HCEC Clinical Council - the new clinical and consumer advisory body formed to address key issues that affect clinical care

The HCEC Clin­i­cal Coun­cil has been estab­lished to act as the peak clin­i­cal body respon­si­ble for pro­vid­ing clin­i­cal engage­ment and input into statewide and strate­gic deci­sions that affect clin­i­cal care in South Australia. 

It con­sists of a team of clin­i­cal lead­ers, con­sumer rep­re­sen­ta­tives and senior admin­is­tra­tors to enable clin­i­cal improve­ment, based on the pur­suit of excel­lence through inno­va­tion. The HCEC Clin­i­cal Coun­cil will pro­vide rec­om­men­da­tions and inde­pen­dent, impar­tial strate­gic advice and advo­ca­cy to the Health Chief Exec­u­tives’ Coun­cil (HCEC) and to the Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­works, Statewide Com­mu­ni­ties of Prac­tice and oth­er high lev­el clin­i­cal groups regard­ing health sys­tem-wide clin­i­cal improve­ment and inno­va­tion focus­ing on issues that affect qual­i­ty, afford­abil­i­ty, effi­cien­cy and sus­tain­abil­i­ty of patient care. 

The HCEC Clin­i­cal Coun­cil reports to the HCEC which is a lead­er­ship team of Local Health Net­works and statewide ser­vices Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cers in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Depart­ment for Health and Well­be­ing, Chief Exec­u­tive and Deputy Chief Exec­u­tives. It pro­vides strate­gic advice regard­ing health sys­tem-wide topics. 

The over­ar­ch­ing pur­pose of the HCEC Clin­i­cal Coun­cil is to: 

• pro­vide rec­om­men­da­tions and inde­pen­dent and impar­tial strate­gic advice about sys­tem-wide issues that affect qual­i­ty, afford­abil­i­ty, effi­cien­cy, access, equi­ty and sus­tain­abil­i­ty of patient care 

• review and pro­vide advice on the sys­tem-wide clin­i­cal impacts of pro­posed changes to patient care (e.g. mod­els of care, plan­ning and deliv­ery of health ser­vices etc.) 

• pro­vide a forum for col­lab­o­ra­tion on com­plex sys­tem-wide issues, share best prac­tice, and learn and sup­port each other 

• pro­vide oppor­tu­ni­ties for broad­er sys­tem-wide clin­i­cal col­lab­o­ra­tion to com­plex sys­tem-wide issues (e.g. sec­tor wide ses­sions or forums on pri­or­i­ty issues to obtain broad­er clin­i­cal input) 

• fos­ter a cul­ture of excel­lence and inno­va­tion with­in the health system.