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Getting GPs to manage pain better
The CPPC strongly supports the CMO’s recommendation that the assessment of pain and its associated disability be included in the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) of the GP contract. This would strongly encourage GPs to be proactive and to ask a patient about their pain, treat it promptly and assess it to ensure that the treatment given is effective, rather than expecting the patient to raise it first.
Following the announcement that responsibility for the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) has been moved to NICE, QOF indicators will once again be reviewed. In January, the CPPC set up a working group to help produce a joint submission from the Royal College of General Practitioners and the British Pain Society in conjunction with the CPPC to put forward a case for the development of a new pain management indicator. The Group is expected to make a submission in March.
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