From Saturday, 18 January to Saturday, 25 January 2025, the global pain and anaesthesia community will unite for the 2nd World Week and 2nd World Day of Regional Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine, an initiative led by the European Society of Regional Anaesthesia &...
As we move into 2026, the European Pain Federation EFIC continues to strengthen its commitment to improving pain education, advancing research excellence and reinforcing advocacy efforts across Europe. Building on recent achievements, EFIC remains focused on...
The EFIC Annual Report presents financial information for the year preceding the report publication and give insight into recent organisational updates and various projects of the Federation concerning Advocacy, Education, Research, Scientific Congress and relation to...
The European Pain Federation EFIC is pleased to invite the pain community to contribute suggestions for potential plenary topics and speakers for the 15th EFIC Congress PAIN IN EUROPE XV, taking place on 21–23 April 2027 in Glasgow, Scotland. Under the congress theme...
The latest quarterly newsletter of the European Pain Federation EFIC has just been published. Check out our latest updates on the #EFIC2027 Congress, the EFIC Academy, our Research and Advocacy activities, news from our Chapters and much more. Read it...
The EFIC Rising Stars Programme is a new initiative to connect and support early career researchers in the European pain field. As part of this programme, we are launching a webinar series called “EFIC Rising Stars Skills Lab: Soft Skills for Hard Science”. What...
The latest edition of the SIP Newsletter is now available! Don’t miss this quarter’s editorial, featuring key updates on: The new SIP Joint Statement urging implementation of ICD-11 across the EU Inclusion of chronic pain in the European Parliament’s Report on the...
The European Pain Federation EFIC is pleased to share recent news and updates from our national chapters below. UK The British Pain Society’s Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) will take place in Harrogate from 21–23 April 2026, bringing together healthcare...
The report from the final SIP National Platform Call of 2025 is now available! The meeting brought together National Platforms and the SIP team to: • Hear updates on SIP’s 2025 advocacy actions, including progress on the EHDS, ICD-11, women’s health, disability rights...
Since its launch in spring 2025, SIP Sweden has rapidly undertaken initiatives to raise awareness about pain and influence pain-related policies. Some of the platform’s main activities in 2025 included: Organising national gatherings that brought together...
Over the past year, SIP Portugal has significantly strengthened its role as a national advocacy platform, elevating chronic pain to a higher level of public visibility and political priority. The 2025 SIP Portugal Newsletter provides an overview of the key advocacy,...
The Societal Impact of Pain (SIP) Annual Report for 2025 is now available. The report gives an overview of the activities and impact of the SIP platform in the last year. Among its key achievements: Prevention and NDCs. SIP has made significant progress in advancing...
In an effort to encourage exchanges between the different pain groups, improve coordination in the search for common themes of interest, and increase the international visibility of each chapter’s scientific activities, the European Pain Federation EFIC is...
The Societal Impact of Pain (SIP) welcomes the inclusion of chronic pain in the European Parliaments’ Report on the EU strategy of persons with disabilities post-2024. The amendments, submitted by the Committee on Public Health (SANT) and suggested by SIP,...
The European Pain Federation is a non-profit medical society, focusing on the subject of pain medicine. The Federation is composed of 40 chapters across Europe, with an Executive Office based in Brussels, Belgium. The Federation aims to improve pain medicine through...
