James Downie is the Executive Director of Activity Based Funding (ABF) at the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA). He leads the teams responsible for delivering the classification, costing and pricing functions of IHPA as well as the data acquisition activities.

Prior to this he was Manager Funding Systems Development in the Victorian Department of Health, responsible for Victoria’s existing funding models, and the national ABF developments. He has also worked on Service Redesign at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, and prior to that spent 15 years in the mining industry.

Dr Craig Margetts is the Director of Medical Services at Redcliffe Hospital in Metro North who has over 20 years’ experience in Casemix, ABF and hospital management and led the introduction of clinical costing to Australia in the 90’s.

Dr Margetts was Director of Finance and Administration at the Royal Darwin Hospital during the introduction of Casemix and the divisionalisation (streaming). He has worked in a range of senior management positions being General Manager EDMS roles in Victoria, Northern Territory, New South Wales and Queensland. He has been in Queensland for the last 14 years.

As well as a medical degree he has a MBA from Monash University and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Medical Administrators.