Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health

Surgical and Perioperative Care Statewide Clinical Network

The Sur­gi­cal and Peri­op­er­a­tive Care Net­work aims to improve health out­comes and expe­ri­ences for all South Aus­tralians across the sur­gi­cal jour­ney, and to decrease the require­ment for sur­gi­cal services.

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  • Related news
  • Vision and goals
  • Steering Committee
  • Current projects and collaborations
  • Related information

Related News

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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Vision and goals

Vision

To iden­ti­fy and address key sys­tem pri­or­i­ties that may both pre­vent the require­ment for sur­gi­cal ser­vices and improve expe­ri­ence and out­comes for all South Aus­tralians by ensur­ing access, appro­pri­ate­ness and effi­cien­cy across their sur­gi­cal journey.

Goals

The Sur­gi­cal and Peri­op­er­a­tive Care Net­work aims to improve health out­comes and expe­ri­ences for all South Aus­tralians across the sur­gi­cal jour­ney, and to decrease the require­ment for sur­gi­cal services.

Sur­gi­cal and Peri­op­er­a­tive Care Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work Steer­ing Committee

The Steer­ing Com­mit­tees pro­vide over­sight of the devel­op­ment, imple­men­ta­tion and eval­u­a­tion of the net­works’ activ­i­ties.

The Steer­ing Com­mit­tees are con­struct­ed to reflect a bal­ance of expe­ri­ence across met­ro­pol­i­tan and coun­try as well as from with­in and out of hos­pi­tal sec­tors. The Steer­ing Com­mit­tee are led by a Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work Lead.

For more infor­ma­tion, refer to Sur­gi­cal and Peri­op­er­a­tive Care Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work Terms of Ref­er­ence (192KB, PDF)

Dr Phil Worley

Surgical and Perioperative Care Statewide Clinical Network Clinical Lead

Consultant General Surgeon

Phil Wor­ley orig­i­nal­ly trained and worked as a rur­al GP before under­tak­ing Spe­cial­ist train­ing and spend­ing the last 20 years as a Con­sul­tant Gen­er­al Sur­geon in both the pub­lic and pri­vate systems.

He hopes to improve cross net­work col­lab­o­ra­tion with­in the state’s health sys­tem, and the sur­gi­cal jour­ney of all South Aus­tralians from diag­no­sis to discharge.

Phil recog­nis­es this requires the input and coop­er­a­tion of a broad cross sec­tion of stake­hold­ers and is look­ing for­ward to lead­ing an enthu­si­as­tic and com­mit­ted team to achieve this goal.

Steering Committee Members
Dr Phil WorleyCon­sul­tant Gen­er­al Sur­geon, South­ern Ade­laide Local Health Network

Dr Ben­jamin Teague

Gen­er­al Sur­geon, North­ern Ade­laide Local Health Network

Dr Bernard Car­ney

Plas­tic, Cos­met­ic and Recon­struc­tive Surgeon
Dr Bill WilsonCon­sul­tant Anaes­thetist / Deputy Chief Med­ical Infor­ma­tion Offi­cer OCMIO

Ms Caitlin Davis

Dietit­ian, South­ern Ade­laide and Cen­tral Ade­laide Local Health Networks

Dr Chetan Pradhan

Con­sul­tant Sur­geon & Direc­tor of Surgery, River­land Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal; Clin­i­cal Lead Surgery, Rur­al Sup­port Service

Dr Conor Marron

Con­sul­tant Vas­cu­lar Sur­geon, Cen­tral Ade­laide and North­ern Ade­laide Local Health Networks

Mrs Emma Lyndon

CEO/​Director of Nurs­ing, Ade­laide Day Surgery

Ms Joanne McMillan

Safe­ty and Qual­i­ty Coor­di­na­tor, Crit­i­cal Care and Peri­op­er­a­tive Ser­vices, Cen­tral Ade­laide Local Health Network

Dr Kate Drummond

Senior Staff Spe­cial­ist Anaes­thetist, Cen­tral Ade­laide Local Health Network

Dr Kathryn Materne

Gen­er­al Prac­ti­tion­er, Dul­wich Fam­i­ly Practice

Mr Kris­t­ian Sanchez

Nurse Lead Surgery, Cen­tral Ade­laide Local Health Network

Ms Mandy Nolan

Direc­tor of Allied Health, Cal­vary Health Care

Dr Mar­tin Altmann

Gen­er­al Prac­ti­tion­er, Bridge Clinic

Ms Moni­ka Marzec

Con­sumer representative

Ms Sharyn Coles

Con­sumer representative

Dr Shiv­an­gi Jog

Gen­er­al and Trau­ma Sur­geon, Cen­tral Ade­laide Local Health Network

Current Projects and Collaborations

New Optimised Pre-Surgical Care Framework for SA

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SCOPES: Surveillance Colonoscopy Optimised Prevention via an E-System

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Related information

Hear from Dr Phil Wor­ley about the Statewide Sur­gi­cal and Peri­op­er­a­tive Care Clin­i­cal Net­work as part of the 2022 CEIH Con­ver­sa­tion Series

Have a question?

Or want to know more about the Sur­gi­cal and Peri­op­er­a­tive Care Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work? Please email CEIH.​SurgicalPerioperative@​sa.​gov.​au.