Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health

Cardiac Care Statewide Clinical Network

The Cardiac Care SCN focuses on equity of access to cardiac care services for all South Australian's and embracing both therapeutic and device innovations.

The Cardiac Care Statewide Clinical Network spans all areas of cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, including paediatric, required to provide a comprehensive cardiac care service to all South Australians. The Network is focussed on equity of access to cardiac care services for all South Australian’s and regardless of where patients reside across South Australia, embracing both therapeutic and device innovations.

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The Cardiac Care Statewide Clinical Network reforms

We’d like to wel­come the mem­bers of the steer­ing com­mit­tee, who bring a diverse range of skills and exper­tise in car­diac care.

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Q&A with Professor Jayme Bennetts

We sat down with our new Statewide Car­diac Care Clin­i­cal Net­work Lead. Jayme shares his career high­lights and where he sees oppor­tu­ni­ty for inno­va­tion and improve­ment in cardiology. 

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Associate Professor Christine Burdeniuk

B.Sc.(Hons) BMBS, FRACP, FCSANZ

Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor Chris­tine Bur­de­niuk is a Senior Staff Car­di­ol­o­gist at SAL­HN, bring­ing a wealth of expe­ri­ence and exper­tise to this role, hav­ing ded­i­cat­ed many years to advanc­ing car­diac care through her clin­i­cal prac­tice, edu­ca­tion and research. 

Her com­mit­ment to improv­ing patient out­comes and her inno­v­a­tive approach to car­diac care will be invalu­able as she embarks on a new jour­ney as Clin­i­cal Lead for the network. 

Since 2009 Chris­tine has been pro­vid­ing care to patients with advanced heart fail­ure and pul­monary arte­r­i­al hyper­ten­sion through­out SAL­HN and estab­lished a ter­tiary lev­el heart fail­ure ser­vice in Mt Gambier.

She has worked with the CAL­HN Cen­tre of Advanced Heart and Lung dis­ease as the Car­diac Lead to devel­op and stan­dard­ise the man­age­ment of advanced heart fail­ure and heart trans­plant patients in CALHN. 

She is active­ly involved in deliv­er­ing edu­ca­tion on a broad range of car­diac relat­ed top­ics, and is involved in heart fail­ure clin­i­cal tri­als and Aus­tralian heart fail­ure guidelines.

Chris­tine strong­ly believes it is impor­tant to focus on the ear­ly detec­tion of car­diac dis­ease and opti­mi­sa­tion of car­diac risk fac­tor con­trol to pre­vent and min­imise the devel­op­ment of heart failure. 

Statewide Cardiac Care Clinical Network Steering Committee

Chris­tine Burdeniuk 

Senior Staff Car­di­ol­o­gist, SAL­HN; Car­di­ol­o­gist, CAL­HN; Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor, Flinders University

Car­olyn Astley

Vice pres­i­dent: Aus­tralian Car­dio­vas­cu­lar and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Association

Ali­cia Chan

Con­sul­tant Car­di­ol­o­gist, CAL­HN and NALHN

Wendy Corkill

Car­diac Nurse Man­ag­er, Heart Health – Cen­tral Aus­tralia Health Service 

Luan Huynh

Car­di­ol­o­gist, Lyell McEwin Hos­pi­tal, NALHN

Graeme Klemm

Con­sumer Representative

Simon Lock­wood

Pri­vate GP; Chair Ade­laide PHN

Claire Gard­ner

Gen­er­al Man­ag­er, Heart Foundation

Ani­ta Lymn

Clin­i­cal Nurse Researcher, Flinders Uni / FMC

Cyn­thia Papendick

Emer­gency Con­sul­tant, RAH

Andrea Pap­i­ni

Inten­sive Care Para­medic, SAAS

Prashan­than Sanders

Con­sul­tant Car­di­ol­o­gist, CAL­HN; Direc­tor, Cen­tre for Heart Rhythm Dis­or­ders, Uni­ver­si­ty of Adelaide

Rosan­na Tavella

Project Man­ag­er, TQEH

John Den­ton

Oper­a­tions and Research Man­ag­er, Inte­grat­ed Car­dio­vas­cu­lar Clin­ic Net­work SA, Rur­al Sup­port Service


Cur­rent Projects

  • Statewide Mitra-Clip program
  • Heart fail­ure guideline/​stan­dard­ised refer­ral pathway
  • Acute Coro­nary Syndrome/​myocardial injury registry
  • Sup­port­ed deci­sion making
  • Posi­tion state­ment and mod­el of care for a statewide remote mon­i­tor­ing program
  • Statewide Impel­la program
  • GP engage­ment – includ­ing Health­care Pathways
  • Con­sumer feed­back and engage­ment survey
  • Statewide Car­diac Reha­bil­i­ta­tion pro­gram and mod­el of care

Hear from Pro­fes­sor Jayme Ben­netts about the Statewide Car­diac Care Clin­i­cal Net­work as part of the 2022 CEIH Con­ver­sa­tion Series

Cardiac Care Statewide Clinical Network Vision

All South Aus­tralians with or at risk of car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease will effi­cient­ly access, accord­ing to need, the high­est qual­i­ty care and achieve the best out­comes to min­imise the bur­den of dis­ease for the indi­vid­ual, fam­i­ly and com­mu­ni­ty as a whole.

Statewide Car­diac Care Clin­i­cal Net­work Goals

The Statewide Car­diac Care Clin­i­cal Net­work will work to ensure equi­table access to com­pre­hen­sive, evi­dence-based car­dio­vas­cu­lar care across the life course and con­tin­u­um of care, aimed at reduc­ing the bur­den of car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease for all pop­u­la­tion groups and com­mu­ni­ties in South Australia.

A mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary, high­ly skilled, inclu­sive work­force col­lab­o­rat­ing and coop­er­at­ing across all Local Health Net­works and health sec­tors will be focused on deliv­er­ing the best pos­si­ble out­comes for all South Aus­tralians, in a high­ly effi­cient, coor­di­nat­ed and sus­tain­able sys­tem described by an updat­ed South Aus­tralian Car­diac Ser­vices Plan.

The Statewide Car­diac Care Clin­i­cal Net­work will draw upon com­pre­hen­sive, high qual­i­ty, pop­u­la­tion health needs data, and real-time per­for­mance and out­come data to assist expert con­sen­sus ser­vice plan­ning and dri­ve con­tin­u­ous qual­i­ty improve­ment. Inno­va­tion in and imple­men­ta­tion of new or improved mod­els of patient-focused care will seek to inte­grate appro­pri­ate new technologies.

The work­force will be con­nect­ed, engaged and respon­sive to patient needs in the com­mu­ni­ties they serve and will deliv­er high qual­i­ty care, teach­ing and research at both the nation­al and inter­na­tion­al level.

Have a question?

Or want to know more about the Statewide Car­diac Care Clin­i­cal Net­work?
Please email CEIHCardiacCare@​sa.​gov.​au.