Quality Assurance Programs

Southern and SA Gastrointestinal Services are committed to a quality health care service.
A clinical nurse, Ann Janeway, runs the quality assurance program and we also participate in the following initiatives:

1. SCOOP
(Southern Colorectal Cancer Prevention Program)

This progam is run in associateion with FMC and RGH and ensures that patients enrolled in colorectal cancer screening have a program consistent with the latest NHMRC (Australia) Guidelines.

2. BOSS
(Barretts Oesophagus Surveillance Program)

This is a similar progam to SCOOP, again applying evidence based practice to Barrerrs surveillance with a dedicated database and regular multi-disciplinary discussion of care.


3. INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE

SGS participates with FMC and RGH in the Southern IBD Service.
A clinical nurse coordinator Peta Leach is the first point of contact coordinating care.
The IBD service has an active clinical research program, participating in over 12 trials in Crohns Disease and Colitis at either FMC or Flinders Private Hospital.