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Campbell-Savours, Lord
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My Lords, my noble friend will know that I am an ankylosing spondylitis sufferer, which means that I live in constant pain. I wonder whether she has had time to consider the call by Anne Begg MP in the other place for a national advocate—a champion—who could deal with issues of pain and co-ordinate research by all the medical institutions and companies throughout the United Kingdom. These organisations are currently doing a lot of work but a lot of it overlaps.
My Lords, my noble friend will know that I am an ankylosing spondylitis sufferer, which means that I live in constant pain. I wonder whether she has had time to consider the call by Anne Begg MP in the other place for a national advocate—a champion—who could deal with issues of pain and co-ordinate research by all the medical institutions and companies throughout the United Kingdom. These organisations are currently doing a lot of work but a lot of it overlaps.
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Lord Campbell-Savours
(Labour)
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6 May 2009
My Lords, although I know that my noble friend has an aversion to words such as champion or tsar, I will use the word champion. We welcome the contribution that, for example, members of the British Pain Society have made to the improvement of chronic services, and this is one of their demands. We will consider the need for a national champion in the light of the advice which we receive on the priorities for clinical improvement that were outlined by our Chief Medical Officer. Our view is that such appointments need to be made very selectively as they inevitably raise expectations, but following a detailed national strategy and the possibility of ring-fenced funding. So we have not ruled this out and we will be considering it.
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Health services; Pain
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6 May 2009
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710 c544
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