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National Business Review
a day ago
- Business
- National Business Review
Skye Daniels appointed CEO at nib NZ
The nib NZ board and nib group managing director and chief executive, Ed Close, have appointed Skye Daniels as chief executive of nib NZ. She will join nib NZ from August 4, 2025. Daniels was the chief financial officer at Southern Cross Health Society, where she led the finance, pricing, analytics, and investment divisions. She was also executive sponsor for the Southern Cross life insurance strategy, Māori strategy, Te Ao Māori Rōpū, and the Pacific languages collective. She has previously worked in the aviation, professional services, advertising, and media sectors. The nib NZ chair Hanne Janes said: 'The nib NZ Board is delighted Skye has joined nib NZ as CEO, and are confident her strong leadership and commercial skills will build on the successful foundation laid by our outgoing CEO Rob Hennin.' Group MD and CEO Ed Close said: 'We look forward to Skye joining nib NZ and leading our NZ team. Skye has strong commercial, strategic, and financial service skills, and brings to nib knowledge of the local healthcare market, and extensive experience across a broad range of New Zealand industries.' Daniels said: 'I'm excited to be contributing to nib's strong purpose-driven culture, while helping to deliver great outcomes for our nib NZ members and the broader nib team.' The nib NZ board and Close thanked outgoing Hennin for his 12 years of service and leadership. He will remain at nib NZ during the leadership transition. This is supplied content and not commissioned or paid for by NBR.
Scoop
a day ago
- Business
- Scoop
Skye Daniels Appointed Chief Executive Officer At Nib NZ
nib NZ Board and nib Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Ed Close, said Skye Daniels has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of nib NZ. Mrs Daniels will join nib NZ from 4 August 2025. nib Group (ASX: NHF) Managing Director and CEO Ed Close announces Skye Daniels has been appointed CEO nib NZ Mrs Daniels, formerly CFO at New Zealand's Southern Cross Health Society, will join nib NZ on 4 August 2025 She brings strong commercial, strategic and financial service skills to nib NZ, deep knowledge of NZ's insurance market and professional experience spanning health, aviation and media nib NZ Board and nib Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Ed Close, said Skye Daniels has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of nib NZ. Mrs Daniels will join nib NZ from 4 August 2025. Mrs Daniels was the Chief Financial Officer at Southern Cross Health Society, where she led the finance, pricing, analytics and investment divisions. She was also Executive Sponsor for the Southern Cross life insurance strategy, Maori strategy, Te Ao Maori Ropu and the Pacific languages collective. She has previously worked in the aviation, professional services, advertising and media sectors. nib NZ Chair, Hanne Janes, said: 'The nib NZ Board is delighted Skye has joined nib NZ as CEO, and are confident her strong leadership and commercial skills will build on the successful foundation laid by our outgoing CEO Rob Hennin.' nib Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Ed Close said: 'We look forward to Skye joining nib NZ and leading our NZ team. Skye has strong commercial, strategic and financial service skills, and brings to nib knowledge of the local healthcare market, and extensive experience across a broad range of New Zealand industries.' Mrs Daniels said: 'I'm excited to be contributing to nib's strong purpose-driven culture, while helping to deliver great outcomes for our nib NZ members and the broader nib team.' The nib NZ Board and Mr Close thanked outgoing nib NZ CEO Rob Hennin for his 12-years of service and leadership. Mr Hennin will remain at nib NZ during the leadership transition.
Scoop
a day ago
- Business
- Scoop
Skye Daniels Appointed Chief Executive Officer At Nib NZ
nib Group (ASX: NHF) Managing Director and CEO Ed Close announces Skye Daniels has been appointed CEO nib NZ Mrs Daniels, formerly CFO at New Zealand's Southern Cross Health Society, will join nib NZ on 4 August 2025 She brings strong commercial, strategic and financial service skills to nib NZ, deep knowledge of NZ's insurance market and professional experience spanning health, aviation and media nib NZ Board and nib Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Ed Close, said Skye Daniels has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of nib NZ. Mrs Daniels will join nib NZ from 4 August 2025. Mrs Daniels was the Chief Financial Officer at Southern Cross Health Society, where she led the finance, pricing, analytics and investment divisions. She was also Executive Sponsor for the Southern Cross life insurance strategy, Maori strategy, Te Ao Maori Ropu and the Pacific languages collective. She has previously worked in the aviation, professional services, advertising and media sectors. nib NZ Chair, Hanne Janes, said: 'The nib NZ Board is delighted Skye has joined nib NZ as CEO, and are confident her strong leadership and commercial skills will build on the successful foundation laid by our outgoing CEO Rob Hennin.' nib Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Ed Close said: 'We look forward to Skye joining nib NZ and leading our NZ team. Skye has strong commercial, strategic and financial service skills, and brings to nib knowledge of the local healthcare market, and extensive experience across a broad range of New Zealand industries.' Mrs Daniels said: 'I'm excited to be contributing to nib's strong purpose-driven culture, while helping to deliver great outcomes for our nib NZ members and the broader nib team.' The nib NZ Board and Mr Close thanked outgoing nib NZ CEO Rob Hennin for his 12-years of service and leadership. Mr Hennin will remain at nib NZ during the leadership transition.
