Xmas is behind us and we are into the second half of the Rotary year.   Our Xmas function felt very joyous and congratulations to our Paul Harris and Stan Spencer awardees.  It was also lovely to welcome our newest member Catherine Leonard on the night.  
I have been away at Gypsy Point near Mallacoota.  I was pleased to see the report on the New Year breakfast published in the bulletin.   The photographs showed that everyone was having fun.  Congratulations to Jim Young and his committee for organising the event.
Congratulation to the Community Committee for  completing their project in the Mount Eliza Park.  I looked at them before I went away and Bernie has confirmed that the final bench seat has gone in.  Annette told me that when she was in the park recently one of the tables was being used and the family were very grateful for the facility.  I am wondering how we should get the Rotary contribution publicly acknowledged.  
I appreciate Rowan’s work with our new trailer which should be complete by the end of January.  
Our next big fund raising event for our Club is the golf day in April.  The proceeds will be divided equally between Code 9 and Interplast.  It is very import for the Club to be supportive to David Rew and his committee to make it a successful event.
President Carolyn.

The symposium, ‘The National Centre for Healthy Ageing, Healthy Ageing Data Platform: developing a data ecosystem for studying the complexities of ageing’, highlighted some gaps in current Electronic Health Record (EHR) data for research, and provided details about key activities undertaken to address these gaps including:

• data validation using aged care residency as a case study
• improving diagnosis coding using Artificial Intelligence
• data linkage for comprehensive data capture
• engaging older consumers in the use and governance of their data
• the acceptability of patient reported outcome data collection from an older person perspective.