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Reports and publications

2021 – March

• Canadian Pain Task Force Report: March 2021 

In March 2021, the Task Force submitted their third and final report to Health Canada, titled An Action Plan for Pain in Canada . This report provides recommendations on priority actions that ensure people with pain are recognized and supported and that pain is understood, prevented, and effectively treated throughout Canada. The report also provides direction for supporting future change to better meet the needs of people living with chronic pain. As with other complex and large-scale public health challenges, addressing chronic pain will require multiple and diverse approaches to change. Health Canada will continue to work with partners to explore how best to move recommendations into action. 

2020 - October

• Canadian Pain Task Force Report: October 2020

In October 2020, the Task Force submitted their second report to Health Canada summarizing what they heard from an extensive series of in-person, written, and online consultations about the gaps and challenges, best and promising practices, and elements of an improved approach to preventing and managing chronic pain. Entitled Working Together to Better Understand, Prevent, and Manage Chronic Pain: What We Heard, the report reflects the evidence, ideas, experiences, and practices that we heard from the nearly two-thousand people who participated across Canada.

Additional analyses are available upon request, including those related to the online consultation, rapid reviews on guidance for managing mental health, substance use, and chronic pain and the prevention of chronic pain, and a technical report summarizing the analyses on the economic costs of chronic pain. For more information please contact the Task Force Secretariat at hc.cptfsecretariatsecretariatgtcsld.sc@canada.ca.

2019 - June

• Canadian Pain Task Force Report: June 2019

In June 2019, the Task Force submitted their first report to Health Canada on the state of chronic pain - Chronic Pain in Canada: Laying a Foundation for Action. The report highlighted gaps in access to timely and appropriate multi-modal care, chronic pain surveillance and health system quality monitoring, education, training and awareness for individuals and health care providers, and research and related infrastructure.

Meetings

The Task Force will meet approximately every two months over the three-year period up to December 2021. Meetings will be held either in-person or via teleconference.

2021 - Meetings of the Canadian Pain Task Force

• Meeting Summary - April 14, 2021
• Meeting Summary - March 3, 2021
• Meeting Summary - February 17, 2021

2021 - Joint Meetings of the Canadian Pain Task Force and External Advisory Panel

• Meeting Summary - March 10, 2021
• Meeting Summary - January 20, 2021

2020 - Meetings of the Canadian Pain Task Force

• Meeting Summary - December 2, 2020
• Meeting Summary - October 21, 2020
• Meeting Summary - August 19, 2020
• Meeting Summary - July 23, 2020
• Meeting Summary - June 10, 2020
• Meeting Summary - May 20, 2020
• Meeting Summary - March 12, 2020

2020 - Joint Meetings of the Canadian Pain Task Force and External Advisory Panel

• Meeting Summary - September 9 to 10, 2020
• Meeting Summary - June 30, 2020
• Meeting Summary - April 8, 2020

2019 - Meetings of the Canadian Pain Task Force

• Meeting Summary - Nov 14, 2019
• Meeting summary - September 19, 2019
• Meeting summary - August 29, 2019
• Meeting summary - July 26, 2019
• Meeting summary - June 21, 2019
• Meeting summary - June 7, 2019
• Meeting summary - March 22, 2019

2019 - Joint Meetings of the Canadian Pain Task Force and External Advisory Panel

• Meeting Summary - December 12, 2019
• Meeting summary - May 1 & 2, 2019