Dr Beverly Collett

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Dr Beverly Collett

• Consultant in Pain Medicine
• Chair of CPPC

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Personal Cost

• 7.8 million people live with chronic pain in UK
• 13 UK population have chronic pain
• 1 in 4 households affected by chronic pain in
  every parliamentary constituency
• Musculoskeletal pain commonest cause
• 25 lose their jobs
• 22 of patients with pain develop depression
• 23 thought that their doctor did not know how to
  treat their pain

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Economic cost

• 70 people living with chronic pain are of
  working age
• 3.8 billion spent per year on IB for those with
  chronic pain
• Pain is second most common reason given by
  claimants of IB
• 4.6 million GPs appointments per year
• The 2005 CBI survey estimated that sickness
  absence cost business approximately 12 billion
  in 2004
• 49 of those diagnosed with chronicpain take
  time off work.

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Education and training

• Pain Management to be an integral part of
  undergraduate and postgraduate training and
  education for all health care professionals.
• Patient education
• Communication training

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Early Access

• To prevent chronicity
• Identification of Red,Yellow,Blue,Black Flags
• 18 Weeks Wait Chronic Pain Pathway
• Cultural change

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Empowerment

• To support people in making decisions about their
  conditions
• Appropriate information
• Support in changing life-styles
• Self management courses

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Collaboration

• All shareholders share in a joined up strategy
• Primary, Secondary care, Dept Health, DWP
• Strengthening patients, employer, GP
  relationships (well-note / sick-notes)
• Multidisciplinary health care

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Designed for People with Chronic Conditions
Service Development and Commissioning Directives
Chronic Non-Malignant Pain
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