{"id":4748,"date":"2021-05-06T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/groupe-de-travail-canadien-sur-la-douleur\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:00:04","slug":"groupe-de-travail-canadien-sur-la-douleur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/2021\/05\/06\/groupe-de-travail-canadien-sur-la-douleur\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian pain task force recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Government of Canada recognizes the impacts and challenges faced by Canadians who live with chronic pain, that is why Health Canada has established the Canadian Pain Task Force. This group includes a broad range of knowledge, experience, expertise, and perspectives on the issue of chronic pain: <a href=\"https:\/\/anesthesia.utoronto.ca\/faculty\/fiona-campbell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fiona Campbell<\/a> (co-chair), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.painbc.ca\/about\/who-we-are\/staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maria Hudspith<\/a> (co-chair), <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.linkedin.com\/in\/melissaanderson01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Melissa Anderson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/investigator\/manon-choiniere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Manon Choini\u00e8re<\/a>, Hani El-Gabalawy, Jacques Lalibert\u00e9, <a href=\"https:\/\/physiotherapy.ca\/michael-sangster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Sangster<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/indigenousprofessionals.org\/recognizing-excellence\/recognizing-excellence-2016\/jaris-swidrovich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jaris Swidrovich<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/arthritispatient.ca\/steering-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Linda Wilhelm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Task Force has a three-year mandate to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Assess how chronic pain is currently addressed in Canada;<br>\u2022 Conduct national consultations and review available evidence to identify best and leading practices, potential areas for improvement, and elements of an improved approach to the prevention and management of chronic pain in Canada;<br>\u2022 (Updated January 2021) Provide recommendations on priority actions to ensure people with pain are recognized and supported and that pain is understood, prevented, and effectively treated across Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Task Force delivered three reports to Health Canada, one for each of the three elements of their mandate. You can find the reports below:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/fr\/sante-canada\/organisation\/a-propos-sante-canada\/mobilisation-publique\/organismes-consultatifs-externes\/groupe-travail-douleur-chronique\/rapport-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Report 1 <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/fr\/sante-canada\/organisation\/a-propos-sante-canada\/mobilisation-publique\/organismes-consultatifs-externes\/groupe-travail-douleur-chronique\/rapport-2019.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/fr\/sante-canada\/organisation\/a-propos-sante-canada\/mobilisation-publique\/organismes-consultatifs-externes\/groupe-travail-douleur-chronique\/rapport-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">June 2019)<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/fr\/sante-canada\/organisation\/a-propos-sante-canada\/mobilisation-publique\/organismes-consultatifs-externes\/groupe-travail-douleur-chronique\/rapport-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Report 2 (October 2020)<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/health-canada\/corporate\/about-health-canada\/public-engagement\/external-advisory-bodies\/canadian-pain-task-force\/report-2021.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Report 3 (May 2021)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Canada recognizes the impacts and challenges faced by Canadians who live with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-4748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scientific-advances","tag-articles-en"],"acf":[],"views":427,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21782,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions\/21782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qprn.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}