Chronic pain is pain that lasts more than three months. It affects between one third and one half of the UK population.
Chronic pain:
The most common chronic pain conditions include: non-specific low back pain, regional joint pain, neuropathic pain and widespread musculoskeletal pain/fibromyalgia.
People with chronic pain often don’t respond well to current treatments and may be very disabled as a result of the pain they live with. The care they receive is mainly focused on self-management of persistent pain.
The challenge is to support those who live with chronic pain and those who provide chronic pain services or care.
The Chronic Pain Health Integration Team wants everyone living with chronic pain in our region to be able to access the support they need.
We help people living with chronic pain in our region:
We also want to make people outside of our HIT (including commissioners and policy makers) aware of the impacts of chronic pain on people, society and the economy, and how the HIT can help.
Read our Chronic Pain HIT Strategy 2020-2023. This strategy was developed with input from:
The Chronic Pain HIT is keen to hear from anyone with an interest in chronic pain. Our membership represents a broad range of healthcare providers, professions and service users.
Please get in touch if you want to know more about our work or are interested in joining our HIT. Contact: chronicpainhit@bristolhealthpartners.org.uk