Statewide Surgical and Perioperative Care Clinical Network

The Sur­gi­cal and Peri­op­er­a­tive Care Clin­i­cal Net­work was estab­lished in 2021, with the aim to iden­ti­fy, address and improve key sys­tem pri­or­i­ties for South Aus­tralians requir­ing sur­gi­cal services.

New Opti­mised Pre-Sur­gi­cal Care Frame­work for SA

In a South Aus­tralian first, the Statewide Sur­gi­cal and Peri­op­er­a­tive Care Clin­i­cal Net­work (SSPC­CN) has devel­oped an Opti­mised Pre-Sur­gi­cal Care (OPSC) Frame­work for patients under­go­ing an elec­tive surgery procedure. 

Through a struc­tured approach to assess­ing patient risk, the OPSC Frame­work pro­vides rec­om­mend­ed pre-sur­gi­cal inter­ven­tions to opti­mise a patient’s health pri­or to under­go­ing an elec­tive sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dure. Suc­cess­ful opti­mi­sa­tion of patients’ health may improve sur­gi­cal out­comes and, in some cas­es, elim­i­nate the need for surgery altogether. 

The SSPC­CN facil­i­tat­ed a suc­cess­ful work­shop in Sep­tem­ber 2022 involv­ing stake­hold­ers from across the South Aus­tralian health sec­tor to finalise the Frame­work and iden­ti­fy bar­ri­ers and enablers to imple­men­ta­tion of the approach across SA. Ear­ly oppor­tu­ni­ties dis­cussed includ­ed lever­ag­ing the cur­rent e‑referrals and Clin­i­cal Pri­ori­ti­sa­tion Cri­te­ria work occur­ring in the system. 

A fol­low-up work­shop is planned in Feb­ru­ary 2023 with a broad range of stake­hold­ers, from clin­i­cians to con­sumers, across var­i­ous parts of the health sec­tor includ­ing state gov­ern­ment, pri­ma­ry health care, research and non-gov­ern­ment organ­i­sa­tions. This ses­sion will iden­ti­fy and pri­ori­tise sus­tain­able, equi­table and scal­able oppor­tu­ni­ties to imple­ment the Frame­work in South Australia. 

Oth­er Projects

  • Look­ing to address the mis­match between capac­i­ty and demand for emer­gency surgery

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

Network Lead

Dr Phil Worley

Statewide Surgical and Perioperative Care Clinical Network Steering Committee
Ms Aman­da Waters

Reg­is­tered Nurse and Peri­op­er­a­tive Man­ag­er, Wal­la­roo Hospital
Dr Ben­jamin Teague
Gen­er­al Sur­geon, North­ern Ade­laide Local Health Network
Dr Bian­ca Wong
Peri­op­er­a­tive Geri­a­tri­cian, North­ern Ade­laide Local Health Network
Dr Chetan Pradhan
Con­sul­tant Sur­geon & Direc­tor of Surgery, River­land Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal Lead at Surgery, Rur­al Sup­port Service
Dr Conor Marron
Con­sul­tant Vas­cu­lar Sur­geon, Cen­tral Ade­laide and North­ern Ade­laide Local Health Networks
Ms Caitlin Davis

Dietit­ian, Flinders Med­ical Cen­tre, South­ern Ade­laide Local Health Network
Mrs Emma Lyndon
CEO/​Director of Nurs­ing at Ade­laide Day Surgery
A/​Prof Jayme Bennetts
Direc­tor, Car­dio­tho­racic Sur­gi­cal Unit, South­ern Ade­laide Local Health Network
Dr Kathryn Materne
GP at Dul­wich Fam­i­ly Practice
Dr Mar­tin Altmann
Gen­er­al Prac­ti­tion­er at Bridge Clinic
Ms Sharyn Coles
Con­sumer representative
Dr Samuel Gluck
Med­ical Admin­is­tra­tion, North­ern Ade­laide Local Health Network
Dr Shiv­an­gi Jog
Gen­er­al and Trau­ma Sur­geon, Cen­tral Ade­laide Local Health Network
Dr Simon Macklin
Senior Spe­cial­ist, Depart­ment of Anaes­the­sia, Cen­tral Ade­laide Local Health Network
Dr Sophie Plagakis
Con­sul­tant Med­ical Offi­cer, Sur­gi­cal and Peri­op­er­a­tive Med­i­cine, South­ern Ade­laide Local Health Network

Statewide Sur­gi­cal and Peri­op­er­a­tive Care Clin­i­cal Net­work 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.

Statewide Sur­gi­cal and Peri­op­er­a­tive Care Clin­i­cal Net­work Goal

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.

Addi­tion­al Doc­u­ments and Information

Have a question?

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

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