Tag: covid-19
Let’s Be Heard: Share your COVID-19 experiences
October 31 , 2023
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The independent Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry’s public engagement programme, Let’s Be Heard: Sharing Scotland’s COVID Experience, wants to hear from you.
The Inquiry is investigating the devolved strategic response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland and is calling on anyone who was in Scotland between 1 January 2020 to ...
Airing Pain 135: Pain Management During the Covid-19 Pandemic
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 ...
Rapid design and implementation of a virtual pain management programme due to COVID-19
September 27 , 2022
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A quality improvement initiative.
As part of Pain Awareness Month, and to mark the release of our new Airing Pain podcast programme: Sharing pain - how group consultations can help long COVID and other conditions, we are privileged to be able to share this study on virtual pain ...
Domestic Abuse and Chronic Pain Resources
March 10 , 2021
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Funded by a grant from the Women's Fund for Scotland
In 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Pain Concern received a grant from the Women's Fund for Scotland. With this funding we created an extended episode of our podcast, Airing Pain, on the topic of domestic ...
Covid-19 Challenges and Advice
May 05 , 2020
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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 ...
Pain Management in Lockdown
April 28 , 2020
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Pain specialists from around the world have reviewed ways in which people with chronic pain can continue to be helped using modern technology despite pain treatment centre across the world having closed their doors. Publishing their results in the medical journal Pain, they point out that telemedicine ...
So what is a pandemic anyway?
April 21 , 2020
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The terms endemic, epidemic and pandemic are used to describe the way diseases (not just infections) affect populations of humans or animals. The terms epidemic and pandemic have a very similar meaning: an epidemic is a rise in the number of new cases of a disease in ...
Pain Concern and Covid-19
April 08 , 2020
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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 ...