Hi everyone,

I am a pain management consultant based up in sunny Stockport. I am also the clinical lead for our bijou pain service.  We’ve undertaken a revamp of our triage and 1st POC system over the last year.

We are woefully under represented with mental health trained staff though we have pushed hard and managed to bring in 0.8 WTE of a clinical psychologist!

I’ve joined this group as I would like advice to help ensure people with persistent pain and mental health difficulties will benefit from our next service development plans.

Phase 2 or ‘Your Patient Journey’ is an EBCD driven project designed to give people with persistent pain rapid access to pain management support that is then shared across hospital and community. Full details for the project are here:

https://q.health.org.uk/idea/2023/co-designing-a-patient-centred-system-wide-pain-management-journey/

I would hugely value this groups opinion and advice regarding:

– how do we integrated the Pain Journey with mental health services to ensure consistent management for patients?

– what are the best formats for the Pain Journey to make them relevant and useful for people experiencing mental health difficulties?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

KR

David