Ann: Key Appointment Completes Restructure of Executive Team, page-16

Could well be the case.
Most very large companies particularly listed companies before awarding any deals have to perform a probity review of the supplier of any product or service, part of that requires the ticking of the corporate governance boxes as part of the due dilgence process. Using external consultants won't get you there.
Up until recently NUH didn't even have a CFO. Hiring a person who is proficient in the regulatory process certianly fills that gap in terms of governance. She appears to be well qualified in the area and has left a "safe" job at National Acoustics Labs for NUH. One would think that she would have done her due diligence on NUH before making the move.
Her Cochlear experience may well be very useful to NUH.
It is the cost of of doing business, NUH has to be able to tick those corporate governance boxes.