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. Wye Valley NHS Trust

🔐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? Dr Charlotte Small Helen Laycock 🔗…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

A warm welcome to all our new patients. You’ll find us in the old Charles Renton building/Preoperative assessment unit.

Impact of regional analgesia in surgery academic.oup.com/bjs/advance-ar…

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/refer…

DrRichardMakin🦋 FPM Absolutely!! That’s what we call it Herefordshire Pain Management Service 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 WVT Pharmacy WVT_Physio Occupational Therapy Service: Wye Valley NHS Trust St Michael's Hospice, Hereford and lots more

What a week! The team complete (for now) and another planning session for a really exciting venture with @flying_project Dr Charlotte Small

#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

Penultimate planning day today for #TheSkylarkProject - a perioperative care pathway co-produced by Dr Charlotte Small 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

@flying_project What an amazing, powerful, humbling day. Thank you, you were an inspiration to all of us. And now the real work begins…

DrRichardMakin🦋 ollie hart NICE 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.

Welcome to Herefordshire Pain Management Service…delivering individualised, compassionate care in hospital and the community. m.youtube.com/watch?v=yfmZ0Z…