HITs work together to help redesign of chronic pain patient pathway

Two of our HITS – Integrated Pain Management and Bristol Bones and Joints – have been working together to redesign how we plan and deliver chronic pain services, as part of Healthier Together’s wider reconfiguration of musculoskeletal services.

The completed first stage now has broad stakeholder agreement and support.

The Clinical Commissioning Group included the chronic pain pathway redesign within the recently retendered specification for its integrated community-based services. Now the aim is to further integrate secondary pain services with those delivered by the new provider, Sirona.