The Guardian
26-02-2025
- Health
- The Guardian
Australia news live: health insurance premiums to rise 4%; half of aged care providers fall short
Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Millions of Australians will soon be paying more for private health cover after the approval of premium increases for insurers who say the rise is as low as they can go, AAP reports. The federal government has signed off on an average industry premium increase of 3.73%, the health minister, Mark Butler, announced yesterday. It is an increase on previous years but less than the 6% jump some insurers had hoped for. Already some have announced their increases will be higher, with insurer NIB announcing an average rise of 5.79%. The insurer's chief executive, Ed Close, said premiums were driven up by hospital costs including wages and supplies increasing, as well as the renewal of contracts with private hospitals. HBF announced a 2.8% average premium increase. The Private Healthcare Australia CEO, Rachel David, said the rises were 'as low as the health funds can go without seriously squeezing private hospitals and other providers'. The changes take effect in April. The opposition health spokesperson, Anne Ruston, said the incoming increase was the highest in seven years and policyholders had been left with little time to shop around before their premiums go up. Share Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Catie McLeod A woman has died and multiple streets were locked down after a shooting in Toowoomba yesterday. Queensland police were called to a home in North Toowoomba after receiving reports of the shooting at about 2pm. A woman in her 20s was taken to Toowoomba Hospital with life-threatening injuries from reported gunshot wounds, a Queensland Ambulance Service spokesperson said. The Queensland police Darling Downs district acting detective inspector, Brian Collins, said the woman was found on the footpath with serious injuries and she died in hospital. He said no one else had been injured and 'three associates' of the victim were assisting police with their inquiries. Share Shadow home affairs minister on Chinese warship naval drills James Paterson also had his say last night about the naval drills carried out by China off the coast of Australia last week, describing the exercises as 'provocative and designed to send a message to Australia'. The appearance of the warships off the south coast of New South Wales caused a furore and appeared to catch the military by surprise. Peter Dutton accused Anthony Albanese of 'ducking and diving' yesterday about what he knew about the incident. Chinese ships were then seen off Tasmania inside Australia's exclusive economic zone. Speaking on 7.30, Paterson said the drills were 'designed to send a message about the reach and the power and the capability of the Chinese defence forces', and that the exercises in international waters was sending 'a message they want us to hear'. His comments echoed those by Coalition MP Andrew Hastie who said yesterday that China was Hastie said he believed China was 'testing US allies as Donald Trump resets relationships in Europe'. However, Paterson dismissed the suggestion that China was only doing what Australian warships do when they sail in the South China Sea. When we do operations like this, it's entirely consistent with international law and best practice. The same cannot be said for China. They did not give us notice at all, not even adequate notice. They did it under a flight path, that required 49 aircraft to divert themselves for the safety of the passengers on board. And they did so in a way that was extremely reckness and provocative. Share Labor and Coalition trade blows over Dutton's bank share investments during GFC Labor and Coalition proxies have traded blows after the revelations about Peter Dutton's investment in bank shares during the global financial crisis. The opposition leader defended his 'astute' purchases yesterday but Labor MP Andrew Charlton, who was an economic adviser to Kevin Rudd at the time, said on 7.30 last night that while everyone in government, the opposition and public servants were 'working every single day, tirelessly, to save Australia and save Australians', Dutton was 'focused on his own financial interest'. However, opposition James Paterson defended his leader and said that Labor had resorted to a 'grubby attack' because 'they have very little to talk about' regarding their own achievements'. Dutton had been transparent, he said, and had not been privy to any market sensitive information. It reflects on the Labor party they're spending taxpayers' money in a dirt unit digging up 16-year-old share trades in order to dish it out on Peter Dutton in the lead-up to an election, rather than focusing on the problems that Australians are concerned about in their own lives, including the very pressing problems with the cost of living but also community safety and national security. Share Cait Kelly More from last night's Senate estimates Continuing from our last post: Wait