Mark Hancock
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55 appearances
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first heard Jun 2018
last heard Jun 2018
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So I strongly believe in an approach that encompasses all of these.
And we definitely need research to investigate this more and to better understand both elements.
We still don't know enough about the local factors that contribute.
And when I say local, I mean in your back that contribute to people's experience of pain.
It's different strokes for different folks.
It's pretty clear in my mind that for some patients, most of their problem is driven from factors in their back.
And for other patients, the role of the brain is really important.
And again, to be clear, that's not people imagining the pain.
That's just lots of things going on in their brain, changes, physiological changes in the brain that actually influence the amount of pain that people experience.
many of the treatments that we're talking about as being ineffective and potentially harmful are covered and funded by health organisations.
And that's problematic.
And the reality is that drives poor care.
Absolutely.
To move funding to those interventions which are generally cheaper and safer and more effective, importantly, rather than very complex, expensive interventions is clearly going to be better for the health budget, but it's also going to be better for patients.
So there's some really difficult and brave decisions that need to be made about what should be funded and what shouldn't be funded.
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