Petition · past parliament · Department of Health and Social Care

Fund increased access to pain control for chronic patients

Closed 52 signatures

What the petition asks

Untreated pain has a ‘profound impact on quality of life and can have physical, psychological, social, and economic consequences’ (The National Center for Biotechnology Information, April 2013).

Rather than passing patients on to therapy treatments, GPs should either be able to treat chronic pain sufferers medically or refer them on to pain consultants.

NHS pain clinics are typically limited to two treatments per patient, meaning that people with chronic pain might have a better quality of life for a few weeks, only to return to the GP to request a new referral.

Please improve accessibility to pain control medication and pain clinics for patients suffering from chronic pain. Why? To enable chronically ill people to live independently without being disabled by treatable symptoms.

Timeline

11 Sep 2020 Petition opened for signatures
11 Mar 2021 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 52
Status Closed
Department Department of Health and Social Care
Opened 11 Sep 2020
Closed 11 Mar 2021

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.