FAQs about the Statewide Clinical Network Steering Committees

Con­sumers are peo­ple who use or are poten­tial users of health­care services. 

A sup­port per­son is some­one who pro­vides care, sup­port and engages with health­care ser­vices with their par­ent, part­ner, child or friend who has a dis­abil­i­ty, is frail, or who has a chron­ic men­tal or phys­i­cal illness. 

Con­sumers, sup­port per­sons com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers are peo­ple who have not pre­vi­ous­ly worked or are cur­rent­ly work­ing as a health pro­fes­sion­al in the [C(1] area of health­care relat­ed to the steer­ing committee. 

A clin­i­cian can be a med­ical offi­cer, nurs­ing, allied health per­son­nel or health pro­fes­sion­al who pro­vides care and sup­port for indi­vid­u­als receiv­ing care for a med­ical con­di­tion. The clin­i­cian can be pro­vid­ing care in pub­lic, pri­vate or a com­mu­ni­ty set­ting i.e Gen­er­al prac­ti­tion­er ser­vice or com­mu­ni­ty clinic. 

A clin­i­cian can be a med­ical offi­cer, nurs­ing, allied health per­son­nel or health pro­fes­sion­al who pro­vides care and sup­port for indi­vid­u­als receiv­ing care for a med­ical con­di­tion. The clin­i­cian can be pro­vid­ing care in pub­lic, pri­vate or a com­mu­ni­ty set­ting i.e Gen­er­al prac­ti­tion­er ser­vice or com­mu­ni­ty clinic. 

The Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work Steer­ing Com­mit­tee will pro­vide over­sight of the devel­op­ment, imple­men­ta­tion, and eval­u­a­tion of the network’s activities.

Steer­ing Com­mit­tee mem­bers will have a demon­strat­ed pas­sion for the clin­i­cal field, be strate­gic thinkers, excel­lent com­mu­ni­ca­tors and have the abil­i­ty to influ­ence change in ser­vice delivery.

The Steer­ing Com­mit­tee will be led by a Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work Lead who will report to the Commissioner.

Steer­ing Com­mit­tee meet­ings will ini­tial­ly occur month­ly, but this may become less fre­quent as the Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work becomes estab­lished. There may be oth­er forums and plan­ning ses­sions that mem­bers are request­ed to attend. Mem­bers may also be request­ed to con­tribute to work­ing groups to progress time-sen­si­tive pri­or­i­ty projects for the net­work. There is also like­ly to be some out-of-ses­sion work and actions that arise from meet­ings that mem­bers will be request­ed to con­tribute to. Mem­bers are expect­ed to attend at least 75% of meetings.

Each Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work (SCN) will have a Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work Lead who will pro­vide lead­er­ship to the net­work. The Com­mis­sion on Excel­lence and Inno­va­tion in Health (CEIH) will pro­vide a Net­work Advi­sor for each net­work who will work close­ly with the SCN Lead and the Steer­ing Com­mit­tee to man­age the over­all pro­gram of work for the net­work. The CEIH will also have a sup­port­ing role in guid­ing the work of the net­work by pro­vid­ing exper­tise in clin­i­cal infor­mat­ics and improve­ment method­olo­gies. Admin­is­tra­tive sup­port will also be provided.

Yes! We wel­come appli­cants who are pas­sion­ate about improv­ing care and out­comes for patients and have expe­ri­ence rel­e­vant to the network.

We recog­nise that there will be many pas­sion­ate and dynam­ic appli­cants who may not be appoint­ed to the Steer­ing Com­mit­tees. How­ev­er, there may be oppor­tu­ni­ties to par­tic­i­pate in the work­ing groups, sub-com­mit­tees and work­shops that will be estab­lished to progress the work pro­gram devel­oped by the Steer­ing Committee.

Con­sumers and pri­vate clin­i­cians will be remu­ner­at­ed as per CEIH and SA Health remu­ner­a­tion policies.

Reim­burse­ment Pol­i­cy Sit­ting Fees and Reim­burse­ment for Exter­nal Individuals

SA Pub­lic Sec­tor employ­ees, includ­ing SA Health, will not be pro­vid­ed with remu­ner­a­tion, as par­tic­i­pa­tion on the steer­ing com­mit­tee will be con­sid­ered part of your exist­ing duties.

Yes. Mem­ber­ship will be con­struct­ed to reflect the nec­es­sary mix of knowl­edge, expe­ri­ence and skills to sup­port the Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work to ful­fil its respon­si­bil­i­ties. A bal­ance of expe­ri­ence across met­ro­pol­i­tan and rur­al set­tings and from with­in and out of hos­pi­tal sec­tors will be sought.

Yes. The meet­ing for­mat will be a com­bi­na­tion of tele­con­fer­ence, video con­fer­ence and face to face meet­ings to sup­port par­tic­i­pa­tion of mem­bers liv­ing in region­al and rur­al areas and to com­ply with COVID-19 social dis­tanc­ing rec­om­men­da­tions. It is the respon­si­bil­i­ty of mem­bers using these arrange­ments to ensure they are in a pri­vate loca­tion where information/​dis­cus­sions can remain confidential.