Seeking Your Input: Survey to Guide Chronic Pain Services in the Central Okanagan
Dear health care provider,
If you have not done so already, please take a few minutes to complete our short survey and help improve how chronic pain is managed in the Central Okanagan. If you provide care to patients living with chronic pain, your insights are essential. You can start the survey by clicking the button or scanning the QR code at the end of this email. Once the survey is completed, you’ll have the opportunity to enter your contact information to receive a sessional payment.
Why this matters:
One in five Canadians live with chronic pain, a condition that affects both physical and mental health, inhibits work, play, relationships, and overall quality of life. The Central Okanagan Pain Pathways Project, funded by Shared Care, aims to identify local needs and create a customized patient care pathway building on initiatives already in place such as Pathways, Pain BC and Pain Care BC.
Please also invite your patients to participate
We are gathering patient perspectives too, and your help is key. Click here for more information regarding the survey and privacy of your patients and their data. If you communicate with patients by email, feel free to use the suggested text below. Posters and patient invitation cards have now been delivered to clinics for display and distribution. If your clinic needs more, please contact members@codivision.ca.
This email is going out to all family physicians, PCN affiliated care providers, pain care clinics and BC funded clinics such as the UPCCs in the Central Okanagan. Via return email, please let us know about other care providers you refer your patients who are living with chronic pain to, and we will invite them to participate as well, e.g. physiotherapists, chiropractors, nutritionists, psychologists etc. (include contact names and email addresses if possible).
Together, we can make a real difference in chronic pain care.
Thank you,
The Central Okanagan Pain Pathways Project Team,
Led by Dr. Trevor Roy
For more information, please contact Jen at members@codivision.ca.
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Suggested Text to Email Your Patients
Subject: Share your experience with chronic pain care
We’re working with the Central Okanagan Pain Pathways Project (administered by the CO Division of Family Practice) to improve care for people living with chronic pain. If you have experience with chronic pain (pain that lasts 3 months or more), please consider completing this short, anonymous survey to help improve awareness and shape access to services in our community.
There will be an option at the end of the survey to provide your contact information so you can be entered into a draw for an Okanagan-inspired basket of local products.
For more information, click here or contact us at members@codivision.ca.
Thank you for your time and input!
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