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Get to know Mario, a big-hearted member of our Community of Consumers

Being a con­sumer rep­re­sen­ta­tive for our Clin­i­cal Genomics Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work is only one of the many ways Mario is con­tribut­ing to the health sys­tem. Get to know him!

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Hundreds of South Australians help shape approach to cancer care across the state

Can­cer patients along with their fam­i­lies, health­care work­ers, and com­mu­ni­ty groups have been shar­ing their expe­ri­ences and ideas to devel­op a Can­cer Nav­i­ga­tion Frame­work’ that will help every­one to get the best pos­si­ble care.

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Your voices heard: community shapes optimal system of care for low back pain

We received over 60 respons­es from the com­mu­ni­ty on the pro­posed opti­mal sys­tem of care for low back pain. Your feed­back helped to refine the pro­pos­al, paving the way for a final mod­el that bet­ter address­es com­mu­ni­ty needs.

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CALHN to be the first to implement HIRAID® to improve the quality of nursing assessment in its emergency department

After suc­cess in New South Wales, South Aus­tralian LHNs to imple­ment HIRAID®, the only val­i­dat­ed, evi­dence-based frame­work that empow­ers emer­gency nurs­es to improve nurs­ing assessment.

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SCOPES project secures $3 million grant funding to develop digital colonoscopy surveillance program

This project will devel­op, val­i­date and imple­ment a dig­i­tal inter­ven­tion sur­veil­lance pro­gram to man­age the grow­ing demand for colono­scopies, while estab­lish­ing a data reg­istry for future can­cer research.

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Using data to identify improvement areas for chronic pain care

The Statewide Chron­ic Pain Clin­i­cal Net­work lead, Anne Burke, pre­sent­ed on the use of data to iden­ti­fy areas of improve­ment for chron­ic pain at the 2023 Aus­tralian Pain Soci­ety 43rd Annu­al Sci­en­tif­ic Meeting.

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