Cost of Chronic Pain in the UK

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Dear NHS Fylde and Wyre Clinical Commissioning Group,

Thank you for your initial response, you exceeded our expectations with your initial response. The data you provided was extremely useful. Please may you send the same information for the other financial years? We would greatly appreciate it!

1) How many consultations are there per year in each of the following care settings for chronic pain. Please provide us with the financial years of 2018-2019, 2019-2020 and 2020-2021.

- How many consultations are there in Community services?
- How many consultations are there in Primary care (general practice)?
- How many consultations are there in Secondary Care (Acute Hospitals)

2) How many patients per year does that represent? In each care setting for each of the following financial years (2018-2019), (2019-2020) and (2020-2021).

- Primary care (general practice) - in the years (2018-2019), (2019-2020) and (2020-21).
- Community Services - in the years (2018-2019), (2019-2020) and (2020-2021).
- Secondary care (acute hospitals) - in the years (2018-2019), (2019-2020) and (2020-21).

3) What is the total cost of medication per year for Chronic Pain?
Please give us the total cost for providing the following analgesics on prescription in each of the following care-settings: ( Primary = GP and Community Services ) and (Secondary = Acute Hospital Settings) for the following years: 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21. Please note, we recognise that it may be impossible to dissociate the prescription of these drugs for pain or for other indication. In that case, please just provide us with the total cost irrespective of indication. Please consider referring to the BNF analgesics chapter.

4) Do you have a secondary care pain unit in the CCG? If so, how many referrals are made to this unit per year? For the following financial years: (2018-19), (2019-20) and (2020-21).

5) Do you have community pain services? If so, how many consultations are made to these services per year? For the following financial years: (2018-19), (2019-20) and (2020-21). How are these services commissioned?

6) What is the total cost of care per year for Chronic Pain? ​In each setting for each financial year.

- Primary care (general practice) - in the years (2018-2019), (2019-2020) and (2020-2021).
- Community Services - in the years (2018-2019), (2019-2020) and (2020-21).
- Secondary care (acute hospitals) - in the years (2018-2019), (2019-2020) and (2020-21).

Yours faithfully,

Dr Benjamin Viaris De Lesegno and Sabrina Khaloon

FOITEAM (NHS MIDLANDS AND LANCASHIRE COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT), NHS Fylde and Wyre Clinical Commissioning Group

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Dear Dr Benjamin Viaris De Lesegno,

Please do not amend the subject line.

Thank you for your request for information received on 31^st August 2021
under the provision of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

We will be processing your request on behalf of the following CCGs:

o NHS Fylde and Wyre CCG

We aim to respond to your request within 20 working days, the latest of
which is 28^th September 2021, however, should any delays be anticipated
we will contact you in advance to advise you of this.

Please note that during the current pandemic, many of our colleagues have
been redeployed to support the wider NHS with their response to the
coronavirus outbreak and as a result delays are expected and we kindly ask
you to bear with us during this time. Again we will contact you where we
are notified of expected delays as soon as possible.

For ICO guidance on FOI and the Coronavirus (COVID-19), please click on
the link below:

[1]https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-an...

If you require an update on the progress of your request, please contact
the Freedom of Information service, by email [2][email address] or
by telephone on 01782 872648

Yours sincerely

Access to Information Team

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[3][email address]
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