$77 million funding agreement announced: SA Comprehensive Cancer Network

South Aus­tralia has signed an Inter­gov­ern­ment Agree­ment which pro­vides Aus­tralian Gov­ern­ment fund­ing for the deliv­ery of the SA Com­pre­hen­sive Can­cer Net­work. The SAC­CaN will bring togeth­er and con­nect clin­i­cians, researchers and con­sumers to embed com­pre­hen­sive can­cer care for all South Australians.

Informed by and through clin­i­cians and com­mu­ni­ty, who will be empow­ered through access to insights by the estab­lish­ment of core data and insight sys­tems, SACCaN’s key prin­ci­ples include equi­ty of access to care, a focus on can­cer pre­ven­tion and ear­ly detec­tion, reduc­ing dupli­ca­tion and enhanc­ing patient cen­tred care for all South Australians.

Work under SAC­CaN will pro­vide a key con­tri­bu­tion to the state’s pros­per­i­ty, help­ing to dri­ve future research invest­ment in the state by build­ing the infra­struc­ture that will make SA high­ly com­pet­i­tive both nation­al­ly and inter­na­tion­al­ly. This will help dri­ve SA’s abil­i­ty to grow, attract and main­tain work­force, par­tic­u­lar­ly for the deliv­ery of cut­ting-edge treatments.

CEIH would like to acknowl­edge the sup­port giv­en by The Hos­pi­tal Research Foun­da­tion Group which has been crit­i­cal to the estab­lish­ment of SAC­CaN and their com­mit­ment to sup­port­ing com­pre­hen­sive can­cer care in SA. 

SAC­CaN will trans­form how we work togeth­er by cre­at­ing a cul­ture of col­lab­o­ra­tion and net­worked com­pre­hen­sive care for all patients with can­cer, essen­tial­ly putting togeth­er the pieces for a big­ger purpose. 

Every piece counts, togeth­er we com­plete the puz­zle in our fight against cancer!

The future of can­cer care for SA is unfold­ing – stay updated. 

Web­site com­ing soon: SA Com­pre­hen­sive Can­cer Network