times for home-care packages have grown to an average of 6 months, with medium priority applications blowing out to 11 months, the Department of Health and Aged Care revealed last night in senate estimates. The first assistant secretary, Thea Connolly, said: The important thing to note is that if a person is assigned a high-priority package, they receive their package within one month, but what that means is that they go to the front of the queue, and that causes medium-priority people on the waitlist to have to wait longer. So was this unexpected for it is unexpected in terms of the level of demand that we're seeing. It's unprecedented. The Home Care Packages program was designed many years ago to be a size I think of around initially launched with less than 100,000 packages. We're now up over 300,000 packages, and the program is struggling to keep pace. It wasn't designed in this in this environment. That's why support at home is really so critical. The government has said the Support at Home program will replace Home Care Packages and the Short-Term Restorative Care Programme from 1 July 2025. Share Cait Kelly In Senate estimates last night, the assistant secretary of residential care funding reform, Mark Richardson, said more than half of aged care providers across the country are not meeting the new care minutes. In response to the royal commission on aged care, the government mandated that from 1 October 2024 providers must deliver 215 care minutes per person each day. This includes 44 minutes of registered nurse care. Answering a question on whether over-reporting of care minutes was of concern, Richardson said: While 55% [of providers] are reporting that they're not delivering their care minute targets, I would argue that there isn't systemic over-reporting. While we are re-capping last night's Senate estimates, aged care quality and safety commissioner Liz Hefren-Webb said they are getting about 10,000 complaints a year. When talking about the staffing levels for the commission, she said: We get around 10,000 complaints a year and we aim to resolve those complaints within 60 days. So having sufficient staffing is critical in meeting that deadline. It also enables us to undertake a sufficient number of audits, of residential aged care facilities and also of home-based services. Share Millions of Australians will soon be paying more for private health cover after the approval of premium increases for insurers who say the rise is as low as they can go, AAP reports. The federal government has signed off on an average industry premium increase of 3.73%, the health minister, Mark Butler, announced yesterday. It is an increase on previous years but less than the 6% jump some insurers had hoped for. Already some have announced their increases will be higher, with insurer NIB announcing an average rise of 5.79%. The insurer's chief executive, Ed Close, said premiums were driven up by hospital costs including wages and supplies increasing, as well as the renewal of contracts with private hospitals. HBF announced a 2.8% average premium increase. The Private Healthcare Australia CEO, Rachel David, said the rises were 'as low as the health funds can go without seriously squeezing private hospitals and other providers'. The changes take effect in April. The opposition health spokesperson, Anne Ruston, said the incoming increase was the highest in seven years and policyholders had been left with little time to shop around before their premiums go up. Share Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I'm Martin Farrer with some of the main breaking stories this morning before Emily Wind steps in. Millions of Australians will soon be paying more for private health cover after the approval of premium increases for insurers. The federal government has signed off on an average industry premium increase of 3.73%, the health minister, Mark Butler, announced yesterday, although the insurer NIB said its average rise would be 5.79%. The opposition health spokesperson, Anne Ruston, said the incoming increase was the highest in seven years. More coming up. Penny Wong has launched a charm offensive in the Pacific in an effort to shore up Australia's soft power amid the threat that the US could begin to pull back from the region. In a 2025 foreign policy snapshot released today, the foreign affairs minister outlines a plan to task her staff with reviewing all projects in the Pacific and south-east Asia funded by US foreign aid that has been frozen by Donald Trump and remains at threat of being cut entirely. More coming up. On similar ground, Liberal senator James Paterson has described China's naval drills off the coast of Australia as 'provocative and designed to send a message to Australia'. He also told ABC's 7.30 last night that the exercises had been 'reckless'. It came after Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton clashed over the drills, which appeared to catch the authorities by surprise. More on this coming up as we try to get to the bottom of who knew what and when. Share
