How can primary care meet the increasing demand from people with chronic pain conditions?
The session will focus upon practical steps that can be taken within existing funding structures to reduce the chronic pain dependency on medicalised primary care support, facilitating increased resilience, positive behaviour and neighbourhood health improvement in this high frequency service user group.

The key learning points are:
• Recognise the increasing pressure that chronic pain is placing on primary care and wider the health system.
• Assess and debate the current limitations and historic approach, versus current evidence demonstrating improved outcomes by managing persistent pain in primary care and local settings.
• Present service structures that support sustained improvements in individuals lives in terms of function, polypharmacy, independence and return to work through a supported health coaching led persistent pain service.
• Get views from medical pain expert practitioners and patient advocates who have experienced the service and benefits it has delivered.
• Give delegates practical tips and suggestions as how they can implement positive change within the current funding structure in primary care, to support chronic pain patients and reduce pressure on primary care clinical staff.