Report Launch: Putting Pain on the Agenda: the report of the first English Pain Summit

4 July 2012

Strangers Dining Room, House of Commons

Speakers: 

Earl Howe, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Quality, DH
Dr Beverly Collett, Chair, Chronic Pain Policy Coalition
Linda Riordan MP, Chair, All Party Group on Chronic Pain

The launch of the final Pain Summit report was attended by over 90 delegates, including parliamentarians and representatives from across a wide range of organisations with an interest in chronic pain who came to find out more about the report.


Welcoming the report, Earl Howe, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Quality said:

“If we are to improve the quality of the services we offer to support people in pain, that will involve a truly cooperative effort between patients and patient groups, local clinicians and commissioners, national organisations –including of course the Department and the NHS Commissioning Board – and  industry.  You have made an outstanding start with the publication of the summit report.  I wish you every encouragement in its implementation.”

Dr Beverly Collett, Chair of the CPPC commented:

“The report you are holding today distils six months of robust discussion into four recommendations.  

We set out to develop recommendations that would chart a clear path for the pain community to follow to achieve our vision of stopping pain destroying lives. We set out to agree a set of recommendations whose impact would be great and whose implementation would make a real difference. We set out to create recommendations whose delivery would be within our collective grasp, but would be possible if we all work closely with each other, and with the NHS, Commissioners, Public Health workforce and the Department of Health. “

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