questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2023 to Question 3438 on Armed Forces Compensation Scheme: Pain, whether the tariff system within the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme allows for a separate award to be made for (a) chronic neuropathic pain, (b) chronic secondary visceral pain, (c) chronic secondary musculoskeletal pain, (d) chronic secondary headache or orofacial pain, (e) chronic postsurgical or posttraumatic pain and (f) chronic cancer-related pain where the initial injury is attributable to service but is recognised as disproportional or no longer attached to that initial injury.
answerText: The terms primary and secondary chronic pain are reflected within a new approach to pain nomenclature introduced by the 2022 World Health Organisation disease classification system (International Classification of Diseases 11 (ICD 11)). ICD 11 is not yet ...
heading: Armed Forces Compensation Scheme: Pain