Who are we?
Adelaide Primary Health Network (PHN) is a membership-based organisation, focused on improving health outcomes and your experience of primary health care within the Adelaide metropolitan region. Adelaide PHN’s job is to ensure the health system better meets people’s needs and our purpose is to support primary health care providers to work collaboratively in an integrated, coordinated and connected way.
Adelaide PHN acknowledges the Kaurna peoples who are the traditional custodians of Adelaide.
Community Advisory Council Role, Purpose and Responsibilities
There is one Community Advisory Councils (CAC) with members drawn from across the Adelaide PHN region and an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Advisory Council, whose members live across metropolitan Adelaide.
CACs are groups of community members with lived experience of the primary health care sector and Adelaide PHN priority areas. CAC members share with Adelaide PHN and other members what is of most importance to primary health system users and contribute to the development of person-centred care. CACs play a key role in the development of our annual Needs Assessments, strategic plans, and support the development of strategies to improve the patient experience of the primary health care system.
CACs have a continuing but rotating membership. Members serve a two-year term, with half of the membership positions being available for new nominees or existing members applying for a second term.
There are four Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander CAC meetings per year, during business hours, with meetings held at the Adelaide PHN office in Mile End. Meetings last for three hours and members are paid a sitting fee, members are required to arrange their own transport to Council meetings. Potential applicants must be willing and available to attend all meetings.