Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health

Welcome to our new Statewide Clinical Network Leads

24 June 2022

Con­grat­u­la­tions to:

  • Pro­fes­sor Jayme Ben­netts, Statewide Car­diac Care Clin­i­cal Lead
  • Dr Ruth Holmes, Statewide Urgent Care Clin­i­cal Lead 

Jayme brings a wealth of knowl­edge of car­dio­vas­cu­lar ser­vices as a Car­dio­tho­racic Sur­geon trained in Adult and Pae­di­atric Car­diac Surgery. He is cur­rent­ly Direc­tor of Car­dio­tho­racic Surgery at Flinders Med­ical Cen­tre, a Direc­tor of Ade­laide Car­dio­tho­racic, and Staff Spe­cial­ist at Women’s and Children’s Hos­pi­tal and Roy­al Dar­win Hospital. 

Ruth is a Senior Emer­gency Depart­ment Spe­cial­ist at CAL­HN and the Vir­tu­al Care Ser­vice. She is cur­rent­ly under­tak­ing ongo­ing study at the Roy­al Aus­tralian Col­lege of Med­ical Admin­is­tra­tors. Ruth holds a high pas­sion for improve­ment of health care ser­vices and patient outcomes. 

We are very excit­ed and look for­ward to work­ing with both new Clin­i­cal Leads to sup­port them in lead­er­ship, col­lab­o­ra­tion and help dri­ve inno­va­tion for bet­ter health care in South Australia.

Meet our oth­er Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work Leads.