Chronic pain service delivery - draft framework: consultation

Implementing and measuring progress of the Framework

95. We will ensure that implementation and improvement actions are undertaken in collaboration with service users and providers.

96. This will involve building on relationships and systems that enable organisations to co-design care and support through the inclusion of people with lived experience of chronic pain.

97. We will establish and support clear leadership and governance arrangements for the Framework and an implementation plan that will be achieved by:

• continuing with a review of engagement with stakeholders to decide upon an effective model of co-production and expert insight for implementation;
• appointing a national implementation lead who will co-ordinate and drive delivery of this framework; and
• agreeing a set of measures to assess success of this Framework.

Our early priorities to deliver the Framework Commitments

• We will identify opportunities to share and reinforce public health messaging around chronic pain, including the role of self-management. We will do this in order to improve access to earlier and more effective intervention.
• We will continue to support the national remote health pathways programme pilot in NHS Highland to develop a remote healthcare pathway for specialist chronic pain services.
• We will improve how people with chronic pain and healthcare professionals understand and agree drug-based treatment for chronic pain.
• We will enhance planning and provision of pain management support by analysing and acting on patient-reported data from the Health and Care Experience survey.
• We will collect data on chronic pain as part of the Scottish Health Survey in 2022.