Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health

Chronic Pain Statewide Clinical Network

About the network

The Chron­ic Pain Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work is a strong, con­nect­ed, and inclu­sive com­mu­ni­ty which pro­motes evi­dence-informed pre­ven­tion, ear­ly inter­ven­tion, and man­age­ment of pain across the life span for all South Aus­tralians.

The network’s vision is to fos­ter inte­grat­ed, mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary care and improve out­comes for peo­ple liv­ing with chron­ic pain.

Our role

  • Pro­vide lead­er­ship and strate­gic direc­tion for chron­ic pain man­age­ment in South Australia.
  • Set pri­or­i­ties and advis­es on best prac­tices for clin­i­cians, con­sumers, and health services.
  • Sup­ports sys­tem devel­op­ment and trans­par­ent shar­ing of data to enhance cross-sec­tor ser­vice design, deliv­ery, and collaboration.
  • Over­sees the devel­op­ment, imple­men­ta­tion, and eval­u­a­tion of net­work activ­i­ties through a bal­anced Steer­ing Committee.

Our focus

  • Fos­ter improved recog­ni­tion and under­stand­ing of chron­ic pain and its effec­tive man­age­ment in the community.
  • Sup­port improve­ments in com­mu­ni­ty, pri­ma­ry health, and hos­pi­tal set­tings to ensure time­ly access to evi­dence-informed care.
  • Build an inte­grat­ed pain com­mu­ni­ty to opti­mise the expe­ri­ence and out­comes of chron­ic pain management.
  • Encour­age sys­tems devel­op­ment and col­lab­o­ra­tion across met­ro­pol­i­tan and coun­try sectors

Our peo­ple

Our members



Car­olyn BerrymanAdo­les­cent, Pub­lic and Pri­vate Ser­vices, Research, Physiotherapy
Gre­go­ry LowNAL­HN Pain Ser­vice, Psychology
Iri­na HollingtonPub­lic and Pri­vate Ser­vices, Pelvic Pain, Med­i­cine (Anaes­thet­ics, Pain)

Jack­ie Yeoh

Med­i­cine (Gen­er­al Prac­tice, Hos­pi­tal Liai­son), Shared Care

Julianne Flower

Return­ToWork­SA

Karine MeadleyPri­vate Ser­vices, Rur­al, Local Pain Edu­ca­tor, Physiotherapy

Marc Apol­loni

Ade­laide Pri­ma­ry Health Network

Mark Cat­leyEdu­ca­tion, Research, Physiotherapy
Mark Hutchin­sonPolit­i­cal Advo­ca­cy, Pol­i­cy, Research, Biotechnology

Mary Wing

Lived Expe­ri­ence, Sup­port Groups, (Inter)National Advo­ca­cy, Research

Michael CousinsCon­sumer Rep­re­sen­ta­tive (Lived Expe­ri­ence, Nation­al Advo­ca­cy, Education)

Nic­ki Ferencz

WCHN Pae­di­atric Pain Ser­vice, Psychology

Susan (Sue) Edwards

Nurs­ing, Pain Ser­vice Co-ordi­na­tion, Rural

Tania ManserCoun­try SA PHN

Tim Sem­ple

CAL­HN Pain Ser­vice, Med­i­cine (Anaes­thet­ics, Pain)


Sub groups

Opi­oid Stew­ard­ship Work­ing Group

The Opi­oid Stew­ard­ship Work­ing Group com­pris­es a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary team whose pur­pose is to iden­ti­fy and dis­cuss ways of improv­ing the pre­scrip­tion and use of opi­oids across South Aus­tralian hospitals.

The group is con­sid­er­ing data col­lec­tion, com­mu­ni­ca­tion, sys­tem changes and edu­ca­tion as a means to improve the qual­i­ty use of med­ica­tion. For more infor­ma­tion or to con­tact the group, please email ceih.​chronicpain@​sa.​gov.​au.

Our work

Key documents and resources

Related News

Developing a model of care to address chronic pain

Devel­op­ment of a com­mu­ni­ty based mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary mod­el of care for ado­les­cents with chron­ic pain and their families.

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Get involved

To learn more or get involved in the Chron­ic Pain Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work, email: CEIH.​ChronicPain@​sa.​gov.​au