External
relations
The Council of the British Pain Society is active in promoting
the interests of patients and professionals in the field of pain
to a number of relevant national bodies on members’ behalf.
- The Society has continued to be involved
in the work of the Chronic
Pain Policy Coalition, which is a an umbrella
organisation uniting patients, professionals and parliamentarians
which will develop and help to implement a strategy for
improving the prevention and treatment of chronic pain in
the UK.
- The Society is a generic stakeholder
for National
Institute for Health and Clincial Excellence
(NICE) guidelines. To see the Society's formal responses
to NICE consultations, please visit 'For
Members - Articles and Reports'
- The Society is a generic staheolder for Interventional
Procedures and Health Technology Assessments for NICE.
- The Society is represented on the
Joint Committee on Good Practice, which is run jointly by
the Royal
College of Anaesthetists and the Association
of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.
- The Society has representation on
the Founding Board of the Faculty
of Pain Medicine and the Pain Management Committee
of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and reciprocal representation
on the Executive of the Association for Palliative Medicine.
- The Society is represented on the British
Medical Association Central Consultants and Specialists
Committee, Anaesthetics Subcommittee
- The Society is a member of the Association
of Medical Research Charities (AMRC)
- The Society has produced a joint publication
on 'Assessment of pain in the older person' with the British
Geriatrics Society
- The Society has produced a joint publication on 'Spinal
cord stimulation for the management of pain: recommendations
for best clinical practice' with the Society
of British Neurological Surgeons
- The Society has produced a joint publication on 'The use
of drugs beyond licence in palliative care and pain management'
with the Association
for Palliative Medicine
- In conjunction with the Royal
College of Anaesthetists, the Royal
College of General Practitioners and the Royal
College of Pyschiatrists has produced a publication
on 'Recommendations for the appropriate use of opioids for
persistent non-cancer pain'.
- The Society has produced joint publications' Pain In Older
People' and 'Dignity on the Ward' with Help
the Aged.
- The Society has a representative on the Scottish Government
Chronic Pain Steering Group.
- The Society has representation on the Airing Pain Radio
Advisory Board, an initiaitive from Pain Concern.
- Alternate representatives from the British Pain Society
sit on the Joint Neuroscience Council (JNC).
- Two Society members co-Chair the Healthcare Resource Group
working party, with links to the Royal College of Physicians
'Payment by Results' initiative.
- The Society has reciprocal representation on the Board
of the Faculty of Medicine.
- A representative from the Faculty of Pain Medicine of
the Royal College of Anaesthetists, Association for Palliative
Medicine, the Physiotherapy Pain Association, the Chronic
Pain Policy Coalition, the Royal College of General Practitioners
, the Royal College of Nursing and the International Association
for the Study of Pain (IASP) sits on the British Pain Society
as co-opted members.
- The Society has established a positive relationship with
the Department of Health.
- The Society has representation on the Royal College of
General Practitioners Stakeholder Group.
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