Cate Thorley

Cate’s role comprises leading a virtual RN team as well as heading the acute care portfolios and providing clinical oversight in the re modeling of IT infrastructure projects in Emergency Consult. She possesses an advanced nursing skill set as well as operational management prowess. Cate’s mahi is vital to the seamless integration of telehealth consults into a number of healthcare settings - including emergency departments, Hato Hone St John ambulance services, rural primary clinics, and national rural after-hours services. She is driven by a genuine passion for quality healthcare and is an advocate for nursing excellence and equity. Her twenty plus year nursing career has spanned both sides of the Tasman and both acute and primary care – but the majority of her practice has been spent in Emergency Care (​in senior clinical and management roles) here in Aotearoa. Born and bred in the rural King Country, Cate now calls ​Waikato home. ​She has a genuine love for people, community, and environmental sustainability and spends her spare time in the bush hiking, growing things, or at the beach.