-face events. Let’s learn from each other and move reform forward.
WHAT WE DO
We build a phase into the reform journey
dedicated to open dialogue.
✔️ We surface stories of real-world innovation – not polished case studies, but honest accounts of what’s working, what’s stuck, and where momentum is building.
✔️ We contextualise ideas – helping people understand how insights from elsewhere might apply in their own setting.
✔️ We create cross-sector exchange – breaking down silos between health, research, policy, and community practice.
✔️ We spark inquiry – through events and learning experiences that encourage people to pause, question, and reimagine what’s possible.
Health reform doesn’t happen all at once. It unfolds in stages – from recognising challenges, to exploring what’s possible, to testing and scaling change. We sit at the crucial stage between insight and action.
Learn more about
sense-making/exploration and option generation
Learning Journeys
Events
We hold symposiums, workshops, webinars and the International Summer School on Integrated Care.
News
We stay up-to-date with innovative change and share news that relates to our region’s priority areas.
Knowledge Library
We build an archive of information and evidence to support new and creative ways of healthcare delivery.
The Centre is committed to building cross-sector relationships and has a collective approach to health and social care. Learn about our Patrons.
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land we live and work, the Bundjalung, Arakwal, Yaegl, Gumbaynggirr, Githabul, Dunghutti and Birpai Nationsand their continuing connection to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to elders past, present and future.