Pain (Chronic and Acute)

The role of the outpatient pain service is to provide support for patients with chronic pains; chronic pains are pains that have existed for more than 3 months. 

We use interventional and medical therapies as well as physical and psychological therapies to restore function and quality of life to our patients.

Examples of the services we provide are as follows:

• Outpatient clinics
• Medication treatment
• Interventional treatment
• Specialist physiotherapy
• Psychological treatment
• Pain management programmes

Attend anywhere video appointments

We are pleased to offer video consultations, in partnership with the Attend Anywhere video platform, to patients who have been identified by their doctor or nurse as someone who may be suitable for this type of appointment.

For a video consultation, you would need:

• Broadband internet access – we suggest that you use WiFi rather than 4G to ensure that the signal is reliable
• The Google Chrome web browser
• A desktop computer, laptop, smartphone or tablet with a microphone and camera
• A quiet location away from noise and distractions so that you can clearly hear the doctor or nurse and hold your consultation in private.

If you are having a video consultation, we will schedule your appointment as normal and send you details of the appointment date and time.

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The role of the inpatient pain service is to optimize pain relief among the inpatients of the hospital.

The primary mechanism for this is through support of the ward staff who will usually be a patient’s first port of call when in pain.

Sometimes it will be necessary for the members of the specialist nursing team to visit individual patients and if necessary to call upon the doctors to support them.

Often plans for pain relief will have been made before surgery in conjunction with the anaesthetist as part of their perioperative plans.