IANZ Appoints New General Manager of Accreditation Services

4 November 2014

News release

IANZ Appoints New General Manager of Accreditation Services

A new general manager of accreditation services has been appointed by International Accreditation New Zealand (IANZ).

Phil Barnes, who has worked for the organisation previously and has been a member of the executive leadership team at Waitemata District Health Board for the past eight years, will take up his new position on 1 December.

“We are delighted Phil is coming back to IANZ. He already knows the organisation - and many of our clients – extremely well and will be able to put his extensive experience in management and healthcare to very good use,” says IANZ chief executive Dr Llew Richards.

Originally from Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom, Barnes migrated to New Zealand in 1999, partly because his mother and sister (a well-known NZ TV personality) were here.

He joined IANZ a short time later as manager of national accreditation programme for medical testing laboratories, radiology and pharmacy. As an IANZ advisor to ISO and Standards NZ, he introduced the international medical testing standard to New Zealand and completed the world’s first assessment against the standard in Wellington in April 2003.

A keen runner who did the London Marathon earlier this year, Barnes (pictured below) also set up joint IANZ/NSU audit programmes for the National Breast Screening and the National Cervical Screening units.

In 2006, he joined Waitemata DHB as laboratory services manager for North Shore and Waitakere Hospitals and was appointed director of allied health, scientific and technical staffs in 2008. At the same time, he spent two years as acting group general manager of hospital operations, responsible for 700 staff and a $65 million budget.

Trained in the United Kingdom as a medical laboratory scientist, Barnes is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Medical Laboratory Science. He worked as head of technical services for the Wolverhampton Hospitals Trust, while also lecturing in medical laboratory science and clinical biochemistry at Wolverhampton University.

As IANZ’s GM Accreditation Services, Barnes will oversee all the accreditation programmes and the six programme managers.

“I didn’t hesitate to take the opportunity to return to IANZ and am really looking forward to getting back into the business,” says Barnes. “The job has great depth and scope and I know the organisation, its staff and clients very well.”

About IANZ: IANZ is New Zealand's national authority for the accreditation of laboratories, inspection bodies and radiology practices. It accredits laboratories in all sectors, including medical testing, dairy testing, meat testing, drinking water testing, as well as mechanical and physical testing. It also accredits inspection bodies for engineering safety, food safety, and fire protection activities, as well as Building Consent Authority accreditation.

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