List of websites on pain management
www.action-on-pain.co.uk Action on Pain takes an active role in providing advice and support to people living with pain and those affected by its intrusive effects on daily life. Working closely with other organisations both in the UK and abroad, the team strives to raise the profile of pain with politicians, NHS managers and health professionals.
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www.expertpatients.co.uk Expert Patients Programme (EPP) courses are FREE and help people to improve their health and wellbeing by learning new skills to manage their condition on a daily basis. People who have already attended courses have told us it has helped them to deal with their pain, tiredness, feelings of depression, frustration and other difficulties that may come from living with a long-term condition. The Expert Patients Programme was established as a Community Interest Company (EPP CIC) on 1st April 2007, to expand the NHS Expert Patients Programme pilot which has successfully been providing lay led self-management courses within the NHS across England since 2002. |
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www.paincoalition.org.uk The Chronic Pain Policy Coalition is a newly established forum for patients, professionals and parliamentarians who operate at policy level to develop an improved strategy for the prevention, treatment and management of chronic pain and its associated conditions.
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www.painconcern.org.uk Offers: Information and support for pain sufferers, those who care for them and about them, free factsheet and leaflets to help you manage your pain, a quarterly magazine and a Listening-ear helpline.
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www.painsupport.co.uk This website provides information on the Pain Management skills that are the basis of NHS Pain Management Courses, a discussion forum, a regular newsletter and a confidential Contact Club for friendship and support.
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www.stapg.org.uk  The South Thames Acute Pain Group was founded by a small group of enthusiastic anaesthetists in 1995 and encompasses all practitioners working in the South Thames Healthcare Trusts who are actively engaged in acute pain management. |
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http://www.sheffieldbackpain.com/ This website has been put together by Sheffield clinicians with a special interest in managing back pain. They include GPs, physiotherapists, spinal surgeons, rheumatologists, chiropractors, osteopaths and acupuncturists.
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Glenrothes Pain Awareness and Support Group  We are a group of chronic pain sufferers. Before we all got together, each one of us thought that we were the only ones to be suffering in this way. It was a blessed relief to find out that this was not the case.
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