National Pain Summit – Leaders meeting

Around 70 people including Australia’s leading authorities in pain medicine and consumer groups representing chronic pain sufferers met at ANZCA’s Melbourne headquarters on September 17 to work on a national coordinated approach to managing chronic pain.

The meeting was an important step in the lead up to developing a national pain strategy prior to holding a National Pain Summit in Canberra in March 2010. The National Pain Summit is being led by ANZCA and the Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australian Pain Society, Chronic Pain Australia, in collaboration with inaugural supporters’ MBF Foundation and the Pain Management Research Institute, to minimise the personal and economic burden of pain in Australia.

A website outlining the objectives of the Summit, reports of working groups, stories of people affected by pain and the key people involved has also been launched.
Click here to go to the National Pain Summit website.
Make sure to visit the "Patient Stories about Pain" section.