Bercinskas’ previous role was head of quality for the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. She has also worked at the Ministry of Health as senior policy analyst/senior adviser for the cardiovascular disease, diabetes and long-term conditions team in the sector capability and (innovation) implementation business unit.
Other roles include senior policy analyst for BreastScreen Aotearoa; co-ordinator vision and hearing screening programme and well child projects for the Wellington Regional Public Health Service; lecturer/module co-ordinator for the department of health studies at the Central Institute of Technology, Upper Hutt; and principal nurse at Wakefield Hospital in Wellington. She began working for NZNO earlier this month.
