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In this issue:

Issue 83
  • A message from the CEO
  • Painaustralia’s AGM and Annual Report
  • Painaustralia welcomes returning Morrison Government
  • Painaustralia’s founding board member recognised at International Neuromodulation Congress
  • Joint Statement on Opioid Prescribing for Palliative Care
  • SARRAH joins Painaustralia
  • A new prescription for health: Op Ed by Painaustralia Director and Clinical Advisor, A/Prof Dr Malcolm Hogg
  • National Palliative Care Week
  • New sleep medication management resource
  • Pain treatment and Safe Patient Centred Care: CEO Painaustralia for CHF Health Voices
  • Submissions and Policy Updates
  • Out and About
  • In the media
  • Guest Contribution: the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre

Pain treatment and Safe Patient Centred Care: CEO Painaustralia for CHF Health Voices

In this article CEO Carol Bennett argues that changing common beliefs about pain and its treatment is critical to achieving better outcomes from pain management. Consumers need greater confidence to seek out best practice treatment and be active participants in their remedial journey as well as building resilience in their self-management of chronic pain.  Read more in the Consumer’s Health Forum Health Voices journal here. http://healthvoices.org.au/volume/issues/health-literacy-may-2019/

 

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Our capacity to influence government policy and improve understanding and management of pain is directly related to the strength of our membership network. Your support could make all the difference.
 

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With one in five Australians living with pain it is likely that someone you know is directly affected. Painaustralia is the national peak body working to improve the quality of life of people living with pain, their families and carers, and to minimise the social and economic burden of pain.

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