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Painaustralia Annual Report 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 2020 CONTENTS OUR VISION, MISSION, VALUES STATEMENT AND STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE CEO MESSAGE OUR NATIONAL PATRON OUR PAIN CHAMPIONS OUR BOARD ADVOCACY Parliamentary Friends of Pain Management Lived Experience of Chronic Pain EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY COMMUNITY AWARENESS AND INFORMATION ORGANISATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY Annual Report 2020 4 5 OUR VALUES STATEMENT STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES Painaustralia’s values describe the core ethics and principles which drive 3.4 million our work and all our endeavours. ADVOCACY Collaborative: we will work EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY collaboratively with the broader pain 40% management sector, stakeholders with an interest and the general COMMUNITY AWARENESS community to build partnerships and AND INFORMATION Chronic pain affects 68 per cent of 40 per cent of early find synergies to advance our mission. 3.4 million Australians. people living with retirement is due to ORGANISATIONAL chronic pain are of chronic pain issues. Respectful: we will value the rights and SUSTAINABILITY working age. perspectives of all stakeholders. Courageous: we will lead the sector by example and lead the charge for change based on achieving our mission. Suicidal behaviour is two-to three Informed: our work will be informed by times more likely the knowledge and experience of our for people with ABOUT stakeholders, credible information and chronic pain. where available, scientific evidence. Credible: we will act ethically and The national financial PAINAUSTRALIA burden of pain is professionally. estimated to be $73.2 OUR MISSION OUR VISION Transparent: we will be accountable billion in 2018 and will Painaustralia is Australia’s peak pain Pain is a recognised national health to our stakeholders for our actions and increase to $215.6 advocacy body working to improve priority and all Australians living outcomes. billion by 2050. the quality of life of people living with with pain or at risk of pain-related Independent: our work will always pain, their families and carers, and to disability, their families and carers Referrals to pain remain unbiased and unbeholden to minimise the social and economic can access credible information specialists occur in less vested interests. burden of pain on individuals and the and a world-class system of care. than 15 per cent of GP community. We work collaboratively with key stakeholders to integrate consultations where pain as a priority in the broader pain is managed health agenda and our roadmap for achieving world-class care is the A multidisciplinary approach to pain management is National Pain Strategy and associated essential for better health outcomes, however, nearly 70 National Strategic Action Plan for Pain per cent of all GP consultations relating to pain result in a Management. medicine prescription. Annual Report 2020 6 7 Painaustralia successfully added to our outstanding pain champions program in 2020. CHAIRMAN’S One of the most notable new participants is award winning author, documentary producer, MESSAGE host, and advocate with lived experience of managing her own pain condition, Tara Moss. We are humbled that Tara is prepared to bring her personal experience and insight to illustrate the challenges facing those living with chronic pain. She joins our National Patron, Sir Angus Houston and fellow pain champions Sophie Scott, Peter Rudland and Liesl Tesch. The establishment of the first ever Parliamentary Friends of Pain Management group led by co-chairs, Senator Wendy Askew and Mr David Smith MP, Member for Bean was a significant highlight of the year. The group will help us to raise awareness of pain and its Painaustralia Chairman, Em Professor Ian Chubb , His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC Painaustralia Chairman, impact on our community among our federal (Retd), Her Excellency Mrs Linda Hurley, Painaustralia CEO, Carol Bennett and Painaustralia Director, Ben Tansley Em Prof Ian Chubb AC politicians and we are grateful to have had such an outstanding response from the 22 I am pleased to present Painaustralia’s Annual parliamentarians who have joined the group. Report for 2020 – a challenging yet highly productive year for the organisation. We were delighted that our Governor-General, I would like to thank my board colleagues Of course, our members, partners and his Excellency the Honourable David Hurley and Chief Executive Officer, Carol Bennett supporters have given us the imprimatur to With COVID-19 occupying the attention of and Mrs Linda Hurley hosted two meetings and her team, who have provided dedicated achieve our objectives and to place pain Australian governments in 2020 and the long- with Painaustralia