NHS pain management service, launched Spring 2021. Find us in the Charles Renton Unit at County Hospital, Hereford.

Joined March 2021
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Coming soon...the UK's newest countywide Pain Management Service, caring for patients across Herefordshire with acute and chronic pain conditions. Further information to follow...
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Welcome to Herefordshire Pain Management Service…delivering individualised, compassionate care in hospital and the community. m.youtube.com/watch?v=yfmZ0Z…

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Herefordshire Pain Management Service retweeted
Patients being told they’re being referred to pain clinic for an opiate taper is an issue…optimising medicines doesn’t always mean reducing them and we certainly don’t do it till the patient is ready…but many won’t even step through the door if they’ve been told to expect this.
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Herefordshire Pain Management Service retweeted
Replying to @TheFlyingChild
What an amazing, powerful, humbling day. Thank you, you were an inspiration to all of us. And now the real work begins…
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Herefordshire Pain Management Service retweeted
Penultimate planning day today for #TheSkylarkProject - a perioperative care pathway co-produced by @DrCSmall and #TheFlyingChildProject. Absolutely fantastic that #livedexperience will be behind this vital pathway for survivors. We meet in person in 2 days. Can’t wait! #CSA
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Herefordshire Pain Management Service retweeted
#SkylarkProject planning day today. We are so excited to have this opportunity to introduce a trauma informed pathway for survivors, created BY survivors into a medical setting. Watch this space… so much more to come. ✊🏼 #CSA #METOO #traumainformed #TheFlyingChildProject
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What a week! The team complete (for now) and another planning session for a really exciting venture with @flying_project @DrCSmall
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Herefordshire Pain Management Service retweeted
Absolutely!! That’s what we call it @WVT_Pain A mixture of all sorts, including our lovely chronic/persistent pain patients coming to stay for a bit. Definitely not a single speciality job…lots of help from @PharmacyWvt @PhysioWvt @WVT_OT @StMichaelsHosp and lots more
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For GPs: opioids and chronic pain - Oxford University Hospitals. #NAPS21 This is the link to opioid guidance with calculator and weaning templates mentioned in yesterday’s talk for GPs. ouh.nhs.uk/services/referral…

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A warm welcome to all our new patients. You’ll find us in the old Charles Renton building/Preoperative assessment unit.
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Herefordshire Pain Management Service retweeted
🔐Should novel methodologies, using expertise of industry, including rigorous yet rapid iteration integrated with evaluation of user experience, be introduced to facilitate innovative use of virtual reality for patient benefit? @drcsmall @hlaycock 🔗associationofanaesthetists-p…
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We’re now open to referrals for Herefordshire residents from Primary and Secondary Care. Referral processes and criteria have been sent to all local providers. Outpatient clinics will be held at The County Hospital, Hereford, starting early next month. @WyeValleyNHS
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Coming soon...the UK's newest countywide Pain Management Service, caring for patients across Herefordshire with acute and chronic pain conditions. Further information to follow...
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Many thanks to @MakinsHelen and the Gloucestershire Hospitals Pain Service for all their support and guidance during the set up process...we're looking forward to continuing to work closely in the future.
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