Chronic Pain Services
EDM number 1450 in 2010-12, proposed by John Pugh on 11/02/2011.
Categorised under the topic of Health services.
That this House welcomes the Patients Association's report, Public Attitudes to Pain; applauds its efforts to bring the issue of chronic pain to the attention of parliamentarians, employers and healthcare professionals; strongly urges that there be established a clear care pathway on chronic pain; welcomes the report's call to ensure patients have access to robust information on pain; further welcomes the report's call for chronic pain to be recognised as a disease in its own right; urges that there be further training for healthcare professionals on the subject of chronic pain; and supports the Patients Association's work to improve access to informationfor patients.
This motion has been signed by a total of 52 MPs.
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