Today a team of European pain experts issued an official report urging governments to take stronger measures towards preventing chronic pain and treating the 146.6 million Europeans who suffer from it. The OPENMinds report underlines the necessity of addressing chronic pain urgently. Every year chronic back pain alone costs the British economy a staggering £12.3 read more »

According to a recent study looking into services available for those with chronic pain, the NHS is only employing one specialist for every 32,000 sufferers. The report, which includes experiences taken from 4,400 members of the public, revealed that more than a quarter had suffered with chronic pain at some point during the past five read more »

A recent report investigating chronic pain has found that the eight million sufferers in Britain will have to wait an average of six years for a diagnosis and an additional three years before their condition is adequately managed, reports the Telegraph. The survey, which incorporated 2,251 British individuals with chronic pain found that a quarter read more »