About us

The National Pain Audit has been set up to look into pain management around the UK over the next 3 years

Contact us:
The National Pain Audit
Dr Foster Research Ltd
12 Smithfield Street
London
EC1A 9LA

Email: painaudit@drfoster.co.uk

For more information see the overview

In this site

The Overview provides a few details about who is conducting this audit and why. if you would like more detailed contact information or information about project logisitics please have a look at the overview page.
If you want to know more about the background of pain studies in the uk have a look at the background page.
For information on how we intend to carry out the audit and the processes involved visit the methodology page.
And to catch up on the latest have a look at the news.

The National Pain Audit

Introduction

Pain Clinics treat patients with chronic pain, for whom traditional disease centred therapies have failed, with the emphasis on regaining quality of life. However, many services are poorly resourced and practitioners isolated. Not enough is currently known about activity levels of these pain services, or about their clinical performance.

Two government reports have called for better assessment practices. In response The National Audit of Pain Services has been initiated to collect detailed data on pain services. The three year study aims to improve NHS services for people affected by chronic pain and will establish a national data collection system which will enable services to monitor performance, share data, feedback and consensus of interested parties. Areas of data collection will include, patient case mix, demographics, diagnosis, treatments, assessment of condition severity and patient outcomes.