Owen Hughes
National Clinical Lead - Persistent Pain / Head of Powys Living Well Service
Welsh Government / Powys Teaching Health Board
Wales
Biography
I am the National Clinical Lead for Persistent Pain in Wales and also run the Powys Living Well Service for Powys Teaching Health Board. I'm a Consultant Counselling Psychologist by background and am continuously learning about how we can help people (I don't like the word patient) to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to change the way they manage their health conditions and live a healthy fulfilling life.
Q Exchange ideas
Animals Assisted Rehabilitation
In a rural community, animals are often part of people's everyday life and yet they are often banned from hospital grounds. Research has shown significant benefits to healing and rehabilitation when animals are integrated into care. The inclusion of larger animals like donkeys also includes a greater amount of physical activity and helps to connect people to the green spaces around them
Live Well – A blended approach to condition management
Integrating technology into condition management appraches to improve outcomes and promote digital inclusion which will include a range of self management group programmes that are delivered via Skype covering a range of conditions.
Pain Community Wales – Bringing together public, private and third sector
The aim of the project is to bring together organisations who are working to support people with persistent pain (30% of the population) to identify 'Once for Wales' solutions
Virtual tertiary care team children with persistent pain
The aim is to ensure that young people being seen by generic paediatric services still have access to specialist pain management advice without having to travel long distances to appointments
Blog posts
Testing improvement ideas: Powys Health Teaching Board
Owen Hughes introduces the ideas Powys Health Teaching Board are working to develop and test with the Q Lab to improve care for people with both mental health problems and persistent back and neck pain.
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