Pain Services - FOI Response Register

FoI Number
2024-405
Subject
Pain Services
Date Received
16/10/2024
Request and Response

In your integrated care or health board:

  1. Do you commission pain services in the community?  

Shetland Integration Joint Board (IJB) does not commission specific pain services.  General services that treat pain will be delivered through health services which are described in the IJB Directions to NHS Shetland: https://www.shetland.gov.uk/downloads/download/1463/ijb-directions-to-sic-and-nhss

  1. If yes, please name location/s:

N/A

  1. Do you commission pain services in secondary care?  
  2. If yes, please name location/s:
  3. Do you commission pain services in tertiary care (highly specialised services)?
  4. If yes, please name location/s:
  5. Do you commission alternative providers to provide pain services?              
  6. If yes, please name alternative providers and location of services:
  7. Do you commission social prescribers?

Not specifically; the Health and Care Partnership and NHS Shetland work in conjunction with many third sector organisations, but these are not commissioning arrangements.

  1. If yes, please state how many:

 N/A

  1. In the past three years have you decommissioned pain services in your region?

 No

  1. If yes, please list decommissioned services?

 N/A

  1. If yes, are you commissioning alternative services such as Lifestyle Management or similar instead?

N/A

  1. If yes, please provide details:

N/A