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From persistent pain to passion project
August 22 , 2023
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Read about Lindsay McLean's experience of a pain management programme from the perspective of a patient, and how it affected her life.
How a medical practice changed its approach to pain
August 02 , 2023
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Calderside Medical Practice in Lanarkshire has moved from treating persistent pain as a symptom that needs a drug to treating it as a long-term condition that can be managed with information and support.
Since changing their approach in 2016 they have registered around 300 patients with pain ...
Community link workers look at the whole person
June 15 , 2023
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Author Leeanne Killen is Community Link Worker/Primary Care Development Manager, North Ayrshire Health & Social Care Partnership.
Health is impacted by a wide range of factors that are not always medical, including isolation, money worries, housing issues, self-management, work, and lifestyle. Leeanne Killen gives an insight into ...
137. Pharmacists
June 07 , 2023
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How to Prescribe and De-prescribe Safely
This edition of Airing Pain was prompted by the 2022 NICE Guidelines which follows a Public Health England report (2019) looking at medicines associated with dependence and withdrawal. This new legislation follows increased concerns in high levels of prescribing.
This edition discusses the challenges ...
Airing Pain 137: Pharmacists and chronic pain (transcript)
June 01 , 2023
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How to prescribe and de-prescribe safely
First broadcast 7 June 2023
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Jim Huddy (GP from Cornwall): There are plenty of people out there that do need doctors, they do ...
Triathlon challenge
May 25 , 2023
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Dr Mick Serpell, Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine for Greater Glasgow & Clyde NHS
Let me explain, I work with patients who have chronic pain. My journey as a novice in the triathlon world required me to make changes in my beliefs and behaviours.
Changes very similar ...
136. The future of pain management
April 26 , 2023
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Listen to Airing Pain 136, The Future of Pain Management – Whats around the corner?
Transcript: Airing Pain 136 – The Future of Pain Management
April 26 , 2023
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First broadcast 26th April 2023
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Paul Evans This is Airing Pain, the programme brought to you by Pain Concern, the UK charity providing information and support for those of us ...
Pain Concern supported NHS Forth Valley patients with dedicated helpline
March 02 , 2023
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Pain Concern received funding from the Scottish Government to enable us to support patients waiting to be seen by pain management services at NHS Forth Valley. The helpline service was offered that provided specific information about the Forth Valley Pain Management Service, self-management and how access to ...
Transcript – Airing Pain 135: Pain Management During the Covid-19 Pandemic – Lessons Learnt
February 22 , 2023
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Airing Pain Programme 135: Pain Management During the Covid-19 Pandemic - Lessons Learnt
First broadcast 22nd February 2022.
How technology developed for the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the working practices in pain clinics and the benefits of patients working together ...
135. COVID and consultations
February 22 , 2023
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This edition of Airing Pain examines the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the relationship between patient and healthcare professional.
At the start of the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020, the face-to-face consultations between doctors and patients was one of the first casualties. With restrictions relaxed, have ...
Shingles vaccination
January 17 , 2023
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Pain Concern have created a selection of key resources about shingles, which you can find all in one place on our Shingles, Post-herpetic Neuralgia and Chronic Pain Resources page.
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Shingles, or herpes zoster, is caused by the varicella zoster virus which causes chickenpox. After you ...
