Closed petition Fund increased access to pain control for chronic patients

Closed on 11 March 2021

Untreated pain has a ‘profound impact on quality of life and can have physical, psychological, social, and economic consequences’ (The National Center for Biotechnology Information, April 2013).

Rather than passing patients on to therapy treatments, GPs should either be able to treat chronic pain sufferers medically or refer them on to pain consultants.

NHS pain clinics are typically limited to two treatments per patient, meaning that people with chronic pain might have a better quality of life for a few weeks, only to return to the GP to request a new referral.

Please improve accessibility to pain control medication and pain clinics for patients suffering from chronic pain. Why? To enable chronically ill people to live independently without being disabled by treatable symptoms.