last year (including the and professional service to the organisation management firmly at the heart of health held Council on Australian Governments being launch of the parliamentary friends group and throughout an overwise difficult year. policy and practice in Australia and we are disbanded to make way for the new National appointment of our newest pain champion, extremely grateful for this support. Cabinet, we were pleased to see the National Tara Moss). They have shown an interest in Strategic Action Plan for Pain Management this issue informed by a first-hand knowledge (the Action Plan), the seminal roadmap for of the impact of pain on serving members of a national response to pain management the defence forces and among veterans which Much more can be done to deliver in Australia, forwarded directly to State and cannot be understated as our National Patron Territory governments for approval. The Action Sir Angus Houston and pain champion, Peter evidence-based care and treatment that Plan was accompanied by a strong letter of Rudland, have identified. support from Health Minister the Hon Greg Hunt can make a difference in the lives of millions MP, who has been a champion of the cause Beyond regular participation in media and of Australians living with pain. As Chairman, and led Australia’s first national response public awareness and advocacy, Painaustralia when he commissioned Painaustralia to work has been clearly focussed on developing I want to ensure that Painaustralia leads with the pain sector to produce the National sound, evidence-based policy and advice to Action Plan. We are expecting the response the way in advocacy, awareness and inform pain management in Australia. This from Australian governments this year which has taken the form of a position statement on education and policy for best practice pain will pave the way for world leading progress in medicinal cannabis through to submissions “ pain management in this country. to major national inquiries and Royal management in Australia. Commissions. We have also actively engaged with international bodies in sharing our knowledge on approaches. Annual Report 2020 8 9 As a conduit for information between Ensuring that pain management is a core part government and consumers, Painaustralia was of broader health policy responses continues CEO’S in a position to inform the TGA of medicines Chronic pain can to be important be it through providing policy shortages (such as hydroxychloroquine advice to Royal Commissions into aged care for rheumatoid arthritis or lupus or even devastate lives - or mental health or inquiries on medicinal MESSAGE paracetamol and other pain-relieving cannabis. We participated in no less than 26 medications), or consumers about concerns impacting a person’s such reviews. related to side effects of existing medicines relationships, ability with COVID symptoms or access to usual pain Informing the public conversation on these treatments in the time of lockdown. to participate in work issues is similarly important and our media presence continues to provide a key avenue While the urgency of the pandemic required or their education. for this to occur. It was assisted by the timely responses, it did not reduce the focus MilluptamBetter es dest, se community vitatur, seditae velit outstanding consumers living with pain who on important activity to improve the way “moloritiam excepel leseque nistiusam que provide their voice to the cause as well as our we respond to chronic pain in Australia. nonse adisawareness et, is acia sum eratur, of utpain aut labo. pain champions who bring their profile to the Painaustralia CEO, Painaustralia was pleased to receive a grant cause. We have the support of a stellar cast Carol Bennett Ut ulparumand fuga. its Itatus management core nem eum etur, from the Department of Health as part of the sequos vellor mollam quasped eos including our newest pain champion, Tara It was an honour to start the year with an Australian Government’s National Action Plan can break down the Moss, who has offered her insightful advocacy invitation from the Canadian Government to response to deliver the consumer awareness to Painaustralia’s work. share Australia’s experience of developing and education project, creating a one-stop barriers that lead to the National Action Plan in a consultation hub of information and resources on chronic I am thankful for the consumers, members forum on the Canadian Pain Strategy held pain in Australia. The project has enabled stigma and poorly and sponsors who contribute to Painaustralia’s in Halifax, Nova Scotia in January. It was held us to establish a collaborative group of managed pain. work through their support. I am privileged in conjunction with the Canadian Institutes sector experts, the Consumer Awareness to work with Professor Ian Chubb and the of Health Research ‘best brains exchange’
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