Working Group 2

Chronic pain: a disease or symptom?

 
Title Name Material Organization Country

WG Chair

 Marian Harkin   Member of the European Parliament (MEP), ALDE IE
WG Chair Sirpa Pietikainen Statement MEP, EPP FI
WG Co-chair David B.
Vodušek		 Statement European Academy of Neurology (EAN) SLO
WG Secretary Neil Betteridge Statement Neil Betteridge Associates  UK
WG Moderator Nicole Bedlington Statement European Patient Forum (EPF) UK
WG Reporter 1 Massimo Allegri Statement University Parma IT
WG Reporter 2 Thomas Tölle Statement Technische Universität München DE
WG Reporter 3 Mauro Mario Statement No Pain Foundation MT
WG Reporter 4 Boaz Gedaliahu Samolsky Dekel Statement No Pain Foundation MT

Monitoring the efficiency
of health systems:
What does the European
Commission need for pain policy?

 Christoph Schwierz Presentation European Commission, DG ECFIN BE

European Pain Federation EFIC®
position on the debate
on “pain as a disease in its own right”

 Thomas Tölle Presentation
Statement		 Technische Universität München DE

P in GP stands for Pain 

 Giuliano
Piccoliori		 Presentation
Statement		 Academia Altoatesina di Medicina Generale (AcAMG) IT

European Charter of the Rights of Citizens over 65 with Chronic Pain

 Jose De
Andres		 Presentation European Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy (ESRA) ESP

Implementation of the
Chronicity Care National
Strategy in Spain

 Paloma
Casado

Presentation
Statement

 Spanish Ministry of Health
and Social Services and Equality		 ESP

National Plans for Pain
Control – Portuguese examples

 José Romão

Presentation
Statement

 Portuguese Directorate-General for Health PT

Pain policy opportunity

 Wolfgang Jaksch

Presentation
Statement

 Austrian Pain Society (ÖSG) AT
The painful truth Pamela Bell Statement
Presentation		 The Pain Alliance of Northern Ireland (PANI) UK
WG 2 participant Johnson Martin Statement Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Chronic Pain Policy Coalition (CPPC) UK
WG 2 participant Andre Ljutow Statement SGSS, Leiter ZSM CH
  1. Societal Impact of Pain (SIP)
  6. Symposium: Working Group 2