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If you are a Pain Matters reader – whether you are a person living with pain, a healthcare professional or just have an interest in chronic pain – we would be extremely grateful if you can complete and return the short questionnaire which will be included with the next magazine. Alternatively, you can visit survey.painconcern.org.uk and complete the online version. It should only take about five minutes and your responses will help us to continue producing the variety of resources we produce.

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INSIDE THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY PAIN TEAM

Happy New Year from all of us at Pain Matters. In our first magazine of the new decade, we have invited the Chronic Pain Team from NHS Borders in the south of Scotland into the guest-editor’s chair for issue 74. In a jam-packed issue, they have looked at everything from the Pain Management Jigsaw, which tries to bring together all the different aspects of managing pain, to the role of occupational therapy and how laughter can be a tool in the pain management toolbox.

Also in issue 74, Vidyamala Burch returns with her Being Mindful column, giving her three reasons why mindfulness is helpful for ‘living well with pain’.

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In issue 73 of Pain Matters, we published an article about the Matrix programme, developed by the Pain Management Centre at University College London Hospitals to help introduce mindfulness into their neuropathic pain treatment.

You can read all about the programme here: thriveglobal.com/stories/how-a-mindfulness-based-approach-is-helping-people-manage-chronic-pain/

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AIRING PAIN 121: LIVING WITH PERSISTENT PAIN IN WALES

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Programme details:

In April 2019, the Minister for Health and Social Services in Wales launched the guidance document Living with Persistent Pain in Wales. Later, in December, the Chronic Pain Policy Coalition brought together some of Wales’s leading pain experts at the home of the Welsh parliament (or Senedd Cymru) in Cardiff, at an event chaired by Neil Betteridge, co-chair of the Chronic Pain Policy Coalition, a group which brings together a wide range of chronic pain stakeholders including professional bodies, patient organisations, parliamentarians and industry representatives from across the UK.

This edition of Airing Pain was recorded live at the event, where clinicians, academics, policy-makers and people living with pain came together to discuss both the new document and the future of chronic pain services across the region.

Contributors:

• Neil Betteridge, Co-Chair, Chronic Pain Policy Coalition
• Dr Paul Cameron, Specialty Advisor to the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland
• Professor Ernest Choy, Head of Rheumatology, Cardiff University
• Mary Cowern, Wales Director, Versus Arthritis
• David Easton, Physiotherapist, Hywel Da NHS Trust
• Dr Lucy Morris, GP partner, Bellevue Practice, Newport
• Professor Ann Taylor, Professor in Medical Education, Cardiff University.

More information:

• The Chronic Pain Policy Coalition – chronicpainpolicycoalition.com
• Versus Arthritis – www.versusarthritis.org
• Living with Persistent Pain in Wales