Physios welcome pain report’s goals
5 July 2012
People with chronic pain need rapid access to treatment and support, says the final report of the English Pain Summit, which was launched yesterday in the House of Commons.
The report, Putting Pain on the Agenda, identifies four key priorities for action that will improve the quality of life of those who live with pain.
These include
- the development of clear national standards for clinical practise and education
- the need to raise public awareness of pain
- the development of comprehensive guidance for commissioners
- a national strategy to cope with the problem.
Healthcare professionals were joined by patients and parliamentarians at the launch of the report - the findings of which are based on the first ever English Pain Summit which took place in November 2011.
Physiotherapist Kate Jolly, who is studying an MSc in "pain, Science and Society" and is also involved in the all party parliamentary chronic pain group, welcomed the report’s recommendations.
‘Physiotherapists are ideally placed to embrace this report as our distinctive qualities of listening and taking time to understand patients enables us to give the necessary empowerment required to fulfill these goals,’ she said.
‘This is not exclusive to the field of musculoskeletal pain but spans our diverse skills in cancer pain, headaches, abdominal syndromes such as IBS and neurology, to name but a few.’
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