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In this issue:

Issue 83
  • A message from the CEO
  • Delivering  the National Strategic Action Plan for Pain Management
  • Pain revolution Rural Outreach Tour 2020
  • Queensland Pain Management Meeting
  • TGA Communication and education workshop on appropriate use of opioids
  • Roundtable for medicinal cannabis research priorities - Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF)
  • Parliamentary Friends of Palliative Care event
  • Painaustralia 2020 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
  • Roll out of PainChek trial in  aged care facilities
  • Submissions and Policy Updates
  • Out and About
  • In the media

In the media

Assoc Prof Malcolm Hogg

Recent media stories featuring Painaustralia include:

  • Rethinking “long term” opioid therapy

This important paper published in the British Medical Journal and reviewed by our CEO Carol Bennett, highlighted the need to consider the definition of opioid related harm when deciding whether opioid therapy has continued for too long. https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6691

  • Assoc Prof Malcolm Hogg speaks to the Daily Telegraph about managing COVID 19 and the use of ibuprofen (Paywall)

Blogs

  • In isolation, information can be a lifeline.
  • Care, caution and courage in the time of Coronavirus
  • A Pain Revolution is riding into regional Australia
  • Application Denied: Why the NDIS fails those living with chronic pain
  • Delivering the National Strategic Action Plan-A call to Action

 

 

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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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