Our councils
Adelaide PHN is committed to honest and genuine community-wide involvement. Our councils are made up of a Clinical Council, a Community Advisory Council, and an Aboriginal Community Advisory Council, each providing advice and recommendations that help inform planning and design of services, stakeholder engagement, and continuing development and refinement of our Needs Assessment.
Clinical Council
The role of the Clinical Councils is to provide the Board of the Primary Health Network with locally relevant perspectives on clinical issues that impact on the unique needs of our local communities. Clinical Councils are GP-led and include members from other primary health care professions who assist us to develop local strategies to improve the operation of the health care system for patients.
Membership of the Council includes participants from a cross-section of primary health and represents a variety of practice settings, experiences, expertise and disciplines
The Adelaide Primary Health Network (PHN) Clinical Council provides the Board with contemporary advice on local health needs and priorities ensuring that there is an appropriate evidence base to local commissioning, specifically, planning and design of services, stakeholder engagement, and continuing development and refinement of the Needs Assessment (NA).
The Clinical Council provides a critical overview of the Adelaide region to ensure that overall investment is in line with the regional NA.
Our Clinical Council Members come from a range of professional backgrounds, including general practitioners, practice managers, pharmacists, clinical psychologists, dietitians and representatives from the Local Health Networks (LHN). The Clinical Council provide valuable insight into the efficiency and feasibility of various service delivery models, and assists Adelaide PHN to build linkages between services.
- Dr Stephanie Daly (Chair)
- Dr Michaela Baulderstone
- Ms Julia Trescowthick
- Dr Jeffrey Fuller
- Ms Cathy Loughry
- Mr Christian Burden
- Ms Klade Thomas
- Ms Meg Gulbin
- Ms Vicki Linden
- Ms Anastasia Bougesis
- Mrs Kristen Foley
- Mr Tien Pham
- Ms Sandra Parr (NALHN representative)
- Ms Lisa Bartholomaeus (CALHN representative)
Community Advisory Council
The Community Advisory Council provides advice and a community perspective to the Adelaide PHN Board. This ensures decisions, investment, and innovations are person-centred, cost-effective, locally relevant, and aligned to local care experiences and expectations.
The Council consists of members active in their local communities who have a sound understanding of local primary health issues. This may come from personal experience as a patient or carer, employment in health consumer advocacy, population health or community services, or from hosting Kitchen Table Discussions within their communities.
Membership includes priority groups such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, LGBTIQA+ communities, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and those representing socioeconomically disadvantaged populations. Aboriginal members represent the local Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community and provide advice on unique health needs, including primary care access, addressing service gaps, and supporting Adelaide PHN's reconciliation journey.
The aim of the Community Advisory Council (CAC) is to support Adelaide PHN in achieving its strategic priorities and actions by:
- understanding locally relevant community perspectives and sharing those to inform the Board’s decisions, investments, and innovations to ensure services are patient centred, cost-effective, locally relevant, and aligned to local care experiences and expectations.
- developing local strategies through ongoing review and involvement of stakeholders to improve the operation of the health care system for community members and facilitate effective primary health care.
- informing and providing feedback to the Board.
- informing and providing feedback to community.
- supporting the reputation and profile of the organisation’
- being accountable to the Board.
Community voices are integral to Adelaide PHN achieving its vision. The views and experiences of consumers are actively sought to improve health outcomes for people living in and moving through the Adelaide region. Community members are vital in building the evidence base to inform and shape all aspects of Adelaide PHN’s work.
Members are respected and acknowledged for their cultural, social, and geographical diversity. Consumers from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, LGBTIQA+ communities, culturally and linguistically diverse communities and those representing socioeconomic disadvantaged populations are engaged in an appropriate and culturally safe environment.
Membership:
- Mr Paolo Cardelli (Chair)
- Ms Etty Garabelli
- Ms Joanna Stolz
- Ms Lydia Lam
- Ms Nicole Tersic
- Mr Blake Lawrenson
- Ms Rachel Rodda
- Ms Alexandra Emmerich
- Mr Lee Nettelbeck
- Dr Julie- Anne Popple
- Mr Barunah Alick
- Mr Isaiah Rigney
Adelaide GP Council
The Adelaide GP Council provides Adelaide PHN with insights into GP perspectives relevant to the needs of local communities in the Adelaide metropolitan area. The AGPC provides intelligence on local primary health care issues, trends and activities and assists in identifying opportunities to improve the safety, quality, equity, efficiency and effectiveness of health care services.
Membership of the GP Council comprises of GPs across all three metro Local Health Networks in the Adelaide PHN region. The aim of the Adelaide GP Council is to:
- Provide a forum where GP perspective of primary health care in the Adelaide PHN community can be discussed with an emphasis on how to improve patient health care outcomes.
- Provide GP input, feedback, and linkage into and across other health care organisations (National, State, Local Government and Non-Government).
- Ensure Adelaide PHN GP representation on various panels and committees is coordinated and represents a consensus view.
Members-
- Dr Rizwan Latif (Chair)
- Dr Md Moniruzzaman
- Dr Jaiveer Krishnan
- Dr Radhika Dara
- Dr Helen Parry
- Dr Kin Khey Lau
- Dr Elizabeth Harvey
- Dr Jasmine MacIntyre
- Dr Kathi Nyberg
- Dr Sean Black-Tiong
- Dr Penny Need
- Dr Aishah Khairudin
- Dr Emily Gibson (GP Integration Officer- NALHN)
- Dr Mai Duong (GP Integration Officer- SALHN)
- Dr Jackie Yeoh (GP Integration Officer- CALHN)
- Dr Chad Collins (GP Liaison Officer- Adelaide PHN)