Chronic pain focus groups - Have your say

The NHS across Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System* are seeking the views of patients who are suffering or have suffered with chronic pain to help shape the future of chronic pain services.

Chronic pain, sometimes known as long-term pain or persistent pain, is pain that lasts for more than 3 months. It is often described as pain that does not go away as expected after an illness or injury. Chronic pain and its treatment is not the same as acute pain, such as pain for a few days following an injury.

We want to understand people’s current experience with chronic pain services, how chronic pain affects their daily life and how they would like chronic pain services to work in the future. We are holding a series of virtual focus groups to understand more from people living in Slough, the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, Bracknell and North East Hampshire and Farnham, please only sign up to the area you are living in. Details of the focus groups and links to sign up are below:

Focus groups to discuss the chronic pain pathway will be conducted in English as unfortunately we cannot provide live translation services for these events.

With feedback gathered, we are planning a new chronic pain pathway that will be introduced in 2023/24 which will include services that ensure that patients are directed to the most appropriate service for their needs at the right time.

The new chronic pain pathway includes increased support, guidance, and advice for patients to maintain their independence or daily activity while managing their pain as a long-term condition.

We have also translated the survey into Punjabi, Urdu, Nepalise and Polish these surveys can be found here: https://mysay.is/Chronicpain2 The English version of the survey can still be accessed here: https://mysay.is/ChronicPain