Services provided by the department
Persistent pain leads to loss of physical, social, and emotional well-being. Sufferers are likely to make disproportionately high demands on health care resources.
The consultant members of the Pain Management department help many sufferers of persistent pain by offering:
- Full biopsychosocial assessment including red flag symptoms and signs investigated when appropriate, and recognition of blue flag psychological signs
- Education and support
- Rationalisation of medication to maximise pain relief whilst reducing side effects and interactions
- Optimisation of self-management
- Evidence based interventions to reduce the severity of pain including:
- facet joint injections and radiofrequency denervations for low back ‘nerve root’ and neck pain.
- epidurals for pain and stenotic pain;
- nerve blocks and pulsed radio-frequency treatment for neuropathic pain;
- soft tissue, muscle, and joint injections;
- sympathetic nerve blocks for complex regional pain syndromes after surgery or trauma
- Access to the multidisciplinary Pain Management Programme including: Medical Consultant, Clinical Health Psychologists, Physiotherapist and Nurse Specialist
Pain Management Programmes (PMP)
After referral, patients are invited to attend an introductory session. At a multi-disciplinary assessment the patient and clinicians will decide together whether PMP represents the best next step in the patient’s treatment pathway. After this, the patient may attend an appropriate programme.
Outcomes include increased levels of fitness and physical function, less reliance on medication and aids, improvement in mood and relationships, and fewer contacts with primary and secondary care health services.
Pain Management Service,
Nightingale House,
St Peter’s Hospital
Telephone: 01932 722730 (and choose option 4)
Our Clinical Team
The consulting team in the department are:
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Dr Rose BLOCKGMC: 3108516 Consultant Pain Specialist Abdominal pain, pelvic pain |
SPH Clinics: WEY Clinics: |
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Dr Giancarlo CAMILLIERIGMC: 6025686 Consultant in Anaesthetics and Pain Medicine MDT Lead for Spine and Pain |
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Dr Rajib DUTTAGMC: 5194841 Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management Specialises in Regional Anaesthesia for Upper limb and Lower limb procedures. |
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Dr Ian HARTGMC: 4111603 Consultant in Anaesthetics and Pain Medicine MSK Associate Divisional Director |
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Dr Andy KINGGMC: 3580774 Consultant in Pain Medicine Chronic pain assessment and treatment |
SPH Clinics: |
Caroline TYRRELL |
Senior Nurse Specialist, Pain Management Services |
Ian TODD |
Senior Nurse Specialist, Pain Management Services |
Dan HULL |
Nurse Specialist, Pain Management Services |
Victoria WOOLGER |
Nurse Specialist, Pain Management Services |
Specialist / Consultant Nurses
Offers a variety of services to complement the medical consultants and other members of the interdisciplinary team. This includes the following: 8 nurse led clinics per week across site providing:
- Review appointments to advise on further care and medication plans
- Analgesic medication reviews
- Support to develop a self management approach to managing persistent pain
- Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)
The aim is to relieve the patients’ pain and disability, but where relief of pain is not possible then our aim is to provide appropriate support and advice to help the patient manage and cope with their pain.