We provide consulting and capability building services that help health services, boards and governments work meaningfully with consumers.
…when we partner, care becomes safer, more effective and truly person-centred.
Stronger Health Outcomes Through Genuine Partnership
what we do
While partnering with consumers is now recognised as how we work, many health services are still figuring out how to make it part of everyday practice.
At Partner Health, we help you turn intent into action.
We combine expertise in health policy, strategy, and improvement with lived experience and consumer partnership, bridging the gap between policy and practice.
Through our consulting and capability building work, we help you:
Strengthen safety and quality through genuine consumer partnership
Build confidence and capability in partnering and co-design
Apply partnering to your improving projects through an understanding of improvement science
Embed partnering practices within frameworks incl. strategic policies, governance and quality frameworks
Move beyond tokenism to authentic, lasting collaboration
from ‘nice to have’ to ‘how we work’
Partnering with consumers is essential to delivering safe, high-quality, person-centred care. When health services work with consumers at ALL levels of the system, from the bedside to the boardroom, decisions are better informed, outcomes improve and trust grows.
Embedding genuine consumer partnership across the health system isn’t an add-on, it’s a cultural shift. Moving beyond tokenism requires new mindsets, skills and ways of working — and that’s where Partner Health can help.
Who We Work With
Partner Health works across the health system, from small community services to major hospitals and government departments.
Including:
Health service boards and executives
Health workforce including clinical staff
Quality and safety professionals
Consumer representatives and advisory committees
Local, State and Commonwealth Governments
what makes us different
We know the system and we’ve lived it!
With expertise across health policy, government and strategy and experience as a consumer advocate, we help turn partnership ideals into action, building safer, better care through genuine collaboration.
Our Services
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We provide consulting and advisory services that help you embed consumer partnership into strategy, governance and improvement.
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Partner Health delivers engaging training and tools that make partnership part of everyday practice.
Build confidence, strengthen capability and learn at your own pace with online learning modules launching soon.
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We design and deliver talks, panels and facilitated sessions that challenge assumptions and inspire change.
Drawing on lived experience and health system expertise, Partner Health brings conversations about partnership to life.
Partner Health combines health system expertise, lived experience and co-design to help the health system turn partnership principles into practice.
for care that’s safer, better and stronger through difference.
About Me
Kristiina Siiankoski is a health sector leader, board director, and advocate for genuine partnership between consumers and health professionals.
She has extensive experience across government, health policy, strategy, clinical governance, and consumer partnership — most recently at Safer Care Victoria, where she co-developed training and frameworks that strengthen how health services partner with consumers at every level of the system.
Kristiina brings a unique blend of system expertise and lived experience, combining a deep understanding of government processes with insight into the healthcare journey from a consumer and advocacy perspective.
She has held board roles and founded a national not-for-profit health promotion charity, which she led as President and Chair. Kristiina also serves as an inaugural board member under Australia’s first legislation protecting people with variations of sex characteristics in the ACT.
Through Partner Health, Kristiina works with health services, boards and executives to turn partnership principles into practice - building safer, better care through genuine collaboration.
Contact us.
Whether you’re starting your partnering journey or ready to take it further, Partner Health can help you design and deliver meaningful consumer partnership across your organisation.