Media

Aged Care 360: Carol Bennett joins a panel of experts and those directly affected as Sky News investigates aged care.

The House of Wellness – 20 August 2020: Carol Bennett discusses the impacts of migraine that can often be under-estimated and, for many people, migraines have a huge impact on quality of life, work and relationships in Migraines 101: Why they are more than just a headache

The Australian – 17 August 2020: Carol Bennett speak on the 1 June Opioid Reforms in the article that covers the impacts on consumers as well. Botched government rollout leaves people in pain with no support

ABC Brisbane Radio – 17 August 2020: Carol Bennett covers the challenges that have been created for people living with chronic pain after the new opioid reforms: Painaustralia CEO, Carol Bennett speaks to ABC Brisbane Radio about impact of Opioid Reforms.

The Saturday Paper – 15 August 2020 Carol Bennett highlights the challenges the chronic pain community has faced through the pandemic in Chronic pain and Covid-19

Blogs

• "It is impossible, reckless and downright cruel to keep ignoring the real issues here: lack of properly funded and resourced alternatives to medications to manage pain." In this blog our CEO discusses the recent opioid reforms and their impact on already vulnerable people living with chronic pain 
• 'In a pandemic landscape, ensuring there are replacement treatment options to the ready availability of medications that had become a staple treatment for pain is not only what is needed, it is the moral responsibility of any society.' Our CEO shares the results of our Opioid reform survey in this blog
• "The pandemic has drawn attention away from other health issues including chronic pain, but we ignore these issues at our peril. Neither the individuals affected, nor our health system and economy, can continue to bear the burden of poorly managed chronic pain. Urgent action is needed" Carol Bennett writes about the need to campaign for pain again in this blog

• "What gets measured gets done. The first step in ensuring less suffering is to actually measure pain and its treatment within aged care. It is not hard. It can and should be done." Carol Bennet talks about quality in aged care in this blog.
• By focusing on overdose statistics, are we overlooking patient-centred care? Painaustralia's Clinical Advisor A/Prof Malcolm Hogg asks in this blog