Covid-19 Challenges and Advice

Pain Con­cern and Covid-19

With the cur­rent pan­dem­ic caus­ing uncer­tain­ty and con­fu­sion around the world, we will con­tin­ue to keep our fol­low­ers and sup­port­ers updat­ed with any news rel­e­vant to peo­ple liv­ing with pain, their friends, fam­i­ly and health­care pro­fes­sion­als. We will strive to do our best to sup­ply all our resources (mag­a­zines, leaflets, pod­casts) while we can, assum­ing it is safe for our staff and vol­un­teers to do so.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, we have had to make the dif­fi­cult deci­sion to sus­pend our tele­phone Helpline sup­port for the imme­di­ate future. The Helpline is staffed by vol­un­teers, some of whom have their own health issues. Giv­en the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion, we are not able to pro­vide the Helpline ser­vice in the way that we would wish to.

Peo­ple seek­ing sup­port with their pain may con­tin­ue to use our online com­mu­ni­ty Health Unlocked Forum at healthunlocked.com/painconcern or con­tact our email help ser­vice at help@painconcern.org.uk.

We will strive to rein­state the ser­vice as soon as it is safe and viable to do so. But for now, stay safe, stay home, wash your hands and we will still be here on the oth­er side, pro­vid­ing resources, sup­port and advo­cat­ing for those liv­ing with pain.

Further resources:

• Pain Con­cern coro­n­avirus news and information
• NHS Inform coro­n­avirus page
• Fac­ul­ty of Pain Med­i­cine resources
• British Pain Soci­ety coro­n­avirus page