Articles & Reports

18 Week Commissioning Pathway on Chronic Pain
Recently published pathway

All pathways are evolving documents and as new research, practice, techniques and initiatives emerge, published pathways may need to be reworked to reflect this and keep them as living useful documents.

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National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Guidelines
The BPS is a registered stakeholder of NICE and is called upon from time to time to feedback comments on particular initiatives.
The British Pain Society formal feedback

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• Acute Chest Pain
• Depression Update - Chronic Health Problems
• Lower Urinary Tract Symptons in Men / Benign Prostatic Hyperplasic
• Osteoartritis
• Pregabalin for Fibromyalgia Questionnaire
• Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for chronic pain of neuropathic or ischaemic origin
• Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for chronic pain of neuropathic or ischaemic origin - Assessment comments

NHS Connecting for Health: Do Once and Share (DOaS) Project on Pain Assessment - December 2007
The British Pain Society formal responses

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• Response to draft report
• Response to appendix 41
• Response to chronic pain assessment measures - non-consensus view
• Response to chronic pain assessment measures - consensus views

NHS Innovation and Improvement - MRI Services - December 2007
The British Pain Society formal response

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All Party Parliamentary Group on Drug Misuse Inquiry - November 2007
The British Pain Society formal response

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Epidurals in Out Patients - July 2007
The British Pain Society Newsletter, Summer 2007, President's Report, pg 8

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NHS Connecting for Health: Do Once and Share (DOaS) Project on Pain Assessment - June 2007
The British Pain Society Newsletter, Summer 2007, pg 16

DOaS is an exciting initiative run under the auspices of NHS Connecting for Health. Their current project is the development of a new national set of guidance about the use of instruments and other methods to assess pain. In particular, the project is about assessment of chronic pain in adults and older children.

You can find out more about the national DOaS programme by clicking the link below:
www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/systemsandservices/kps/doas

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Download a copy of the reply slip here

The Management of Chronic Pain: Pain Management Programmes and Other Sef-help Programmes - October 2006
The British Pain Society Newsletter, Winter 2007, pg 21-22

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