Tim Malloy

Born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, educated at Auckland Grammar School and the University of Auckland, School of Medicine. Tim had his early post-graduate medical experience at Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand which lead on to specialty training in Paediatrics. A significant part of that experience involved Neonatal Intensive Care and Tim was involved in the air retrieval of at risk neonates from the region; undertaking intensive care transfers mainly in fixed wing aircraft but also helicopters and road transport. His Paediatric career then took him back to Auckland before deciding, as a Senior Registrar, to change career's and to enter the realm of the Specialist Generalist Medical Practitioner, a conscious choice to practice in a rural setting to enable development of the full range of generalist skills such a role requires. This choice took him into, Lower Northland an hour from Base Hospitals, where he has practiced since 1987.

Dr Malloy has gone on to develop a comprehensive Primary Health Care Services, with his colleagues, known as Coast to Coast Health Care, which provides Primary care services to 7 towns over a region approximately 100 kms in diameter, using a ‘hub and spoke' business model. The key focus has been achieving equity in access to health care, and more lately developing teaching opportunities in primary care, especially inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary teaching in a rural setting, central to which is team work. Dr Malloy has been the past chairman of the NZ Rural General Practice Network (NZRGPN). He is also the inaugural Chairman of the Rural Faculty of the Royal NZ College of GP's and is the current Deputy President of the RNZCGP.

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