The webinar organized last December was aimed above all at general practitioners in order to spread the knowledge of Law 38 of 2010, “Provisions to guarantee access to palliative care and pain therapy”, with the unconditional contribution of Grunenthal. The general practitioner is the first person, in the health sector, with whom we relate when we need care and is also the fundamental link between the specialist and the patient. We do not want the right to avoid unnecessary pain and suffering to become a rearguard battle, penalizing the quality of life of those who already have a pathology, making the condition heavier and unbearable, depriving the person of a perspective and a project of life. Even today, despite ten years have passed since its emanation, it is little known. It is necessary to fill this knowledge and information gap and restore the central role in the treatment path to the relationship between doctor and patient and the awareness that healthcare professional and person who is ill / in need of care / patient are both undisputed protagonists of the care path.
Last November, experts in the field, including Cittadinanzattiva, discussed the state of the art of Law 38: the rights of patients to not suffer, the services provided, the methods of access to the centers and the problems that remained open.
On 5 November 2020, the data of the monitoring conducted in Italy by Cittadinanzattiva on law 38/2010 were presented. Ten years after Law 38/2010 which regulates access to palliative care and pain therapy, how well do citizens know the contents of the law and their rights?
Four first-person video stories that highlight the daily battles against pain of patients with chronic pathology. This is the content of the mini web series released in June 2020 by Cittadinanzattiva, as part of the campaign "We are not born to suffer", promoted on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Law 38 which regulates access to palliative care and pain therapy and which puts Italy in a vanguard position for citizens' rights.
“We were not born to suffer": this is the name of the campaign launched in May 2020 by Cittadinanzattiva, ten years after the law 38/2010 which regulates access to palliative care and pain therapy and which puts our country in a leading position for citizens' rights.
Launched on the occasion of World Anesthesia Day, the "Ready to go" project is an initiative of MSD in collaboration with Cittadinanzattiva and SARNePI (Italian Society of Anesthesia and Italian Neonatal and Pediatric Resuscitation). The goal is to raise awareness and inform people also on the subject of pediatricanesthesia and on the pain of young patients.
To support the implementation of the Pillar, and prepare the ground for the Pillar’s Action Plan (to be presented in early 2021), the Commission launched a call for pledges to implement the Pillar from European, regional and national stakeholders. Societal Impact Pain (SIP) mapped seven out of the 20 Principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights that link directly to SIP’s four priorities: indicators, education, employment, research.
To support the implementation of the Pillar, and prepare the ground for the Pillar’s Action Plan (to be presented in early 2021), the Commission launched a call for pledges to implement the Pillar from European, regional and national stakeholders. Societal Impact Pain (SIP) mapped seven out of the 20 Principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights that link directly to SIP’s four priorities: indicators, education, employment, research.
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has shown to be an effective therapy for various chronic pain conditions, improving the quality of life of patients, and reducing medication intake on the long term. However, some chronic pain patients can develop tolerance / habituation over time. A combination therapy can address this issue effectively in the majority of them as a research has shown.
Female-focused research is one key aspect of creating precision drugs & personalized medicine. Increasingly, data are highlighting sex differences in the mechanisms underlying chronic pain. However, most research is still conducted in males. This new research, just published, shows abnormal subgenual anterior cingulate circuitry is unique to women but not men with ankylosing spondylitis related chronic pain.