PROGRAMME
The many challenges associated with reliance on pain medication are now widely understood: both in terms of side-effects and long-term problems such as dependence and withdrawal. Clinical pharmacists are ideally placed to review and manage people with chronic pain and improve patient care. However, they need to have the key skills and tools to confidently support and guide people, whether initiating, tapering or stopping medicines. Our interactive workshop will focus on providing you with the practical know-how, competencies and resources to assess and manage people with chronic pain; including the review of patients receiving
long-term opioids and strategies to help manage a reduction in prescribing. Psychological approaches to the management of chronic pain will also be addressed, both in terms of helping patients to self-manage their condition and its importance in supporting patients during opioid withdrawal. Led by Dr Frances Cole and the team at Live Well with Pain, the session will be co-delivered by both clinicians and patients with extensive backgrounds in pain.
Key learning points
• Understanding persistent pain and its difference from acute pain
• NICE guidelines: chronic pain (primary and secondary), medicines associated with dependence or withdrawal symptoms
• Pharmacological management, risks associated with opioid use, opioid thermometer and opioid manager
• Patient assessment and review: – Consultation skills, shared-decision-making, goal-setting and actions plans, resources
• Stepping down, managing tapering and withdrawal – patient experience to guide helpful approaches
• True stories: experiences of people living with chronic pain
• Pain self-management, Ten Footsteps to Living Well with Pain, continuity of care, resources and patient materials.
Speakers drawn from the Live Well with Pain team:
• Dr Frances Cole, retired GP and Pain Rehabiliation Specialist
• Laura Hissey, Health Psychologist, Pain Management Services, United Hospitals Birmingham
• Dr Emma Davies Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner in Pain Management, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
• Louise Trewern, Lived Experience Trainer, Live Well with Pain
• Another lived experience trainer to be advised registration
Venue
To be confirmed.
Sponsors will have paid for exhibition stand space at the meeting and therefore will be given the opportunity to discuss their products with attendees. None of the sponsors will have had any input into the content of the programme, and no involvement in choosing, briefing or paying the speakers.
To register as a delegate please email bev@mppn.org.uk.
