— Improve patient access to pain management care and treatment within the community.

— Reduce waiting times for treatment.

— To support service users in understanding their quality of life in the context of their persistent pain.

— Improve the patient management of long term pain.

— Improve discharge planning for patients.

— Improve patient choice.

— Deliver a high quality pain management service in a primary care/community setting.

— To encourage and support service users to become actively involved in developing the strategies that they will adopt in response to their persistent pain.

— To safely optimise the use of analgesia.

— To reduce dependency and enhance quality of life for service users, their families and carers.

— Provide advice and guidance.

— Improve education and training structures for GPs and Nurses.

— Promote the development of specialisation in primary care.

— Manage demand through reducing clinical variation.

— Reduce referrals into secondary care.

— Reduce first and follow-up outpatient attendances in secondary care.