Cardiac Network Structure
The Cardiac Network has two Co-Chairs; Professor Peter Fletcher from John Hunter Hospital and Ms Karen Lintern from Liverpool Hospital. The Co-Chairs are elected for a period of 3 years and there is one medical and one nursing or allied health representative in these roles.
Membership of the Cardiac Network includes:
- Cardiologists
- Nurses
- Allied Health Professionals
- Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons
- Consumers
- Cardiac Health & Rehabilitation Association
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Heart Foundation, NSW
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NSW Health
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Technicians & Sonographers.
The Cardiac Network meets every 3 months and clinicians from both metropolitan and rural hospitals have the opportunity to meet with a range of stakeholders to discuss issues in cardiology and develop strategies to improve service delivery.
Rural clinicians regularly link into the Network meetings via teleconference and twice a year, videoconferencing facilities are available.
The wider Network includes over 120 people from related cardiac specialities who link into specific projects and activities depending on their interests and expertise.
A number of working groups have met separately to review specific issues such as access to drug eluting stents, funding for implantable cardiac defibrillators, cardiac monitoring for adult patients and the provision of primary angioplasty services.
The Cardiac Network works with the NSW Department of Health Cardiac Clinical Redesign Program which aims to improve access to services throughout NSW. This program will be implemented throughout NSW from 2006-2010.
This web page is managed and authorised by Greater Metropolitan Clinical Taskforce. Last updated: 6 July, 2009