Vision

A strong, con­nect­ed and inclu­sive com­mu­ni­ty of prac­tice which pro­motes evi­­dence-informed pre­ven­tion, ear­ly inter­ven­tion and man­age­ment of pain across the life span for all South Australians.

Goals

The Chron­ic Pain Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work has been estab­lished to improve the pro­vi­sion of inte­grat­ed, mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary care for peo­ple with chron­ic pain. It aims to:

• Fos­ter improved recog­ni­tion and under­stand­ing of chron­ic pain and its effec­tive man­age­ment in the community
• Fos­ter sys­tems devel­op­ment and trans­par­ent shar­ing of data to bet­ter sup­port cross-sec­­tor ser­vice design, deliv­ery and collaboration
• Sup­port improve­ments in com­mu­ni­ty, pri­ma­ry health and hos­pi­tal set­tings to ensure time­ly access to evi­­dence-informed care for all South Aus­tralians liv­ing with pain
• Build an inte­grat­ed Com­mu­ni­ty of Prac­tice that opti­mis­es the expe­ri­ence and out­comes of chron­ic pain management.

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.